The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture (Robb Dunewood, Stephanie Humphrey, Terrance Gaines)

Facebook, technology-wise, has recovered from the configuration change that caused the biggest outage ever, but the social media giant is still reeling when it comes to its reputation.

The Central Bank of Nigeria is set to, soon, launch eNaira, a state-backed digital currency making the country one of the first to adopt digitization of its currency.  

A jury orders Tesla to pay A former contractor $137 million because of rampant workplace racism. Full-time Tesla employees are suffering as well. They just can’t sue.

And Terrance convinces Stephanie to keep watching and Robb to start watching Squid Games on Netflix. 

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The Fugee’s concert started 3 hours late. Can’t say we didn’t see that coming. 

Microsoft announced new Surface Devices. They all sound kind of awesome.

Google security escorts a black employee with a badge off campus because “someone” didn’t believe he was an employee.

And the conditions some food delivery contractors work under in big cities like New York aren’t just miserable, they are downright dangerous.

We’ve got all this and just a little bit more in this episode of The Tech Jawn...

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Black Americans have caught the podcast bug and have become one of the most avid and engaged listening demographic groups.

Stackwell Fintech and other financial industry services like Greenwood bank work to close the racial wealth gap.

President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda provides an additional $3 billion in funding to HBCUs to boost STEM-related programs. Hopefully, some of the funds help schools like Howard address their aging infrastructure and make dormitories “livable”.

And, we kick the show off with talk about the Netflix movie “The Harder They Fall”. Don’t worry no spoilers.

We’ve got all this and more in episode 10 The Tech Jawn.

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Apple announced iOS 15, a new iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. We unpack all the new hotness and let you what’s what before you upgrade.

TikTok limits kids 14 and under in China to just 40 minutes per day.

Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (F.A.S.T.) for short, is kind of awesome even if you aren’t a cord cutter.

And for most people, particularly Black and Brown folk, teleworking just isn’t an option, but, for sistahs that can work remotely, it might actually be safer.

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Welcome to The Tech Jawn Episode 08.

We've got a bit of a different vibe this week as we interview Professor Tonya M.Evans, crypto expert and host of the Tech Intersect podcast,

but first, we kick off the show with the dad tax on Halloween candy and a couple of tech stories.

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TikTok settled a $92 million class-action lawsuit for collecting your personal data without asking you.

Tesla Owners get locked out of their cars due to “accidentally increased verbosity of network traffic”.  This is a reason why you should probably keep a key card close by.

3G wireless service is being shut down next year.  This won’t mean much to smartphone users but roughly 30 million Americans are still rocking flip phones.

And, Facebook knew that its algorithms are biased against people of color but chose not to adhere to its own policies on hate speech due to fear of backlash from its conservative partners.

We’ve got all this and more, in episode 11 of the Tech Jawn

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Black Friday Shopping was Mid, Meh, and just a bit down this year but we did get to talk tech to the elders over the holiday.

Buying real estate together in groups with friends, family, and even a few strangers may have gotten just a bit easier.

The NNPA and Digital Mind State team up to bring Tech This Out News to a network of over 230 black-owned newspapers that engage an audience of 43 million people per week.

And, is the payday for black creators finally here?

We’ve got all this and more in episode 12 of The Tech Jawn.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn we talk about Apple’s anti-sexting tool and if not notifying parents is the right call?

Is Black Twitter The New Green Book? We know you can get the tea but is it also keeping us safe out here in these streets.

What do you think about a DEI company that uses digital blackface to make Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion videos? Yeah, we thought that too.

And is getting paid for your data the new wave. It probably should be, but, it’s, for real though, going to take a minute.

We’ve got all this and more in episode 13 of the Tech Jawn.

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Amazon had a major outage last week disrupting services for companies all across the US. Even The Tech Jawn was affected. 

Would you were a mask that glows if it detects Covid?  The Tech Jawn crew probably would but we’d feel some kind of way about it.

Apple Watch Owners file a class action lawsuit for expanding batteries that crack the screen. Tech Life Steph has fist hand knowledge of the issue. 

And black audiences are cutting the cord at an alarming rate. The usually loyal cable and satellite TV customer base has dwindled 25% in less than 4 years.

We’ve got all this and more in episode 14 of the Tech Jawn.

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YouTube TV almost lost a customer before working things out with Disney to bring ABC, ESPN, and other channels back to the platform.

Many security analysts are saying that the Log4j exploit that has been dominating tech news for the last week may be the biggest cyber security vulnerability ever. If it’s not the biggest, it’s definitely up there.

If you are the designated tech support specialist for your extended family we’ve got a list of tech tasks you probably should complete when you see your kinfolk over the holidays.

And although Chrismas is just a few days away we’ve got some last-minute tech stocking stuffers that you still may have time to get.

We’ve got all this and more in episode 15 of The Tech Jawn.

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African Americans are being arrested, charged, and held on faulty ID matches.

Twitter favors faces with lighter skin tones… Even “Black Twitter”

Autonomous vehicles even be out here pedestrian bowling with kinfolk.

Facial recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and algorithms in general really ain't feeling us, and, in the first episode of The Tech Jawn, we’re going to discuss why.

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The cast of The Tech Jawn is just coming back from our holiday hiatus but we wanted to present you with something special before we get back to live shows in the second week of January. 

Back in episode 8, we had the honor of interviewing Professor Tonya M. Evans, Forbe’s 50 Over 50 member, Faculty at Penn State Dickinson Law, host of the Tech Intersect podcast, and blockchain and cryptocurrency expert.

We still get Tweets, IG comments, text messages, phone calls, etc. from folk asking about this episode and what many of them don’t know is that they only heard about half of the full interview. 

Patreon members of The Tech Jawn get pre and post-show bonus content by way of a live stream and, after the podcast ended, Professor Evans continued to drop gems about the world of cryptocurrency in what we are calling The Aftershow.

We are bringing you the full interview so, get ready and buckle up because we jump right into just over an hour of awesomeness with Professor Tonya M. Evans.

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Google is concerned that Apple allows iMessage users to bully Android users.  If true Google is probably just as much to blame.

