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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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