The Tech Jawn
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Tech Jawn is a technology news podcast focusing on the top tech stories of the week, how technology affects and disaffects the African American Community, delivered from a cast of African American hosts with, collectively, over 75 years of experience in the consumer and corporate IT game.
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An Hour With Black, Female, Mechanical Engineer, Cherish Samuels
May 28, 2024 15:24 - 57 minutes - 41.6 MBWe’ve got something special in this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn. We interview Cherish Samuels, a unicorn of unicorns, as she is a Black, female, mechanical engineer. We talk about everything from her journey getting into engineering at a young age, for years being the only face on the job that looks like hers, and how she has transitioned into tech now working on Amazon Fresh, the automated checkout grocery store. We also talk about Cherish’s son’s unique name, her not changing her las...
Deepfakes for Good?
May 21, 2024 21:48 - 55 minutes - 44.4 MBPolitical deep fakes are a thing in India, they generally aren’t nefarious, and most politicians approve. They probably need to do a better job at making sure folks know they are indeed fake, however. The latest iOS update, version 17.5, appears to in some instances resurface deleted content, including deleted nudes users thought were gone forever. OpenAI is tossing around the idea of letting users responsibly generate AI porn and other NSFW content. And, OpenAI has done away with its t...
What Aren't We Using Bots For?
May 14, 2024 17:15 - 53 minutes - 42.9 MBDeveloper season is upon us with Google I/O kicking off, and, tech pettiness is on full display. Apple announced iOS 17.5 and there are rumors that ChatGPT is coming to iPhone. OpenAI took petty to trolling with an event Monday, the day before I/O, with a brand new version of its generative AI bot called ChatGPT-4o. Online dating site Bumble is betting that AI bots dating other AI can help real people find better matches. And job seekers are turning to AI to help them fill out job applic...
Get That Community College AI Degree
May 07, 2024 19:56 - 51 minutes - 41.5 MBBy the time you hear this Apple’s Let Loose iPad Event has happened. Here is all the new iPad hotness we think is going to be announced. The Supreme Court of The United States really wasn’t interested in hearing why Elon Musk thinks he no longer needs a “Twitter Sitter” to approve all of his Telsa-related social media posts. Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board at BlueSky, the decentralized microblogging platform he started at Twitter way back in 2019. And should community college be lo...
Get Your TikTok Ish Together
April 30, 2024 17:51 - 58 minutes - 46.8 MBThe Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to ban non-compete agreements for most employees allowing workers to switch jobs or start their own businesses more easily. A Baltimore area gym teacher has been arrested for using AI to make a deep fake recording of his principal making racist and antisemitic comments. Gunshot detection system ShotSpotter keeps collecting data and notifying police after its contracts with cities have ended. And the bill that could impose a TikTok ...
Don’t Allow Your Thumbprint To Snitch
April 23, 2024 21:46 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MBIt appears that a lot of folks repeatedly sign up and cancel streaming services based on there being content on them we want to watch, and, they have a name for us. Serial Churners. The potential TikTok ban is picking up steam again as a revised bill mandating TikTok parent company ByteDance divest its US interest in the social media platform passes the House of Representatives. A court ruled that the police can compel some suspects to unlock their phones with a thumbprint in some cases. ...
Fiber Already Trippin'
April 16, 2024 19:41 - 57 minutes - 46 MBHybrid work appears to be here to stay. Millennials are making it clear that they have no intention of returning to the office 5 days per week. Artificial Intelligence will allow artists to perform digitally long after they’ve passed away. The bigger question is how will the content be licensed and distributed. X may start charging new users a small fee to be able to post, reply to, and like content on the platform to combat spam and bots. And fake footage of Iran’s attack on Israel sta...
All About AI
April 09, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBNew York City’s city governance chatbot instructs citizens to break the law in some cases and government officials are a bit miffed journalists are telling the public about it. A University of North Georgia student says she was falsely accused of using AI to write a paper when she in fact only used Grammarly to spell-check it at the suggestion of her college professors. A Washington State Lottery interactive web app was pulled down after it used AI to place a woman’s headshot on an image o...