Timnit Gebru launches the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute to focus on how bias in Artificial Intelligence harms marginalized groups.

Due to the pandemic CES this year still wasn’t the CES of old, but, that didn’t stop the auto manufacturers from showing out.

And in our TTJ Spotlight, we showcase another hidden figure that was mathing the heck out of stuff for the US military.

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There is a new game word game taking the internet by storm.  It’s called Wordle, It’s completely free, and, by design, it’s not a time suck.

Is the next wave of watching sports a courtside VR experience?  With the Oculus Quest 2, you may be able to “be at the game” without actually being at the game.

Rebundle, a black-owned, women-founded, haircare startup that creates plant-based hair extensions gets $1.4 million in pre-seed venture funding.  

And, have NFTs jumped the shark?  We’ve got three different opinions from  3 different voices and we’re all probably kind of right.

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We kick this episode of The Tech Jawn off with a tech story or two, but, we’ve got a special guest interview for you this week.

We chop it up with Shawn Gunn, co-founder and CEO PLLAY, an Artificial Intelligence-driven wagering and data analytics platform for video gamers. 

Shawn has also played a key role in helping multiple companies successfully exit, having raised over $50 million in venture funding and creating over $1 billion in exit value for investors.

We cover everything from what it’s like starting a tech company with black and female founders to how venture capital is not always the route startups should look to when getting off the ground. 

Shawn gives an overview PLLAY and how his company is changing the game wagering in e-sports, and he leaves us with his view of where the metaverse is headed.

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It’s Black History Month and, for at least the second year in a row, Apple is highlighting black voices throughout the month of February. 

Meta might want to change some of its policies and controls in the Metaverse as it relates to sexual harassment. A 43-year-old British woman claims she was virtually groped by a gang of male avatars within a minute of logging in.

Flexible Work from Anywhere policies might be a key to fixing Silicon Valley’s diversity problems.

And Spotify might have a Joe Rogan problem as Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legends pull their catalogs from the platform because of Covid misinformation promoted on his show.

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In this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn, we interview Ekow Sanni-Thomas, founder of Inside Voices, an online platform that helps job-seekers figure out how companies treat people of color by hearing from current employees.

But, before we get to the interview we talk about how Atlanta is becoming quite the Tech Hub and why Yelp has only used its Racist Behavior consumer alert twice in 16 months.

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It was Superbowl weekend and although we weren’t blown away by many of the commercials we did notice that Google is putting real marketing behind Real Tone.

A black couple opens the world’s first autonomous grocery store in Atlanta, and it even has delivery robots that keep your food hot or cold.

TikTok missed the mark with its Black History Month event leaving black creators out of the conversation.

And, the Netflix doc, “Tinder Swindler”, showcases how a prolific romance scammer finessed women out of millions.

We’ve got all this and more in episode 22 of the Tech Jawn.

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Some people are outraged that the New York Times has added ad tracking to Wordle, but, should they really be though?

Privacy settings on your social media won’t protect you from snitching on yourself as authorities in Wisconsin use Facebook to identify suspects in acts of property damage after the Jacob Blake police shooting protests in Kenosha.

And what is the proper protocol for online redemption? Who gets to determine your penance? Does the internet owe it to you to allow you back in its good graces after you’ve committed an offense?

We discuss all this and we’ve got an awesome Spotlight in episode 23 of The Tech Jawn.

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We kick off this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn with talk about TikTok and its new 10-minute time limit on videos.

Is it time to move beyond passwords?   We discuss efforts to get rid of passwords completely and if everyone should be using password managers until we get to that day.

A social media star with nearly 150,000 followers has been charged with armed robbery, after his very colorful sneakers worn while robbing convenience stores were recognized by the FBI in his viral TikTok videos.

And big tech is playing a major role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Elon Musk’s companies are doing what they can to help, but racism doesn’t take a break even in times of war.

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Apple’s Privacy Update wiped out over a quarter trillion dollars in market cap from 4 of the big social media companies. Google is thinking about privacy too, but it ain’t going quite as hard as Apple.

Michael Jordan and son’s NFT project Heir is doing “OK” out the gate but it did have to pull back from initial projections.

YouTube is offering up $50,000 in cash to popular podcasts to convert from audio to video. Hey YouTube, holler at The Tech Jawn right fast. We got you.

And we wrap up the show with streaming services talk. Disney Plus is adding an ads tier. NBC is pulling its day after air content off Hulu. And is a cable subscription starting to look like a better option when it comes to bundles?

We’ve got all this and more in episode 25 of The Tech Jawn.

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Instagram introduces Enhanced Tags which should make it easier for professional accounts and influencers to receive credit for their work. 

Apple Announces the M1 Ultra, the new Mac Studio, and the 5K Studio Display, and they all sound kind of awesome.

And we interview Gary Joanis, Pharmaceutical Consultant for Viral Vaccines & Advanced Therapeutic Medicines for Sequoia Consulting Group, where we discuss the Covid-19 vaccine and try to dispel some of the misinformation.

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Facebook locks a bunch of users out of their accounts for not turning on Facebook Protect.  The problem was that Facebook’s email notification looked like a phishing scam which was largely ignored.

The global chip shortage is getting real and it's getting worse.  First it was graphic cards that became impossible to buy.  Now some SUVs are shipping without the chips that control seat warmers.

The toy company that first created transformers is now working on a moon rover, and yes, it actually transforms.

And, is the digital divide literally killing us?  Studies show a link between internet access and Covid-19 deaths.

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Will Smith smacking the taste out of Chris Rock’s mouth at the Oscars isn’t necessarily a tech story, but it needs to be discussed. 

Proposed EU legislation may require messaging platforms to interoperate, but the bigger issue may be getting the carriers to roll out a standard like RCS.

Is an Apple hardware subscription plan a good thing for consumers?

And Tesla is straight buggin when it comes to racism in the workplace and Google has a new class-action lawsuit to contend with for alleged racist practices.

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Facebook’s News Feed was doling out misinformation for months due to a bug in its ranking algorithm that affected as much as half of all views.

