Tech Talk Y'all (Edgewise Media)

In this episode we talk about:

• The Uber hack that lost 57M people's data
• The removal of Net Neutrality
• Tesla just built the world's largest battery
• The startup wanting to do braces for $88 per month
• Scientists have used cells as a recording device

Plus two great tech recommendations.

Links:

• Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - Bloomberg
• Uber's new chief knew about hack months before the public
• FCC unveils plan to repeal net neutrality rules - The Washington Post
• 1 Million FCC Comments Againt Net Neutrality Were Probably Fake | Fortune
• Tesla just built the world's largest battery, thanks to a bet
• Candid Co. teeth straightening orthodontics startup raises $15 million - Business Insider
• Scientists have used cells as a recording device for the first time - Axios
• It’s easy to save energy. | Nest
• Quik - GoPro Video Editor on the App Store
• Quik – Free Video Editor for photos, clips, music - Android Apps on Google Play

In this Episode:

• Google Stadia puts Xbox One, PlayStation 4 on notice
• Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know
• Deloitte Digital media trends survey, 13th edition
• NVIDIA’s AI Can Turn Doodles Into Landscape ‘Photos’
• Crash avoidance tech is spreading - Axios
• Proposed bill would make it illegal for boss to contact employees after hours
• Nude photos, tax statements and more: Old USB drives contain highly sensitive info

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Mathematically perfect rings could soundproof the world
• China’s new social media craze: Paying random people to shower you with over-the-top compliments
• Armando, the 'Lewis Hamilton of pigeons' sells for record €1.25m - BBC News
• Scientists create liquid metal that stretches like Terminator

Tech Recommendations:
Adam - Timeshifter: The Jet Lag App
Sanjay - Data Removal: Darik's Boot and Nuke - DBAN

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Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

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• The Woodruff Arts Center: The Woodruff Arts Center, the third largest arts center in the country, is home to the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre, the Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art, the leading art museum in the Southeast. The Woodruff knows how to blend contemporary digital technology with artistic excellence. Just check out their new Coca-Cola stage, their live simulcasts that allow visitors to watch sold-out Atlanta Symphony Orchestra shows or their use of ArtClix, a program that features image-recognition technology to identify the art at the High Museum. Learn more at www.woodruffcenter.org.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Google Stadia puts Xbox One, PlayStation 4 on notice
• Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know
• Deloitte Digital media trends survey, 13th edition
• NVIDIA’s AI Can Turn Doodles Into Landscape ‘Photos’
• Crash avoidance tech is spreading - Axios

In this episode: 

• Deere & Co. will allow farmers to repair their own equipment
• Minnesota company rolls out fully electric fire truck
• The FAA has ordered a temporary nationwide pause on all domestic flights until 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning following a computer failure impacted flights.
• Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around
• Medium embraces Mastodon 


• A New Direction for Mojo Vision’s Groundbreaking Technology
• Sony and Honda just announced their new electric car brand, Afeela

AD BREAK

• Two Minor League baseball pitchers with the exact same name — and eerily similar looks — took a DNA test to find out if they’re actually related after years of being confused for one another.…
• Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
• Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
• A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay
• OpenAI has begun testing a paid, enterprise-focused version of its viral ChatGPT bot -- and surveying users about their pricing preferences.

Weird and Wacky: 

• Employee TikTok reveals a floor show upgrade from floppy and DVD—possibly for the last time.
• Laser-charged Chinese drone can stay in the air indefinitely

Tech Rec:

• Adam - Daily Art App
• Sanjay - dimensions.com

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In this episode: 

• Tesla charging woes in the Arctic cold snap blamed on inadequate battery preconditioning

• Result of Cybertruck's 'carrot test' is leaving people concerned for their safety

• Harvard Claims 'Holy Grail' EV Battery Breakthrough. But When Will We See It?

• The US Postal Service’s new EV chargers are here

• Kitepower's Wind Energy System Fits in a Shipping Container

• Sam Altman was asked what humans would still do better than AI—he didn’t have a convincing answer

• Great, AI Can Forge Your Handwriting Now and I'm Concerned!

• Scientists use TV tech to test light-powered internet connections that can be 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

• Drinking This Carbon Monoxide-Infused Foam Supercharges Cancer Therapy in Mice

• Apple might have sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets over pre-order weekend

Weird and Wacky: 

• Applebee's $200 date night pass sold out in one minute

• Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Spotify Dedup 

• Adam - Mario Wonder on Nintendo Switch

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode: 

• Surprise Discovery Reveals a Whole New Source of Evaporation

• An AI just negotiated a contract for the first time ever — and no human was involved

• WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, files for bankruptcy

• The WeWork soap opera’s latest episode includes filing for bankruptcy




• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tore his ACL while training for a competitive MMA fight

• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle for Miami

• Wall Street Bosses See Financial Dangers Everywhere

Weird and Wacky: 

• NYC exterminators' new weapon has eliminated nearly 100% of rats from over 100 burrows — and they already have their next targets mapped out

• Robots Are Stealing Your Restaurant Reservations

• 'Couldn't See Anymore:' Bored Ape Conference Attendees Wake Up With Searing Eye Pain, Vision Loss

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Shure 215 Headphones

• Adam - LISEN for MagSafe Car Mount

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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NOTE: The first story in this podcast makes fleeting mentions of things that aren't necessarily appropriate for children. Use your own discretion.

In this episode we talk about:

• Georgia HB 509
• taking down the Internet with a typo
• how startup unicorns are delaying or avoiding going public
• how the CIA is spying on you with your TV
• how a shipping company is increasing security and reliability while reducing cost with blockchain
• and the new way to get a (not always cheap) ride around Austin

We wrap up with a couple of app recommendations.

Sponsored By:

• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Tech Talk Y'all Episode Announcement List
• HB 509 2017-2018 Regular Session
• Electonic Frontier Foundation event @ Prototype Prime on Georgia HB 509
• Amazon Finds the Cause of Its AWS Outage: A Typo
• Airbnb Closes $1 Billion Round To Keep Delaying IPO
• Stationary Bike Startup Peloton Seeks Unicorn Valuation - Bloomberg
• WikiLeaks’ CIA document dump shows agency can compromise Android and smart TVs
• The World’s Largest Shipping Company Trials Blockchain to Track Cargo
• Hailing a Different Ride in Austin - MIT Technology Review
• To do...

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In this episode: 

• Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
• FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
• Supreme Court gives SEC a win over Elon Musk
• In surprise move, Musk axes the team building Tesla’s EV charging network
• Tesla jumps 15% after passing key hurdle to roll out advanced driver-assistance tech in China
• Ford’s BlueCruise hands-free system under investigation after fatal crashes
• Amazon says more packages are arriving in a day or less after hefty investment in speedy fulfillment
• LinkedIn launches gaming: 3 logic puzzles aimed at extending time spent on its networking platform
• A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed

Weird and Wacky: 

• How AI Will Change the Way You Cook

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard 
• Adam - Udio

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this Episode:

• New airplane seat design will make it easier to sleep in economy
• Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment
• Brother of drug lord Pablo Escobar launches a $349 foldable smartphone
• Google Maps prepares to add a “Lighting” layer to highlight brightly lit streets for safer night travel
• Brookings Institute Suggests Congressional Action for Innovation Sectors
• AI-enabled assistant robot returning to the Space Station with improved emotional intelligence
• Interstellar Comet Borisov Makes Closest Approach to the Sun
• Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams | World news | The Guardian
• Google Fiber drops its 100Mbps tier in favor of gigabit-only service
• Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship Operating In Americas For Over A Month

Weird and Wacky:

• A man ate $120,000 duct-taped banana art: 'I really love this installation. It's very delicious'
• Instagram influencer sentenced to 14 years for violent plot to steal domain name

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Huskee Cup
• Adam - Truebill

Links:

• New airplane seat design will make it easier to sleep in economy
• Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment
• Brother of drug lord Pablo Escobar launches a $349 foldable smartphone - Neowin
• Google Maps prepares to add a "Lighting" layer to highlight brightly lit streets for safer night travel
• Brookings Institute Suggests Congressional Action for Innovation Sectors
• AI-enabled assistant robot returning to the Space Station with improved emotional intelligence
• Interstellar Comet Borisov Makes Closest Approach to the Sun
• Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams | World news | The Guardian

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In this episode: 

• This AI-powered app wants to optimize Google Maps' multi-stop routes
• A bumper sticker mocking Elon Musk is sparking a polarizing debate about what it means to drive a Tesla
• Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocks San Francisco Ambulance, Fire Department Says
• Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in Europe
• China bans government officials from using iPhones at work
• Da Vinci robot surgeon removes inoperable tumor, saving patient’s life

Weird and Wacky: 

• Study discovers unexpected link between internet use and dementia
• Toothpaste Ingredient Could Extend the Range of Electric Cars

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Home Assistant Yellow 
• Adam - Ember Mug 2

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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Season 12 - Episode 300: 

Intro 

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In this episode:

• Ted Sarandos Explains Why Netflix Will Add New Ad-Supported Tier to Streaming Service
• Microsoft Thinks It Should Be Easier To Interrupt People During Meetings, And It's Kind of Brilliant
• Twitter tests 'notes' feature with 2,500 word limit
• Apple Watch becomes ultimate lifeguard after calling 911 for swimmer trapped in cold river
• The US needs a common charger, Dems say

AD BREAK

• Israel Ministry of Defense to test drone-packing advanced robotic tank
• Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to unionize
• When Customers Say Their Money Was Stolen on Zelle, Banks Often Refuse to Pay
• A NASA rover just found trash on Mars
• A Single Beaver Caused Internet Outages in Canada

Weird and Wacky:

• Scientists create tiny fish-shaped robot that ‘swims’ around picking up microplastics
• Amazon's new pitch: let Alexa speak as your relatives from beyond the grave

Tech Rec:

• Clara - https://alar.my/

Adam - EpocCam

In this Episode:

• Shock Samsung Confession Risks Galaxy Smartphone Cancellation (1:48)
• Spies may have used an AI-generated face to infiltrate US politics (3:50)
• “Amazon’s Choice” Does Not Necessarily Mean A Product Is Good (6:30)
• Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows (8:10)
• Samsung Deletes Tweet Warning Users to Virus-Scan Their Smart TVs (10:22)
• How to replace Google’s Trips app (13:40)
• Google turns to retro cryptography to keep data sets private (16:10)
• Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users (18:10)

Weird and Wacky (20:05):

• Boaty McBoatface mission gives new insight into warming ocean abyss
• The flying saddle: Would you give it a try?
• Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them
• Lyrics Site Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content

Tech Recs (24:57)
Adam - Skitch
Sanjay - https://catalogchoice.org/

Links:

• Shock Samsung Confession Risks Galaxy Smartphone Cancellation
• Spies may have used an AI-generated face to infiltrate US politics
• “Amazon’s Choice” Recommends Some Obviously Crappy Products. Blame The Algorithm.
• Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows | Ars Technica
• Samsung Deletes Tweet Warning Users to Virus-Scan Their Smart TVs
• How to replace Google’s Trips app - The Verge
• Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Datasets Private
• Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users | ZDNet
• Boaty McBoatface mission gives new insight into warming ocean abyss -- ScienceDaily

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In this episode: 

• Apple Vision Pro is here and we're never leaving the house — 21 things it can do that'll wow you
• Apple Reveals Vision Pro Mixed Reality Headset


• Meta Quest 3 Launches Later This Year, Lower Prices + Improvements for Quest 2
• Telly dual-screen TV first look: it’s free and may be the future
• BeReal is adding a messaging feature called RealChat
• Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members
• Google Wallet for Android now supports digital IDs
• Federal Judge Makes History in Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant

BREAK

• Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Human Staff
• Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article
• Keyword Blocking, now on Artifact
• Airbnb sues New York City over short-term rental restrictions
• In a First, Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power in Space
• Pentagon awards SpaceX with Ukraine contract for Starlink satellite internet
• SEC Says Binance Misused Customer Funds, Ran Illegal Crypto Exchange in US
• Don't store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns

Weird and Wacky: 

• Mark Zuckerberg wins gold and silver in his first Jiu-Jitsu tournament
• Video shows moment Mark Zuckerberg lost controversial jiu jitsu match that sent Meta in a PR spin 


• We're Deeply Skeptical, But a Government Whistleblower Claims the US Has Recovered "Non-Human" Spacecraft
• Decoding small QR codes by hand 

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - The Most Dangerous Writing App
• Adam - Input Recorder

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In this episode we talk about:

• The impending bot army invasion
• Thrill rides that make sure you get scared
• How to get in and out of SunTrust park quickly
• Pressuring countries to stop shutting off the Internet
• Getting water from the air
• Burger King hacking your home
• Live TV streaming over the Internet

We wrap up with some tech recommendations.

