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- 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!
Get the full show notes here.
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message37 min - 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.
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message44 min - This 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/
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message33 min - Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
- Is 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/
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message46 min - I 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
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message38 min - Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April
- What 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
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message34 min - Senators Call for 100Mbps Minimum Broadband Standard
- If 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
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message37 min - 1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?
- Hifi 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
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message42 min - Spotify to launch HiFi high-quality-audio subscription later this year
- Farting 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
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message32 min - Maryland Approves Country’s First Tax on Big Tech’s Ad Revenue
- 5-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
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message40 min - The 5-second Reddit Super Bowl ad you probably missed
About Tech Talk Y'all
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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…
news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are). Signup for episode show notes at: http://eepurl.com/cGevHD