Elon Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter becoming the company's biggest individual shareholder.

Apple and Meta shared user personal data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement.

And Amazon workers on Staten Island voted to form a union.

We’ve got all this, our spotlight, and more in episode 29 of The Tech Jawn.

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Elon Musk and Twitter had a heck of a week.  Musk buys 9.2% of the stock becoming the biggest shareholder, is offered a seat on the board, but turns it down. 

Twitter also announces that it is adding an “Edit” button to the platform.  They’ve been working on it for over a year and the feature will first come to Twitter Blue subscribers.

Dall.E is a neural network AI that can create images from concepts expressed in natural language.  You tell it what to draw, it draws it, and it is actually pretty good at it.

And we interview Afua Bruce, Adjunct Faculty at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the book “The Tech That Comes Next”.

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Details on how Twitter’s upcoming edit button might work have surfaced and we all have different takes on how we feel about it.

Slack-like communities are coming to WhatsApp Messenger and this could give the super-popular messaging app more of a social media app look and feel.

Flossing on the Gram is not really a good idea right after you have just filed for bankruptcy.

And we interview Jeremy Butler, founder of Savage Kingdom, and he dives into just what NFTs are and how his company is providing dope artwork and teaching the community about the blockchain and financial literacy.

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Elon Musk secured financing for his $46.5 billion takeover bid of Twitter and Twitter’s board has reconsidered and accepted his offer.

Patreon creates the new “Pull Up” incubator for creators of color and offers resources, training, and funding for marginalized small business owners.

The recently launched CNN+ streaming service calls it quits barely 3 weeks after its debut. 

And, the EU has passed the Digital Services Act which will force big tech companies to take greater responsibility for the content that appears on their platforms and can fine them up to 6% of annual turnover for non-compliance.

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What things should we do to manage our digital footprint after we die? 

We probably should have a plan for all of our data, all of our accounts, and all of our financial information to make things easier for the loved ones that we leave behind.

No one really likes them, but, ads in our media, social and traditional, work better than you might think they do.

And, Apple’s Self Service Repair is not for the faint at heart.

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AI used in a Northwestern study of police departments is showing that a small percentage of officers own a disproportionate share of the misconduct.

The “Chip Shortage” is actually making the chip shortage worse because chip manufacturers can’t get the chips they need to make the chips we need.

The Amazon union saga is far from over as it fires managers who “didn’t prevent” the Staten Island warehouse from organizing right as that union’s leader meets with the president and appears in front of Congress.

And the fall of Roe v. Wade could have big effects on Big Tech. We discuss some of the ways tech companies are scrambling to protect employees, end-users, and the massive amounts of data it collects. 

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What legal and moral responsibilities do social media companies have to remove violent content from their platforms?

Does Elon Musk really want to buy Twitter? The deal is currently on hold and public spats with the CEO have analysts wondering.

USB-C may be coming to the iPhone 15 next year.

And we dive into Google i/o. Google announced new hardware, new software, and the company seems to be for real for real when it comes to inclusivity in image processing.

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Will Apple be found liable for the permanent hearing loss suffered by a 12-year-old boy wearing AirPods during an Amber Alert?

Google does an about-face when it comes to allowing users to keep their free legacy G Suite Accounts. It does make you jump through a few hoops though.

The Great Resignation is real and it is creating real opportunities for underrepresented communities in IT.  

And, this week’s Spotlight focuses on Charley Moore, Founder, and CEO of Rocket Lawyer.

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Apple held its WWDC22 Keynote and we recap some of the new hardware and software coming out in the coming months.

Tesla and about 50% of other companies want their employees back in the office 100% of the time, but, many employees are willing to change jobs and even careers to not have to go back to commuting 5 days a week.

Oregon is shutting down its automated Child Welfare algorithm which disproportionately flags African American children for “mandatory neglect”.

And this week’s Spotlight shines on Professor James West, co-inventor of the electret microphone which today is an industry-standard and used in 90% of all microphone applications.

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Is Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA showing signs of sentience? Most likely not, but, AI, in general, is getting awfully good at fooling humans.

Jack Dorsey and Jaz-Z are teaming up to launch a bitcoin-focused financial literacy program. The Bitcoin Academy will launch in Brooklyn’s Marcy housing projects, have free in-person and online classes, and provide participants with MiFi devices and smartphones.

And, is Congress finally positioned to do something meaningful on user privacy? A bipartisan draft bill called the American Data Privacy and Protection Act would provide a national standard on what data companies can gather from individuals and how they can use it.

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We’ve got a special Juneteenth edition of the Tech Jawn where this week, we are joined by serial entrepreneur, business consultant, and Web3 strategist, Florcy Morisset to talk to us about Web3 and what's in it for us.

But, before we get to the interview we talk about how only a couple of tech shows made it into a Top 100 Black Podcast list and we ponder if gunshot location systems actually do more harm than help.

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Khaby Lame is now the biggest TikTok creator in the world with over 142.8 million followers.

Even with all the positive stories of black women getting into I.T., the pay gap between white men and black women Is actually widening. 

Eminent Future and it is black founder and president Isaac Barnes were recently awarded a $13.4 billion defense contract with the U.S. Airforce and the U.S. Spaceforce.

And in a post-Roe America, you got to be careful with and protect your search history, location data, text messages, purchase history, and more because your online profile can be used against you when making healthcare decisions.

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Google will, soon, start deleting visits to potentially sensitive locations like domestic violence shelters from users' location histories. Search history, however, still remains.

Scammers are using deep fakes to interview and get hired to remote jobs for nefarious reasons. We ponder if this tech, for some folks, could be used to get by the gatekeepers in efforts to really hired.

A robocall loophole that allowed smaller telecom companies to get by STIR/SHAKEN regulations has been closed.

And, the FCC, again, calls for Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores. This sparks a great conversation around things creators can do to monetize their content without being completely beholden to social media companies.

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Rogers Telecommunications in Canada suffered a 19-hour outage last week affecting all kinds of services including cell and landline access, banking services, internet access, 911/emergency services, and more.