Sponsored By:

• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• The bot invasion is on, powered by $24B in funding
• What happened when a professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant
• Guy builds a thrill ride that spins faster if you aren't scared enough
• Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper
• Amazon’s Alexa started ordering people dollhouses after hearing its name on TV - The Verge
• 3 things to know about getting to SunTrust Park
• No more IP addresses for countries that shut down internet access
• Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
• Hulu’s Live TV service to cost $39.99 per month, sources say | TechCrunch
• Anonymous VPN Service From The Leaders | Private Internet Access
• Dark Sky

In this Episode:

• Switzerland pilots a contact tracing app using Apple and Google's tech
• SpaceX is about to launch its first astronauts into orbit. Experts say it's a pit stop on a larger quest: 'Get Elon to Mars'
• Netflix’s Plan to Auto-Cancel Subscriptions Is Radically Sane
• Magic Leap has apparently raised another $350 million, in spite of itself
• Trump signs an executive order taking direct aim at social media companies
• Rivian’s Amazon electric delivery van still on track as factory reopens

Weird and Wacky:

• Glazed or jelly? Doughnuts lure city-roaming bear into trap
• Audi drops driver for secretly using a ringer to compete in virtual race

Tech Recs:

• Sanjay - Wealthfront
• Adam - Asana

TV/Movie Recs:

• Sanjay - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Adam - The 100

Links:

• Switzerland pilots a contact tracing app using Apple and Google's tech
• SpaceX is about to launch its first astronauts into orbit. Experts say it's a pit stop on a larger quest: 'Get Elon to Mars'
• Netflix’s Plan to Auto-Cancel Subscriptions Is Radically Sane
• Magic Leap has apparently raised another $350 million, in spite of itself
• Trump signs an executive order taking direct aim at social media companies
• Rivian’s Amazon electric delivery van still on track as factory reopens
• Glazed or jelly? Doughnuts lure city-roaming bear into trap
• Audi drops driver for secretly using a ringer to compete in virtual race
• Wealthfront

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In this episode: 

• Netflix to Open Stores Where Fans Can Play, Shop and Eat in 2025
• Netflix hikes prices again


• New Device Turns Hot Summer Air Into Drinking Water
• IRS to offer free 'Direct File' pilot to some taxpayers in 13 states for 2024 tax season. Here’s who qualifies
• Comcast starts squeezing 2 Gbps symmetrical internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables
• Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally

• SEC Head: Financial Crash Caused by AI 'Nearly Unavoidable'
• New York City unveils an 'artificial intelligence action plan'
• OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

• Ferrari to accept crypto as payment for its cars in the US
• X will start charging new users in two countries $1 per year

Weird and Wacky: 

• AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time
• Adobe Debuts Dress with Interactive Programmable Digital Display: '...
• Pepper X marks the spot as South Carolina pepper expert scorches his own Guinness Book heat record

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - LIBRATON Strap Wrench Set,Universal Rubber Strap Wrench
• Adam - Rewind App

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode: 

• Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi
• Musk says Twitter will charge $8/month for blue check mark
• GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover
• Elon Musk begins mass layoffs of Twitter staff
• Elon Musk dissolves Twitter's board of directors
• Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on paid-video feature with ‘high’ risk
• Instagram down: Users complain about app crashing 30 seconds after using it
• AI Image Generators Routinely Display Gender and Cultural Bias
• The City of Atlanta Banned E-Scooters in 2019. The Impact Was Profound
• Could hologram technology be the future of video calls? - BBC News
• Teens Turn to TikTok in Search of a Mental Health Diagnosis
• Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS—whether SpaceX likes it or not
• Tesla Semi accelerates with otherworldy speed and sound in new video

Weird and Wacky: 

• RIP Food delivery robot
• Forget Musical Chairs! Drive On These 9 Highways And They’ll “Sing” To You.
• NASCAR Driver Beats Other Racers Using Insane Physics Trick He Saw In A Videogame

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Logitech Litra Glow Premium LED Streaming Light
• Adam - QuickForget 

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In this episode: 

• Former Zulily software engineer charged for theft scheme inspired by ‘Office Space’ movie
• Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400 million users
• Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
• With Only 6 Words, Patagonia Explained the Brilliant Reason It Closed All of Its Stores and Paid Its Employees to Take a Week Off
• Innocent Black Man Jailed After Facial Recognition Got It Wrong, His Lawyer Says

AD BREAK

• Wireless Power Consortium works with Apple on next generation ‘Qi2’ standard based on MagSafe
• Goodyear shows off 90 percent sustainable tires and traction-tracking treads at CES 2023
• Microsoft Bing With ChatGPT Reportedly Launching In March
• Pee is the magic number, as Withings puts a urine analysis lab in your toilet
• Introducing Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5, a highly customizable accessibility controller kit
• Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Weird and Wacky: 

• ‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Portable Secret
• Adam - Philips Hue Lights

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In this episode: 

• Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue
• IRS builds out task force to explore running its own free e-file system
• Spotify's latest feature lets users exclude playlists from impacting recommendations
• Tesla's biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD

AD BREAK

• Tesla will open some of its charging stations to other electric cars
• Elon Musk wanted more Elon Musk on Twitter so Twitter is now all Elon Musk
• AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.
• Dutch host first summit on 'responsible' use of AI in the military
• I'm Hating It: McDonald's AI-Powered Drive-Thru Sucks

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Artifact
• Adam - Color wheel - color theory and calculator | Canva Colors

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In this episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about Apple's privacy, why Amazon employees may now want more "brownie breaks," Wikipedia swimming in money, and much more!

View the full show notes with links here.

In this week's episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about Apple, Google, Space X's billboard in space, a flying motorcycle, and much more!

See the full show notes with links here.

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In this episode:

• Tesla officially launches its insurance using ‘real-time driving behavior,’ starting in Texas
• Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist Who Clicked ‘View Source’ on Government Site
• US govt reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year
• Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
• Spotify Adds Virtual Merch Tables for Music Artists in Pact With Shopify
• Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11
• PayPal Is Exploring a Purchase of Pinterest

AD BREAK

• Continuous scrolling comes to Search on mobile
• The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro can make calling customer service less nightmarish
• Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work
• Bitcoin Hits All-Time High Above $66K on Strength of ProShares ETF Debut
• Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency

Weird and Wacky:

• DIY Airless Bicycle Tires
• https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
• Woman Realizes AirTag Has Been Tracking Her For Hours — But Police Say They Can’t Do Anything Until Stalker Shows Up
• How the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Helped Make Your Smartphone’s Screen Possible

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Hemingway App
• Adam - Cloudflare family DNS protection

In this episode we share our picks for gifts this holiday season.

*Stocking Stuffers *

• Anker USB C Charger, 18W ($25.99)

• iPhone Charger, [3 Pack] Anker Powerline Lightning Cable (3ft) ($23.99)

• JETech screen protectors ($5.99 - $11.99)

• URPOWER Tactical Flashlight Super Bright ($9.98)

• Amazon Smart Plug ($24.99)

*Under $100 *

• Soundcore Anker Liberty Air True-Wireless Earphones ($79.99)
• Amazfit Bip Smartwatch ($67.99)
• Bluetooth Banana Phone ($40)
• Amazon Kindle ($59.99 )
• Amazon Fire TV Stick ($19.99)
• Roku Premiere ($29.99)
• Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains ($54.95) * Smartphone Sanitizer ($80)

*Splurges ($100+) *

• Halo Bolt 58830 mWh Portable Phone Laptop Charger Car Jump Starter with AC Outlet and Car Charger ($119.97 with $30 coupon on amazon)
• TCL 55S425 55 inch 4K Smart LED Roku TV ($279.99)

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In this episode: 

• Amazon considers offering veterinary telehealth as it looks to compete with Walmart

• Spotify is changing its royalty model to crush streaming fraud

• Samsung’s Moon photos are fake — but so is a lot of mobile photography

• Google Maps is becoming more like Search — thanks to AI

• Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service

• Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging

• Threads Software Limited Gives Meta’s Instagram 30 Days to Desist from Using the Service Name Threads

• Biden issues U.S.' first AI executive order, requiring safety assessments, civil rights guidance, research on labor market impact

• ChatGPT Plus members can upload and analyze files in the latest beta

Weird and Wacky: 

• Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air

• This 18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes

• NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design

• Urban Outfitters is selling 'vintage retro' iPods and millennials' feelings are hurt

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Eve Water Guard

• Adam - HALO Bolt Compact Portable Car Jump Starter

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

In this Episode:

• Twitter planning Bitcoin payments as tips on its platform
• Microsoft CEO says encryption backdoors are a ‘terrible idea’
• Jeff Bezos Reveals the Fully Electric Amazon Delivery Auto Rickshaws For India - Watch Video
• Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
• The Myth of the Young Startup Founder
• Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
• This Sci-Fi-Inspired Device Could Replace Bulky, Expensive X-Ray Machines
• Astronomers Detect Second Planet Orbiting Nearest Star

Weird and Wacky:

• Meet the Chinese robot worm that could crawl into your brain
• Spotify launches playlists for dogs left home alone

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Synology 6 Bay NAS DiskStation - DS1618+
• Adam - Squoosh

Links:

• Twitter planning Bitcoin payments as tips on its platform
• Microsoft CEO says encryption backdoors are a ‘terrible idea’ - The Verge
• Jeff Bezos Reveals the Fully Electric Amazon Delivery Auto Rickshaws For India - Watch Video - News18
• Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 - The Official Microsoft Blog
• Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable - BBC News
• This Sci-Fi-Inspired Device Could Replace Bulky, Expensive X-Ray Machines - ExtremeTech
• Meet the Chinese robot worm that could crawl into your brain | South China Morning Post
• Astronomers Detect Second Planet Orbiting Nearest Star - ExtremeTech
• Spotify launches playlists for dogs left home alone - Reuters
• Amazon.com: Synology 6 Bay NAS DiskStation - DS1618+ (Diskless)
• Squoosh

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In this episode: 

• Self-driving Waymo vehicles coming to Atlanta in Uber app in 2025
• FDA approves Apple AirPods as hearing aids
• Craig Wright said he invented bitcoin — lawyers proved him wrong
• Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
• Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
• Uber to Verify Riders’ Identities in Driver Safety Push
• Craigslist Founder Pledges $100 Million to Boost U.S. Cybersecurity
• Disney to Stop Using Slack Following Hack That Exposed Company Data

Weird and Wacky: 

• Police Department Spends $150,000 for a Tesla Cybertruck, Faces Instant Backlash

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Onton 
• Adam - sunsama.com

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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Four(ish) stories (and a couple of tech product/service recommendations) for your listening pleasure. We cover autonomous big rigs (and why Sanjay has dumped Uber), underwater data centers, the house of cards of a startup, and the location of the impending intergalactic alien invasion.

Sponsored By:

• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Embark’s self-driving truck is ready to assist human drivers | TechCrunch
• Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan J. Fowler
• Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It Underwater - IEEE Spectrum
• Theranos: The House of Cards That Elizabeth Holmes Built
• Astronomers discover 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star - CNN.com

In this episode: 

• Twitter hired experts for case against Musk—now Musk won’t pay them...
• Elizabeth Holmes made an 'attempt to flee the country' after her conviction, prosocuters say
• WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
• New Tech Can See People Through Walls Using WiFi

Break

• U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server...
• NYSE says Tuesday's trading glitch due to 'manual error'
• Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
• Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising...
• Obnoxiously loud car? A traffic camera might be listening

Weird and Wacky: 

• Undercover agents for Russia asked Google how to 'disappear' from trouble. They got caught and sent to prison for years.
• ‘Authentic’ Splash Mountain water sells on eBay after ride closes at Walt Disney World

Tech Rec:

• Adam - Anki
• Sanjay - Rotten Recipes: Find flavors pairings

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• Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
• Bored Ape Yacht Club caused Ethereum fees to soar to astronomical levels
• Undefined's next-gen "silent" ion propulsion drone: still noisy
• Your iPhone can alert you to breaking glass, smoke alarms and other dangers
• Chip shortage threatens mattresses: Sleep Number production suffering
• Car buyers balk at monthly fees for add-on features
  • BMW took heat, for example, for trying to make heated seats available only by subscription.
  
