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The Internet Is Nothing But Freeware
The Tech Jawn - July 09, 2024 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMulti-Purpose-Tap could make mobile NFC payments more useful and more complicated. The new concept could allow you to tap your phone, pay for alcohol, and get carded all at the same time. Morehouse College launches 3D, AI, Teaching Assistants in its Metaversity. They probably don’t need to be 3...
The FCC Considers Making Unlocking Phones Easier
The Tech Jawn - July 02, 2024 19:42 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Detroit Police Department, after a settlement with a man who was wrongly arrested based on grainy security camera footage, can no longer use facial recognition results as its only basis for an arrest. The Federal Communications Commission wants to change rules that would force mobile carrie...
Broke Influencer
The Tech Jawn - June 25, 2024 18:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMicrosoft Recall was supposed to launch with Copilot+ PCs last week, but Microsoft decided to send the controversial, AI-powered, timeline snapshotting feature to the Windows Insider Program. Social Media Influencers aren’t seeing the sponsorship and brand deal payouts that they once did, possi...
Tap To Cash Might Make Mobile Payments Too Easy
The Tech Jawn - June 18, 2024 19:05 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsApple’s new Tap to Cash feature that allows iPhone users to tap their phones to initiate an Apple Pay transfer makes paying someone really easy. The question is does it make it too easy? The US Surgeon General wants tobacco-like warning labels on social media. The proposed labels would regula...
Apple's Take On AI
The Tech Jawn - June 11, 2024 18:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this episode of The Tech Jawn, we cover Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference Keynote. Brothech breaks down the new hotness coming to visionOS 2, iOS and iPad OS 18, WatchOS 11, and macOS Sequoia. TechLifeSteph catches us up with the saga of the phantom system data on her new Macbook Ai...
Anybody Else Cancelling Amazon? The Tech Jawn 132
The Tech Jawn - June 04, 2024 17:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsA pair of studies published in the journal Science indicate that predominately older Republican women are responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news”. Spotify is raising its prices for the second time in as many years. Will the streaming music service be able to maintain the industry's...
An Hour With Black, Female, Mechanical Engineer, Cherish Samuels
The Tech Jawn - May 28, 2024 15:24 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWe’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...
Deepfakes for Good?
The Tech Jawn - May 21, 2024 21:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsPolitical 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...
What Aren't We Using Bots For?
The Tech Jawn - May 14, 2024 17:15 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsDeveloper 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...
Get That Community College AI Degree
The Tech Jawn - May 07, 2024 19:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsBy 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...
Get Your TikTok Ish Together
The Tech Jawn - April 30, 2024 17:51 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe 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 ...
Don’t Allow Your Thumbprint To Snitch
The Tech Jawn - April 23, 2024 21:46 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIt 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...
Fiber Already Trippin'
The Tech Jawn - April 16, 2024 19:41 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsHybrid 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...
All About AI
The Tech Jawn - April 09, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNew 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 ...
Talking Tech With Dr. Tonya M. Evans
The Tech Jawn - April 02, 2024 18:53 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsA 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 ...
Florida Bans Social Media Until You're 16
The Tech Jawn - March 26, 2024 18:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe 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...
Must TikTok Divest or Be Banned?
The Tech Jawn - March 19, 2024 17:55 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe 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...
Give Black Twitter Its Flowers
The Tech Jawn - March 12, 2024 18:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsCongress 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...
Companies Crying Over Billions
The Tech Jawn - March 05, 2024 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMicrosoft’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...
Google's Gemini Really Is Color Blind
The Tech Jawn - February 27, 2024 19:59 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsGoogle 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 ...
Give Me My Data Money
The Tech Jawn - February 20, 2024 20:17 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsShomax, 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...
Credit Checking Dating Apps
The Tech Jawn - February 13, 2024 20:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMeta 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...
An Apple Vision Pro Review With Lamarr Wilson
The Tech Jawn - February 06, 2024 19:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAlthough 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 ...
Black Twitter Is Not Bothered By X
The Tech Jawn - January 30, 2024 21:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsApple 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...
Using DNA To Draw Criminal Sketches?
The Tech Jawn - January 23, 2024 20:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsFujitsu 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...
OpenAI Says Naw To GPT Girlfriends
The Tech Jawn - January 16, 2024 17:47 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMeta 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...
Apple Officially Announced The Vision Pro Release Date Slick Right Before CES
The Tech Jawn - January 09, 2024 20:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe 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...
The SnobOS / Tech Jawn Feed Takeover
The Tech Jawn - January 02, 2024 19:06 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsHey 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...
Interview With "The CEO Of Tech Unboxings", Lamarr Wilson
The Tech Jawn - December 26, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn 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 “...
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 ratingsA 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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