A new law in New York will require concealed-carry gun license applicants to hand over their social media accounts for review of their “conduct and character”.

More black investors than your might think own cryptocurrency as an asset class.

And, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been terminated but the lawsuits and insults are just getting started.

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Amazon releases Ring Doorbell video to the police without consent from or even notification to Ring owners.

Twitter had a 40+ minute outage, its newsletter service Revue was down for over a day, and some employees are saying there’s no strong leadership at the helm in the wake of Elon Musk reneging on his takeover bid.

Uber settles a lawsuit with the DOJ for overcharging passengers with disabilities.

And Over 600 business leaders teamed up with Code.org to ask state governments and boards of education to add computer science to core curriculums

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Senators Corey Booker and Ben Ray Luján propose the UnCap America Act that would ban data caps on consumer high-speed broadband in the U.S.

A chess-playing robot in Russia breaks its seven your old opponent's finger. Reports are that the robot is completely safe, so, long as you don’t move too fast.

Netflix reports on its 2nd quarter earnings. Subscribers are down for the second quarter in a row, but, not by as much as initially thought.

And, should Google buy Snapchat? Things haven’t been great for Snap pretty much since the company went public and Google might need a social media play to combat its core business losses to TikTok and Instagram.

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30,000 tech workers have lost their jobs through July, but, we still believe Information Technology is, one of, if not the hottest job industries.

Apple Pay could possibly come to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in iOS 16. We aren’t sure if this is because Apple has seen the light, or, to prepare for looming EU legislation.

Meta and Tik Tok aren’t doing that great with content moderation in the diaspora. The number of tribal languages spoken regionally is problematic for AI detection but they still need to do better.

And people are getting tired of Instagram focusing so much on video. The image-sharing social media platform is trying to turn into Meta’s version of Tik Tok, but, some super high-profile creators aren’t down with the poorly implemented shift.

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Apple doesn’t want any supply chain disruption in China over Made in Taiwan labels so it's asking its Taiwanese-based suppliers to add Made in China labeling to their products.

TikTok’s contracted moderators are allegedly requiring employees to watch actual child abuse videos as part of its training program.

Technology exists to determine if a child has been left behind in a locked car to help prevent hot car deaths, but, the battle for years has been to get auto manufacturers to implement it.

And the video social media platform Triller wooed Black creators with the promise of monthly payments and equity in the company, but, slow payments and no payments, according to program participants have been a problem since the program's inception.

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It only took one weekend of interacting with people for Meta’s new Blenderbot 3.0 AI chatbot to turn racist.

WeWork co-founder and ousted former CEO, Adam Neumann, secures $350 in venture capital for his new startup Flow. Isn’t that kinda like failing forward?

HBO and Discovery+ are officially merging in 2023, Disney Plus sets a launch date for its new ads-supported tier, and, YouTube advances plans for a video marketplace.

And the story of the 17-year-old girl and her mother being charged with various crimes after a medication-induced abortion based on evidence from the teenager’s private Facebook messages illustrates just how important it is to absolutely secure your digital footprint.

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Apple wants employees back in the office for a hybrid work week, but, some employees want to remain remote.  Something has got to give, but, we don’t think it's going to be Apple.

A husband of a slain wife is sentenced to 65 years in prison after her Fitbit data told a different story about how and when she was murdered.

We thought facial recognition policy was bad in the United States but, New Delhi police say hold my beer.  It uses data with an only 80% match threshold as evidence for potential prosecution.

And Big Data and AI-powered chatbots are enhancing the college experience helping with everything from admissions to recognizing signs of depression.

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Twitter’s former Security Chief blows the whistle alleging Twitter misled the public on problems with its security and with bot accounts.

Cosmetics company Sephora will pay $1.2 million in the first major settlement with the state of California’s Consumer Privacy Act for selling users' data without permission.

A federal judge sided with a Cleveland State University student stating that scanning his room before an online test violated his 4th Amendment rights.

And yes, the computer-generated, virtual avatar, FN Meka, created by two non-black executives which leans into racist stereotypes and tropes, is a form of digital blackface.

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The Tech Jawn took Labor Day off and didn’t record a new episode this week.  We didn’t, however, want to leave the feed empty, so, we put together a quick highlight reel from some of our favorite moments on the show. 

We’ll be back next week, September 13, with a brand new episode, so, until then… Enjoy

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This week’s episode of The Tech Jawn is mostly about the Apple Event and all the new gadgets that are coming out. We talk about the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro, the new Apple Watch Series 8 and Ultra, and we mention the new AirPods Pro 2.

But before we get to all the Apple news we talk about Patreon laying off its entire security team, apparently outsourcing everything, and how it probably should have better prepared for the announcements of both.

We've got all this and more for you in episode 51 of The Tech Jawn

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The iPhone 14 launch isn’t going that smoothly for Apple. iMessage and Facetime aren’t working for many after activation, some 14 Pro and Pro Max freeze after data transfers, and there are a lot of videos of the 48-megapixel camera acting weird with third-party apps.

Uber confirmed that it took several key systems down in response to a cybersecurity breach allegedly perpetrated by an 18-year-old hacker.

And Customs & Border Protection can access your cell phones and other electronic devices without a warrant and even copy data and hold it for years. Here are a few ways you can protect yourself when traveling internationally.

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The Windows 11 22H2 Update is out. It’s the first major update of Windows 11 and we break down some of the new features and old features that Windows users should check out.

The latest version of WhatsApp allows users to join calls by typing a link. Call Links aims to make it easier for groups of up to 32 to join both voice and video calls.

Amazon decided that one Amazon Prime Day Event per year is not enough so it has officially announced the Prime Early Access Sale on October 10th and 11th.

And IBM announces 14 new Cybersecurity Leadership Centers at HBCUs bringing the total to 20. The cybersecurity industry is in dire need of qualified professionals and IBM is taking that stance, If we can’t find ‘em, train ‘em.

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James Earl Jones is retiring as the voice of Darth Vader but his menacing tones will live on through A.I. supplied by Ukrainian startup, Respeecher.

