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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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