Tech Talk Y'all

Tech Talk Y'all

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  • It didn’t break, it was aggressively disassembled

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    In this episode: 

    • A long term vision for YouTube’s medical misinformation policies
    • Linear TV Viewing Drops Below 50% of U.S. Television Usage for First Time, Streaming Hits Record High: Nielsen
    • Netflix finally streams video games, too
      • American Airlines sues a travel site to crack down on consumers who use this trick to save money
      • Cruise Agrees to Reduce Driverless Car Fleet in San Francisco After Crash
      • Taxi drivers are earning more from viral TikToks than from rides
        • IBM Plans To Replace Nearly 8,000 Jobs With AI — These Jobs Are First to Go
        • Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank on an empty stomach
        • Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
        • LinkedIn and CLEAR Continue to Enhance Digital Safety, Expand Free Identity Verification to Canada's LinkedIn Users
        • Experian fined $650,000 for not letting you opt out of its spammy emails
          • ‘Broken’ solar panels manufactured specifically for South Africa
          • Revolutionary Electrolyzer Efficiently Converts CO2 into Renewable Propane Fuel
          • LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
          • Russia’s Luna-25 probe crashes on the moon
          • Scientists Extracted a Pink Floyd Song From Someone's Brain Waves. Here’s what it sounds like
          • A Drug For Regrowing Teeth Could Be Available Within The Next Decade
            • Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment
            • Elon Musk says users on X, formerly Twitter, will lose ability to block unwanted followers, eliminating key safety feature
            • Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market
            • Threads on the web is here
            • Weird and Wacky: 

              • LG now sells this bizarre TV in a suitcase, and I must have it
              • Cheese and chips: parmesan producers fight fakes with microtransponders
              • The original voice of Mario is stepping away from the role, Nintendo says
              • Tech Rec:

                • Sanjay - TimeGuessr 
                • Adam - Clean Monday Meals
                • Find us here:

                  • sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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                    43 min
                  • If you need something done, go viral

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                    In this episode: 

                    • Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon
                    • CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
                    • Google is helping pilots route flights to create fewer contrails, which is better for the climate
                    • Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators
                    • BlueJeans, Verizon’s Google Meet competitor you’ve never heard of, is shutting down 
                    • Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release
                    • Musk dumps remaining Twitter-branded stuff in auction
                    • Video calls are coming to X, formerly Twitter, CEO confirms
                    • These 5 New High-Speed Trains Are Coming to the U.S.
                    • Inspired by attacks on bakery, state law allows doxing victims to sue online harassers for money
                    • Weird and Wacky: 

                      • The Mic Cardi B Threw at a Fan Just Sold for Nearly $100,000 on eBay
                      • San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill
                      • Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
                      • Tech Rec:

                        • Sanjay - Fold 'N Fly 
                        • Adam - 10fastfingers.com
                        • Find us here:

                          • sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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                            33 min
                          • Zoom in office, but not getting paid to play Uno

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                            In this episode: 

                            • Musk's X to pay legal bills of people 'unfairly treated' for posting on platform
                            • Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Their Checkmark of Shame
                            • France's AFP sues Musk's X social media, cites refusal to discuss payment for news
                            • Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges
                            • How Tesla’s yarn unspooled
                            • Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000
                            • Google Takes a Page Out of Twitter's Book: Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee
                            • Google is making Reading mode settings slightly harder to access in Chrome
                            • Google Messages turning on RCS by default, group E2E encryption launches
                            • YouTube uses AI to summarize videos in latest test
                            • The remote work revolution is officially dead: Zoom just told employees to return to the office.
                              • End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work
                              • Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data, according to updated terms 
                              • New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
                              • True shape of lithium revealed for the first time
                              • City of Hope scientists develop targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research
                              • NASA Reaches Voyager 2 With a Last-Ditch ‘Shout’ Across the Void
                              • Weird and Wacky: 

                                • Mattel wants to pay you $277 an hour to play Uno
                                • Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker
                                • Tech Rec:

                                  • Adam - Benro SLIM Aluminum Lightweight Travel Tripod Kit
                                  • Sanjay - Framework Laptop 
                                  • Find us here:

                                    • sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com
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                                      41 min
                                    • Blaze your what?