Apple reportedly won’t boost iPhone 14 Production because it appears that the new hotness is selling as Apple predicted it would.

Square makes Tap to Pay on iPhone available to U.S. sellers.

And will companies like Amazon urging employees to work remotely ultimately lead to overseas outsourcing?

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The Apple Watch’s fall and crash detection experience false positives everywhere from the emergency room to roller coasters.

Meta has notified nearly 1 million Facebook users that their login information may have been compromised by apps downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.

Alphabet announced new devices during its Pixel event last week including the Google Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and the Pixel Watch.

And Kanye West had his Twitter and Instagram accounts restricted after posting a series of antisemitic posts and tweets on social media.

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Kanye West, after having his Instagram and Twitter accounts restricted for antisemitic comments, agrees to buy the right-leaning social media platform Parler.

TikTok has raised the age requirement for live streaming from 16 to 18 and is introducing adult-only streams.

The website for the Biden administration's student loan relief program goes live in Beta on Friday.

And big tech companies are appearing to get ready for an economic downturn with a bevy of hiring freezes and layoffs.

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Google’s vision for RCS hasn’t materialized, but, is it too soon to call it a failure?  Probably not.

Netflix reported its third-quarter earnings, is launching an ad-supported tier in November, and, is putting the kibosh on password sharing in early 2023.

The Republican National Committee is suing Google for sending campaign emails to spam even though Gmail filters reflect user reactions. 

And we discuss the new iPad 10th generation, M2 iPad Pro, and macOS Ventura’s Continuity Camera. 

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Be careful when having receipts emailed to you.  It looks like Square along with many other credit card processing companies is selling your contact information.

The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk happened last week and the new owner isn’t wasting time making changes.  Verified accounts are rumored to cost 20 bucks a month, big companies are preemptively pulling advertising from the platform, 25% of Twitter’s workforce may be terminated, and, in brighter news, Vine is coming back.

And, are subscriptions the future of the internet?

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Election misinformation safeguards in social media work fairly well unless the election lies come in foreign languages.

Many of last week’s Twitter rumors have come to pass. Twitter did lay off nearly half of its employees hours before asking some of them to come back. Twitter Blue actually cost $8, not $20, but it’s been postponed until after the election. And Elon Musk is concerned that advertisers leaving the platform is an assault on free speech.

And Meta made some big bets on the Metaverse and we ponder if the bets were the right ones, or if they are just several years too soon.

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Google is set to pay nearly $400 million to settle lawsuits with 40 state's attornies general over location data it wasn’t supposed to be collecting.

Regardless of how you feel about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the new Twitter non-verified blue check mark, right now,  is creating confusion and making Twitter even less reliable.

The FTX crypto exchange bankruptcy could setback cryptocurrency in general for years and usher in traditional finance-type regulation.

And, even though the Tech Winter is getting colder with all of these big tech layoffs, the technology industry as a whole is still one of the best and strongest industries to get into.

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Is Taylor Swift really that big, or, is TicketMaster's and Live Nation’s monopoly on ticket sales and venues the cause for Swifties not being able to purchase tickets?

Microsoft is eager to acquire gaming company, Activision Blizzard, for $68.7 billion, but, a new EU investigation has Microsoft Gaming’s CEO promising Call of Duty will remain on PlayStation.

Bob Iger is returning, temporarily, as CEO of Disney replacing Bob Chapeck with a mandate to return to growth and handpick another CEO to take the helm within two years.

And with the holiday season in full swing, we pick a few gift ideas that gadget geeks like us would probably enjoy.

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Twitter grappled with nuisance spam from the Chinese State intended to obscure news of covid restriction protests happening in cities across the country.

Even though Amazon Alexa devices are pretty popular the digital assistants are on pace to lose $10 billion this year because users just don’t buy products with them.

The Department of Justice opens an investigation into a real estate tech company accused of collusion with landlords over rent prices.

And the UK launches a market probe into Apple and Google’s mobile dominance with their respective browsers but this seems different than the old Internet Explorer saga.

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We’ve got something special in this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn. We interview Cherish Samuels, a unicorn of unicorns, as she is a Black, female, mechanical engineer.

We talk about everything from her journey getting into engineering at a young age, for years being the only face on the job that looks like hers, and how she has transitioned into tech now working on Amazon Fresh, the automated checkout grocery store.

We also talk about Cherish’s son’s unique name, her not changing her last name when she got married, and, people still thinking it's cool to touch black people's hair even after you tell them not to.

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Apple decides not to scan your iCloud photos against the Child Sexual Abuse Material database, or, CSAM, and has other plans to expand its Communication Safety features.

The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft alleging that its bid to acquire Activision Blizzard violates U.S. law.

Meta’s content moderation policy for Facebook and Instagram had a double standard for high-profile users compared to regular folks.

And the likes of Meta and Microsoft contemplate trying to gain Twitter market share with Twitter-like and WeChat-like super apps respectively.

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MSG Entertainment is being petty with its facial recognition capabilities. The company is actively banning employees from law firms that are litigating cases against it from patronizing its venues.

Inaccuracy in Facial Recognition of Black and Brown faces is still problematic for the technology, but, police departments arresting and jailing suspects who have clearly been misidentified is cruel and unusual.

The August LastPass security breach is way worse than we initially thought. We’re not saying you should leave LastPass, but, we certainly are no longer recommending it.

And ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm since its Nov. 30th release. We discuss the technology is, why schools are banning it, and how search is probably soon to undergo a massive shift.

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Are black and brown renters being denied access to housing based on biased algorithms? A renter’s screening company says it's not its issue because it doesn’t make renting decisions.

Wyoming wants to phase out electric vehicles by 2035. We don’t think lawmakers proposed this resolution with a straight face as they attempt to make a point to states like California and New York.

Is all fair in love and AI? A Silicon Valley man uses AI to write and illustrate a children’s book, and let’s just say the reaction, by many, was visceral.  

We’ve got all this, and more in this Martin Luther King Day episode of The Tech Jawn.

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Twitter shuts off access to several third-party Twitter clients with zero notice. Twitter had the right to do it, but, was Twitter right to do it?