  
• Musk seeks to use less of his fortune with bid for more Twitter funding
• Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout
• Will the next wildfire be prevented by a 14-year-old’s innovation?
• Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest (and chase a human)
• U.S. Army To Test Networked Drone Swarms
• Lego to expand online ambitions by tripling total of software engineers
• Mental health apps have terrible privacy protections, report finds
• This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid
• GitHub users will be required to use two-factor authentication by 2023
• Apple, Google, and Microsoft will soon implement passwordless sign-in on all major platforms
• Disney+ may...

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In this episode: 

• Anker's new Solix home energy storage includes a modular solar battery system
• Virgin Galactic starts commercial spaceflights in two weeks
• Google Lens can now identify rashes and other skin conditions
• Samsung confirms Galaxy Watch 6 coming later this year with AFib notifications 
• You can download Instagram Reels now
• Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count
• Spotify's revamped desktop app lets you browse and organize your libraries like you do on mobile
• Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected to Include HiFi Audio
• Twitter Hit With $250 Million Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit From Music Publishers
• Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
• Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets
• Japan pushes for Apple and Google to allow sideloading
• Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home devices after delivery driver’s false racism claim
• FTC sues Amazon over 'deceptive' Prime sign-up and cancellation process
• Anti-Homeless Mayoral Candidate Uses AI to Create Fake Images of 'Blight'
• Now Rivian Is Adopting Tesla’s EV Charging Port, With Supercharger Access in 2024
• Atlanta mayor's new official vehicle is a Rivian 
• Texas pulls reverse Tesla Magic Dock move as it mandates NACS connector on subsidized CCS charging stations
• European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
• Every Louisiana driver’s license holder exposed in colossal cyber-attack
  

Weird and Wacky: 

• Passenger brings projector on plane and plays film on overhead bin
• Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle
• Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Ren Systems 
• Adam - Upwork 

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This week on Tech Talk Y'all we talk about the Facebook outage, Ozy Media, a crypto company giving away millions, Tesla, Amazon, brain implants, and much much more!

Read the full show notes with links here.

In this Episode:

• Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts (1:13)
• Stratolaunch First Flight Video / World’s biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever (3:20)
• We've been warned about AI and music for over 50 years (4:32)
• Verizon will now charge more money for in-store activations (6:43)
• Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO (10:35)
• Digital scan of Notre Dame offers hope for its restoration (14:28)
• Some Galaxy Fold review phones are breaking after a couple days of use (16:07)
• Blockchain has been unblocked, unchained and broken (19:27)
• A government department has shared the contact details of hundreds of journalists (21:52)

Weird and Wacky Tech (22:40):

• Unnerving Footage Shows Boston Dynamics' Robot Dogs Casually Pulling a Truck
• Instagram Memers Are Unionizing
• Man receives prison sentence for shooting at fireflies he thought were ‘alien lasers’

Tech Recommendations (27:27):

• Sanjay - Blue Air 211+ Air Purifier
• Adam - AAA App

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Links:

• Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
• Stratolaunch First Flight Video, Images
• WE’VE BEEN WARNED ABOUT AI AND MUSIC FOR OVER 50 YEARS, BUT NO ONE’S PREPARED
• Verizon will now charge more money for in-store activations of new phones
• Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO | TechCrunch
• This digital scan of Notre Dame offers hope for its restoration after the fire - MIT Technology Review
• Some Galaxy Fold review phones are breaking after a couple days of use
• Samsung responds to reviewer complaints about its Galaxy Fold phone | TechCrunch

In this episode:

• Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO
  
• Apple Greenlights TV Series on WeWork, With Anne Hathaway
  
• The iPhone's Face ID Will Soon Work With a Mask—if You Have an Apple Watch
  
• Google Explores Alternative to Apple’s New Anti-Tracking Feature
  
• Nike’s new Flyease Go shoes snap right onto your feet
  

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• Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion
  
• Tesla Will Recall 134,000+ Vehicles Affected by Inevitable eMMC Failure
  
• Elon Musk claims Neuralink created a brain implant that a monkey is using ‘to play video games with his mind’
  
• Samsung Believes the Automotive Chip Shortage Could Impact Phones
  
• We Now Know How Much Scalpers Warped PS5, Xbox, Zen 3, Ampere Markets
  
• South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support
  

Weird and Wacky:

• SpaceX All-Civilian Space Mission Raffle
  
• Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change
  
• The story behind 'Blue Check Homes': How an SF artist created a fake company that fooled thousands
  

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Freshworks
  
• Adam - Substack
  

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In this episode: 

• UChicago Prof. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion creates world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery – a breakthrough in inexpensive, clean, fast-charging batteries
• NASCAR shows off an EV prototype
• Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch
• Spotify is going to let you leave comments on podcast episodes
• Google One ‘Dark web reports’ coming to all Google Account holders from late July
• Amazon Claims It Achieved 100% Renewable Energy Target In 2023—Here’s What It Means

• Crew of NASA’s earthbound simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year
• SpaceX Wins $843 Million Contract to Bring Down Space Station

• OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers
• Evolve Bank says ransomware gang stole personal data on millions of customers
• AT&T says nearly all of its cell customers' call and text records were exposed in massive breach

• Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
• Your Apple Watch or Fitbit may be a breeding ground for E. coli and staph bacteria. Here’s how to clean your fitness tracker
• Scary Google Chrome Access
• Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%

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In this episode: 

• Musk's X to pay legal bills of people 'unfairly treated' for posting on platform
• Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Their Checkmark of Shame
• France's AFP sues Musk's X social media, cites refusal to discuss payment for news
• Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges
• How Tesla’s yarn unspooled
• Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000
• Google Takes a Page Out of Twitter's Book: Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee
• Google is making Reading mode settings slightly harder to access in Chrome
• Google Messages turning on RCS by default, group E2E encryption launches
• YouTube uses AI to summarize videos in latest test
• The remote work revolution is officially dead: Zoom just told employees to return to the office.
• End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work


• Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data, according to updated terms 
• New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
• True shape of lithium revealed for the first time
• City of Hope scientists develop targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research
• NASA Reaches Voyager 2 With a Last-Ditch ‘Shout’ Across the Void

Weird and Wacky: 

• Mattel wants to pay you $277 an hour to play Uno
• Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker

Tech Rec:

• Adam - Benro SLIM Aluminum Lightweight Travel Tripod Kit
• Sanjay - Framework Laptop 

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• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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• Tesla finally delivers first electric Semi to Pepsi after years of delay
• Tesla says it is adding radar in its cars next month amid self-driving suite concerns
• Twitter will reportedly charge $11 on iOS for Blue subscription to offset App Store fees
• Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe
• Microsoft Eyes ‘Super App’
• The future of watching football is here
• We gave ChatGPT a college-level microbiology quiz.

• Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach
• NFTs minted on FTX break
• North Carolina Power Outages
• A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
• San Francisco temporarily bans police robots from using lethal force

Weird and Wacky: 

• ‘Goonies’ house in Astoria sells to a fan who wants to protect the landmark
• This ATM at Art Basel has a twist: It posts a picture of you with your bank balance
• Dyson's Air Purifying Headphones Will Cost $949

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Meething
• Adam - TinyWow

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In this Episode:

• Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments
• AMC, Regal, Alamo Drafthouse, and Cinemark Are Closing Theaters Because of the Coronavirus
• Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis — read the memo it just sent sellers
• CO2-based vodka startup Air Co. fully redirects its tech to making hand sanitizer for donation
• LVMH will use its perfume and cosmetics factories to manufacture free hand sanitizer for France
• How to Tell if an iPhone Bug Is Eating Up Your Data Plan
• Google Translate launches Transcribe for Android in 8 languages
• Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches?
• SoftBank may not complete $3 billion tender offer for WeWork, sources say

Weird and Wacky:

• Bidet sales soar as toilet paper sells out amid coronavirus fears
• UK's sewage system in danger of gridlock from toilet paper substitutes
• The Wu-Tang Clan Would Like to Remind You to Wash Your Hands and Protect Ya Neck

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Thunderbird
• Adam - Zoom Mobile App
• Shannon - TikTok

TV/Movie Recs:
Sanjay - Devs
Adam - Kim’s Convenience
Shannon - Mindhunter

Links:

• Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments
• AMC, Other Chains Closing Theaters to Combat the Coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Amazon suspends all nonessential shipments to warehouses - Business Insider
• CO2-based vodka startup Air Co. fully redirects its tech to making hand sanitizer for donation | TechCrunch
• LVMH will use its perfume and cosmetics factories to manufacture free hand sanitizer
• How to Tell if an iPhone Bug Is Eating Up Your Data Plan
• Google Translate launches Transcribe for Android in 8 languages
• Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches? | Ars...

In this week's episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about Google Play hacks, remote work (again), Woz supporting right-to-repair, Iceland's 4-day work week, and more!

Get the full show notes and links here.

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In this episode: 

• Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Alert, Dies at 74
• Amazon shutting down popular streaming service completely
• Amazon Haul wants to be the new Temu
• Exclusive-Amazon developing driver eyeglasses to shave seconds off deliveries, sources say
• O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time
• ChatGPT saved my life, and I’m still freaking out about it
• ChatGPT rejected more than 250,000 image generations of presidential candidates before Election Day
• Tesla’s social media posts falsely implied that its cars are robotaxis, NHTSA warns
•  'Calm' Meditation App Jumps 100 Spots In App Store!!! ... After Election Night Ad
• Will Donald Trump's Truth Social Merge With Elon Musk's X? Rumors Swirl
• Standing desks don’t do squat, per new study
• Meta will face antitrust trial over Instagram, WhatsApp...

In this Episode:

• ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: iPhone feature will record police interaction, send location
• Ditch These Racist Terms From Your Tech Vocabulary
• GitHub announced it will change the term “Master repository” to “Main repository” due to the former term’s references to slavery, and will be abandoning the terms “whitelist” and “blacklist” to remove any racial connotations from their use.
• Other organizations that have made similar pledges include: Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Apple, Drupal, Grammarly, Microsoft, Python
• The UK Government’s cybersecurity branch
• Netflix Chief Reed Hastings Donates $120 Million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• T-Mobile hit by phone calling, text message outage
• You can now pay thousands of dollars to talk to celebrities for 10 minutes. Thanks, Cameo
• Dog-like robots now on sale for $75,000, with conditions
• Bose shuts down AR development
• Lyft vows ‘100 percent’ of its vehicles will be electric by 2030
• Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS

Weird and Wacky:

• What the Cluck? KFC Announces New Video Game Console

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Centriq
• Adam - DEPSTECH

TV/Movie Rec:

• Sanjay - Trancers
• Adam - Get Smart

Links:

• ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: iPhone feature will record police interaction, send location
• Ditch These Racist Terms From Your Tech Vocabulary
• Netflix Chief Reed Hastings Donates $120 Million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• T-Mobile hit by phone calling, text message outage
• You can now pay thousands of dollars to talk to celebrities for 10 minutes. Thanks, Cameo
• Dog-like robots now on sale for $75,000, with conditions
• Bose shuts down AR development
• Lyft vows ‘100 percent’ of its vehicles will be electric by 2030

In this Episode:

• Wearables get serious about heart rate (2:42)
• SpaceX reuses Falcon 9 rocket booster to launch record 64 satellites (5:37)
• Nine Companies will compete to help NASA astronauts return to the moon (7:40)
• Bitcoin drops 8% to kick off December (8:48))
• Microsoft signs $480 million HoloLens contract with U.S. military to 'increase lethality' (10:54)
• 'We have screwed up': Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (15:05)
• Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge (17:14)
• Browser Market Share (18:00)
• Lyft’s pink-wheeled shareable bikes will be available to rent soon (20:40)
• Marriott data breach: Class-action suit filed; experts ask why it wasn't caught earlier (23:47)

Weird & Wacky Tech (26:31):

• Tesla "Romance Mode" Will Debut Before Cars Become Fully Self-Driving
• Wing, Alphabets drone delivery business to begin a pilot in Finland in Spring 2019
• Why the “y’all” line divides the US North from South, not East from West

Tech Recommendations (34:43):