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                                      In this episode: 

                                      • 'Blaze Your Glory!': Twitter Has a Bizarre New Slogan After 'X' Rebrand
                                      • “Blaze your glory!”—Twitter’s “X” becomes first one-letter iPhone app
                                      • Twitter’s Obnoxious 'X' Sign Is Gone
                                      • Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.
                                      • Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
                                      • Google Docs brings line numbers to everyone's documents
                                      • Multiview comes to YouTube and gets official YouTube TV launch, but with limits
                                      • Need a friend? There’s an app for that
                                      • EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025
                                        • The Power Station - Some Like It Hot 
                                        • The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On
                                        • Ultra-fast niobium batteries boast 6-min charge for Lotus Elise-based EV
                                        • A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments
                                          • A spectacular superconductor claim is making news. Here’s why experts are doubtful
                                          • Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat
                                          • Dude who made a USB-C iPhone is back with an AirPods case that has a replaceable battery
                                          • U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations
                                          • Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US air force communications
                                          • NASA is launching its own streaming service later this year
                                          • NASA accidentally severs contact with Voyager 2 probe 12 billion miles from Earth
                                          • Weird and Wacky: 

                                            • Uber self-driving car test driver pleads guilty to endangerment in pedestrian death case
                                            • You could win free sandwiches for life if you change your name to 'Subway’
                                            • Interactive map shows which US cities will be underwater in 2050
                                            • Tech Rec:

                                              • Sanjay - Flash Museum
                                              • Adam - Tactical Pen – Self Defense Pen & Multi-tool Pen - Flashlight Survival Pen
                                              • Find us here:

                                                sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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                                                46 min
                                              • I’m still gonna call it Twitter, rejecting cultural vandalism

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                                                In this episode: 

                                                • Twitter becomes X
                                                  • Musk Says Twitter Will Change Logo to X, ‘Bid Adieu’ to Bird
                                                  • Twitter's new 'X' logo looks suspiciously like a generic Unicode symbol
                                                  • The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
                                                  • Twitter Announces Coming Restrictions on How Many DMs Non-Twitter Blue Users Can Send
                                                    • Your iPhone Can Now Decode the Warning Lights in Your Car
                                                    • iPhone 15 might not get a spectacular battery tech upgrade after all
                                                      • Meta cancels Quest Pro, stops development of Quest Pro 2
                                                      • Threads Is Already Losing Its Allure for Users, Adding Urgency for New Features
                                                        • Scripps Research scientists develop AI tool to track the detailed evolution of viral pandemics
                                                        • India’s AI newsreaders are multilingual, cost-saving and ‘never tired’. Can they replace humans?
                                                        • Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work
                                                        • Sam Altman's Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches
                                                          • IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system, supporters and critics mobilize
                                                          • Signal is finally getting a major feature Telegram launched four years ago
                                                          • Exotic New Silicon-Based Speakers Are Coming to Next-Generation Earbuds
                                                          • TikTok is adding support for text posts
                                                          • A battle of rickshaw apps shows the promise of India’s digital stack
                                                            • Amazon says it’ll ditch plastic padded mailers
                                                            • Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes


                                                            • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                              • Scientists Stunned As Cracked Metal Heals Itself Before Their Eyes
                                                              • Tech Rec:

                                                                • Adam - OCEARCH Shark Tracker
                                                                • Sanjay - Batteryless jump starter
                                                                • Find us here:

                                                                  • sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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                                                                    48 min
                                                                  • Could they be building evil Knight Rider?

                                                                    In this episode: 

                                                                    • Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59
                                                                    • The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity label
                                                                    • Meta is giving away its AI tech to try to beat ChatGPT
                                                                    • WormGPT - The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch BEC Attacks
                                                                    • Apple Preps Ajax Generative AI, ‘Apple GPT’ to Rival OpenAI and Google
                                                                    • The tech that could make the iPhone 15 last hours longer – and change phones forever
                                                                    • First Tesla Cybertruck to Roll Off the Line Looks Like It Has a Misaligned Door
                                                                    • The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
                                                                    • France set to allow police to spy through phones
                                                                    • Netflix’s Next Act Is Investing in Video Games
                                                                    • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                      • Woman in France hit by suspected meteorite while drinking coffee on her porch
                                                                      • AI resurrection of Brazilian singer for car ad sparks joy and ethical worries
                                                                      • Hyundai put speakers in its new electric car so you can blast fake engine noises around your neighborhood — see it in action
                                                                      • A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
                                                                      • Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of U.F.O. Records
                                                                      • Tech Rec:

                                                                        • Sanjay - CardPointers
                                                                        • Adam - Pi.ai
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                                                                          44 min
                                                                        • Twitter…. I don’t even know what to say anymore

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                                                                          In this episode: 

                                                                          • Something odd is happening when you try and search Twitter for Threads links
                                                                          • How to join the Threads beta program and get new features early
                                                                          • Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads
                                                                          • US mother gets call from ‘kidnapped daughter’ – but it’s really an AI scam
                                                                          • Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
                                                                          • BMW introduces Smartglasses for Motorcycling
                                                                          • Farmer owes $82,000 in contract dispute over use of a 'thumbs-up' emoji, judge says
                                                                          • Selling Your Cellphone Location Data Might Soon Be Banned in U.S. for the first time
                                                                          • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                            • This $3,000, 32-inch e-ink display brings newspaper front pages to your wall
                                                                            • Japanese man travels 4,000 miles to spell ‘marry me’ on Google Earth
                                                                            • The process of making traditional Japanese clothing. A Japanese factory that produces kimono.
                                                                            • Humanoid robots address concerns at AI summit in Geneva
                                                                            • Tech Rec:

                                                                              • Adam - Learn.xyz
                                                                              • Sanjay - Beeper
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                                                                                34 min
                                                                              • What Thread are on?

