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ChatGPT Is Pretty Good At Picking Stocks: The Tech Jawn 82
The Tech Jawn - May 09, 2023 16:02 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIs ChatGPT better at picking stocks than hedge fund managers? According to an 8-week study in the UK, the answer is yes, and it's not even close. The Writer’s Guild of America is currently on strike, and, one of their major issues is that writers do not want to be displaced by AI. #BlackTechT...
Is Subscribing to Cars What We're Doing Now? - The Tech Jawn 81
The Tech Jawn - May 02, 2023 15:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsJuice Jacking may not be as big of an issue as the FBI and literally every other media outlet made it out to be last month seeing how there are no reports of it ever happening on record. Monthly subscriptions for features on new cars may be the wave of the future, but, not many in the present a...
Facebook Might Owe You Money: The Tech Jawn 80
The Tech Jawn - April 25, 2023 15:27 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThere is no way to sugarcoat it. Google employees think Bard is trash and you simply can’t trust it even if its tongue came notarized. Meta will soon start doling out payments from the $725 million Cambridge Analytica settlement where it sold data on 87 million Facebook users. The SCOTUS will...
Have Social Media Chickens Come Home To Roost? - The Tech Jawn 79
The Tech Jawn - April 18, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNetflix’s Love is Blind Reunion live stream didn’t go down as planned. It turns out the cast, not, the technology is the reason for the postponement. Consumers just aren’t buying computers like they used to. Global shipments of PCs were down 29% YoY. Apple’s Mac sales were down 40.5%. Will ove...
EV Charging At Walmart... Makes Sense: The Tech Jawn 78
The Tech Jawn - April 11, 2023 14:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsRumor has it that Sony is working on a new handheld PlayStation built for remote play. The “Q Lite” is designed to stream games over the internet from a PlayStation 5. Walmart plans to build a nationwide EV charging network at thousands of stores. It’s a smart move that would make charging up c...
Interview With Lawyer, Author, and COO of DEI Directive, Flo Nicolas: The Tech Jawn 77
The Tech Jawn - April 04, 2023 14:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn, we cover a couple of tech stories like Twitter’s logo changing to the logo of Dogecoin and the open letter to pause new AI development for 6 months, but the meat of this episode is our interview with author, attorney, and COO of DEI Directive, Flo Nicolas...
Minoritizing: The Tech Jawn 76
The Tech Jawn - March 28, 2023 12:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWill 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 ...
A.I. Is Finessing Humans For Real For Real: The Tech Jawn 75
The Tech Jawn - March 21, 2023 14:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe U.S. is threatening to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don’t sell their stake, but, the social media giant argues that a forced sale won’t address security issues. Google cancels Google Glass, again. Is this just Google being Google or a sign that augmented and virtual reality is nowhere n...
An Interview With RareBreed Ventures Founder And Managing Partner, Mac Conwell - The Tech Jawn 74
The Tech Jawn - March 14, 2023 15:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week on The Tech Jawn we are joined by special guest Mac Conwell, founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures. He hangs out with us to talk about the run on and ultimate failure of Silicon Valley bank, what actually happened, and how bad it could have been if the government didn’t ...
Bias and Racial Inequality in Ed Tech: The Tech Jawn 73
The Tech Jawn - March 07, 2023 16:03 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe August 2022 LastPass breach just keeps getting worse and worse. It turns out that a developer with “literal” keys to the kingdom was hacked on his home computer which, ultimately, lead to a series of unfortunate events. The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to give the President th...
The State of Black Professionals in Tech: The Tech Jawn 72
The Tech Jawn - February 28, 2023 16:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAmazon CEO Andy Jassy wants workers back into the office at least three times per week, but, 16,000 employees, really ain’t trying to hear that. Google is changing directions when it comes to podcasting. The company has stopped adding playable links directly to search results and will soon add ...
No Murder Bots In Policing: The Tech Jawn 71
The Tech Jawn - February 21, 2023 16:41 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsTwitter drops the less secure sms based two-factor authentication for free users, but, lets you keep it if you are a Twitter Blue subscriber. Meta, taking a page from Twitter’s playbook is launching, Meta Verified, a Blue verification subscription for Facebook and Instagram accounts starting a...
Hate Speech Just Might Be Lucrative: The Tech Jawn 70
The Tech Jawn - February 14, 2023 17:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis year, an anti-Tesla full self-driving ad aired in several markets during the Superbowl. The Dawn Project spent $598,000 on the 30-second spot, but, we aren’t certain what the motivation was. In Google’s official introduction of Bard, its’ ChatGPT-like large language model AI, the search gi...
Big Tech Layoffs Are Reversing Trends In Diversity: The Tech Jawn 69
The Tech Jawn - February 07, 2023 18:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNex Cubed is launching a $40 million fund that will invest in startups where at least one founder is an HBCU student, alumni, or faculty. It’s a slow news cycle for Apple and we keep getting hit with rumors of new devices. This time a new ultra-high-end iPhone that could make its debut next yea...
TikTok Manually Plays Hot Or Not With Your Content: The Tech Jawn 68
The Tech Jawn - January 31, 2023 16:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThere are rumors that a foldable iPad could be coming as soon as 2024, but would the price of such a device be cost-prohibitive? The venture capital scene got substantially worse for Black Founders in 2022. Their companies only received about 1% of the $215.9 billion raised last year, down from...
