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

Elon Musk and Twitter had a heck of a week.  Musk buys 9.2% of the stock becoming the biggest shareholder, is offered a seat on the board, but turns it down. Twitter also announces that it is adding an “Edit” button to the platform.  They’ve been working on it for over a year and the feature will first come to Twitter Blue subscribers.Dall.E is a neural network AI that can create images from concepts expressed in natural language.  You tell it what to draw, it draws it, and it is actually pretty good at it.And we interview Afua Bruce, Adjunct Faculty at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the book “The Tech That Comes Next”.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 workers on Staten Island voted to form a union.We’ve got all this, our spotlight, and more in episode 29 of The Tech Jawn.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 a good thing for consumers? And Tesla is straight buggin when it comes to racism in the workplace and Google has a new class-action lawsuit to contend with for alleged racist practices.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 SUVs are shipping without the chips that control seat warmers.The toy company that first created transformers is now working on a moon rover, and yes, it actually transforms.And, is the digital divide literally killing us?  Studies show a link between internet access and Covid-19 deaths.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 for Sequoia Consulting Group, where we discuss the Covid-19 vaccine and try to dispel some of the misinformation.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 back from initial projections.YouTube is offering up $50,000 in cash to popular podcasts to convert from audio to video. Hey YouTube, holler at The Tech Jawn right fast. We got you.And we wrap up the show with streaming services talk. Disney Plus is adding an ads tier. NBC is pulling its day after air content off Hulu. And is a cable subscription starting to look like a better option when it comes to bundles?We’ve got all this and more in episode 25 of The Tech Jawn.Link To Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 media star with nearly 150,000 followers has been charged with armed robbery, after his very colorful sneakers worn while robbing convenience stores were recognized by the FBI in his viral TikTok videos.And big tech is playing a major role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Elon Musk’s companies are doing what they can to help, but racism doesn’t take a break even in times of war.Link to Show Notes  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some people are outraged that the New York Times has added ad tracking to Wordle, but, should they really be though?Privacy settings on your social media won’t protect you from snitching on yourself as authorities in Wisconsin use Facebook to identify suspects in acts of property damage after the Jacob Blake police shooting protests in Kenosha.And what is the proper protocol for online redemption? Who gets to determine your penance? Does the internet owe it to you to allow you back in its good graces after you’ve committed an offense?We discuss all this and we’ve got an awesome Spotlight in episode 23 of The Tech Jawn.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 mark with its Black History Month event leaving black creators out of the conversation.And, the Netflix doc, “Tinder Swindler”, showcases how a prolific romance scammer finessed women out of millions.We’ve got all this and more in episode 22 of the Tech Jawn.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn, we interview Ekow Sanni-Thomas, founder of Inside Voices, an online platform that helps job-seekers figure out how companies treat people of color by hearing from current employees.But, before we get to the interview we talk about how Atlanta is becoming quite the Tech Hub and why Yelp has only used its Racist Behavior consumer alert twice in 16 months.Link To Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.