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

Developer season is upon us with Google I/O kicking off, and, tech pettiness is on full display.  Apple announced iOS 17.5 and there are rumors that ChatGPT is coming to iPhone.OpenAI took petty to trolling with an event Monday, the day before I/O, with a brand new version of its generative AI bot called ChatGPT-4o.Online dating site Bumble is betting that AI bots dating other AI can help real people find better matches.And job seekers are turning to AI to help them fill out job applications which hiring managers are using AI to sift through…Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By the time you hear this Apple’s Let Loose iPad Event has happened.  Here is all the new iPad hotness we think is going to be announced.The Supreme Court of The United States really wasn’t interested in hearing why Elon Musk thinks he no longer needs a “Twitter Sitter” to approve all of his Telsa-related social media posts.Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board at BlueSky, the decentralized microblogging platform he started at Twitter way back in 2019.And should community college be looked at as a cost-effective way to get skills to get that job in AI?Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to ban non-compete agreements for most employees allowing workers to switch jobs or start their own businesses more easily.A Baltimore area gym teacher has been arrested for using AI to make a deep fake recording of his principal making racist and antisemitic comments.Gunshot detection system ShotSpotter keeps collecting data and notifying police after its contracts with cities have ended. And the bill that could impose a TikTok ban if it’s parent company Bytedance doesn’t divest its U.S. interest is about to be signed into law.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It appears that a lot of folks repeatedly sign up and cancel streaming services based on there being content on them we want to watch, and, they have a name for us. Serial Churners.The potential TikTok ban is picking up steam again as a revised bill mandating TikTok parent company ByteDance divest its US interest in the social media platform passes the House of Representatives.A court ruled that the police can compel some suspects to unlock their phones with a thumbprint in some cases.And schools would like to ban phones in class, but, parents ain’t really trying to hear that.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hybrid work appears to be here to stay. Millennials are making it clear that they have no intention of returning to the office 5 days per week. Artificial Intelligence will allow artists to perform digitally long after they’ve passed away.  The bigger question is how will the content be licensed and distributed.X may start charging new users a small fee to be able to post, reply to, and like content on the platform to combat spam and bots.And fake footage of Iran’s attack on Israel started going viral within moments of actual events. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New York City’s city governance chatbot instructs citizens to break the law in some cases and government officials are a bit miffed journalists are telling the public about it.A University of North Georgia student says she was falsely accused of using AI to write a paper when she in fact only used Grammarly to spell-check it at the suggestion of her college professors.A Washington State Lottery interactive web app was pulled down after it used AI to place a woman’s headshot on an image of a topless woman in bed.And Meta’s AI-based Image generator appears to have a really hard time creating images of East Asian men and women with people of other ethnicities. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences illustrates how AI fails to detect depression signs in social media posts by Black Americans as compared to their white counterparts. Joel Bervell, a.k.a., the Medical Mythbuster, has been saving lives by tackling racial and gender disparities in healthcare via social media.X tests and confirms plans for new Not Safe for Work (NSFW) Communities that may have it competing with sites like Only Fans. And New York City is starting a gun scanning program in subways even though the CEO of the company whose technology is being used says it is a bad idea. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states accuse Apple of monopolizing the smartphone market in a landmark antitrust lawsuit. Online recruiting site Glassdoor abruptly changed its terms of service and has started adding users’ personally identifiable information to their profiles without consent. Florida Governor Ron Desantis signs a bill preventing children under 14 from signing up for social media accountsAnd are screenless AI devices like the CES hit Rabbit a solution looking for a problem?  Maybe, but, the $199 price tag makes it not matter so much.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Federal Government is really pushing hard for TikTok to be sold.  There is overwhelming bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, The President will sign a bill if it comes across his desk, and the full court press is on in the Senate.Apple is in talks with Google to let Gemini Power AI features on the upcoming iPhone.The Don Lemon Show having its distribution contract canceled by Elon Musk may have done more for the show than if everything had gone off without a hitch.And Pittsburgh-based Black Tech Nation Ventures just closed on a $50 million fund to make the city a haven for Black technologists.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Congress and the Whitehouse appear to be for real for real contemplating banning TikTok in the US if its parent company, ByteDance, does not sell the social media platform to a company based outside of China.Trump supporters attempt to swoon Black voters with AI-generated images of President Trump surrounded by Black people.Will Black Twitter watch the Black Twitter documentary?  That we don’t know.  We do know that Black folks are going to keep calling it Black Twitter regardless if Twitter is now called X.And most teens aren’t worried at all about their social media use.  Did we actually think they would be?Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft’s Copilot calls itself the Joker and suggests self-harm to a Meta data scientist.Tesla must face a class-action lawsuit from nearly 6000 Black workers for racial discrimination at its Fremont, CA, plant.Apple was hit with first-ever EU fine totaling nearly $2 billion five years after Spotify complained about its App Store practices.And humanoid robots named Digit debut in a Seattle Amazon warehouse.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google hits the pause button on Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after a backlash to it creating historical depictions of white people as people of color.Tyler Perry halts plans of his $800 million studio expansion after seeing what could be done with Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generation engine.The FTC has cracked down on H&R Block for making it hard to downgrade tax products and deleting users' data when they do.And Gab’s racist Chatbots have been instructed to deny the Holocaust.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shomax, an African streaming service has dethroned Netflix for top spot in the motherland and all but made Amazon Prime Video quit with its vast library of local content.Many early adopters of the Apple Vision Pro have returned their devices citing reasons from discomfort to a lack of applicationsSocial media platforms that collect vast amounts of information on us and are working out deals to sell it to AI companies to train their algorithms And are AI chatbots used in customer service liable for what they say?  Air Canada says no.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meta won’t algorithmically share political content with you in Threads from accounts you don’t already follow.  The question is do we trust  Meta to determine what content is and is not political?Score is a new dating app conceived at last year's AfroTech and requires you to have a credit score of 675 or better in order to find a match.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks a measly $7 trillion for a new AI chip project.And HBCUs could benefit from the CHIPS Act if the federal government adheres to its Section 104 provisions.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Although things aren’t as bad as last year, layoffs at big tech companies are dominating the news.  Tech hiring at companies generally not thought of as tech companies, however, can’t seem to happen fast enough.Big tech, particularly, social media companies was on trial last week.  CEO’s from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord testified before Congress, and let's just say that things were… performative…And we’re joined by the Larmarr Wilson, a.k.a. The CEO of Unboxings.  Larmar picked up an Apple Vision Pro last Friday and stopped by to give us his first impressions and tell us what he thinks.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple announced plans for alternative iPhone and iPad app stores in the EU, but, developers still feel some kind of way.Should linear television be concerned about live events moving to streaming platforms like Netflix and Peacock?Google Deepmind proposes a new AI to assist doctors with wellness checks.And Black Twitter is not bothered by all the things antithetical to Black culture on X.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fujitsu and the UK Postal Service knew about bugs in Fujitsu software that sent UK postal workers to jail from the time when the Postal Service started using it.Apple sold between 160,000 and 180,000 Vision Pro devices over the weekend and analysts believe Apple could sell as many as half a million units in 2024.The Police are using DNA to create 3-D sketches of what a suspect might look like and running the results through facial recognition software.And Apple has agreed to let developers use 3rd party payment processors outside of the App Store, but, still wants a 27% service charge for the privilege.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meta will stop treating teens like adults by curbing harmful material and reducing unwanted interactions from their Facebook and Instagram timelines.Peacock’s AFC Wild Card game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins is the most viewed live-stream event in U.S. history. OpenAI removes military application limits, bans the use of its tools in creating political ads, and prohibits the creation of GPT “girlfriends.And we spotlight Chazz Sims, a member of Forbe’s 30 Under 30 in 2021, and  CEO and founder of Wise Systems, a logistic firm that has raised over $73 million.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Consumer Electronics Show, the largest tech show in the world kicks off this week and we’re excited about all the announcements, especially the things that actually exist. Apple officially announced the pre-order and launch dates of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset and guest host TechSavvyDiva is contemplating getting one.The Black tech talent gap is widening and it could cost Black households $350 billion by 2030.And post Geroge Floyd murder DEI initiatives at big tech companies had about a three-year run.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey Folks,Robb Dunewood from The Tech Jawn here.Let me first wish everyone a Happy New Year and let you know that the crew from the Tech Jawn is off this week with our normal recording day falling on Monday.  We didn’t want your feeds to be empty so we’re doing a feed drop of @BrothaTech’s and @TechSavvyDiva’s SnobOS Podcast.  In this clip, Terrance and Nica give you the lowdown on the new Apple Hotness that came out in 2023.We’ll be back with a new live episode of the Tech Jawn next Monday, January 8th, so, until we meet again in a week’s time...Peace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In most of this episode 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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A DEI lead at Facebook has admitted to embezzling 4 million dollars in a scheme that involved fake expense reports, payments via CashApp, and all kinds of easily “firgureoutable” types of fraud.Elon Musk has declared that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives need to die and has even equated DEI to being a different type of discrimination.A Cox Media Group subsidiary claims the company can listen to ambient sound via device microphones and can market to customers based on the data it hears.And, Black Employee Group presidents at Nvidea warn the CEO that work the company is doing in AI could harm underserved communities...Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The FDA has approved the first-ever gene editing therapy we talked about in episode 106 that treats sickle cell disease which affects over 100,000 mostly Black Americans in the United States.Rumor has it that Apple’s iMessage will not be classified as a gatekeeper service under the EU’s Digital Markets Act and will not have to become interoperable with other messaging services.Genetic Testing company 23andMe got hacked, lost 6.9 million users' data, and changed its TOS to avoid getting sued.And the usual suspects slow down government-backed EV charging infrastructure here in the U.S.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy belated birthday to ChatGPT. OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot that kicked off the AI craze of 2023 officially turned 1 year old on November 30th.Spotify has laid off 17% of its workforce eliminating around 1500 jobs. This is the music streaming company’s third reduction in staff this year.Do we need to worry about NameDrop? All the concerns related to the new contact sharing feature which debuted in iOS 17 may be just a bit overstated.And you might be surprised by just how much data Colleges and Universities collect on their students.Link to Show Notes... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a public service announcement to check your old Google accounts because, starting this week, Google is deleting accounts that have not been accessed in over two years.Tech Life Steph has made the switch from PC to Mac, but, all is not well as she explains why she is not yet using her new hotness to record episodes of the show.Coding My Crown and Dove have partnered to launch an open-source guide for coding Black hair in video games.And, billion-dollar case maker Casetify is being sued by dBrands for jacking its designs, Easter eggs and all, from its Teardown line of cases.We've got all this, a recap of the OpenAI hot mess from a week ago, and we've got a Spotlight in episode 108 of The Tech Jawn.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple has finally decided to add RCS to the iPhone sometime in 2024, but, the company makes it clear that RCS is not coming to iMessage, thus the blue bubble vs. green bubble bullying will continue.OpenAI fired its CEO, failed at trying to rehire him less than 24 hours later, had most of its employees threaten to leave the company if it didn’t bring him back, and is now trying to rehire him again, all while knowing Microsoft has already offered him and those who to follow him a gig.And, Amazon is offering free AI training to up to 2 million people by 2025. It’s trying to build the AI workforce for tomorrow by training it today.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It looks like the Food and Drug Administration might be ready to approve the first gene-editing therapy, CRISPR, that cured sickle cell anemia symptoms in 97% of trial patients. Are we ready for the Humane AI Pin? A wearable AI assistant that kind of reminds you of a Star Trek TNG communicator badge. Rapper and Producer The D. O. C. may use AI to release new music.And banks are under pressure to refund funds to Zelle users who were scammed out of their money, while the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aims to regulate all digital payment apps like Banks.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Electric vehicle sales are actually up year over year but their increased cost compared to the ICE counterparts keeps consumers from adopting them at the rate auto manufacturers thought they would.Elon Musk’s generative AI company X.ai released its LLM Grok this week. The chatbot comes with an X Premium+ account and answers you in a snarky tone.Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are out. Are you going to cop a pair, or, naw?And Click Workers, the people who train AI, are underpaid, underappreciated, and incentivized to “go along with the group” instead of calling it like they see it.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cruise’s robotaxi permit was immediately suspended in San Francisco after the company failed to report the whole story about a pedestrian-involved accident and two days later the company suspended service everywhere.Facebook and Instagram launched ad-free premium subscriptions in Europe.  And X, formerly Twitter, launched Basic and Premium+ subscriptions here in the U.S.Multiple states are suing Meta because of beauty filters’ effects on children’s development.And,  Dr. Joy Buolamwini, the Biden Administration, and the United Nations all feel some type of way about AI, its safeguards, and its proliferation.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A jury awards a female Google Cloud executive $1.1 million because the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts and later denied her promotions in retaliation for complaining about it.On the heels of the password-sharing crackdown and a 70% increase in ad-supported tiers, Netflix has a better-than-expected Q3.  The company is still hiking subscription prices though.Google is rolling out RSS to YouTube and YouTube Music, but, it isn’t quite what many podcasters expected.And, could former Fugees member Pras be granted an appeal because his former lawyer used A.I. to write closing arguments in his federal court case?Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft, Apple, and now Google all have native support for passkeys, the next wave of authentication technology that doesn’t require you to remember passwords.A New York state bill has been proposed that would require everyone to register in order to buy certain 3-D printers because of their potential to print parts for guns.The European Union isn’t messing around when it comes to misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war on social media platforms but we wonder where that fervor was for other atrocities in recent memory.And we shine the Spotlight on Trisha Prabhu, who, at only 22 years old, has received worldwide acclaim in the business world.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 adAmazon 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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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?Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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?Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.