Tech Talk Y'all

By Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker

Tech Talk Y'all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech new... more

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Tech Talk Y'all episodes:

February 21, 2022The David Hasselhoff of the Internet in France
In this episode:
The out-of-control rocket about to hit the moon is not a SpaceX Falcon 9, astronomers now say: report

MoviePass 2.0 plans summer relaunch with credits, theater partnerships but no unlimited movies

Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app
Coinbase's Mystery QR Code Super Bowl Ad Is a Security Nightmare

A Floating QR Code Was the Best Ad of the Super Bowl. There Was Just 1 Problem

Gulfport property sells in historic NFT house auction

Revolutionary new solar panels don’t need sunlight to generate energy
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Israeli camera sees through walls from over 300 feet

Hackers Rigged Hundreds of Ecommerce Sites to Steal Payment Info

Cisco Made $20 Billion-Plus Takeover Offer for Splunk

Mozilla warns Chrome, Firefox ‘100’ user agents may break sites
Weird and Wacky:
Brain implant can wirelessly translate your thoughts to text with 94% accuracy

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos

Growing MANGO Tree From Seed - ONE YEAR Time Lapse
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - MP02 cell phone from Punkt

Adam - Calendly’s share times via email feature
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February 14, 2022I’m crying in hi-def
In this episode:
Spotify CEO hints HiFi tier delay is related to licensing issues

Alfa Romeo unveils new electric-hybrid SUV with NFT, blockchain technology

Twitter’s direct DM test is a terrible idea

GoPro keeps recording as parrot steals it from tourists and flies off

IRS announces transition away from use of third-party verification involving facial recognition

America’s Bitcoin Miners See Georgia as the New U.S. Hot Spot

Feds arrest married couple, seize $3.6 billion in hacked bitcoin funds

New spinal implant gets paralyzed people up and walking

A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible

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MIT scientists create a super plastic that’s 2 times stronger than steel

Apple announces new Tap to Pay feature that turns iPhones into contactless payment terminals

People Are Selling AirTags with Disabled Speakers that Are Totally Not for Stalking
Apple Announces AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking

Gopuff stocks its warehouses with items purchased from Instacart, spending tens of thousands per month on the service

Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial

Weird and Wacky:
Watch robots perform ‘industrial origami’ to fold sheets of steel into an electric scooter

Nearly 500-Mile Lightning Bolt Crosses Three States, Sets World Record
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February 07, 2022Frog legs and sniper rifles
In this episode:
Why did Meta lose $200B+ in value?

Wordle Is Joining The New York Times Games

Sony buys Halo-creator Bungie as video game wars go next level

Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts

Tesla recall: ‘Full Self-Driving’ software runs stop signs
Regulators Force Tesla to Recall 54,000 Vehicles Because They Are Programmed to Break the Law

The gas station of the future will have treadmills, gardens, and solar panels—but no gas

A Boeing 747 burns one ton of fuel while taxiing. This electric towing system could help

Ember, known for keeping coffee hot, builds a shipping box to keep vaccines cold

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The FBI is urging Olympic athletes to use burner phones. Here's why.

Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions

SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month

Frogs Regrow Limb With New Treatment

Sold by Amazon Shut Down After Washington State Investigation

Jeff Bezos’s New Superyacht to Force Dismantling of Dutch Bridge

North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

MoviePass 2.0 - event coming February 10, 2022

Weird and Wacky:
https://github.com/k-wong/nft-to-silly-jpeg
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42min
January 31, 2022I can get stalked for free.
In this episode:
Research shows gas stoves leak methane even when turned off

Shell CCS Plant Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It's Captured

Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data

SpaceX signs a deal to rocket military cargo around the world

Out-of-control SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon
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White House instructs government agencies to beef up cybersecurity, adopt ‘zero trust’ in new memo

Biden Formally Backs Right-to-Repair Movement

AMD, Nvidia GPU Prices Are Finally Beginning to Drop

A Deepfake Phone Call Dupes An Employee Into Giving Away $35 Million

Billionaire Mark Cuban launches online pharmacy aimed at lowering generic drug prices
“One drug for diabetes patients, metformin, sells for $3.90 for a 30-day supply, compared to a retail price of $20, the pharmacy said. A 30-count of imatinib, which is used to treat leukemia and other cancers, goes for as low as $17.10 at Cuban's pharmacy compared with $2,502.60 at other pharmacies.”

Facebook and Instagram may help you create and sell NFTs

Unique Beatles and John Lennon Items From Julian Lennon’s Collection Up for NFT Auction
Weird and Wacky:
Researchers create prototype device that generates electricity from shadows

Motorized Coffee Table With a Pinball Machine Inside That ACTUALLY WORKS!

She didn't trust her movers. A single Apple AirTag proved she was right
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Restore Privacy

Adam - https://freezingcam.com/
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January 24, 2022How many Dune books will this cost me?
In this episode:
Microsoft Buys Scandal-Tainted Activision in Bet on Metaverse
$68.7 billion

Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse

Twitter brings NFTs to the timeline as hexagon-shaped profile pictures
Major Twitter NFT implementation problem.

An NFT restaurant opening in New York will serve up status with a side of seafood

Is Tumblr on the road back to relevance?