• Sanjay - Google Translate
• Adam - RoboKiller
• Shannon - 1-800-Contacts Online Eye Exam

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

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Links:

• Wearables get serious about heart rate - CNET
• SpaceX reuses Falcon 9 rocket booster to launch record 64 satellites - Axios
• Nine companies will compete to help NASA astronauts return to the moon | TechCrunch
• Bitcoin drops 8% to kick off December 
• Microsoft signs $480 million HoloLens contract with U.S. military to 'increase lethality'

In this episode:

• Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April
  
• Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison
  
• Dropbox will have a free password manager in April — if you’ve got 50 or fewer passwords
  
• Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales
  
• We finally know how bad for the environment your Netflix habit is
  
• Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds
  
• Mini will introduce last gas model in 2025, go all-electric by 2030
  

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• A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
  
• Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up
  
• Researchers working on material that could yield 700TB optical discs
  
• Scientists developed a clever way to detect Deepfakes by analyzing light reflections in the eyes
  
• Stripe closes $600M round at a $95B valuation
  
• Boeing Autonomous Drone Piloted by Artificial Intelligence Successfully Completes First Flight
  

Weird and Wacky:

• How to Defeat Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot in 1:1 Combat
  
• Escape Zoom Meetings by Faking Technical Issues and Crying With This App
  
• Fuggit BTTF Knit House Shoes
  
• Wannabe Final Fantasy character buys exoskeleton that lets him wield giant sword
  

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - MonicaHQ CRM
  
• Adam - Hubspot CRM
  

In this Episode:

• Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook
• Facebook’s Clear History tool is now available to everyone
• Twitter Direct Messages Get Emoji Reactions Support
• Saudi Crown Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’s Phone, Analysis Suggests
• Coronavirus leads to sales spike of Plague Inc., a game about pandemics
• Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths
• These Fridges Won't Dispense Filtered Water Unless You Pay Extra for 'Official' Filters With RFID Chips
• Heathrow Airport Installs Anti-Drone System to Detect Threats
• Google reportedly launching another messaging app, but this time might be different

Weird and Wacky:

• Philip Pullman calls for boycott of Brexit 50p coin over 'missing' Oxford comma
• US court rules being muted doesn’t violate civil rights
• K-9 bites cow, SC deputy tases K-9, cow kicks deputy

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Libby
• Adam - MileIQ

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Links:

• New ’Off-Facebook Activity’ tool shows exactly how much the social network tracks your life - The Washington Post
• Twitter Direct Messages Get Emoji Reactions Support | Technology News
• Jeff Bezos Phone Hacked by Saudi Prince via WhatsApp: Analysis - Bloomberg
• Coronavirus leads to sales spike of Plague Inc., a game about pandemics
• Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths
• These Fridges Won't Dispense Filtered Water Unless You Pay Extra for 'Official' Filters With RFID Chips - VICE
• Heathrow Airport (LHR) Gets Anti-Drone System to Detect Threats - Bloomberg
• Google reportedly launching another messaging app, but this time might be different

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In this episode: 

• Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features

• MrBeast Strikes Amazon Deal For Biggest Competition Series in TV History

• Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report

• Coca-Cola unveils all-new bottles — sort of

• Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

• Reddit prices IPO at $34 per share in first major social media offering since 2019

• Biden announces $8.5 billion microchip grant to Intel as he sells economic wins to Arizona amid climate worries

Weird and Wacky: 

• Google used AI to accurately predict floods up to 7 days in advance

• Monopoly Go Spent More on Marketing Than Sony Spent to Make Spider-Man 2

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - RSHTECH 7-Port Powered USB 3.2/USB C Hub 

• Adam - ecollar.com

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• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode: 

• RIP To The Best Bots On Twitter
• Elon Musk will share Twitter ad revenue — but only with creators who pay for Twitter Blue
• Twitter broke after deploying 4,000-character Tweets
• Twitter Went Down Because Employee Accidentally Deleted Data


• Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
• Twitter founder Jack Dorsey mocked new owner Elon Musk's company over a major outage
• U.S. Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off the Coast of the Carolinas
• AMC Theatres® Presents Sightline at AMC, the Next Evolution of Value Pricing at the Movies With Multiple Options to Meet the Viewing Preferences of AMC Moviegoers – Including a Lower Ticket Price for Select Seats.
• ‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI
• NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s New Glenn
• The internet is falling out of love with Google – and it’s Bing’s time to shine

Weird and Wacky: 

• Long-lost secret letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, have just been decoded
• The Coca-Cola phone is a real thing, and it’s absolutely stunning

Tech Rec:

• Adam - Scam Charge
• Sanjay - Downdetector 

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In this Episode:

• Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year
• IBM is exiting the face recognition business
• This bricklaying robot can construct a house in 48 hours
• Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
• Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
• Twitter Locks Account That Posts Trump’s Tweets Verbatim After Less Than 3 Days
• Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines
• SoftBank-backed Lemonade files to go public
• Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's 'top priority' from now on

Weird and Wacky:

• Someone paid $2.6 million in fees to move $134 worth of crypto and oops
• Man tormented by mystery pizza deliveries to his house for almost a decade
• A treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade has finally been found
• A teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a protest is rewarded with a car and a college scholarship

Links:

• Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines | TechCrunch
• Forrest Fenn treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains for 10 years has finally been found - CNN
• IBM is exiting the face recognition business - Axios
• Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
• Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun | MIT Technology Review
• Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year

In this episode:

• Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey steps down from company's board of directors
• Twitter jumps after Musk increases commitment in takeover bid to $33.5 billion, in talks for other funding
• TikTok to launch LIVE creator subscriptions this week
• Walmart expands its drone-delivery service to reach 4 million households
• Hawaiian Airlines Plans to Fly Electric Planes That Glide Just Above the Water
• Ukraine Is Using Quiet Electric Bikes to Haul Anti-Tank Weapons
• Google’s foldable ‘Pixel Notepad’ has reportedly been postponed

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• Teenager who rejected Elon Musk’s offer to stop tracking his private jet has now stumbled upon Mark Zuckerberg’s new jet
• Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show
• DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement
• Amazon Opens First Physical Fashion Retail Store
• NY State is giving out hundreds of robots as companions for the elderly

Weird and Wacky:

• Tom Brady’s hole in one captured by a drone following the ball

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Curvy in HTML5
• Adam - Use your iPhone to id plants

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In this episode:

• Mark Zuckerberg regrets not pushing back on Biden’s COVID “pressure” campaign
• Instagram Is Bringing Back Myspace's Profile Music
• ​​Meta is working on mixed-reality glasses, but they’re probably years away
• Justice Department Sues RealPage for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme that Harms Millions of American Renters
• Google Chrome Hit by Yet Another Zero-Day Exploit, Update Now
• Who is Pavel Durov and what is Telegram?
• Australia’s ‘right to disconnect’ laws are here. Does this mean no more work intrusions on personal time?
• Amazon launches annual grocery subscription plan
• Zoom Docs Is Here. Is It Any Good?
• NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule
• SpaceX 'go' to launch private Polaris Dawn spacewalk mission on farthest human spaceflight since Apollo
• Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
• Tesla Chargers Are Still Closed to Most Electric Cars
• When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?

Weird and Wacky: 

• Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city
• Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - ChartDB
• Adam -

In this episode we talk about:

• Tesla unlocking vehicle range ahead of hurricane Irma
• China is focusing on only electric vehicles being sold there from 2030
• Europe following suit and requiring new and remodeled homes in 2019 and beyond to have electric vehicle charging
• Equifax got breached badly - now what should you do?
• Hackers can take over your devices if Bluetooth is enabled
• Using your blood to create electricity - yes, VampirePower
• Rubicon Global hits unicorn status!

Three (what - there's a bonus one in this episode!) fantastic tech recommendations!

Special Guest: Cara Kneer.

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Links:

• Tesla's Hurricane Irma Update Taps Into Our Deepest Fears Of 21st Century Driving
• China Fossil Fuel Deadline Shifts Focus to Electric Car Race
• Here’s How to Speed Up the Electric-Car Revolution
• Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever
• Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
• Chatbot lets you sue Equifax for up to $25,000 without a lawyer
• DoNotPay
• Equifax’s Instructions Are Confusing. Here’s What to Do Now.
• Hackers Could Silently Hack Your Cellphone And Computers Over Bluetooth
• We May Soon Charge Devices by Harnessing Electricity from Our Bloodstream

In this episode:

• Magic Leap: Founder of Secretive Start-Up Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles
• This crazy new system can detect motion anywhere in your home using nothing but Wi-Fi
• REVIEW: Nest's new $499 home security system is simple to install and made me feel a lot safer
• Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones
• Google Pixel Buds review
• 5 Excellent Apps to Make This New Year Your Strongest Yet

Special Guest: Jeff Hilimire.

Links:

• Magic Leap One MR Headset May Be As Big As The Internet - InStash
• Lightwear: Introducing Magic Leap's Mixed Reality Goggles - Rolling Stone
• This crazy new system can detect motion anywhere in your home using nothing but Wi-Fi – BGR
• Nest Secure review, details, photos - Business Insider

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Taking a break next week

In this episode:

• Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation
• Facebook is changing its name to Meta as it focuses on the virtual world
• FTC Study Confirms ISPs Collect a Scary Amount of Your Personal Data
• Amazon now delivers more US packages than FedEx
• Faze Clan to go public through $1 billion SPAC deal
• PayPal says it is currently not pursuing Pinterest acquisition

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• Tesco opens first “just walk out” store to take on Amazon
• Paleontologist Jack Horner of Jurassic Park Fame Launches Dinosaur NFTs To Fund Scientific Research
• Amazon’s Clubhouse competitor may let you DJ your own radio show
• Adobe brings Photoshop and Illustrator to the web
• Chipotle cancels in-restaurant Boorito deal for $1 million free burrito giveaway, $5 Halloween meals

Weird and Wacky:

• China's Lipstick King sold an astonishing $1.7 billion in goods in 12 hours — and that was just in a promotion for the country's biggest shopping day
• Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor.
• BJ Novac’s photo got put in the public domain, and great endorsements insued

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - This Sneaker Does Not Exist

Adam - Castro Podcast Player

In this episode we talk about:

• Mark DiCristina at MailChimp scoring an award
• Farmers hacking their tractors
• LastPass (possibly) losing control of your passwords
• Congress voting to allow ISPs to sell your data without your consent
• CES gadgets that Adam now pines for
• Octane Coffee has been bought
• And why you can't sleep at night

We wrap up with some app recommendations. For this episode we're joined by our in-studio guest Jeff Hilimire.

Special Guest: Jeff Hilimire.

Sponsored By:

• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Mark DiCristina named to Ad Age's 2017 40 Under 40
• Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
• LastPass password manager fixes serious password leak vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, Edge extensions
• LastPass is scrambling to fix another serious vulnerability
• Senate votes to kill FCC's broadband privacy rules
• For sale: Your private browsing history
• Congress has sold off your privacy—and U.S.

In this episode:

• 12 new moons discovered around Jupiter (2:41)
• Blue Origin lands booster and crew capsule after test launch (4:00)
• Amazon is helping you find weird screws (6:40)
• Uber's next big thing is Lime scooters (8:42)
• California malls are sharing license plate tracking data with ICE (13:44)
• HTC’s blockchain phone is real (17:11)
• Three Breakthroughs That Will Disrupt The Tech World In 2019 (18:23)
• EU hits Google with record $5 billion fine (24:27)

Weird and Wacky (26:35):

• This concept gill garment will turn you into a mermaid
• Study links frequent gadget use to increased ADHD symptoms in teens
• Surprise! Top sites still fail at encouraging non-terrible passwords
• Aston Martin reveals flying car that could hit 200 mph

Tech Recommendations (40:43):

• Adam - Stockpile
• Sanjay - Uber Conference
• Shannon - Bird

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• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• 12 new moons discovered around Jupiter
• Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
• Amazon's Part Finder helps you find those weird screws you need
• Uber's next big thing is Lime scooters to get around town
• California malls are sharing license plate tracking data with ICE
• HTC’s blockchain phone is real, and it’s arriving later this year

In this episode, we talk about delivery robots, UFOs, Gmail redesign, and many more fun things.