Talking Tech With Dr. Tonya M. Evans
April 02, 2024 18:53 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBA study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences illustrates how AI fails to detect depression signs in social media posts by Black Americans as compared to their white counterparts. Joel Bervell, a.k.a., the Medical Mythbuster, has been saving lives by tackling racial and gender disparities in healthcare via social media. X tests and confirms plans for new Not Safe for Work (NSFW) Communities that may have it competing with sites like Only Fans. And New York Cit...
Florida Bans Social Media Until You're 16
March 26, 2024 18:35 - 57 minutes - 46 MBThe U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states accuse Apple of monopolizing the smartphone market in a landmark antitrust lawsuit. Online recruiting site Glassdoor abruptly changed its terms of service and has started adding users’ personally identifiable information to their profiles without consent. Florida Governor Ron Desantis signs a bill preventing children under 14 from signing up for social media accounts And are screenless AI devices like the CES hit Rabbit a solution looking for...
Must TikTok Divest or Be Banned?
March 19, 2024 17:55 - 58 minutes - 47.2 MBThe Federal Government is really pushing hard for TikTok to be sold. There is overwhelming bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, The President will sign a bill if it comes across his desk, and the full court press is on in the Senate. Apple is in talks with Google to let Gemini Power AI features on the upcoming iPhone. The Don Lemon Show having its distribution contract canceled by Elon Musk may have done more for the show than if everything had gone off without a hitch. An...
Give Black Twitter Its Flowers
March 12, 2024 18:57 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBCongress and the Whitehouse appear to be for real for real contemplating banning TikTok in the US if its parent company, ByteDance, does not sell the social media platform to a company based outside of China. Trump supporters attempt to swoon Black voters with AI-generated images of President Trump surrounded by Black people. Will Black Twitter watch the Black Twitter documentary? That we don’t know. We do know that Black folks are going to keep calling it Black Twitter regardless if Twi...
Companies Crying Over Billions
March 05, 2024 21:00 - 52 minutes - 42.1 MBMicrosoft’s Copilot calls itself the Joker and suggests self-harm to a Meta data scientist. Tesla must face a class-action lawsuit from nearly 6000 Black workers for racial discrimination at its Fremont, CA, plant. Apple was hit with first-ever EU fine totaling nearly $2 billion five years after Spotify complained about its App Store practices. And humanoid robots named Digit debut in a Seattle Amazon warehouse. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
Google's Gemini Really Is Color Blind
February 27, 2024 19:59 - 51 minutes - 41 MBGoogle hits the pause button on Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after a backlash to it creating historical depictions of white people as people of color. Tyler Perry halts plans of his $800 million studio expansion after seeing what could be done with Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generation engine. The FTC has cracked down on H&R Block for making it hard to downgrade tax products and deleting users' data when they do. And Gab’s racist Chatbots have been instructed to deny th...
Give Me My Data Money
February 20, 2024 20:17 - 58 minutes - 47.1 MBShomax, an African streaming service has dethroned Netflix for top spot in the motherland and all but made Amazon Prime Video quit with its vast library of local content. Many early adopters of the Apple Vision Pro have returned their devices citing reasons from discomfort to a lack of applications Social media platforms that collect vast amounts of information on us and are working out deals to sell it to AI companies to train their algorithms And are AI chatbots used in customer servic...
Credit Checking Dating Apps
February 13, 2024 20:27 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBMeta won’t algorithmically share political content with you in Threads from accounts you don’t already follow. The question is do we trust Meta to determine what content is and is not political? Score is a new dating app conceived at last year's AfroTech and requires you to have a credit score of 675 or better in order to find a match. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks a measly $7 trillion for a new AI chip project. And HBCUs could benefit from the CHIPS Act if the federal government adheres ...
An Apple Vision Pro Review With Lamarr Wilson
February 06, 2024 19:11 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBAlthough things aren’t as bad as last year, layoffs at big tech companies are dominating the news. Tech hiring at companies generally not thought of as tech companies, however, can’t seem to happen fast enough. Big tech, particularly, social media companies was on trial last week. CEO’s from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord testified before Congress, and let's just say that things were… performative… And we’re joined by the Larmarr Wilson, a.k.a. The CEO of Unboxings. Larmar picked up...