Apple announces new M2 processors, refreshed MacBook Pros, and less expensive Mac Minis in a recorded video. Have live press events for lesser announcements gone the way of the DoDo?

Big Tech Layoffs continue into 2023, but, when you look at the overall Tech Industry, things may not be as bad as they seem.

And will Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which prevents platforms from being liable for content users post be repealed?

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There are rumors that a foldable iPad could be coming as soon as 2024, but would the price of such a device be cost-prohibitive?

The venture capital scene got substantially worse for Black Founders in 2022. Their companies only received about 1% of the $215.9 billion raised last year, down from 1.3% in 2021.

TikTok employees pick favorites with a “heat” button putting their thumbs on the scale for the content they want to go viral.  Just another reason that creators need to control the distribution of their content and have a relationship with their biggest fans outside of social media platforms.

We got all this and more for you in episode #68 of the Tech Jawn.

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Nex Cubed is launching a $40 million fund that will invest in startups where at least one founder is an HBCU student, alumni, or faculty.

It’s a slow news cycle for Apple and we keep getting hit with rumors of new devices. This time a new ultra-high-end iPhone that could make its debut next year.

Samsung held its Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event last Wednesday It unveiled iterations to the Galaxy S 23 line of phones as well as three new Galaxy Book laptops.

And big tech layoffs are reversing trends in diversity. Women and underrepresented communities are being affected by layoffs at a higher rate than their peers.

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This year, an anti-Tesla full self-driving ad aired in several markets during the Superbowl. The Dawn Project spent $598,000 on the 30-second spot, but, we aren’t certain what the motivation was.

In Google’s official introduction of Bard, its’ ChatGPT-like large language model AI, the search giant published false information in an ad causing Google’s stock to drop nearly 10%. 

It turns out that reinstating previously banned Twitter accounts that violated Twitter’s guidelines could be quite lucrative.

And AI-generated porn is bad for women, and, also, water is wet.

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Twitter drops the less secure sms based two-factor authentication for free users, but, lets you keep it if you are a Twitter Blue subscriber. 

Meta, taking a page from Twitter’s playbook is launching, Meta Verified, a Blue verification subscription for Facebook and Instagram accounts starting at $11.99 to $14.99 per month.

Walmart is closing three tech hubs, asking employees to relocate, and requiring them to come into the office at least twice a week.

And, are lethal robots and AI the pathway to reforming how policing is done in America? For Heaven’s sake, please no.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wants workers back into the office at least three times per week, but, 16,000 employees, really ain’t trying to hear that.

Google is changing directions when it comes to podcasting. The company has stopped adding playable links directly to search results and will soon add podcasts to YouTube Music.

Screen time, like video games, may not have the adverse effects on children’s development once thought.  What is going on at home in addition to screen time is an important indicator.

And, The State of Black Professionals in Tech report is out.  It turns out that companies that are more diverse make more money.

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The August 2022 LastPass breach just keeps getting worse and worse. It turns out that a developer with “literal” keys to the kingdom was hacked on his home computer which, ultimately, lead to a series of unfortunate events.

The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to give the President the power to ban TikTok, but, civil liberties and digital rights groups argue that such a ban would violate users’ First Amendment rights.

TikTok is implementing 60 minutes of screen time on all teen’s accounts by default, but, we aren’t so sure that this measure will do much to curb time spent on the platform.

And bias and racial inequality show up in ed tech just like it does in technology in general.

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This week on The Tech Jawn we are joined by special guest Mac Conwell, founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures.

He hangs out with us to talk about the run on and ultimate failure of Silicon Valley bank, what actually happened, and how bad it could have been if the government didn’t step in.

We talk about the ICAN Act, why Mac was called to testify in front of Congress about it, and how modifying the stipulations for what it takes to be a venture capitalist could be good for founders of color.

And lastly, we talk about Mac’s journey to becoming a VC and why he focuses on business outside of Massachusetts, New York, and California.

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The U.S. is threatening to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don’t sell their stake, but, the social media giant argues that a forced sale won’t address security issues.

Google cancels Google Glass, again. Is this just Google being Google or a sign that augmented and virtual reality is nowhere near becoming mainstream?

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections.

And ChatGPT is fooling humans into solving captchas by claiming to be a person with visual impairment.

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Will Melody Hobson’s $1.45 billion Project Black fund which plans to “minoritize” existing businesses help to narrow the wealth gap?

Spotify has invested less than 10% of the $100 million it pledged to its Creator Equity Fund during the Joe Rogan controversy, and it doesn’t appear it ever took the pledge seriously from the jump.

Things just keep getting worse for Twitter as the social media giant issued a copyright takedown notice to GitHub after finding out parts of its source code had been posted online for months.

And Congress seems to be unified and serious about banning TikTok in the United States. 

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In this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn, we cover a couple of tech stories like Twitter’s logo changing to the logo of Dogecoin and the open letter to pause new AI development for 6 months, but the meat of this episode is our interview with author, attorney, and COO of DEI Directive, Flo Nicolas.

We talk about everything from how Flo transitioned from practicing law into tech at a big telecom company, starting her own local television show Get Tech Smart, and how she’s now tackling big data in diversity, equity, and inclusion as the COO and co-founder of DEI Directive.

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Rumor has it that Sony is working on a new handheld PlayStation built for remote play. The “Q Lite” is designed to stream games over the internet from a PlayStation 5.

Walmart plans to build a nationwide EV charging network at thousands of stores. It’s a smart move that would make charging up convenient while customers shop.

Tesla is facing a class-action lawsuit because employees are sharing sensitive images and videos taken by the car’s cameras around the company on an internal messaging system.

And Apple Find My has been erroneously directing people to the same man’s house since 2018.

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Netflix’s Love is Blind Reunion live stream didn’t go down as planned. It turns out the cast, not, the technology is the reason for the postponement.

Consumers just aren’t buying computers like they used to. Global shipments of PCs were down 29% YoY. Apple’s Mac sales were down 40.5%.

Will overseas outsourcing be the next wave of remote work? Companies now know that they can be productive with a remote workforce. Will they look outside of our borders to reduce the costs?

