In the Weeds with Dexter Johnson

Friends don't let friends drive distracted. It's 2019 and we have too much technology at our fingertips that can help us avoid the need of touching our mobile devices while we're behind the wheel, we just need to practice utilizing it. ||

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Let's talk about the Lightyear One, more can be read here: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/25/solar-powered-car-lightyear-one/ . Don't expect the One to be an answer to all of the world's problems, but it's a step in the right direction -- we just need to keep making them before it's too late. ||

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Adminstrative frees are for what exactly? We don't know and AT&T has some explaining to do regarding it. Read more here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/att-sued-over-hidden-fee-that-raises-mobile-prices-above-advertised-rate/ ||

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Technology is great, but it can also be scary, let's make sure that we reel this in while we still can ensure that there is no bias or any other massive failures baked in to our technological future. ||

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Every since Apple unveiled Sign in with Apple at WWDC, analysts, who primarily cover Apple, are automatically writing off any other option. While I wouldn't recommend Sign in with Facebook to anyone, Google's version deserves some merit because they let you audit access from a convenient dashboard and you always know what access you're giving before it's done. ||

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There is no room for hate speech, whether that's online or offline. YouTube had a run-in with this this week, read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/business/the-week-in-business-youtube-oil-mexico-trade.html We have to do better! Communities need to have better rules while the users need to accept responsibilities for their actions online.||

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Apple's Worldwide Developer conference keynotes always provide us with a glimpse into the future for Apple's platforms. The 2019 keynote did NOT disappoint -- Apple TV, Watch, iOS, iPad OS and Mac updates are nothing short of exciting, compelling and gives us reason to anticipate these updates in the fall. At this point, the "best" simply gets better. ||

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Huawei is in quite the predicament. The US and Donald Trump believes that are a bad entity because of their ties in with China -- but are they? What does this mean for consumers and what does it mean for Huawei if they are in fact, NOT a bad company? ||

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Deepfakes are pictures and video that have been superimposed to present themselves as truthful and reliable when the author used a technological means to create them -- meaning they are fake and the subject likely has little to no knowledge of it's existence. This will create and cause problems. See the Samsung AI Labs paper here: https://twitter.com/dmitryulyanovml/status/1131155659305705472?s=21 ||

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There's always a congressman being open arms, a reviewer upset or someone with an ill-advised post regarding a tech companies latest implementation of a new feature. Can we sit back and try to examine what they want to do instead of largely criticizing them for once so that we can do better and be better? Read about the latest Tesla drama via Consumer Reports here: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/consumer-reports-latest-autopilot-far-less-competent-than-a-human/ ||

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