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                                                                                In this episode: 

                                                                                • Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived
                                                                                • Threads, Instagram's Twitter competitor, is expected July 6
                                                                                • Twitter competitor Threads won't let you delete your account unless you also delete Instagram
                                                                                • Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in | Engadget
                                                                                • Twitter's apps are breaking following Elon Musk's decision to cap tweet rates
                                                                                • Twitter rate limits even dumber than we thought; Reddit winning continues
                                                                                • The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
                                                                                  • A flying car that can also drive on the road was approved for testing
                                                                                  • Apple's Market Cap Reaches $3 Trillion
                                                                                  • The user-repairable Fairphone 4 is finally coming to the US
                                                                                  • Toyota announces solid-state battery discovery that may let it catch up with Tesla faster
                                                                                  • Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
                                                                                  • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                    • Japan Airlines Will Rent You Clothes (Bizarre Sustainability Initiative)
                                                                                    • NASA just locked four people in a fake Mars base for a year
                                                                                    • Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions
                                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                                      • Sanjay - Farmer's Fridge 
                                                                                      • Adam - True Link Financial 
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                                                                                        42 min
                                                                                      • It’s gonna take something better than the speed of light

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                                                                                        In this episode: 

                                                                                        • Lawyers fined $5K for using ChatGPT to file lawsuit filled with fake cases
                                                                                        • Meta to follow through on Facebook, Instagram block in Canada after content bill advances
                                                                                          • As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In Canada
                                                                                          • TikTok is discontinuing its BeReal clone
                                                                                          • Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
                                                                                          • John B. Goodenough, 100, Dies; Nobel-Winning Creator of the Lithium-Ion Battery
                                                                                          • America's largest EV charging network adopts Tesla's NACS connector
                                                                                          • The Pixel Fold shows how far ahead Samsung’s folding phones are
                                                                                          • The Biden administration’s $42 billion broadband program is finally getting underway
                                                                                            • Nasa recovers 98% water from urine and sweat on ISS; breakthrough to help in long space missions
                                                                                            • First space factory is already testing how to make drugs in space
                                                                                            • DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT
                                                                                            • House restricts congressional use of ChatGPT
                                                                                            • We've reached peak tech bro, with billionaires suggesting cage fights and bench-press contests
                                                                                            • Universal Analytics is going away

                                                                                            • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                              • Netflix to Stream Titanic on July 1 Following Submersible Tragedy, Draws Ire for Supposed 'Poor Taste'
                                                                                              • False 911 Calls Skyrocket During Bonnaroo as the iPhone Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes
                                                                                              • Tech Rec:

                                                                                                • Mickey - Obsidian
                                                                                                • Adam - Marvel Snap
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                                                                                                  35 min
                                                                                                • Do you control your smart devices? If you anger Amazon, you might not.

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                                                                                                  In this episode: 

                                                                                                  • Anker's new Solix home energy storage includes a modular solar battery system
                                                                                                  • Virgin Galactic starts commercial spaceflights in two weeks
                                                                                                  • Google Lens can now identify rashes and other skin conditions
                                                                                                  • Samsung confirms Galaxy Watch 6 coming later this year with AFib notifications 
                                                                                                  • You can download Instagram Reels now
                                                                                                  • Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count
                                                                                                  • Spotify's revamped desktop app lets you browse and organize your libraries like you do on mobile
                                                                                                  • Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected to Include HiFi Audio
                                                                                                  • Twitter Hit With $250 Million Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit From Music Publishers
                                                                                                  • Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
                                                                                                  • Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets
                                                                                                  • Japan pushes for Apple and Google to allow sideloading
                                                                                                  • Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home devices after delivery driver’s false racism claim
                                                                                                  • FTC sues Amazon over 'deceptive' Prime sign-up and cancellation process
                                                                                                  • Anti-Homeless Mayoral Candidate Uses AI to Create Fake Images of 'Blight'
                                                                                                  • Now Rivian Is Adopting Tesla’s EV Charging Port, With Supercharger Access in 2024
                                                                                                  • Atlanta mayor's new official vehicle is a Rivian 
                                                                                                  • Texas pulls reverse Tesla Magic Dock move as it mandates NACS connector on subsidized CCS charging stations
                                                                                                  • European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
                                                                                                  • Every Louisiana driver’s license holder exposed in colossal cyber-attack
                                                                                                  • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                                    • Passenger brings projector on plane and plays film on overhead bin
                                                                                                    • Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle
                                                                                                    • Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match
                                                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                                                      • Sanjay - Ren Systems 
                                                                                                      • Adam - Upwork 

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                                                                                                        44 min

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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…