The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture

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 cryptocurre...

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. Hosted on Acast....

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 speciali...

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 han...

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....

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...

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...

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 h...

Social media, Facebook, in particular, is shown to be harmful to a sizable percentage of its users. It’s not all doom and gloom, however. “In Distress” hand signals learned on popular TikTok memes may have saved a missing 16-year old teen.   BlackTag aims to be a streaming media platform for black audiences around the world. The crew discusses the importance of this platform an...

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook reports its quarterly earnings. Everything looks good, financially, but, the company still has a difficult road ahead. Apple releases Mac OS Monterey and iOS 15.1. BrothaTech digs into the details. Google Releases the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. Android has come a long way, but, what impresses us most is Real Tone, Google’s camera technology initiative to make darker skin tones look...

Jon Gruden was forced to resign as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders because of racist, homophobic, and misogynistic emails. Maybe he didn’t know or just didn’t care that email is forever. Apple has new M1x processor-powered hardware coming out. BrothaTech has already copped two MacBook Pros just to be safe and make sure that he gets one.  And, Facebook is hiring 10,000 EU workers...

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...

Facebook suffered its biggest outage ever on Monday, but, the damage done via configuration changes on backbone routers may pale in comparison to the damage control Facebook does in an effort to not become regulated. Amazon held its Fall Product Event and announced several new devices including 15” Echo Show, a $1000 two-foot-tall robot that can bring you drinks, and an autonomous flying security...

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 dow...

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...

The Tech Jawn is a second look at the week's tech news headlines delivered from a different perspective. African Americans, demographically, are the biggest users of consumer technology in the country and The Tech Jawn aims to showcase how technology affects them as well as how they affect technology.  IYIQk8xEPEu2lKeHOYbY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.