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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April 19, 2021 More finesse than Barney Fife
In this episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about iMessage, Topps getting into the NFT game, Spotify's Car Thing (yes, that's its real name), Clubhouse, a casino hacked through a fishtank thermometer, and of course our tech recs!
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April 12, 2021 Pay for pizza, with your face!
In this episode, we talk about NFTs (again), Twitter, Twitch, Tom Brady, Best Buy's new service to compete with Amazon Prime (and it may be a good deal for a lot of people), and much more.
You can see the full show notes and links to all articles here.
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44min
April 05, 2021This spaceship is blinding
In this episode:
Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now

What Biden's infrastructure plan would do for tech

It’s game over for Arizona’s controversial App Store bill

Google Play limiting Android 11+ apps from seeing what’s installed on devices this May

Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says
AD BREAK
Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency

Netflix lays out plans to slash its greenhouse gas emissions

Army moves Microsoft HoloLens-based headset from prototyping to production phase

Virgin Galactic rolls out latest generation of spaceship

Scientists Collected Human DNA From the Air In a Breakthrough
Weird and Wacky:
Staples and Office Depot want to help you prove your Covid-19 vaccination

VW confirms it will rebrand its U.S. unit as 'Voltswagen'

Drone pilot melts his machine for stunning volcano video

Goodwill Employee Finds $42,000 Hidden in Donated Sweaters, Returns Money to Owner

A Man Found 15,000 Bees in His Car After Grocery Shopping
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Ghost.org

Adam - https://doodle.com/en/
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33min
March 29, 2021Is there wifi etiquette?
Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India

Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47
Dorsey said previously he would convert the winning bid into bitcoin and donate it to GiveDirectly for its Africa Response, and he tweeted his receipt Monday afternoon. GiveDirectly is a charitable organization which gives money directly to people living in poverty.

(205) NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

(280) Trading App Robinhood Says It Files Confidentially for IPO
Exclusive: Robinhood aims to allow users to buy into IPOs - sources

(347) ‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats

(416) Firefox 87 is out today, adds Smart Block for improved private browsing
(470) Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion
(~525) Slack now lets you DM anyone
(~660) Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin
In the firm’s refund policy, Tesla cautioned buyers that should they seek to return their electric car and obtain a refund, the company can choose to pay them back in U.S. dollars or bitcoin. Tesla notes that it reserves the right to refund the customer in U.S. dollars at the exact price bitcoin was worth at the time of purchase.
(725) Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services
(777) YouTube experiment will auto-detect products in videos and provide related content links
(840) Medium has roughly 725k subscribers and nobody knows what's next
(927) Prince Harry lands new job as a tech executive
Like Many Americans, Prince Harry Now Juggling Multiple Jobs to Make Ends Meet
Weird and Wacky:
Your Vaccination Card Will Score You Free Krispy Kreme Doughnuts All Year
(1096) Is That Ship Still Stuck?
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Ubiquiti WifiMan
Adam - https://postaga.com/
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46min
March 22, 2021I am always a magical robot... but no free cars
In this episode:
Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April

Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison

Dropbox will have a free password manager in April — if you’ve got 50 or fewer passwords

Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales

We finally know how bad for the environment your Netflix habit is

Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds

Mini will introduce last gas model in 2025, go all-electric by 2030
AD BREAK
A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up

Researchers working on material that could yield 700TB optical discs

Scientists developed a clever way to detect Deepfakes by analyzing light reflections in the eyes

Stripe closes $600M round at a $95B valuation

Boeing Autonomous Drone Piloted by Artificial Intelligence Successfully Completes First Flight
Weird and Wacky:
How to Defeat Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot in 1:1 Combat

Escape Zoom Meetings by Faking Technical Issues and Crying With This App

Fuggit BTTF Knit House Shoes

Wannabe Final Fantasy character buys exoskeleton that lets him wield giant sword
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - MonicaHQ CRM

Adam - Hubspot CRM
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38min
March 15, 2021What do Bitcoin, Gogo, and Russia all have in common?
In this episode:
Senators Call for 100Mbps Minimum Broadband Standard

Bitcoin’s Climate Problem

Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M

Gogo delays 5G launch due to chipset shortages

Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household
AD BREAK
Made in Tel Aviv and New York: Instagram Lite

Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft

Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million
Beeple’s 'The First 5000 Days', the 1st purely digital NFT based artwork offered by a major auction house has sold for $69,346,250.