In this episode:

- Coinbase says it prevented over 1,000 customers from sending $280,000 worth of bitcoin to Twitter hackers
 

- Banks Can Now Hold Cryptocurrencies, As a Treat
 

- Gmail is getting a massive redesign to work more like Slack
 

- Amazon is testing its Scout delivery robots in Georgia and Tennessee
 

- How to Add Multiple Profiles on Amazon Prime Video
 

- Google is quietly experimenting with holographic glasses and smart tattoos

- Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
 

- Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
 

- Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030
 

- Uber acquires Routematch to make public transport ‘more accessible’
 

- Oppo’s 125W ‘Flash Charge’ Can Completely Recharge a Phone in 20 Minutes
 

- T-Mobile's Scam Shield Is the Carrier's Latest Attempt to Shut Down Phone Spam

Weird and Wacky Tech:

- GitHub Archive Program: the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
 

- No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public
 

Tech Rec:

- Sanjay - HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger
 

- Adam - Fortnite on iPad with PS4 controller
 

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In this episode: 

• Twitter becomes X
• Musk Says Twitter Will Change Logo to X, ‘Bid Adieu’ to Bird
• Twitter's new 'X' logo looks suspiciously like a generic Unicode symbol
• The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name


• Twitter Announces Coming Restrictions on How Many DMs Non-Twitter Blue Users Can Send

• Your iPhone Can Now Decode the Warning Lights in Your Car
• iPhone 15 might not get a spectacular battery tech upgrade after all

• Meta cancels Quest Pro, stops development of Quest Pro 2
• Threads Is Already Losing Its Allure for Users, Adding Urgency for New Features

• Scripps Research scientists develop AI tool to track the detailed evolution of viral pandemics
• India’s AI newsreaders are multilingual, cost-saving and ‘never tired’. Can they replace humans?
• Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work
• Sam Altman's Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches

• IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system, supporters and critics mobilize
• Signal is finally getting a major feature Telegram launched four years ago
• Exotic New Silicon-Based Speakers Are Coming to Next-Generation Earbuds
• TikTok is adding support for text posts
• A battle of rickshaw apps shows the promise of India’s digital stack

• Amazon says it’ll ditch plastic padded mailers
• Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes

Weird and Wacky: 

• Scientists Stunned As Cracked Metal Heals Itself Before Their Eyes

Tech Rec:

• Adam - OCEARCH Shark Tracker
• Sanjay - Batteryless jump starter

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media

In This Episode:

• NASA Sends Tiny Atomic Clock to Space (2:28)
• Theranos Founder to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges (4:50)
• Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages (5:57)
• Amazon will crash on Prime Day, 60% of surveyed eBay employees say (7:45)
• 7-Eleven's Bad App Design Let Criminals Steal More Than $500,000 (9:04)
• Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them (12:03)
• Yes, your emails are being tracked. Here's how to stop it. (15:03)
• Internet group brands Mozilla ‘internet villain’ for supporting DNS privacy feature (17:25)
• Apple trolled Google again by giant billboard next to its controversial smart neighborhood (21:10)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Hate listening to high-fidelity music? Here’s a Bluetooth cassette Walkman. (23:00)
• IT'S OK - The World's First Bluetooth 5.0 Cassette Player
• The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat (24:47)
• This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience (27:22)
• Windows 1.0 Release Video (28:50)
• Apple’s new iPhone software makes it look like you’re making eye contact in video calls even if you aren’t (30:15)

Tech Recommendations (31:42)

• Adam - Shortcuts iOS App
• Sanjay - Cam Scanner

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Links:

• NASA Sends Tiny Atomic Clock to Space - ExtremeTech
• Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges - WSJ
• Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages - MIT Technology Review
• Amazon will crash on Prime Day, 60% of surveyed eBay employees say
• 7-Eleven's Bad App Design Let Criminals Steal More Than $500,000
• Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them

• 1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?
  
• Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak
  
• Jack Dorsey's Square to acquire majority stake in Jay-Z's music service Tidal
  
  • Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal.
    
  
  
• Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT
  
• Google says it won’t use new ways of tracking you as it phases out browser cookies for ads
  
• Netflix has created a TikTok clone that lets people scroll through funny clips
  
• Amazon in Talks to Carry Many NFL Games Exclusively on Prime Video
  

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• F.C.C. Approves a $50 Monthly High-Speed Internet Subsidy
  
• Va. becomes 2nd state with consumer data protection law
  
• Twitter users on Android can now join the platform’s Clubhouse-like Spaces
  
• Volvo Cars to be fully electric by 2030
  
• Elon Musk moved to Texas and embraced celebrity. Can Tesla run on Autopilot?
  

Weird and Wacky:

• We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births Than Usual This Year
  

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - 2fa.directory
  
• Adam - Mercury Bank
  

• Microsoft Buys Scandal-Tainted Activision in Bet on Metaverse
  • $68.7 billion
  
  
• Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse
• Twitter brings NFTs to the timeline as hexagon-shaped profile pictures
  • Major Twitter NFT implementation problem.
  
  
• An NFT restaurant opening in New York will serve up status with a side of seafood
• Is Tumblr on the road back to relevance?
• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’ll work remotely and stay in a new rental every 2 weeks
  • Twitter thread from CEO
  
  
• Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US
• Locket, the #1 app in Apple’s App Store, uses a trick hiding in plain sight

• Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying for Workspace this year
• Manslaughter charges follow Tesla driver’s Autopilot red light run
• Airlines Cancel Some Flights Ahead of U.S. 5G Wireless Launch
• Winnebago will reveal an electric motorhome at Florida RV super show next week
• 75 million gallons of paint is wasted each year. This startup turns them into brand new cans

• NFT Group Buys Copy Of Dune For €2.66 Million, Believing It Gives Them Copyright

Links:

• Operation indiscriminately infects iPhones with spyware
• Asteroid news: 100% chance of impact expert alerts in life or death warning | Science | News | Express.co.uk

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In this episode: 

• Google Maps is ditching cloud-based location history for a more private solution

• Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data

• Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs are here — and they all come with silicon dedicated to AI

• Apple announces new 'contingent pricing' feature for App Store subscriptions

• First 150 kWh semi solid-state battery range test clocks 653 miles on a charge as it streamed live from NIO ET7

• These hot rocks can glow brighter than the sun. They could also help spell the end of fossil fuels

• New technology can rejuvenate and extend the life of old solar panels

• What Would Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Merger Mean for Cable TV? Some Networks Would Likely Be Sold Off

• Atlanta suburb becomes first to test underground consumer delivery system

• Bird, an Electric Scooter Company, Files for Bankruptcy

• Rite Aid’s ‘reckless’ use of facial recognition got it banned from using the technology in stores for five years

• Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream

• How to stop Dropbox from sharing your personal files with OpenAI

• Apple has halted Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 online sales

• Electro-Cooling Material Makes Solid-State Fridge Viable

• Nasa mission lines up to 'touch the Sun'

• AI Discovers First New Antibiotic in Over 60 Years

• Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability

• YouTuber MrBeast Says NO To Elon Musk’s Invite To Post On X: ‘My Videos Cost millions...'

Weird and Wacky: 

• The McCallisters Are One Percenters; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Determines Wealth of ‘Home Alone’ Family

• Early Mickey Mouse Now Belongs To Everyone—So Of Course There's a Meme Token

• Japan scientists create world's 1st mental images with AI tech

• Scientists say they conversed with a whale. It may be practice for aliens

• 34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Trakt 

• Adam - Hidrate Spark Water Bottle

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In this episode: 

• Snap shares drop 30% after company's revenue miss and weak guidance

• Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say

• Waymo driverless car set on fire, destroyed by San Francisco crowd

• Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

• Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

• Exclusive: Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

• Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

• Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff

• OpenAI-buddy Brilliant Labs unveils eyeglasses with ‘AI superpowers’

• Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content

• Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere

• Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

• Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

• Elon Musk started buying Twitter shares soon after Parag Agrawal refused to ban an account tracking his private jet, book says

• Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair

Weird and Wacky: 

• Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public

• New York has ended its trial of a 400-pound security robot in the Times Square subway station

• Wilson Airless Gen1 Basketball

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Anker 647 Charging Station 

• Adam - Speks - Crags Magnetic Putty

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode: 

• It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox

• NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company's code

• ‘This is insane.’ Swedish workers are getting under Elon Musk’s skin

• Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership

• Amazon turns Fire TV Cube into a thin client for enterprises

• 33 states accuse Meta of having a big 'open secret' — millions of underage users

Weird and Wacky: 

• Director YOLO’d $4M of Netflix budget into Dogecoin, made $27M: Report

• One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after it was grounded for 3 decades

• The three-year cruise is canceled

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - COLORCORAL Cleaning Gel Universal Dust Cleaner 

• Adam - Shark AI Ultra 2in1 Robot Vacuum & Mop with Sonic Mopping, Matrix Clean, Home Mapping, HEPA Bagless Self Empty Base, CleanEdge Technology, for Pet Hair, Wifi, Works with Alexa

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com
  Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

• Good buy, Type O’s: iMessages can finally be edited
• Uber Eats to Begin Delivering Food with Autonomous Vehicles
• Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors
• Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’
• The Nissan Leaf can now officially power buildings
• Brush up on your office lingo with Biz Jargon voice navigation
• Copywriter website: Joe Coleman 


• Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products
• Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite
• A 22-year-old TikToker fooled millions by pretending to be an AI-generated image
• Peloton's founder is severing his last remaining ties with the embattled company
• California sues Amazon
• Twitter shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal
• Patagonia reinvents itself again

Weird and Wacky: 

• Man Asks AI to Recreate His Photos
• This Muzzle, Er, Microphone Lets You Swear Around Friends

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Water Resistant Atomic Clock 
• Adam - The Magic Email

In this Episode:

• Facebook knows how to track you using the dust on your camera lens (2:00)
• CES 2019: The 2020 Harley-Davidson Livewire is up for preorder, and it's pricey (4:32)
• Toyota is developing fighter-jet inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it (6:42)
• AT&T is lying to customers with 5G marketing (11:13)
• How AT&T predicted new technology 25 years ago and what it expects now (13:46)
• Toyota reveals finalists in $4 million quest to reinvent wheelchairs (17:31)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

• Fiji water girl: I’ve been photo bombing since I was a kid (19:53)
• Rolls Royce’s Autonomous ship gives us a peak into the future of sea transport (21:18)
• Robot delivery dogs deployed by self-driving cars are coming (23:20)

Tech Recommendations (25:18):

• Adam - SpotHero
• Sanjay - Kill A Watt

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Sponsored By:

• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
• CES 2019: what to expect from the biggest tech show of the year - The Verge
• Toyota is developing fighter-jet inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it
• AT&T is lying to customers with 5G marketing
• How AT&T predicted new technology 25 years ago and what it expects now
• Toyota reveals finalists in $4 million quest to reinvent wheelchairs
• Fiji Water Girl: 'I've been photobombing since I was a kid'
• Rolls Royce’s Autonomous ship gives us a peak into the future of sea transport

In this Episode:

• What you should know about Jack Dorsey’s surprising $1 billion commitment to charity
• “Even if only 10 percent of the money went to Covid work, though, Dorsey would become the country’s biggest public philanthropist during the crisis.”
• 28% of his net worth
• Getty Images is charging $499 to license the CDC’s public domain coronavirus image
• Volvo Valet lets owners get vehicle service without leaving home
• Apple Shares Assembly and Use Instructions for New Face Shields, Shipping 1 Million Per Week to Medical Workers
• Verizon canceling FiOS installs and telling customers to wait a few months
• Facebook's latest app experiment is a 'private space' for couples
• WeWork founder misses out on $1 billion as SoftBank cancels share buyout
• WeWork suing Softbank
• Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating in new update
• TCL launches self-branded smartphones at $449, $249
• YouTube is working on a TikTok competitor called 'Shorts'

Weird and Wacky:

• Driver wrecks $750G supercar on New York City street during coronavirus shutdown
• A Michigan dad duct-taped tent poles together to make a DIY social-distancing device
• UFC getting private island to hold weekly fights amid coronavirus crisis
• NASA astronaut's estranged wife charged with lying about space crime allegation

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Mercury Bank
• Adam - Krisp
• Shannon - Clockify
  

TV/Movie Rec:

• Sanjay - Kim’s Convenience
• Adam - The Expanse
• Shannon - Great British Baking Show

Links:

• What you should know about Jack Dorsey’s surprising $1 billion commitment to charity
• Getty Images is charging $499 to license the CDC’s public domain coronavirus image
• Volvo Valet lets owners get vehicle service without leaving home - SlashGear
• Apple Shares Assembly and Use Instructions for New Face Shields, Shipping 1 Million Per Week to Medical Workers
• Verizon canceling FiOS installs and telling customers to wait a few months | Ars Technica
• Facebook's latest app experiment is a 'private space' for couples
• WeWork founder misses out on $1 billion as SoftBank cancels share buyout

In This Episode:

• Uber Drivers Are Committing 'Vomit Fraud' (2:12)
• Google's new physical keys to secure your account (6:27)
• Miles gives you rewards for almost everything (8:47)
• “Waze of Parking” SpotAngels raises 2.3M (11:40)
• Google owns Duck.com, but it'll give rival DuckDuckGo a shoutout anyhow (13:04)
• A new digital divide: Young people who can’t use keyboards (16:19)
• The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers (18:10)
• How to Beat LinkedIn: The Game (21:03)
• Facebook is working on a new internet satellite (23:56)

Weird and Wacky Tech (26:35):

• Inventor Demonstrates His $443K ‘Iron Man’ Jet Propulsion Suit
• This robot will draw and erase anything on your walls
• Why there's finally a drug for smallpox even though the disease no longer exists
• Pirelli made a tire-shaped Bluetooth speaker that isn’t actually made from tires

Tech Recommendations (34:47):
Sanjay - Here App
Adam - Argus
Shannon - LogiTech Mouse

Plus, an update on Adam's Go Ruck experience.

