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An Hour With Black, Female, Mechanical Engineer, Cherish Samuels

The Tech Jawn - May 28, 2024 15:24 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
We’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 t...

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Deepfakes for Good?

The Tech Jawn - May 21, 2024 21:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Political 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, i...

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What Aren't We Using Bots For?

The Tech Jawn - May 14, 2024 17:15 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Developer 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...

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Get That Community College AI Degree

The Tech Jawn - May 07, 2024 19:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
By 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 T...

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Get Your TikTok Ish Together

The Tech Jawn - April 30, 2024 17:51 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
The 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 ...

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Don’t Allow Your Thumbprint To Snitch

The Tech Jawn - April 23, 2024 21:46 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
It 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 di...

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Fiber Already Trippin'

The Tech Jawn - April 16, 2024 19:41 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Hybrid 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 licens...

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All About AI

The Tech Jawn - April 09, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
New 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 ...

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Talking Tech With Dr. Tonya M. Evans

The Tech Jawn - April 02, 2024 18:53 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
A 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 ...

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Florida Bans Social Media Until You're 16

The Tech Jawn - March 26, 2024 18:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
The 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 co...

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Must TikTok Divest or Be Banned?

The Tech Jawn - March 19, 2024 17:55 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
The 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 P...

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Give Black Twitter Its Flowers

The Tech Jawn - March 12, 2024 18:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Congress 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 T...

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Companies Crying Over Billions

The Tech Jawn - March 05, 2024 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Microsoft’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 aft...

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Google's Gemini Really Is Color Blind

The Tech Jawn - February 27, 2024 19:59 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Google 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 ...

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Give Me My Data Money

The Tech Jawn - February 20, 2024 20:17 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Shomax, 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 applicat...

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Credit Checking Dating Apps

The Tech Jawn - February 13, 2024 20:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Meta 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 scor...

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An Apple Vision Pro Review With Lamarr Wilson

The Tech Jawn - February 06, 2024 19:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Although 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 ...

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Black Twitter Is Not Bothered By X

The Tech Jawn - January 30, 2024 21:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Apple 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 well...

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Using DNA To Draw Criminal Sketches?

The Tech Jawn - January 23, 2024 20:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Fujitsu 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 mi...

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OpenAI Says Naw To GPT Girlfriends

The Tech Jawn - January 16, 2024 17:47 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Meta 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 rem...

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Apple Officially Announced The Vision Pro Release Date Slick Right Before CES

The Tech Jawn - January 09, 2024 20:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
The 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 TechS...

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The SnobOS / Tech Jawn Feed Takeover

The Tech Jawn - January 02, 2024 19:06 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Hey 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...

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Interview With "The CEO Of Tech Unboxings", Lamarr Wilson

The Tech Jawn - December 26, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
In 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 “...

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Kinfolk Keep Trying To Warn Companies About The Potential Harms AI Can Do To Underserved Communities - The Tech Jawn 111

The Tech Jawn - December 19, 2023 18:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
A 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 eq...

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The FDA Approves Gene Therapy For Sickle Cell Disease: The Tech Jawn 110

The Tech Jawn - December 12, 2023 02:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
The 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 Digita...

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Dang, Colleges Collect A Lot Of Data On Students: The Tech Jawn 109

The Tech Jawn - December 05, 2023 17:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Happy 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...

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Coding My Crown and Dove Launch A Guide For Coding Black Hair In Video Games: The Tech Jawn 108

The Tech Jawn - November 28, 2023 18:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
This 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 n...

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OpenAI Is Trippin': The Tech Jawn 107

The Tech Jawn - November 21, 2023 17:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Apple 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 e...

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The D.O.C. Uses AI To Release New Music: The Tech Jawn 106

The Tech Jawn - November 14, 2023 18:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
It 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 communicat...

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EVs Are Just Too Darn Expensive - The Tech Jawn 105

The Tech Jawn - November 07, 2023 18:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Electric 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...

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