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 08, 2021Monkey mind games and Flash is back (not really)
In this episode:
Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO

Apple Greenlights TV Series on WeWork, With Anne Hathaway

The iPhone's Face ID Will Soon Work With a Mask—if You Have an Apple Watch

Google Explores Alternative to Apple’s New Anti-Tracking Feature

Nike’s new Flyease Go shoes snap right onto your feet
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Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion

Tesla Will Recall 134,000+ Vehicles Affected by Inevitable eMMC Failure

Elon Musk claims Neuralink created a brain implant that a monkey is using ‘to play video games with his mind’

Samsung Believes the Automotive Chip Shortage Could Impact Phones

We Now Know How Much Scalpers Warped PS5, Xbox, Zen 3, Ampere Markets

South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support
Weird and Wacky:
SpaceX All-Civilian Space Mission Raffle

Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change

The story behind 'Blue Check Homes': How an SF artist created a fake company that fooled thousands
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Freshworks

Adam - Substack
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30min
February 01, 2021Thanks to Frozen, we know it wasn't a Yeti
In this episode:
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation

NBCUniversal is bringing its live events to Twitter users globally

Robinhood Is Losing Thousands of Traders to a China-Owned Rival
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Musk Targets Telecom for Next Disruption With Starlink Internet

Firefox 85 removes Flash and adds protection against supercookies

Walmart is expanding its robot-powered fulfillment centers to ‘dozens of locations’
Weird and Wacky:
Lord Of The Rings Lego Build Sets New World Record With 150 Million Pieces

Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?

Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Iubenda

Adam - Typeform
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30min
January 25, 2021Found Billionaires and Farmland Hoarders
In this episode:
Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba

Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

Virgin Orbit just earned the orbit part of its name
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WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode

Instacart to Cut 1,900 Jobs, Including Its Only Union Roles

Amazon offers Biden resources for COVID-19 vaccine rollout

As promised, Twitter made Joe Biden’s @POTUS account start with zero followers
Weird and Wacky:
Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of Covid'
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Polaroid

Adam - Brackets
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28min
January 18, 2021Scroll Phones and Ice Cream Cones
In this episode:
Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content

Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP

Airbnb, HotelTonight cancel all Washington, DC, metro reservations ahead of Inauguration

Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters

This is Sony’s Airpeak drone
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Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes

WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal, a smaller encrypted messaging app

The Future of Phone Design: Flexible Screens That Roll Up

Ford Halts Focus Car Plant for Full Month Due to Chip Shortage
Weird and Wacky:
The Pentagon will have to reveal all the information it has about UFOs

Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Qoins

Adam - Everydollar
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36min
January 11, 2021Let's be anti-social social??
In this episode:
Google, Alphabet employees unionize

Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
Besides providing login credentials, the former employee also showed Ticketmaster managers how to exploit a flaw in the URL generation scheme the rival used for unpublished ticketing webpages. To prevent the pages from being accessed by outsiders before they were made public, each one had a unique numerical value. The former employee told his new employer that the values were generated sequentially, and outsiders could use this information to view artist pages while they were still in early draft stages.

Slack starts 2021 with a massive outage
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Billionaire Jack Ma Hasn’t Been Seen in 74 Days
Jack Ma’s absence from public eye sparks Twitter discussions

Alarms about Ma’s whereabouts weren’t set off until he was replaced last week as the lead judge of a talent show for entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Finance reported. His photo was also removed from a list of judges on the show’s website, fueling speculation that the Chinese government may have gone beyond scuttling an IPO to chastise Ma for his speech.

Visualized: The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp

Twitter acquires Breaker podcast app, will integrate its team to Spaces
Weird and Wacky:
This Company Is Selling Gold-Plated Apple Headphones for an Absurd Price
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - TheStreamable.com

Adam - soapboxhq.com - a service I’m about to try out
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28min
January 04, 2021Do the right thing
In this episode:
Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday

Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus

Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads

FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille.

Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology

Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
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Cyberpunk 2077: how 2020's biggest video game launch turned into a shambles

Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company NSO

He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says

Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues
Weird and Wacky:
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work

Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Aegis

Adam - memrise
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33min
December 21, 2020Baby Yoda In Your Living Room
In this episode:
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries

Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021

Roku and AT&T reach agreement to distribute HBO Max

Science Just Confirmed Elon Musk's Favorite Interview Question Is Brilliant (You Should Steal It)

U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack
Joe Biden warns he will be tough on state sponsors of cyberattacks, as U.S. suffers massive hack

Security Researcher: ‘solarwinds123’ Password Left Firm Vulnerable in 2019

GitHub says goodbye to cookie banners

Amazon Zoox unveils self-driving robotaxi
Weird and Wacky:
Googling for ‘Baby Yoda’ will bring him into your living room via augmented reality

Guy drops iPhone out of plane, iPhone survives, takes video of entire ordeal

Microsoft files patent for a chatbot that 'could' become the 'twin' of a deceased person

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | GPT-3
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - locast.org

Adam - New Silicon MacBook Pro
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32min
December 14, 2020My Soul is Clean... I've Never Built Anything in Flash
In this Episode:
Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves

Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program

French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers

FTC and states sue Facebook on antitrust grounds

Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021

Disney unveils Star, its Hulu replacement for international Disney Plus subscribers

Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed

On Trusting Macintosh Hardware

Apple announces $549 AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones, coming December 15th

Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol

Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Warby Parker

Adam - Dropbox Vault

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34min
December 07, 20202021: The Rise of Skynet?
In this Episode:
Tony Hsieh, Zappos Luminary Who Revolutionized the Shoe Business, Dies at 46
Tony Hsieh, key figure in downtown Las Vegas revitalization, dies at age 46

A New Zealand Startup Is Using Microbes to Suck Solid Gold Out of E-Waste

Gut-Wrenching Photos Show Damage at Arecibo Observatory Following Collapse

Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI

Salesforce will buy Slack for $28 billion

Visa Partners With Ethereum Digital-Dollar Startup That Raised $271 Million

US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters

Hulu’s Watch Party feature is now available to all subscribers

Discovery to launch streaming service in January starting at $4.99 per month, Verizon customers get year free

Warner Bros. will release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max
Weird and Wacky:
Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah?

That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say

Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - RODE PSA 1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm

Adam - Stamp Ready
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35min
November 30, 2020Team Apple or Team Pecan?
In this Episode:
Microsoft Teams takes on Zoom with free all-day video calling on the web

Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet
People Can’t Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon’s Cloud Servers Are Down

Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies

Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy

Scientists produce rare diamonds in minutes at room temperature
Weird and Wacky:
Canadian officials warn drivers not to let moose lick their cars

A Weird Monolith Is Found in the Utah Desert

Fugitive Maryland couple found after 9 months on the lam because of 'Words with Friends'
Tech Recs:
Sanjay - Shure X2U XLR-to-USB Signal Adapter

Adam - Darn Tough Socks
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28min

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