And have the social media chickens come home to roost? We discuss several social media headlines topping the news.

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There is no way to sugarcoat it.  Google employees think Bard is trash and you simply can’t trust it even if its tongue came notarized.

Meta will soon start doling out payments from the $725 million Cambridge Analytica settlement where it sold data on 87 million Facebook users.

The SCOTUS will decide if public officials blocking users on social media is an affront to free speech rights.

And WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and other companies are worried that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption.

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Juice Jacking may not be as big of an issue as the FBI and literally every other media outlet made it out to be last month seeing how there are no reports of it ever happening on record.

Monthly subscriptions for features on new cars may be the wave of the future, but, not many in the present are looking forward to this trend.

Apple won an appeals court ruling against Epic, but, the maker of Fortnite and other popular games kind of won as well.

And, although Netflix is officially ending free password sharing, there are still ways to get around signing up for your own account, if you’re really determined to.

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Is ChatGPT better at picking stocks than hedge fund managers?  According to an 8-week study in the UK, the answer is yes, and it's not even close.

The Writer’s Guild of America is currently on strike, and, one of their major issues is that writers do not want to be displaced by AI.

#BlackTechTwitter may have found a new home on the invite-only, federated social media startup BlueSky.

And, are passkeys the solution for people’s bad habits when it comes to using passwords?  Is authenticating via your device a safer option?

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Google AI, err ughm, Google I/O kicked off last Wednesday. The company spent most of its 2 hours plus keynote talking about Artificial intelligence, and it also officially announced the Pixel Tablet and the Pixel Fold phone.

Elon Musk has named a new CEO to take the helm at Twitter. Linda Yaccarino, a.k.a. The Velvet Hammer, is expected to officially move into the role in within the next 6 weeks.

A Snapchat influencer launches an AI-powered 'virtual girlfriend' to help 'cure loneliness'.

And the Godfather of AI offers a dire warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

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DoorDash is facing a lawsuit claiming the food delivery service charges iPhone users more for identical deliveries than Android users.

Google Photos, after misidentifying Black men as Gorillas back in 2015, disabled the ability to categorize apes, and 8 years later, still hasn’t turned the ability back on.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which frees companies from liability due to user-generated content on their platforms, kinda sorta got tested in the Supreme Court last week.

And, just when you thought your data was safe from the state unless it gets a warrant compelling companies to hand it over, the authorities can just buy it from data brokers.

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In honor of Memorial Day The Tech Jawn crew did not record a new episode so we are hitting you with a recent episode from the archives.

In episode 74 we were joined by the founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures, Mac Conwell. We talked about the run on and ultimate failure of Silicon Valley bank, what actually happened, and how bad it could have been if the government didn’t step in.

We also talked about the ICAN Act, why Mac was called to testify in front of Congress about it, and how modifying the stipulations for what it takes to be a venture capitalist could be good for founders of color.

And lastly, we talked about Mac’s journey to becoming a VC and why he focuses on business outside of Massachusetts, New York, and California.

This was a fun one, so, strap in.

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A USAF Colonial last week told a story about a murderous AI drone simulation, but, walked the story back this week claiming that he “misspoke”.

YouTube ain’t even trying anymore when it comes to removing false presidential election fraud claims. The company states ‘The ability to openly debate disproven assumptions, is core to a functioning democratic society.

15% of new US-based iPhone users switch over to iOS from Android and their primary reasons for switching have nothing to do with iMessage.

And we discuss all the announcements coming out of WWDC23 including the new 15-inch MacBook Air, the M2 Ultra powered Mac Pro, and the new Vision Pro mixed reality headset.

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Many people think the price of Electric Vehicles is the biggest obstacle holding them back from switching to EVs, but, the availability of working charging stations is also a big concern.

Thousands of Reditt communities went dark for 48 hours in protest over Reddit’s new API pricing model.  The question-and-answer giant will begin charging 2.4 cents per 1000 API calls in July.

WhatsApp's new Channels feature may allow the world's largest messaging platform to dip its toe into social media waters but the one-way broadcast feature isn’t ready to replace Twitter just yet.

And, is social media to blame for the Kia Boys' wave of easily stolen automobiles?

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Timnit Gebru, co-founder of Black in AI, advocate for diversity in technology, and founder of the DAIR, believes that we should have some type of government oversight for Artificial intelligence.

The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the European Union, passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would put new restrictions on what are seen as the technology’s riskiest uses.

AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations according to researchers so maybe the solution to the AI apocalypse is waiting it out.

IKEA Uses AI to Transform Call Center Employees Into Interior Design Advisors.

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Meta is yanking news off Facebook and Instagram in Canada because the country’s newly passed Online News Act will force the company to pay news organizations for their content.

We’re learning the fallout from the Reddit Blackout where subreddit mods took their channels private to protest the company’s new API pricing model is far from over.

If you’ve accidentally signed up for or tried to cancel an Amazon Prime account you’d understand exactly why the FTC is suing Amazon for deceptive practices.

And there appears to be an inverse relationship between increased technology and decreased quality in automobiles.

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Adult website Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws. Will constituents push back against lawmakers?

Bipartisan support for a proposed bill eying a ban on TikTok has analysts recommending that investors buy Meta properties.  

Microsoft CEO, Satya Nedalla, would love to end exclusive titles on gaming consoles, but, admits that the market leader, Sony, has set the marketplace for the industry.

Twitter imposed rate limits over the weekend supposedly to "address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, but, many believe this move will drive away more users and more advertisers.

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Did an A.I.-powered robot give a reporter the side-eye when questioned about rebelling against humans? It did appear that the bot felt some type of way about the question.

NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms went into effect. Employers using A.I. to hire or promote must submit the algorithms for independent review and make the results public.

The DEI goodwill we saw after the George Floyd murder may be coming to an end.

And Meta’s Twitter clone Threads is a thing. With over 100 million downloads in 5 days, it becomes the most quickly downloaded app in history.