Weird and Wacky:
Please do not give billionaire Jack Dorsey money for his tweet

New Study Proposes Warp Drive That Might Actually Work

An Old Macy's Was Turned Into A New High School In Vermont And It Still Looks Like A Store
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Corsair HS35 - Stereo Gaming Headset

Adam - Reaper
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34min
March 08, 2021If you’ve got a peanut cluster, eat it
1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?

Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak

Jack Dorsey's Square to acquire majority stake in Jay-Z's music service Tidal
Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal.

Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT

Google says it won’t use new ways of tracking you as it phases out browser cookies for ads

Netflix has created a TikTok clone that lets people scroll through funny clips

Amazon in Talks to Carry Many NFL Games Exclusively on Prime Video
AD BREAK
F.C.C. Approves a $50 Monthly High-Speed Internet Subsidy

Va. becomes 2nd state with consumer data protection law

Twitter users on Android can now join the platform’s Clubhouse-like Spaces

Volvo Cars to be fully electric by 2030

Elon Musk moved to Texas and embraced celebrity. Can Tesla run on Autopilot?
Weird and Wacky:
We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births Than Usual This Year
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - 2fa.directory

Adam - Mercury Bank
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37min
March 01, 2021Hifi we don't want and Superfollows we can't get
Spotify to launch HiFi high-quality-audio subscription later this year

Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection

Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business

The NFT Market Tripled Last Year, and It’s Gaining Even More Momentum in 2021
Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000

Greg Mike

Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal
AD BREAK
Facebook strikes last-minute deal with Australia around news content

Net neutrality law to take effect in California after judge deals blow to telecom industry

Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets

The Army Is Building the World's Most Powerful Laser Weapon. Ever.

A quantum computer just solved a decades-old problem three million times faster than a classical computer
Weird and Wacky:
MyHeritage now lets you animate old family photos using deepfakery
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Mullvad.net

Adam - Google Authenticator App
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42min
February 22, 2021Farting Robot Cats Won't Kill You (we think)
In this episode:
Maryland Approves Country’s First Tax on Big Tech’s Ad Revenue

Luxury car brand Jaguar to go all-electric by 2025

LastPass will restrict free users to only one type of device starting next month

Samsung develops high-bandwidth memory with integrated AI processing
AD BREAK
Apple Pay can now be used to spend Bitcoin

Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web

Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia

Airbnb Announces Plans to Open Atlanta Technical Hub
Weird and Wacky:
AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad

Got no milk: Nestle creates vegan KitKat bar
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Click & Grow

Adam - Clubhouse
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32min
February 15, 20215-second ads and bitcoin fads
In this episode:
The 5-second Reddit Super Bowl ad you probably missed

This Google Play Pass app with over 10 million installs has been outed as malware

Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content

Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser

The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs

Biden will sign an executive order to fuel the U.S. semiconductor industry
US Chip Firms to Biden: We Need More Funding to Remain Competitive

AD BREAK
Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say
Hacked Water Plant in Florida Relied on Shared Password, Windows 7

Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack

Justice Department drops challenge to California net neutrality rules

States leapfrog federal government in restraining tech

Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment
Weird and Wacky:
GoDaddy wins our 2020 award for most evil company email

New wearable device turns the body into a battery

China Swears It Isn't Building a Time Machine
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - xBox Series X

Adam - Toonly.com
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40min

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