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

In episode 161 of the Tech Jawn we discuss, New Year's catch-up and Steph's recap of CES, Meta ends fact-checking, DEI is dead at big tech companies, and Steph confirms the awesomeness of the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss an FBI warning about using end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, the ACLU making the argument that police departments shouldn’t allow officers to use AI to draft police reports, all the tech companies that appear to be kissing donald trump's ring, and the SCOTUS being the last chance for TikTok to avoid a ban in the US.  Link to Show Notes Hosted on...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss: A Federal Appeals Court upholding the TikTok divestment law that could see the social media platform banned in January. Washington DC suing Amazon for not delivering to Black neighborhoods, but, still charging customers for 2-day delivery.  OpenAI may not have achieved AGI just yet, but, its o1 model is already lying to humans and trying to s...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss Australia's new under-16 social media ban, Kai Cenat turning down a $60 million bag and breaking subscription records on Twitch, a reminder that you don't own your social media accounts, and BlueSky is absolutely a thing, and Meta is worried about it. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss why global mobile internet adoption is slowing down, MIT waiving tuition for all students whose families make less than 200,000 per year, the DOJ wanting Google to sell Chrome, and we've got a few Black Friday holiday deals for you as you head into the holiday weekend. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bluesky, Threads, and Spill running the users up in social media, ESPN integrating an AI avatar into its sports coverage, Spotify changing the name of Spotify for Podcasters to Spotify for Creators, and US workers aren't really trying to tell their managers they use AI. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Tech Jawn Amazon workers are appalled by AWS CEO Matt Garmin's return to office remarks and urge a policy reversal. Meta intends to use a proprietary software tool it calls an “adult classifier” to determine if users who say they are older than 18 might actually be children who are lying about their age. Who would have thought that dating apps were designed to make money, no...

In this Just The Two of Us episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss the release of Apple Intelligence, Apple and Goldman's Sachs having to pay $89 million for Apple Wallet issues, Google, and Microsoft, and Perplexity promoting scientific racism in AI search results, and Congress thinks digital price tags could be problematic. Link To Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss new guidelines on pulse oximeters, easy-to-cancel subscriptions, Passkeys replacing passwords, and using AI to ace job interviews. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At Tesla’s We Robot event last week in Los Angeles company CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Optimus line of humanoid-looking robots, but, they didn’t seem to be all that autonomous.  14 State Attorneys General sued TikTok claiming the social media platform was designed with the express intention of addicting young people to the app. Matt Mulleweg, one of the creators of WordPress, and WP Engine, a...

Brothatech wants to get a new camera to look good on video. He wants something better than a webcam, but, without all the complexity of a DSLR. Maybe we don’t want ChatGPT speaking in ebonics after all because AI seems to make the same racist decisions based on dialect as humans do. Police seldom disclose the use of facial recognition when used to identify suspects and often lie about its use in p...

Verizon experienced a nationwide outage on Monday. An outage any day is bad. Right after a hurricane is particularly bad timing.  Who knew that your interest in electric vehicles could depend on what side of the aisle you sit on politically? It seems like maybe auto manufacturer execs should have known. ChatGPT can speak in ebonics. We do a live test during the show and th...

Some new hotness made its way to the Apple Store last Friday.  BrothTech stopped by to pick up a new iPhone 16 Pro Max and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and today he gives us his first impressions. The government appears to be taking child online safety more seriously as the  House Committee on Energy and Commerce forwards two bills on to the full House of Representatives. Section 230 protects...

iOS 18 has been released and is now available. We cover a few of the new features and ponder if you should go ahead and update now, or, wait until 18.1 comes next month with Apple Intelligence. The Fearless Fund, which awarded $20,000 grants specifically to Black women-led businesses, shut its Striver’s grant as part of a settlement in its appeals case. Oprah Winfrey did an ABC special on art...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we are joined by Malcolm Coley, Chief Technology Officer at Futures First Gaming, who chops it up with us about all the things announced at Apple’s iPhone 16 “Glowtime” event before telling us a bit more about Futures First Gaming, a STEM.org Accredited Ed. Tech, Media, and Esports Entertainment company that convenes esports enthusiasts to engage in competitive an...

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...

French authorities arrested Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov over the weekend as part of an investigation related to charges of "complicity" in various crimes that happen on the cross-platform messaging service.  Apple lost its lead when it comes to podcast listening market share. The iPhone maker sits in third place with 12% solidly behind YouTube with 31% and Spotify with 21%.&nbsp...

Pittsburgh may be the latest major city to drop Shotspotter, the gunshot detection system that uses a network of microphones to alert police to gunfire incidents because the technology just doesn’t work. Former Google CEO and board chair Eric Schmidt walks back his comments about Google being behind startups like OpenAI because ‘work-life balance was more important than winning’. The U.S. DOJ is c...

group of users it knew skewed towards those under 18. X sued the Global Alliance for Responsible Media for abusing its influence and prompting a boycott against advertising on X. New York City’s drone warning system shouted incomprehensible Spanish to residents when delivering weather-related instructions. And the number of Black podcast listeners is increasing in the United States with 46% of Bla...

Don Lemon sued Elon Musk and the social media platform X for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of contract after Musk canceled a deal for the Don Lemon Show to appear on the platform. After dragging its feet with a proprietary system for over a year, California is now preparing to launch support for adding your Driver’s License to Apple Wallet.    No smartphones in school se...

Immediately following the live recording of The Tech Jawn we host The After Party, a 30 minute-ish show exclusively for the patrons of The Tech Jawn. The show is unscripted, we talk about whatever, and patrons are welcome to join the conversation via the live chat. We didn't do a live episode of The Tech Jawn this week, so, we are hitting everyone with our last After Party. If you enjoy it, think...

The European Union gives Meta until September 1st to come up with better membership options for Facebook and Instagram other than simply paying a fee not to be tracked or consenting to being tracked for free. Artificial intelligence can detect prostate cancer at substantially higher rates than human doctors and AI-assisted predictions of cancer size were 45 more accurate than without AI. Cybersecu...

CNN is shifting its business again.  The Cable news network is laying off 100 employees, disbanding its Race Equity Team, and launching a digital platform similar to the shortlived CNN+ in 2024.  Yes, AI is screwing over Black folks, and, Latin X folks, and, lower middle-income white folks.  Here are a few tips to protect yourself from the job-eliminating A.I. boom. SIM Swap Attacks...

Multi-Purpose-Tap could make mobile NFC payments more useful and more complicated. The new concept could allow you to tap your phone, pay for alcohol, and get carded all at the same time. Morehouse College launches 3D, AI, Teaching Assistants in its Metaversity. They probably don’t need to be 3D, a chat interface would suffice, and we hope they don’t displace real human TAs. Middle school stu...

The Detroit Police Department, after a settlement with a man who was wrongly arrested based on grainy security camera footage, can no longer use facial recognition results as its only basis for an arrest. The Federal Communications Commission wants to change rules that would force mobile carriers to unlock phones for consumers.  Facebook and Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model violates the...