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Weird and Wacky theme music from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit.

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• Ticket Burner: TicketBurner can help your organization deliver the right information, to the right people, at the right time. Try it free for 30 days!
• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Uber Drivers Are Committing 'Vomit Fraud' to Pocket Cleanup Fee
• Google wants you to use its new physical keys to secure your account
• Miles gives you reward miles for almost everything
• “Waze of Parking” SpotAngels raises 2.3M

In this episode, Adam and Mickey dive into the latest and most intriguing tech news. They discuss the advancements and concerns surrounding ChatGPT’s new capabilities, Google’s AI vision, and controversial moves by major tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX. They also cover fascinating stories about AI music creation, TikTok’s legal battles, and bizarre incidents like a Cybertruck accident and a hacking group with a unique identity. The episode concludes with tech recommendations and some light-hearted banter.

In this episode: 

• ChatGPT will soon be able to see everything happening on your screen
• After Microsoft invested $10 billion, OpenAI snubs Windows 11 as it releases ChatGPT app first on Mac. “We’re just prioritizing where our users are.”
• Google shows off astonishing vision for how AI will work with Gmail, Photos and more
• The train has left the station: AI music platform Udio is already spitting out 10 songs a SECOND
• Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

• TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment
• Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again
• FTX says most customers will get all their money back
• X now treats the term cisgender as a slur

• Apple faces backlash for 'destructive' iPad ad featuring machine crushing books and instruments
• Google Responds To The Verge Mocking Its Search Rankings For Best Printer
• Neuralink’s first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says
• Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency

In this episode we talk about:

• GM's driverless, steering wheel-less, and pedel-less autonomous vehicle.
• iOS is heading to be bigger than the worldwide movie market.
• iPhone will soon give you a choice between slowing down or risking an overheated phone.
• Facebook is launching a home video chat device.
• Google bought a startup that can make your entire mobile device screen into a giant speaker.
• Samsung is working on a phone with a screen on both sides.
• Qualcomm joins the other companies with processor vulnerabilities while a new vulnerability is discovered in AMD processors.
• A small handheld device can tell you if the water you're about to drink is safe.
• A new skin sticker will tell you when you have had enough sun.

Plus two great tech recommendations.

Links:

• Look, Ma, No Steering Wheel Or Pedals In GM's Robo-Taxi, Coming In 2019
• iOS App Store will be bigger than entire worldwide movie industry sometime this year | 9to5Mac
• iPhone Battery: Next update will let you disable intentional slowdown - Jan. 18, 2018
• EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Product Named "Portal" on Cheddar
• Google quietly bought a UK startup that turns your screen into a speaker - The Verge
• Samsung is working on a phone with screens on both sides — here are three futuristic ideas
• Qualcomm joins Intel, Apple, Arm, AMD in confirming its CPUs suffer hack bugs, too • The Register
• A new stack-based overflow vulnerability discovered in AMD CPUsSecurity Affairs
• Lishtot’s TestDrop tells you whether water is safe to drink without even touching it
• Skin sticker lets you know when you've had enough sun

• Netflix Testing TikTok-Like 'Kids Clip' Feature for Younger Viewers
• Ford and Purdue University Created a Cable That Fully Charges an EV in 5 Minutes
  • Electric vehicles could fully recharge in under 5 minutes with new charging station cable design
  
  
• FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks
  • Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website
  
  
• Bitcoin's long-anticipated Taproot upgrade is activated
• Staples Center goes crypto
• Google Maps Warns You About Crowded Areas With Updated 'Busyness' Feature
• The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says
• Microsoft Calls Firefox’s Browser Workaround “Improper,” Will Block It
• Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation
• Apple to begin do-it-yourself repair program for iPhones, Macs next year
  • Apple to offer self-repair service for iPhones
  
  
• Spotify’s new Podcast Subscriptions expand to global markets - not sure we should keep this one
• MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought the company back and is planning a relaunch
• Meta’s sci-fi haptic glove prototype lets you feel VR objects using air pockets
• New Drug Class Reverses Paralysis in Mice
• Sanjay - Vida Protective Masks
• Adam - Vidyard phone app

Adam’s Top 5:

• Apple Ecosystem
• Google Docs
• Slack
• Audible
• Podcast App

Sanjay’s Top 5:

• Android Auto
• Entertainment (Harmony Remote / Roku / Tablo / Hulu / Netflix)
• Duck Duck Go
• Amazon Web Services
• Security (Bonsai Shredder / Private Internet Access / Authy / Yubikey)

Shannon’s Top 5:

• Navigation
• Online Finance / Banking
• Amazon
• Google
• Spotify

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

In this episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about the AT&T Discovery merger, TikToks founder quitting the social media company because he's not good at social interactions, the dip in Elon's finances due to his appearance on SNL, and lots more!

For the full show notes, click here.

In this Episode:

• WhatsApp Working on a Feature to Self-destruct Messages: Report.
• Twitter will remove inactive accounts and free up usernames in December
• Apple Pay works with Salvation Army’s famous red kettles
• Google Cloud Print will be shut down on December 31, 2020
• Stranger hacks into baby monitor, tells child, 'I love you'
• Watch Tesla Accidentally Smash Cybertruck’s “Bulletproof” Window
• PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
• WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
• Doctors Are Testing Human Suspended Animation for the First Time

Weird and Wacky:

• Would You Pay Someone $40 to Keep You Focused on Work?
• Ed Sheeran Apparently Hasn’t Had A Phone In Four Years
• Guy makes dating app that features just one guy -- himself
• Stay in a Japanese hotel room for $1 per night — as long as you're OK being livestreamed
• Fresh air for sale: The New Delhi oxygen bar offering respite from smog

Tech Recs:

• Sanjay - MakerPad
• Adam - Focusmate

Links:

• WhatsApp Working on a Feature to Self-destruct Messages: Report.
• Twitter will remove inactive accounts and free up usernames in December - The Verge
• Apple Pay works with Salvation Army’s famous red kettles
• Google Cloud Print will be shut down on December 31, 2020
• Stranger hacks into baby monitor, tells child, 'I love you'
• Watch Tesla Accidentally Smash Cybertruck’s “Bulletproof” Window
• PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
• WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
• Doctors Are Testing Human Suspended Animation for the First Time - ExtremeTech
• Ed Sheeran Apparently Hasn’t Had A Phone In Four Years

In this Episode:

• Apple is looking into building foldable iPhones out of glass (2:00)
• Mobile carrier AT&T will now accept payments in crypto (3:48)
• How scientists unraveled the mystery behind the return of a banned greenhouse gas (5:30)
• LAS VEGAS ORDERS UP A BORING COMPANY LOOP (9:34)
• Sen. Josh Hawley calls out Facebook over ‘encrypted’ messaging plans (13:05)
• VW is working on ways to prevent nausea in self-driving cars (15:47)
• Uber will soon ban passengers with low ratings (18:22)
• Newly Released Amazon Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get (20:35)

Weird and Wacky:

• YouTuber hacks fingerprint scanner of OnePlus 7 Pro using hot glue (22:50)
• MAN BITTEN BY RABID BAT HIDING IN HIS IPAD (26:10)
• Open Hatch Nearly Sunk India's New $3 Billion Nuclear Missile Submarine (27:50)

Tech Recs (30:40):
Adam - T-mobile Tuesdays
Sanjay - 23andme

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Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Sponsored By:

• The Woodruff Arts Center: The Woodruff Arts Center, the third largest arts center in the country, is home to the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre, the Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art, the leading art museum in the Southeast. The Woodruff knows how to blend contemporary digital technology with artistic excellence. Just check out their new Coca-Cola stage, their live simulcasts that allow visitors to watch sold-out Atlanta Symphony Orchestra shows or their use of ArtClix, a program that features image-recognition technology to identify the art at the High Museum. Learn more at www.woodruffcenter.org.

Links:

• Apple is looking into building foldable iPhones out of glass
• Mobile carrier AT&T will now accept payments in crypto - The Block
• How scientists unraveled the mystery behind the return of a banned greenhouse gas - MIT Technology Review
• Las Vegas Orders Up a Boring Company Loop | WIRED
• Sen. Josh Hawley calls out Facebook over ‘encrypted’ messaging plans - The Verge
• VW is working on ways to prevent nausea in self-driving cars

In this episode: 

• After outcry over blocking links to Mastodon, Twitter announces ban on "promotion" of other social platforms
• Elon Musk launches poll asking if he should quit as Twitter CEO
• Twitter Users Say Elon Musk Should Quit as Boss


• Elon Musk suggests journalists want to cause harm to him and his family after restoring suspended Twitter accounts 
• Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accounts of Several Journalists 


• MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show
• Electric school buses are practically free now
• Amtrak unveils new train cars with plenty for customers to love - The Points Guy 

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• Google will soon translate your doctor's terrible handwriting
• Anker’s Eufy deleted these 10 privacy promises instead of answering our questions
• Some universities are now restricting TikTok access on campus
• Nike Training Club on Netflix Launches Dec. 30: Everything You Need to Know 
• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail, will live with his parents

Weird and Wacky: 

• James Cameron Commissioned A Scientific Study To Settle The Long-Running Debate Over Whether Jack Could Have Joined Rose On Her Makeshift Raft In “Titanic” 
• Hands-On With Dyson’s $1,000 Air Purifying Headphones 

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Mayfair
• Adam - Timer+

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• Epic is donating two weeks of Fortnite proceeds to Ukraine relief
• Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died
• Uber reaches deal to add all NYC taxi cabs to its app
• Hyundai's solar car roof isn't as dumb as it sounds
• Gas and go. Pay later. How some drivers are dealing with higher fuel costs.
• YouTube to stream free, ad-supported TV shows for the first time
• Roku OS 11 will let you set your own photos as a screensaver

• Twitter expands downvote test worldwide
• Instagram launches chronological and 'favorites' feeds for all users, but they can't be the default
• These Smart Glasses Want to Replace Your Laptop
• In a first, brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts: ‘I love my cool son.’
• Snap buys mind-controlled headband maker, NextMind
• If your passwords are less than 8 characters long, change them immediately, a new study says
• Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges
• Google's Android app will finally let you delete the last 15 minutes of your search history
• Sick of constant sirens and construction noise? This sleek window gadget could block it out

• BookTok Book List With 43 Billion Views Has Sent Barnes & Noble Sales Soaring
• Zoom's new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog

In This Episode:

• Slack confidentially files to go public (3:23)
• Why Gimlet Sold to Spotify (7:13)
• Apple has banned Google from running internal iOS apps after certificate misuse (9:10)
• Google's new Chrome extension warns you about stolen passwords (11:17)
• Upcoming Version of Google Chrome Will Make It Harder to Block Ads (11:57)
• Lowe’s is killing off and bricking its Iris smart home products at the end of March (13:00)
• A new net neutrality bill is headed to Congress (16:25)
• This guy holds the world record for collecting spreadsheets (17:50)
• Founder of crypto exchange dies, taking only password (and $190M) with him (20:13)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

• Study reveals wildlife is abundant in Chernobyl
• M&M's 3 new peanut-based flavors are here: Toffee, jalapeno, coconut (26:06)
• Tyra Banks is creating a tech-driven attraction called Modelland (27:11)
• Intuit Super Bowl 2019 introduces #robochild scares world (29:30)

Tech Recommendations:

• Adam - This Marie Kondo-inspired Twitter tool will help you declutter your timeline so it again ‘sparks joy’
• Sanjay - Shure SRH750DJ Professional Quality DJ Headphones
• Shannon - https://www.airbnb.com/

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY: Two: “Goodnight, Tyler” tickets at the Alliance Theater, brought to you by The Woodruff Arts Center. Tweet @techtalkyall and @thewoodruff to enter.