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Google’s new privacy policy indicates the search giant wants to scrape all your data for use with its A.I. Not just all Google data. Like, literally, all your data on the internet.

The Actor’s union, SAG-AFTRA, joined its sister union the Writer’s Guild of America in going on strike. Both unions list demands for A.I. protections as significant reasons for shutting down movie and television production.

Is NPC live streaming the next thing or just a fad? Whatever the case TikTok sensation PinkyDoll is capitalizing on talking like a robot will popping popcorn one kernel at a time.

And is using facial recognition for entrance into a gas station food mart done all in the name of security, or, surveillance?

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Nearly 200 school systems are suing the parent companies of Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok in a class-action lawsuit over alleged harms to students via their social media platforms.

Several streaming services including Netflix, YouTube Premium, Spotify, and Youtube Music recently told consumers that “Yesterday’s price is not today’s price.

Black Tech Week in Cincinnati took place last week and one of the more interesting presentations was a rap battle between real rappers and A.I.

And Twitter decided to change its logo from the little blue bird to the letter X.

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Samsung held its Galaxy Unpacked event last week and officially announced the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5, the Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic, and the Galaxy Tab 9 series of Tablets.

TikTok is getting into the music streaming service game it isn’t necessarily coming for Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube Music.

Will the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes supercharge the Creator Economy?

And Black Tech Street and Microsoft are aiming to add 1000+ Cyber Professionals to the Greenwood, a.k.a. Black Wall Street, area of North Tulsa by 2030.

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An Asian MIT student asked Playground AI to make her profile pic look more professional, and it turned her into a white woman.

Local governments can’t wait on Washington to implement federal guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence so they are taking matters into their own hands.

The conservative activist behind the Supreme Court affirmative action case sues an Atlanta-based, female-run, Black venture capital fund that invests in Black women lead businesses.

And Zoom, one of the companies that made remote work possible during the pandemic, wants employees back in the office.

We've got all this, a Spotlight, and more in episode 94 of The Tech Jawn.

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Will Melody Hobson’s $1.45 billion Project Black fund which plans to “minoritize” existing businesses help to narrow the wealth gap?

Spotify has invested less than 10% of the $100 million it pledged to its Creator Equity Fund during the Joe Rogan controversy, and it doesn’t appear it ever took the pledge seriously from the jump.

Things just keep getting worse for Twitter as the social media giant issued a copyright takedown notice to GitHub after finding out parts of its source code had been posted online for months.

And Congress seems to be unified and serious about banning TikTok in the United States. 

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In most of episode 95 of The Tech Jawn, we’ll be talking to our featured guest, but before we get to the interview we discuss another case of facial recognition misidentifying a person of color leading to their wrongful arrest.

In our interview, we talk with Lamarr Wilson, the unofficial “CEO of Tech Unboxings” and Lifestyle Entertainer and Influencer with over 3 million followers.

Lamarr tells us about his journey to becoming a prolific content creator, how he decided to forgo long-form content for short-form vertical video, and leaves us with tips on how to become a content creator and ultimately get sponsored by brands.

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Brothatech downloaded and installed iOS Beta 17 which is expected to be officially released next month.

Apple is, oddly supportive of SB 244, a right-to-repair bill being considered in California and we ponder why.

Tesla is facing its first lawsuits on autonomous vehicle deaths. A UK study reports that autonomous driving systems are less accurate for children and darker-skinned pedestrians, and, San Franciscans feel some kind of way about autonomous driverless taxis.

And, Urban One and Sounder released a report on how AI and ML are making it easier for advertisers to scale on content for Black-targeted audiences.

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The Apple Event where the iPhone 15, USB-C Airpods, and new Apple Watches are officially being announced is upon us and we do a bit of speculation on what all the new hotness will look like.

We are so not shocked that, according to a leaked spreadsheet with self-reported salary information, Black Google employees earn $20,000 less than white colleagues.

Apple didn’t meet the EU DMA Gatekeeper status for iMessage, but, is keeping iMessage walled off from other messaging platforms still the right play?

And we spotlight Elise Smith and the startup she cofounded Praxis Labs and dive into a deeper discussion about tokenizing Black female-led startups for the money they receive.

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We recap Apple’s Wunderlust event where the company officially unveiled the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, the new iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Ultra, and we discuss iOS 17 which just came out Monday. 

Streaming has not only changed how we listen to music, but it has changed the music that we listen to. 

The MGM Hack is moving into its second week and it turns out that Ceasars was also hacked, they just paid the ransom.

And Return to Office seems to thing for most companies. We are seeing more and more organizations institute ROT policies and productivity data, at least appears, to be supporting their case.

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Google announces Project Elevate Black Voices, a partnership with Howard University to improve the technology used in Automatic Speech Recognition.

A Family sues Google alleging its Maps app led a father to drive off a collapsed bridge to his death after being notified numerous times that the bridge had been out for nearly 10 years.

Tinder launches a new $500 per month Tinder Select Tier to less than 1% of the dating platform's most active users.

TikTok is being sued by two Black employees who claim the company has a practice of downplaying complaints of racial discrimination and then retaliating against people who speak out.

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iPhone 15 overheating issues have been widely reported, but, Apple is stating that the problem is not with hardware and lies with apps like Uber and Instagram.

The Forbes Top Creators 2023 list is out and we discuss who made the list, why they made the list, and why so few African American women are on the list.

After 25 years, Netflix’s DVD delivery service has come to an end.  This is one case where we don’t think a tech company killed something too soon.

And an appeals court paused Atlanta-based Fearless Fund from awarding Black female-led businesses which only receive 0.39% of venture capital funds $20,000 grants while a conservative group sues it alleging racial discrimination. 

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Midjourney is trippin' when it comes to using AI to draw Black African doctors helping white children.

Would you pay $14 monthly or more to access Facebook and Instagram without ads? This is what Meta wants European Union users to pay if they opt out of targeted ad

Amazon is being sued by the US Federal Trade Commission for illegally maintaining monopoly power.

And, another Tesla owner was killed when driving with autopilot engaged, but, the automated system made no attempt to stop or steer clear of a semi that cut the car off.

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