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’ll work remotely and stay in a new rental every 2 weeks
Twitter thread from CEO

Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US

Locket, the #1 app in Apple’s App Store, uses a trick hiding in plain sight

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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying for Workspace this year

Manslaughter charges follow Tesla driver’s Autopilot red light run

Airlines Cancel Some Flights Ahead of U.S. 5G Wireless Launch

Winnebago will reveal an electric motorhome at Florida RV super show next week

75 million gallons of paint is wasted each year. This startup turns them into brand new cans

Weird and Wacky:
NFT Group Buys Copy Of Dune For €2.66 Million, Believing It Gives Them Copyright
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34min
January 17, 2022Welcome to the Mootrix
In this episode:
Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first cardiac arrest patient in Sweden
These “invisible headphones” sit on your desktop and beam sound directly (and only) to your ears
Panasonic will start offering workers a four-day working week
This company just decided to give employees a 4-day workweek permanently
PayPal Is 'Exploring' Launching Its Own Stablecoin
AP to launch NFT photography marketplace built by Xooa
Magic Leap Goes After Medical Customers With Augmented Reality Headset
Signal: New year, new CEO

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Uber driver who got a hotel room for teen passenger after being stuck on I-95 gets offered a new job
A Google Street View car spotted a missing criminal and it led to an arrest
Airbnb’s new experiment to reduce racism
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has an ‘assertive’ driving mode that ‘may perform rolling stops’
Teen hacker finds bug that lets him control 25+ Teslas remotely
So, I now have full remote control of over 20 Tesla’s in 10 countries and there seems to be no way to find the owners and report it to them…
T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US [U]
I was able to turn this on. I’m not sure this story is accurate
Wordle is tech born of love that asks nothing in return

Weird and Wacky:
Farmer Makes His Cows Wear VR Goggles to Increase Milk Production
Two Los Angeles cops fired for ignoring robbery to chase a Snorlax in Pokémon GO
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33min
January 10, 2022The most weak-sauce argument ever, but it does change colors
In this episode:
TikTok Got More Traffic Than Freakin' Google in 2021

Signal's Cryptocurrency Feature Has Gone Worldwide

BMW debuts its new color-changing paint technology at CES: E Ink

John Deere breaks new ground with self-driving tractors you can control from a phone

DuckDuckGo says new desktop browser will help you ditch Chrome in 2022

Hackers Tried Recycled Passwords on More Than a Million Accounts
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YouTuber figured out Asus Z690 Hero motherboards melted down due to backward capacitor

LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

How Elon Musk’s Software Focus Helped Tesla Navigate Chip Shortage

FCC prevails in 6 GHz court challenge led by AT&T

After 50 Years, Scientists Set to Open Sealed Apollo Soil Sample

Theranos
Weird and Wacky:
Scientists can now track animals using only air

Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny

Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Wordle
Adam - https://agoodmovietowatch.com/
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37min
December 27, 2021 Time for a quick break
Tech Talk Y'all is taking a break until the new year. So stay tuned, don't forget about us, and look for some big tech news early next year!
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December 20, 2021 Terminator hands are here.. Run!
Brought to you by TogetherLetters!

In this episode:
Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries
FDA Approves New Eye Drops that Could Replace Glasses for Millions
A potential hangup for quantum computing: Cosmic rays
CISA warns 'most serious' Log4j vulnerability likely to affect hundreds of millions of devices
Adobe launches Creative Cloud Express, an update to Adobe Spark
Biden will sign an executive order to move government services online
Exclusive: Facebook owner is behind $60 mln deal for Meta name rights
Fusion Experiment Reaches Vital Power Generation Milestone

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Spotify Is Launching Podcast User Ratings, Playing Catch-Up to Apple
Amazon Ring patents describe a dystopian future where networks of cameras identify 'suspicious' people by recognizing their faces, retinas, skin texture, gait, voice, and even odor
End of Service Notice - Alexa
Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible
Apple now lets you choose contacts who can access your account when you die. Here’s how to set it up
Apple launches AirTags and Find My detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy

Weird and Wacky:
Reddit-trained artificial intelligence warns researchers about... itself
Lifelike Robotic Hand Is a Bit Too Close to Terminator for Our Liking
How a $300K Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT accidentally sold for $3K
Canon Develops New Sensor That Takes Color Photos in Almost Total Darkness
This Inflatable Motor Scooter Can Fit in a Backpack and Transport You Into the Future

Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Personal Capital
Adam - https://www.redditreads.com/

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36min
December 13, 2021Is it a dark site, or a "dark site" ;) ?
In this episode:
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users

Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain

Tesla Cybertruck RV attachment hits $100M in pre-orders

Musk Warns SpaceX Possibly Facing Bankruptcy

Apple, Adam McKay, Jennifer Lawrence Team on Elizabeth Holmes Movie ‘Bad Blood’

Apple AirTag Linked to Increasing Number of Car Thefts, Canadian Police Report

Sony to halt production on yet another camera due to semiconductor shortages
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Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11’s controversial default browser changes

Raising the Standard for Protecting Teens and Supporting Parents Online

Zuckerberg, Chan to invest up to $3.4B for science advances

AWS launches its second Top Secret region

An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries
Weird and Wacky:
5 Apps You Can Use to Create NFTs on Your iPhone, and How to Sell Them

The 'Home Alone' house could be yours for one night only

Scientists Developed a Questionnaire to Identify Whether Your Cat Is a Psychopath

Airtable Valuation to Double to $11.7 Billion in New Funding
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Steezy

Adam - https://darksitefinder.com/
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30min

FAQs about Tech Talk Y'all:

How many episodes does Tech Talk Y'all have?

The podcast currently has 332 episodes available.