Black Twitter Is Not Bothered By X
January 30, 2024 21:47 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBApple announced plans for alternative iPhone and iPad app stores in the EU, but, developers still feel some kind of way. Should linear television be concerned about live events moving to streaming platforms like Netflix and Peacock? Google Deepmind proposes a new AI to assist doctors with wellness checks. And Black Twitter is not bothered by all the things antithetical to Black culture on X. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Using DNA To Draw Criminal Sketches?
January 23, 2024 20:51 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBFujitsu and the UK Postal Service knew about bugs in Fujitsu software that sent UK postal workers to jail from the time when the Postal Service started using it. Apple sold between 160,000 and 180,000 Vision Pro devices over the weekend and analysts believe Apple could sell as many as half a million units in 2024. The Police are using DNA to create 3-D sketches of what a suspect might look like and running the results through facial recognition software. And Apple has agreed to let develo...
OpenAI Says Naw To GPT Girlfriends
January 16, 2024 17:47 - 56 minutes - 45.5 MBMeta will stop treating teens like adults by curbing harmful material and reducing unwanted interactions from their Facebook and Instagram timelines. Peacock’s AFC Wild Card game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins is the most viewed live-stream event in U.S. history. OpenAI removes military application limits, bans the use of its tools in creating political ads, and prohibits the creation of GPT “girlfriends. And we spotlight Chazz Sims, a member of Forbe’s 30 Under 30 in ...
Apple Officially Announced The Vision Pro Release Date Slick Right Before CES
January 09, 2024 20:48 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThe Consumer Electronics Show, the largest tech show in the world kicks off this week and we’re excited about all the announcements, especially the things that actually exist. Apple officially announced the pre-order and launch dates of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset and guest host TechSavvyDiva is contemplating getting one. The Black tech talent gap is widening and it could cost Black households $350 billion by 2030. And post Geroge Floyd murder DEI initiatives at big tech compani...
The SnobOS / Tech Jawn Feed Takeover
January 02, 2024 19:06 - 25 minutes - 26.4 MBHey Folks, Robb Dunewood from The Tech Jawn here. Let me first wish everyone a Happy New Year and let you know that the crew from the Tech Jawn is off this week with our normal recording day falling on Monday. We didn’t want your feeds to be empty so we’re doing a feed drop of @BrothaTech’s and @TechSavvyDiva’s SnobOS Podcast. In this clip, Terrance and Nica give you the lowdown on the new Apple Hotness that came out in 2023. We’ll be back with a new live episode of the Tech Jawn next...
Interview With "The CEO Of Tech Unboxings", Lamarr Wilson
December 26, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour - 64 MBIn most of this episode of The Tech Jawn, we’ll be talking to our featured guest, but before we get to the interview we discuss another case of facial recognition misidentifying a person of color leading to their wrongful arrest. In our interview, we talk with Lamarr Wilson, the unofficial “CEO of Tech Unboxings” and Lifestyle Entertainer and Influencer with over 3 million followers. Lamarr tells us about his journey to becoming a prolific content creator, how he decided to forgo long-f...
Kinfolk Keep Trying To Warn Companies About The Potential Harms AI Can Do To Underserved Communities - The Tech Jawn 111
December 19, 2023 18:33 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBA DEI lead at Facebook has admitted to embezzling 4 million dollars in a scheme that involved fake expense reports, payments via CashApp, and all kinds of easily “firgureoutable” types of fraud. Elon Musk has declared that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives need to die and has even equated DEI to being a different type of discrimination. A Cox Media Group subsidiary claims the company can listen to ambient sound via device microphones and can market to customers based on the data...
The FDA Approves Gene Therapy For Sickle Cell Disease: The Tech Jawn 110
December 12, 2023 02:57 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBThe FDA has approved the first-ever gene editing therapy we talked about in episode 106 that treats sickle cell disease which affects over 100,000 mostly Black Americans in the United States. Rumor has it that Apple’s iMessage will not be classified as a gatekeeper service under the EU’s Digital Markets Act and will not have to become interoperable with other messaging services. Genetic Testing company 23andMe got hacked, lost 6.9 million users' data, and changed its TOS to avoid getting s...
