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- A.I. And A Teen’s Suicide, Gen AI In The Fashion Industry, AI Making Mistakes IN Hospitals, Microsoft Tries To Fix AI Falsehoods, 25% Of Google’s Code is AI Generated
The Big Stories:
- Is AI to be blamed for a teen’s death?
- Fashion retailer using Gen AI instead of real models and photographers
- AI transcription tools making mistakes at hospitals
- Microsoft is trying to fix AI “Hallucinations”
- Google says over 25% of its code is written by AI
23 min - Tech Gumbo Begins Our 11th Year!, Google Adds New Features To Chrome, Waze and Maps, uBlock Origin Ad Blocker, Nvidia And Intel Chips
News and Updates:
- Tech Gumbo started Nov 2014
- Google:
- Adds Safety Check to Chrome- Adds Unsubscribe to Chrome- Makes it easier reporting features to Waze- Adds AI assistance to Maps, including places to explore on your trip- Begins disabling adblocker uBlock Origin- Nvidia joins the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Intel is cause for concern in D.C.
- TSMC stays very profitable making chips
23 min - Top 10 Self-Driving Car Companies, 30-Year-Old Backdoor Laws, End To Tracking Celebrity Jets, Computer Chips Being Made IN USA, Russia Fines Google $20 Decillion
The Question of the Week: Last week you talked about Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” cars, who else is do that?
The Big Stories:
- A 30-year old law forcing backdoors is creating security risk
- Meta follows twitter, will ban accounts that track celebrity jets
- TSMC Chip plant in Arizona making better chips than Taiwan
- Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
23 min - Starlink Needs 30k Satellites, Replacing The ISS Because Of Age And Leaks, Returning Astronauts To Earth, Redbox Customer Data Breach, San Fran Trying To Stop Using Floppy Disk, AI Radio Presenters
News and Updates:
- Starlink to petition the FCC to allow 30,000 satellites to achieve Gig speeds
- Vast has plans to replace the International Space Station
- The ISS is leaking, but not a risk
- NASA does a crew swap, 2 still have their extended stay going
- Info from Old Redbox kiosk easily hacked with customer info revealed
- SanFran Train System plans to stop using 5 1/4 -inch disk within 10 years
- Poland radio station using AI “Presenters”, listeners are not happy
23 min - Interview w/ Josh Goldwitz – Transportation and Logistics Expert
The Big Interview:
A career through multiple companies and how it impacts transportation and logistics
- Exponent (Crash Reconstruction Photogrammetry) (using photos to reconstruct measurements- also key to modern camera-based autonomy systems)
- Lloyd Register – London Underground
- MTA (NYC)- subway system, rail, buses, ferries
- Jet Blue- electrification of ground support equipment
- Amazon- last mile delivery
22 min - NHTSA investigating Tesla’s Full Self Driving Cars. TikTok’s Execs Knew How Harmful It Is To Teens, Kids TV Is A Thing Of The Past
News and Updates:
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the Full Self Driving claims of Tesla and the wrecks involved
- Lawsuit against TikTok reveals how harmful it is to kids
- Addictive in 35 minutes
- Demotes people deemed unattractive
- 95% of smartphone users 17 and under are on TikTok
- Discourages kids from making eye contact with other people
- Filters content to conform with one-sided opinions
- Children’s TV Channel ratings are off by over 75%, it is all YouTube now
22 min - Google Killing Fitbit, Tesla’s ‘We, Robot’ Fiasco, Tesla Competitors Get a BoostThe Question of the Week: What’s going on with Fitbit?
The Big Stories:
- Tesla big event, “We, Robot” to show off CyberCab and Optimus Robots was a flop!
- The Autonomous robots were actually being controlled by humans
- Waymo, Uber , Lyft got a big stock market bounce because of Tesla’s event
- Tesla is losing its grip on the EV market in California
23 min - 6G Cellular Research, Wi10 EOL In 1 Year, Win11 Has Excess Junk, Florida Neighborhood Is Hurricane Proof, Racist Home Robot Vacs
News and Updates:
- Researchers working on 6G Cellular are achieving 190 gigabits of thru put
- Win 10 End of Life is 14Oct2025, check now to see if your computer will upgrade, if not, don’t wait to buy a new PC
- Win 11 24H@ Update has a junk file that is 8.6GB and you can not delete it
- A new neighborhood in Fla built homes with solar panels and batteries, 15 feet off the ground and easily able to resist winds up to 120mph
- Hackers breached home robot vacuums, began shout racist slurs
23 min - States Sue TikTok Claiming Harmful to Children, Use Caution With AI Meeting Recordings At Work, Licenses Plate Readers And Bumper StickersThe Question of the Week: Who is suing TikTok Now?
The Big Stories:
- AI Assistants recording virtual meetings and creating havoc
- License Plates readers also keeping bumper sticker info building another database
22 min - Cybertruck Becoming Uninsurable, SpaceX Threatened By Telcos, Starlink Gets And Demands More Spectrum
News and Updates:
- GEICO stops covering Cybertrucks from Tesla
- SpaceX threatened by EU Telcos
- Starlink to get another rival
- Starlink gets more spectrum to use from FCC
- SpaceX demands Spectrum from rivals
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About Tech Gumbo
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We started Tech Gumbo in Nov 2014 as a conversational show of news, information & updates about the past, present & future of all things technology in a topical, interesting and digestible…
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