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• The Woodruff Arts Center: The Woodruff Arts Center, the third largest arts center in the country, is home to the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre, the Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art, the leading art museum in the Southeast. The Woodruff knows how to blend contemporary digital technology with artistic excellence. Just check out their new Coca-Cola stage, their live simulcasts that allow visitors to watch sold-out Atlanta Symphony Orchestra shows or their use of ArtClix, a program that features image-recognition technology to identify the art at the High Museum. Learn more at www.woodruffcenter.org.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Slack confidentially files to go public
• Why Gimlet Sold to Spotify
• Apple has banned Google

In this episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about new Twitter features, Amazon's new gadgets, a crypto trader hampster, and much more!

Get the full show notes with links here.

In this episode:

• Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.
• FCC votes on action and legal framework to fight robocalls
• Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds
• More Than 25% Of U.S. Adults Almost Always Online
• Ring puts suspected thief in Facebook sponsored ads
• Laser Destroys Cancer Cells Circulating in the Blood
• Autonomous Lawn Mower Startup Greenzie Closes Half A Million Investment From Strategic VCs, Angels
• AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say

Weird and Wacky:

• Florida safari park mourns 'tragic loss' of 2 giraffes killed by lightning
• Atlanta to transform 7 acres of vacant property into country's largest food forest for public
• High-flying ladybug swarm shows up on National Weather Service radar
• Many experts tried to open a safe locked for 40 years. A tourist's lucky guess cracked the code on his first try
• Israeli start-up is working to develop a flying electric, autonomous car

Tech Recs:

• Adam - waking up
• Sanjay - 1.1.1.1

Links:

• Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.
• FCC votes to put an end to robocalls
• Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds
• More Than 25% Of U.S. Adults Almost Always Online: Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends Report
• Ring puts suspected thief in Facebook sponsored ads - CNET
• Laser Destroys Cancer Cells Circulating in the Blood - IEEE Spectrum
• Autonomous Lawn Mower Startup Greenzie Closes Half A Million Investment From Strategic VCs, Angels - Hypepotamus
• AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say - The Verge
• Florida safari park mourns 'tragic loss' of 2 giraffes...

In this Episode:

• IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion (1:45)
• Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct (3:40)
• Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns (4:32)
• Fortnite Creator Epic Games Valued at Nearly $15 Billion (6:52)
• Coinbase raises Series E to accelerate adoption of cryptocurrencies (7:58)
• We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (10:17)
• Will Google’s homepage news feed repeat Facebook’s mistakes? (12:42)
• Uber introduces an Amazon Prime-style monthly subscription service (14:07)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Musk Keeps Testing the Limits That the SEC Put on His Tweeting (16:32)
• Google AI Listens to 15-years of sea bottom data for Whale songs (18:28)
• Yes, we flew to Japan to watch someone pour liquid nitrogen on custom Kit Kats (20:19)

Tech Recommendations (23:50)

• Sanjay - Georgia Votes
• Adam - [Waze (ft. new audio player)](ttps://www.engadget.com/2018/10/29/waze-beta-audio-player/)
• Shannon - TweetDeck

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• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion | Reuters
• Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct
• Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns — Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns
• Fortnite's Epic Games Now Valued At $15 Billion | Fortnite INTEL
• Coinbase raises...

In this Episode:

• Google is donating $800 million to help with the coronavirus crisis
• Lyft is referring drivers to jobs at Amazon after massive ridership decline
• Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse
• Coronavirus: Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses
• How China built facial recognition for people wearing masks
• Musk the Virus Skeptic Makes Reluctant Ventilator Offer After GM
• Toilet Paper Startup Ramps Up And Rolls In Wake Of Coronavirus Pandemic
• HQ Trivia is back less than two months after the app was shut down
• Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing
• Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky

Weird and Wacky:

• Scientists Are Trying to Grow Buildings from Bacteria—and It Just Might Work
• Taking off: Spring-based technology could see Usain Bolt hit 50mph

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Missile Command
• Adam - Peloton App

TV / Movie Recs:
Sanjay - Ozark
Adam - Bless this Mess

Links:

• Google is donating $800 million to help with the coronavirus crisis
• Lyft is referring drivers to jobs at Amazon after massive ridership decline
• Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse
• Coronavirus: Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses
• How China built facial recognition for people wearing masks
• Musk the Virus Skeptic Makes Reluctant Ventilator Offer After GM
• Toilet Paper Startup Ramps Up And Rolls In Wake Of Coronavirus Pandemic : NPR
• HQ Trivia is back less than two months after the app was shut down
• Zoom Meetings Do Not Support End-to-End Encryption
• Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky

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In this episode: 

• ‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case
• The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for
• After nine years, Google’s Nest Learning Thermostat gets an AI makeover

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink Device Is Implanted in a Second Patient
• Elon Musk revives lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman in federal court
• X files antitrust suit against advertising groups over ‘systematic illegal boycott’

• Colin Kaepernick Pisses Off Comics Industry with AI Comics Deal
• Video game actors are officially on strike over AI
• Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct
• Nvidia Caught Stealing Mind-Boggling Quantity of YouTube Videos to Train AI

• Apple’s new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites
• Microsoft fires back at Delta after massive outage, says airline declined ‘repeated’ offers for help
• Third-party cookies have got to go
• The Personal Check Is Disappearing. Here's What Comes Next

Weird and Wacky: 

• Saudi Arabia unveils 2034 World Cup stadium on The Line at Neom

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Magic Mirror 
• Adam -

In this episode:

• Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba
• Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
• Virgin Orbit just earned the orbit part of its name
  

AD BREAK

• WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode
• Instacart to Cut 1,900 Jobs, Including Its Only Union Roles
• Amazon offers Biden resources for COVID-19 vaccine rollout
• As promised, Twitter made Joe Biden’s @POTUS account start with zero followers
  

Weird and Wacky:

• Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of Covid'
  

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Polaroid
• Adam - Brackets
  

In this Episode:

• A new tool detects deepfakes with 96 percent accuracy
• Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number (4:30)
• Curiosity Rover Detects Abnormally High Methane Levels on Mars (
• Hackers breach NASA, steal Mars mission data (7:17)
• Airbnb’s New Luxe Tier Includes a $1 Million Polynesian Island (9:00)
• US power output from renewables exceeds coal for the first time in history (11:32)
• ‘Reset’ Nest Cams Could Still Send Video to Previous Owners
• Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side ()
• Google tracks your every move, but a new tool is rolling out that lets you force it to delete where you’ve been
• Google Maps can warn you if your ride goes off-route
• Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software
• Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy.
• Mozilla launches GeckoView-powered Firefox Preview for Android, pauses Focus development (29:12)
• Amazon partners with retailers for new Counter package pickup service, starting with Rite-Aid

Weird and Wacky:

• Nearly 100 drivers followed a Google Maps detour -- and ended up stuck in an empty field
• Sudan crisis: Internet restored - but only for lawyer

Tech Recs (39:05):
Adam - http://versusutil.com/
Sanjay - RedShift

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Links:

• A new tool detects deepfakes with 96 percent accuracy
• Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number - The New York Times
• Curiosity Rover Detects Abnormally High Methane Levels on Mars - ExtremeTech
• Hackers breach NASA, steal Mars mission data | WeLiveSecurity
• Airbnb Luxe Now Renting Luxury Villas, Private Islands, Mansions - Bloomberg
• US power output from renewables exceeds coal for first time in history - The Verge
• 'Reset' Nest Cams Could Still Send Video to Previous Owners - ExtremeTech
• How Google's new tool lets you auto-delete your location history

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In this episode:

• Micron’s new 1.5TB microSD can record video for five years straight
• Wearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boost
• Sleep pods are coming for passengers flying economy
• U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores

AD BREAK

• Tesla Cuts 200 Autopilot Workers as California Site Closes
• Newly developed algorithm able to predict crime a week in advance with 90% accuracy
• Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
• Smart contact lens prototype puts a Micro LED display on top of the eye
• How to survive the inevitable CD revival
• Amazon agrees to drop Prime cancellation ‘dark patterns’ in Europe

Weird and Wacky:

• Inside giant flying luxury hotel that can stay in the air for years
• Engineer Designs Functional Bicycle With Back Wheel Split Into Two Half Wheels
• Random: "Die-Hard Nintendo Fan" Reportedly Forked Out Over $40K To Ask For A New F-Zero

Tech Rec:

• Clara - Swimply

Adam - Airthings Corentium Home Radon Detector

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In this episode: 

• Bing AI Chat versus Google Bard: A first look
• Meta's paid verification program goes live in the US
• Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread
• UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
• Duolingo is working on a music app
• Mozilla launches a new startup focused on 'trustworthy' AI

Adddddd Time

• Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion) | Insid...
• Multiple Internet to Baseband Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
• Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous

Weird and Wacky: 

• Elon Musk Sets Poop Emoji as an Autoreply to Twitter’s Press Email

Tech Rec:

• Adam - VistaSocial
• Sanjay - New York Times Daily Mini Crossword Puzzle 

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In this week's episode, we talk about Yahoo and AOL (hopefully the last time) being sold, Google encouraging two-factor authentication, amazingly funny (and scary) Instagram ads that Facebook won't show you, a boy that ordered $3k of Sponge Bob popsicles, and much much more!

See the full show notes with links here.

In this episode: 

• Can new technology tell if you’re lying on LinkedIn?
• Open source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M
• Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach
• ‘LOTR: The Rings Of Power’ Forges Biggest Premiere Viewership Ever For Amazon Prime Video

• Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology
• Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own
• Farewell, Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button.
• Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme

Weird and Wacky: 

• An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.
• Hacked Russian Taxi App Orders Dozens of Cabs to the Same Address, Chaos Ensues

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Fanttik X8 APEX Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor 
• Adam - YouTube TV

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In this episode: 

• Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived
• Threads, Instagram's Twitter competitor, is expected July 6
• Twitter competitor Threads won't let you delete your account unless you also delete Instagram
• Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in | Engadget
• Twitter's apps are breaking following Elon Musk's decision to cap tweet rates
• Twitter rate limits even dumber than we thought; Reddit winning continues
• The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so

• A flying car that can also drive on the road was approved for testing
• Apple's Market Cap Reaches $3 Trillion
• The user-repairable Fairphone 4 is finally coming to the US
• Toyota announces solid-state battery discovery that may let it catch up with Tesla faster
• Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

Weird and Wacky: 

• Japan Airlines Will Rent You Clothes (Bizarre Sustainability Initiative)
• NASA just locked four people in a fake Mars base for a year
• Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Farmer's Fridge 
• Adam - True Link Financial 

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In this episode: 

• Twitter’s new feature will show ‘half ads’ to Blue subscribers
• NPR to Suspend Twitter Use After ‘Government-Funded’ Label
• Uber's CEO became an undercover boss in a used Tesla and was surprised by how rude some riders can be
• Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion

AD BREAK

• This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting
• Don’t use public phone charging stations: FBI
• PortaPow USB data blocker


• Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill
• New Nasa director swears oath on Carl Sagan’s book instead of Bible

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - International Dark Sky Week 
• Adam - RedKetchup

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• Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India
• Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47
  • Dorsey said previously he would convert the winning bid into bitcoin and donate it to GiveDirectly for its Africa Response, and he tweeted his receipt Monday afternoon. GiveDirectly is a charitable organization which gives money directly to people living in poverty.
  