Dang, Colleges Collect A Lot Of Data On Students: The Tech Jawn 109
December 05, 2023 17:50 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBHappy belated birthday to ChatGPT. OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot that kicked off the AI craze of 2023 officially turned 1 year old on November 30th. Spotify has laid off 17% of its workforce eliminating around 1500 jobs. This is the music streaming company’s third reduction in staff this year. Do we need to worry about NameDrop? All the concerns related to the new contact sharing feature which debuted in iOS 17 may be just a bit overstated. And you might be surprised by just how much d...
Coding My Crown and Dove Launch A Guide For Coding Black Hair In Video Games: The Tech Jawn 108
November 28, 2023 18:10 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBThis is a public service announcement to check your old Google accounts because, starting this week, Google is deleting accounts that have not been accessed in over two years. Tech Life Steph has made the switch from PC to Mac, but, all is not well as she explains why she is not yet using her new hotness to record episodes of the show. Coding My Crown and Dove have partnered to launch an open-source guide for coding Black hair in video games. And, billion-dollar case maker Casetify is bei...
OpenAI Is Trippin': The Tech Jawn 107
November 21, 2023 17:59 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBApple has finally decided to add RCS to the iPhone sometime in 2024, but, the company makes it clear that RCS is not coming to iMessage, thus the blue bubble vs. green bubble bullying will continue. OpenAI fired its CEO, failed at trying to rehire him less than 24 hours later, had most of its employees threaten to leave the company if it didn’t bring him back, and is now trying to rehire him again, all while knowing Microsoft has already offered him and those who to follow him a gig. And, ...
The D.O.C. Uses AI To Release New Music: The Tech Jawn 106
November 14, 2023 18:39 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBIt looks like the Food and Drug Administration might be ready to approve the first gene-editing therapy, CRISPR, that cured sickle cell anemia symptoms in 97% of trial patients. Are we ready for the Humane AI Pin? A wearable AI assistant that kind of reminds you of a Star Trek TNG communicator badge. Rapper and Producer The D. O. C. may use AI to release new music. And banks are under pressure to refund funds to Zelle users who were scammed out of their money, while the Consumer Finan...
EVs Are Just Too Darn Expensive - The Tech Jawn 105
November 07, 2023 18:52 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBElectric vehicle sales are actually up year over year but their increased cost compared to the ICE counterparts keeps consumers from adopting them at the rate auto manufacturers thought they would. Elon Musk’s generative AI company X.ai released its LLM Grok this week. The chatbot comes with an X Premium+ account and answers you in a snarky tone. Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are out. Are you going to cop a pair, or, naw? And Click Workers, the people who train AI, are underpaid, underapprec...
Dr. Joy Buolamwini, The White House, And The UN On AI: The Tech Jawn 104
October 31, 2023 21:44 - 1 hour - 56 MBCruise’s robotaxi permit was immediately suspended in San Francisco after the company failed to report the whole story about a pedestrian-involved accident and two days later the company suspended service everywhere. Facebook and Instagram launched ad-free premium subscriptions in Europe. And X, formerly Twitter, launched Basic and Premium+ subscriptions here in the U.S. Multiple states are suing Meta because of beauty filters’ effects on children’s development. And, Dr. Joy Buolamwini,...
Full Circle With The Fugees: The Tech Jawn 103
October 24, 2023 16:48 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBA jury awards a female Google Cloud executive $1.1 million because the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts and later denied her promotions in retaliation for complaining about it. On the heels of the password-sharing crackdown and a 70% increase in ad-supported tiers, Netflix has a better-than-expected Q3. The company is still hiking subscription prices though. Google is rolling out RSS to YouTube and YouTube Music, but, it isn’t quite what many podcasters expected. ...
Ya'll Started Using Passkeys Yet? - The Tech Jawn 102
October 17, 2023 17:29 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBMicrosoft, Apple, and now Google all have native support for passkeys, the next wave of authentication technology that doesn’t require you to remember passwords. A New York state bill has been proposed that would require everyone to register in order to buy certain 3-D printers because of their potential to print parts for guns. The European Union isn’t messing around when it comes to misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war on social media platforms but we wonder where that fervor was fo...