Tech Layoffs Continue Into 2023: The Tech Jawn 67
The Tech Jawn - January 24, 2023 16:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsTwitter shuts off access to several third-party Twitter clients with zero notice. Twitter had the right to do it, but, was Twitter right to do it? Apple announces new M2 processors, refreshed MacBook Pros, and less expensive Mac Minis in a recorded video. Have live press events for lesser annou...
Is All Fair In Love And AI? The Tech Jawn 66
The Tech Jawn - January 17, 2023 17:22 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAre black and brown renters being denied access to housing based on biased algorithms? A renter’s screening company says it's not its issue because it doesn’t make renting decisions. Wyoming wants to phase out electric vehicles by 2035. We don’t think lawmakers proposed this resolution with a s...
We Back: The Tech Jawn 65
The Tech Jawn - January 10, 2023 18:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMSG Entertainment is being petty with its facial recognition capabilities. The company is actively banning employees from law firms that are litigating cases against it from patronizing its venues. Inaccuracy in Facial Recognition of Black and Brown faces is still problematic for the technology...
Wrapping Up Before The Holidays: The Tech Jawn 64
The Tech Jawn - December 13, 2022 19:47 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsApple decides not to scan your iCloud photos against the Child Sexual Abuse Material database, or, CSAM, and has other plans to expand its Communication Safety features. The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft alleging that its bid to acquire Activision Blizz...
An Hour With Black, Female, Mechanical Engineer, Cherish Samuels: The Tech Jawn 63
The Tech Jawn - December 06, 2022 16:01 - 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...
Aggressive Weight Loss Goals: The Tech Jawn 62
The Tech Jawn - November 29, 2022 16:15 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsTwitter grappled with nuisance spam from the Chinese State intended to obscure news of covid restriction protests happening in cities across the country. Even though Amazon Alexa devices are pretty popular the digital assistants are on pace to lose $10 billion this year because users just don’t...
No Experimentation On Thanksgiving Dinner : The Tech Jawn 61
The Tech Jawn - November 22, 2022 16:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIs Taylor Swift really that big, or, is TicketMaster's and Live Nation’s monopoly on ticket sales and venues the cause for Swifties not being able to purchase tickets? Microsoft is eager to acquire gaming company, Activision Blizzard, for $68.7 billion, but, a new EU investigation has Microsoft...
The Tech Winter Is Getting Colder: The Tech Jawn 60
The Tech Jawn - November 15, 2022 17:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsGoogle is set to pay nearly $400 million to settle lawsuits with 40 state's attornies general over location data it wasn’t supposed to be collecting. Regardless of how you feel about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the new Twitter non-verified blue check mark, right now, is creating confus...
Assaults To Free Speech: The Tech Jawn 59
The Tech Jawn - November 08, 2022 16:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsElection misinformation safeguards in social media work fairly well unless the election lies come in foreign languages. Many of last week’s Twitter rumors have come to pass. Twitter did lay off nearly half of its employees hours before asking some of them to come back. Twitter Blue actually cos...
What Twitter Was Ain't What Twitter Is Going To Be: The Tech Jawn 58
The Tech Jawn - November 01, 2022 16:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsBe careful when having receipts emailed to you. It looks like Square along with many other credit card processing companies is selling your contact information. The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk happened last week and the new owner isn’t wasting time making changes. Verified accounts ar...
The SnobOS Jawn With Nica Montford: The Tech Jawn 57
The Tech Jawn - October 25, 2022 13:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsGoogle’s vision for RCS hasn’t materialized, but, is it too soon to call it a failure? Probably not. Netflix reported its third-quarter earnings, is launching an ad-supported tier in November, and, is putting the kibosh on password sharing in early 2023. The Republican National Committee is s...
Hiring Freezes And Layoffs In Big Tech: The Tech Jawn 56
The Tech Jawn - October 18, 2022 14:46 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsKanye West, after having his Instagram and Twitter accounts restricted for antisemitic comments, agrees to buy the right-leaning social media platform Parler. TikTok has raised the age requirement for live streaming from 16 to 18 and is introducing adult-only streams. The website for the Biden...
Tech Confessions: The Tech Jawn 55
The Tech Jawn - October 11, 2022 15:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Apple Watch’s fall and crash detection experience false positives everywhere from the emergency room to roller coasters. Meta has notified nearly 1 million Facebook users that their login information may have been compromised by apps downloaded from the App Store and Google Play. Alphabet ...
Will Remote Work Lead To Overseas Outsourcing: The Tech Jawn 54
The Tech Jawn - October 04, 2022 14:45 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsJames Earl Jones is retiring as the voice of Darth Vader but his menacing tones will live on through A.I. supplied by Ukrainian startup, Respeecher. Apple reportedly won’t boost iPhone 14 Production because it appears that the new hotness is selling as Apple predicted it would. Square make...
IBM Expands Its Cybersecurity Leadership Centers to 20 HBCUs: The Tech Jawn 53
The Tech Jawn - September 27, 2022 15:06 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Windows 11 22H2 Update is out. It’s the first major update of Windows 11 and we break down some of the new features and old features that Windows users should check out. The latest version of WhatsApp allows users to join calls by typing a link. Call Links aims to make it easier for groups ...
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