  
• (205) NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money
• (280) Trading App Robinhood Says It Files Confidentially for IPO
  • Exclusive: Robinhood aims to allow users to buy into IPOs - sources
  
  
• (347) ‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats
• (416) Firefox 87 is out today, adds Smart Block for improved private browsing

• (470) Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion
• (~525) Slack now lets you DM anyone
• (~660) Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin
  • In the firm’s refund policy, Tesla cautioned buyers that should they seek to return their electric car and obtain a refund, the company can choose to pay them back in U.S. dollars or bitcoin. Tesla notes that it reserves the right to refund the customer in U.S. dollars at the exact price bitcoin was worth at the time of purchase.
  
  
• (725) Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services
• (777) YouTube experiment will auto-detect products in videos and provide related content links
• (840) Medium has roughly 725k subscribers and nobody knows what's next
• (927) Prince Harry lands new job as a tech executive
  • Like Many Americans, Prince Harry Now Juggling Multiple Jobs to Make Ends Meet
  
  

• Your Vaccination Card Will Score You Free Krispy Kreme Doughnuts All Year
• (1096) Is That Ship Still Stuck?

• Sanjay - Ubiquiti WifiMan
• Adam -

In this episode: 

• T-Mobile Is Tracking Users by Default. How to Turn It Off
• These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret
• Secret Service may disable iMessages to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 controversy
• Elon Musk countersues Twitter over merger, but details aren’t yet public
• Elon Musk’s antics turn owners and would-be buyers against Tesla: ‘I love my vehicle, but I really wish I didn’t have to respond to my friends and family about his latest tweet’
• The Space Force is scrapping the annual fitness test in favor of wearable trackers
• Spotify wants users to pay for separate ‘Play’ and ‘Shuffle’ buttons
• Trailblazing Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols dies at 89

AD BREAK

• Thousands of Solana wallets drained in multimillion-dollar exploit
• Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals
• Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year
• Samsung Repair Mode ensures your data isn’t stolen during phone repair
• FTC Seeks to Block Virtual Reality Giant Meta’s Acquisition of Popular App Creator Within
• Anti-aging drugs are being tested as a way to treat covid

Weird and Wacky: 

• Creepy AI asked to predict what the last human on Earth will look like – the results suggest a mutant future
• Researchers repaired cells in damaged pig organs an hour after the animal’s death
• Have you seen the chairs that automatically return to...

In this episode:

• The Hummer EV produces more CO2 than a gas-powered sedan
• Apple expands industry-leading commitment to protect users from highly targeted mercenary spyware
• FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
• Amazon is giving Prime subscribers a free year of Grubhub+ deliveries
• TikTok is reportedly giving up on its live shopping plans in the US and Europe
• Facebook Accessed Deleted User Data, Fired Screener Claims
• Robocalls Are (Finally) Being Shaken Up
• U.S. adds ‘Cryptoqueen’ to most-wanted list over alleged $4 billion fraud

AD BREAK

• Hacker claims to have stolen 1 bln records of Chinese citizens from police
• A HackerOne Employee Stole Vulnerability Reports From Security Researchers
• British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts were hacked to promote crypto scams
• Steve Jobs Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
• No bids on Chevy’s first NFT, even though it came with a free Corvette Z06
• Tesla Is No Longer the World's Biggest Electric Vehicle Producer
• Tesla EVs can now scan the road for potholes and adjust the suspension height

Weird and Wacky:

• Chinese Company Under Fire Because Its Ice Cream Doesn’t Melt
• Jeff Bezos’ $500 Million Superyacht Is Now Stuck In Rotterdam

Tech Rec:

• Clara - The Story Graph
• Adam - Secura 60-Minute Visual Countdown Timer

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In this episode: 

• 'Blaze Your Glory!': Twitter Has a Bizarre New Slogan After 'X' Rebrand
• “Blaze your glory!”—Twitter’s “X” becomes first one-letter iPhone app
• Twitter’s Obnoxious 'X' Sign Is Gone
• Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.
• Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
• Google Docs brings line numbers to everyone's documents
• Multiview comes to YouTube and gets official YouTube TV launch, but with limits
• Need a friend? There’s an app for that
• EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025
• The Power Station - Some Like It Hot 


• The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On
• Ultra-fast niobium batteries boast 6-min charge for Lotus Elise-based EV
• A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments
• A spectacular superconductor claim is making news. Here’s why experts are doubtful


• Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat
• Dude who made a USB-C iPhone is back with an AirPods case that has a replaceable battery
• U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations
• Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US air force communications
• NASA is launching its own streaming service later this year
• NASA accidentally severs contact with Voyager 2 probe 12 billion miles from Earth

Weird and Wacky: 

• Uber self-driving car test driver pleads guilty to endangerment in pedestrian death case
• You could win free sandwiches for life if you change your name to 'Subway’
• Interactive map shows which US cities will be underwater in 2050

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Flash Museum
• Adam - Tactical Pen – Self Defense Pen & Multi-tool Pen - Flashlight Survival Pen

Find us here:

sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode: 

• Signal Opposes UK Proposal
• New York passes legislation to ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
• FCC’s $8 Billion Phone Subsidy Survives Supreme Court Challenge

• Tokyo hopes new Tinder-like match making app will curb population decline
• Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call
• Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case

• Apple blocks PC emulator from being available in iOS App Store and third-party app stores
• Forget LastPass: Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
• Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Weird and Wacky: 

• University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - HOTO Laser Measuring Tool 
• Adam - Facebook Unfollow Button

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

In This Episode:

• Apple: Break Safari's privacy rules and we'll treat you like malware (4:34)
• Huawei employees reportedly caught helping African governments spy on opposition (7:13)
• Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model (8:49)
• These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
• He got 2 million people to say they’d storm Area 51. Now he’s planning an alien festival.
• The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
• 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
• NYC fire department loses hard drive with over 10,000 medical record (19:05)
• New Analysis of Kepler Data Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanets

Tech Recommendations (28:00):

• Adam - DDS 2 Go
• Sanjay - Wealthfront

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Links:

• Apple: Break Safari's privacy rules and we'll treat you like malware
• Huawei employees reportedly caught helping African governments spy on opposition
• Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model
• These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
• He got 2 million people to say they’d storm Area 51. Now he’s planning an alien festival.
• The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers - The Verge
• 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service - The Verge

In this Episode:

• Samsung’s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980 (2:45)
• TCL is working on a foldable phone that bends into a smartwatch (5:02)
• Google says Nest’s secret microphone was “never intended to be a secret” (6:26)
• Southwest cancels more than 400 flights amid fight with mechanics (8:20)
• Lyft Is Planning to List Shares on Nasdaq (9:30)
• US Digital Ad Spending Will Surpass Traditional in 2019 (12:31)
• JPMorgan is creating its own cryptocurrency (15:15)
• Audi helps you avoid red lights by suggesting speeds (17:35)
• China Is Reportedly Building a Solar Po wer Station in Space (20:05)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Super Mario Bros. cartridge sells for $100,150 (22:30)
• ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces (24:30)
• The best new Twitter bot is an endless game of Jeopardy where the winners are good at puns (26:13)
• Scientists have made an AI that they think is too dangerous to release (26:53)

Tech Recommendations (29:24):

• Adam - Vidyard GoVideo
• Sanjay - Logitech Harmony Remote
• Shannon - Splitwise

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Links:

• Samsung’s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980
• TCL is working on a foldable phone that bends into a smartwatch
• Nest Secure had a secret microphone, can now be a Google Assistant | CSO Online
• Southwest cancels more than 400 flights amid fight with mechanics
• Lyft Is Planning to List Shares on Nasdaq

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In this episode: 

• Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People's Thoughts in Breakthrough
• Bard AI in Google Messages could be the writing assistant you never knew you needed
• Wendy’s, Google Train Next-Generation Order Taker: an AI Chatbot
• CKE partners with 3 drive-thru AI firms


• Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams
• Tucker Carlson partners with Twitter for new show
• Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp

Break

• Discord is growing up, so everyone needs to pick a new username
• Discord’s username change is causing discord


• Chrome has a solution for sites constantly asking to prove you're human
• Gen Zers Are Snapping Up Flip Phones. They Might Be Onto Something.
• Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
• A New Startup Hopes to Let Property Owners Make Money From EV Chargers

Weird and Wacky: 

• The Luvly O Is an $11,000 Flatpack Microcar

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Shop App
• Adam - HTML to Markdown Converter

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Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise!

In this episode: 

• Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes
• The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here
• Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
• Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication


• Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month
• Instagram's co-founders' personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features
• Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
• Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan

BREAK

• City of Atlanta embraces AI to improve customer service
• More than 200 books in Amazon's bookstore have ChatGPT listed as an author or coauthor
• Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
• Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket — Spotify
• Snoop Dogg Brings Death Row Music Catalog to TikTok
• Conner Price


• New Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computers a Huge Step Closer
• Your Google docs are about to look a little bit different
• Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch
• GM Patents Self-Cleaning Touch Screen That Erases Fingerprints

Weird and Wacky: 

• NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App!
• Airless Basketball Prototype
• This iPhone just sold for a record-breaking $63,000 at auction

Tech Rec:

• Adam - McCheapest 
• Sanjay - Every Noise

Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media

In This Episode:

• US computer science grads outperforming those in other key nations (2:05)
• How an 83-year-old found a new lease on life developing mobile apps (4:51)
• FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of Broadband Providers (7:15)
• Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email
  
• Teens have less face time with their friends – and are lonelier than ever (12:02)
• Here's everything Apple announced on Monday (15:09)
• Asus software updates were used to spread malware, security group says
• Doom Eternal Will Release On Google Stadia, More Games To Be Revealed Later

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• What’s a Quick Detour When You’re Having Fun?
• Tesla car hacked at Pwn2Own contest
• Drunken online shopping is big business — especially for Amazon

Tech Recommendations:

• Sanjay - Notes by Mozilla
• Adam - Google Meet
• Shannon - CodeAcademy

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Links:

• US computer science grads outperforming those in other key nations | Ars Technica
• How an 83-year-old found a new lease on life developing mobile apps
• FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of Broadband Providers | Federal Trade Commission
• Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email | TechCrunch
• Teens have less face time with their friends – and are lonelier than ever
• Here's everything Apple announced on Monday
• Asus software updates were used to spread malware, security group says
• Doom Eternal Will Release On Google Stadia, More Games To Be Revealed Later
• Tesla car hacked at Pwn2Own contest | ZDNet

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In this episode: 

• All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics
• The Next Android Update May Add a New Way to Charge Wirelessly
• Elon Musk’s X Launches TV App as It Pushes Video Ambitions
• Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the US
• After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin
• A First Look at the New High-Speed Train That Will Connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas

• Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road
• Tesla Driver Charged With Killing Motorcyclist After Turning on Autopilot and Browsing His Phone
• Tesla recalls Cybertruck over ‘trapped pedal’ issue seen in owner’s viral TikTok video
• Tesla announces Cybertruck recall at the worst possible time for Elon Musk

• I Used AI To Plan My Wedding: Here's How It Went
• ​​What is the Meta AI tool? Can you turn it off? New feature rolls out on Facebook, Instagram
• Teacher arrested, accused of using AI to falsely

In this Episode:

• These new vending machines in Hong Kong offer free medical-grade masks to people in need
• Porsche Auctioning Off The Final 911 (991) For Covid-19 Relief Efforts
• Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale
• Google and Apple Are Jointly Developing Contact Tracing Software
• Android phones will get the COVID-19 tracking updates via Google Play
• Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from

Weird and Wacky:

• Chinese Professional Baseball League team will have robot mannequins fill in as fans at games
• It's a zonkey! Zebra gives birth to rare baby after mating with a donkey
• NASA is showing you the picture the Hubble Space Telescope took on your birthday
• This Man Owns The World's Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets

Tech Recs:

• Sanjay - Logitech Brio Ultra Webcam
• Adam - Dashlane
• Shannon - Lendio

TV/Movie Recs:

• Sanjay - Blade Runner The Final Cut
• Adam - Good Girls
• Shannon - Parenthood

Links:

• These new vending machines in Hong Kong offer free medical-grade masks to people in need
• Porsche Auctioning Off The Final 911 (991) For Covid-19 Relief Efforts
• Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale
• Google and Apple Are Jointly Developing Contact Tracing Software
• Android phones will get the COVID-19 tracking updates via Google Play - The Verge
• Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from - The Verge
• Chinese Professional Baseball League team will have robot mannequins fill in as fans at games
• It's a zonkey! Zebra gives birth to rare baby after mating with a donkey

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