Tesla Should Change The Name Of Autopilot - The Tech Jawn 101
October 10, 2023 18:39 - 59 minutes - 47.6 MBMidjourney is trippin' when it comes to using AI to draw Black African doctors helping white children. Would you pay $14 monthly or more to access Facebook and Instagram without ads? This is what Meta wants European Union users to pay if they opt out of targeted ad Amazon is being sued by the US Federal Trade Commission for illegally maintaining monopoly power. And, another Tesla owner was killed when driving with autopilot engaged, but, the automated system made no attempt to stop or ste...
An Appeals Court Pauses The Fearless Fund From Awarding Grants - The Tech Jawn 100
October 03, 2023 19:13 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBiPhone 15 overheating issues have been widely reported, but, Apple is stating that the problem is not with hardware and lies with apps like Uber and Instagram. The Forbes Top Creators 2023 list is out and we discuss who made the list, why they made the list, and why so few African American women are on the list. After 25 years, Netflix’s DVD delivery service has come to an end. This is one case where we don’t think a tech company killed something too soon. And an appeals court paused Atl...
Black Employees Sue TikTok - The Tech Jawn 99
September 26, 2023 18:21 - 54 minutes - 44 MBGoogle announces Project Elevate Black Voices, a partnership with Howard University to improve the technology used in Automatic Speech Recognition. A Family sues Google alleging its Maps app led a father to drive off a collapsed bridge to his death after being notified numerous times that the bridge had been out for nearly 10 years. Tinder launches a new $500 per month Tinder Select Tier to less than 1% of the dating platform's most active users. TikTok is being sued by two Black employee...
Streaming Music is Changing Music: The Tech Jawn 98
September 19, 2023 16:50 - 1 hour - 50 MBWe recap Apple’s Wunderlust event where the company officially unveiled the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, the new iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Ultra, and we discuss iOS 17 which just came out Monday. Streaming has not only changed how we listen to music, but it has changed the music that we listen to. The MGM Hack is moving into its second week and it turns out that Ceasars was also hacked, they just paid the ransom. And Return to Office seems to thing for most companies. ...
No One Was Surprised: The Tech Jawn 97
September 12, 2023 16:24 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBThe Apple Event where the iPhone 15, USB-C Airpods, and new Apple Watches are officially being announced is upon us and we do a bit of speculation on what all the new hotness will look like. We are so not shocked that, according to a leaked spreadsheet with self-reported salary information, Black Google employees earn $20,000 less than white colleagues. Apple didn’t meet the EU DMA Gatekeeper status for iMessage, but, is keeping iMessage walled off from other messaging platforms still the ...
Don’t None Of Us Want To Go First With Autonomous Driving: The Tech Jawn 96
August 29, 2023 16:35 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBBrothatech downloaded and installed iOS Beta 17 which is expected to be officially released next month. Apple is, oddly supportive of SB 244, a right-to-repair bill being considered in California and we ponder why. Tesla is facing its first lawsuits on autonomous vehicle deaths. A UK study reports that autonomous driving systems are less accurate for children and darker-skinned pedestrians, and, San Franciscans feel some kind of way about autonomous driverless taxis. And, Urban One and So...
Interview With "The CEO Of Tech Unboxings", Lamarr Wilson - The Tech Jawn 95
August 22, 2023 18:09 - 1 hour - 64 MBIn most of episode 95 of The Tech Jawn, we’ll be talking to our featured guest, but before we get to the interview we discuss another case of facial recognition misidentifying a person of color leading to their wrongful arrest. In our interview, we talk with Lamarr Wilson, the unofficial “CEO of Tech Unboxings” and Lifestyle Entertainer and Influencer with over 3 million followers. Lamarr tells us about his journey to becoming a prolific content creator, how he decided to forgo long-for...
From The Archives - Minoritizing: The Tech Jawn 76
August 15, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBWill Melody Hobson’s $1.45 billion Project Black fund which plans to “minoritize” existing businesses help to narrow the wealth gap? Spotify has invested less than 10% of the $100 million it pledged to its Creator Equity Fund during the Joe Rogan controversy, and it doesn’t appear it ever took the pledge seriously from the jump. Things just keep getting worse for Twitter as the social media giant issued a copyright takedown notice to GitHub after finding out parts of its source code had be...
Zoom Says Remote Work Ain't Working - The Tech Jawn 94
August 08, 2023 16:37 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBAn Asian MIT student asked Playground AI to make her profile pic look more professional, and it turned her into a white woman. Local governments can’t wait on Washington to implement federal guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence so they are taking matters into their own hands. The conservative activist behind the Supreme Court affirmative action case sues an Atlanta-based, female-run, Black venture capital fund that invests in Black women lead businesses. And Zoom, one of the ...
Black Wall Street Is On A Come Back: The Tech Jawn 93
August 01, 2023 16:31 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBSamsung held its Galaxy Unpacked event last week and officially announced the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5, the Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic, and the Galaxy Tab 9 series of Tablets. TikTok is getting into the music streaming service game it isn’t necessarily coming for Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Will the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes supercharge the Creator Economy? And Black Tech Street and Microsoft are aiming to add 1000+ Cyber Professionals to the Greenwood...
X Marks The Spot: The Tech Jawn 92
July 25, 2023 17:18 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBNearly 200 school systems are suing the parent companies of Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok in a class-action lawsuit over alleged harms to students via their social media platforms. Several streaming services including Netflix, YouTube Premium, Spotify, and Youtube Music recently told consumers that “Yesterday’s price is not today’s price. Black Tech Week in Cincinnati took place last week and one of the more interesting presentations was a rap battle between real rappers and A.I....
You'd Better Hold Off On Binge Watching: The Tech Jawn 91
July 18, 2023 15:06 - 56 minutes - 45.2 MBGoogle’s new privacy policy indicates the search giant wants to scrape all your data for use with its A.I. Not just all Google data. Like, literally, all your data on the internet. The Actor’s union, SAG-AFTRA, joined its sister union the Writer’s Guild of America in going on strike. Both unions list demands for A.I. protections as significant reasons for shutting down movie and television production. Is NPC live streaming the next thing or just a fad? Whatever the case TikTok sensation Pi...
Meta's Twitter Clone Threads Is A Thing: The Tech Jawn 90
July 11, 2023 14:47 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBDid an A.I.-powered robot give a reporter the side-eye when questioned about rebelling against humans? It did appear that the bot felt some type of way about the question. NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms went into effect. Employers using A.I. to hire or promote must submit the algorithms for independent review and make the results public. The DEI goodwill we saw after the George Floyd murder may be coming to an end. And Meta’s Twitter clone Threads is a thing. With over 100 mil...
Twitter is Trippin: The Tech Jawn 89
July 04, 2023 15:53 - 57 minutes - 46.5 MBAdult website Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws. Will constituents push back against lawmakers? Bipartisan support for a proposed bill eying a ban on TikTok has analysts recommending that investors buy Meta properties. Microsoft CEO, Satya Nedalla, would love to end exclusive titles on gaming consoles, but, admits that the market leader, Sony, has set the marketplace for the industry. Twitter imposed rate limits over the weekend supposedly to "...
Canceling Amazon is Like a Trap: The Tech Jawn 88
June 27, 2023 15:06 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBMeta is yanking news off Facebook and Instagram in Canada because the country’s newly passed Online News Act will force the company to pay news organizations for their content. We’re learning the fallout from the Reddit Blackout where subreddit mods took their channels private to protest the company’s new API pricing model is far from over. If you’ve accidentally signed up for or tried to cancel an Amazon Prime account you’d understand exactly why the FTC is suing Amazon for deceptive prac...
Happy Juneteenth: The Tech Jawn 87
June 20, 2023 00:22 - 54 minutes - 43.6 MBTimnit Gebru, co-founder of Black in AI, advocate for diversity in technology, and founder of the DAIR, believes that we should have some type of government oversight for Artificial intelligence. The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the European Union, passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would put new restrictions on what are seen as the technology’s riskiest uses. AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations according to re...
Yesterday's Price Is Not Today's Price: The Tech Jawn 86
June 13, 2023 16:02 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBMany people think the price of Electric Vehicles is the biggest obstacle holding them back from switching to EVs, but, the availability of working charging stations is also a big concern. Thousands of Reditt communities went dark for 48 hours in protest over Reddit’s new API pricing model. The question-and-answer giant will begin charging 2.4 cents per 1000 API calls in July. WhatsApp's new Channels feature may allow the world's largest messaging platform to dip its toe into social media ...