Tech Talk Y'all

Tech Talk Y'all

By Sanjay Parekh & Adam WalkerNewsTech News
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Tech Talk Y'all episodes

  • I want robot wars in my driveway
    • Good buy, Type O’s: iMessages can finally be edited
    • Uber Eats to Begin Delivering Food with Autonomous Vehicles
    • Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors
    • Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’
    • The Nissan Leaf can now officially power buildings
    • Brush up on your office lingo with Biz Jargon voice navigation
      • Copywriter website: Joe Coleman 
      • Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products
      • Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite
      • A 22-year-old TikToker fooled millions by pretending to be an AI-generated image
      • Peloton's founder is severing his last remaining ties with the embattled company
      • California sues Amazon
      • Twitter shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal
      • Patagonia reinvents itself again
      • Weird and Wacky: 

        • Man Asks AI to Recreate His Photos
        • This Muzzle, Er, Microphone Lets You Swear Around Friends
        • Tech Rec:

          • Sanjay - Water Resistant Atomic Clock 
          • Adam - The Magic Email
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            37 min
          • Who lies on LinkedIn? Apparently everyone.

            In this episode: 

            • Can new technology tell if you’re lying on LinkedIn?
            • Open source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M
            • Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach
            • ‘LOTR: The Rings Of Power’ Forges Biggest Premiere Viewership Ever For Amazon Prime Video
              • Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology
              • Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own
              • Farewell, Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button.
              • Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme
              • Weird and Wacky: 

                • An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.
                • Hacked Russian Taxi App Orders Dozens of Cabs to the Same Address, Chaos Ensues
                • Tech Rec:

                  • Sanjay - Fanttik X8 APEX Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor 
                  • Adam - YouTube TV
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                    29 min
                  • What is the etymology of edamame?

                    In this episode: 

                    • Jack Dorsey’s biggest regret is Twitter became a company
                    • T-Mobile & SpaceX Starlink say your 5G phone will connect to satellites next year
                    • The man who tracks Elon Musk's jet says he would stop if Elon took him on a flight and gave him an interview
                    • French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools
                    • Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes
                    • MTV VMAs: Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform as Bored Apes in the Metaverse
                      • California to install solar panels over canals to fight drought
                      • Soon electric vehicles could charge faster than your iPhone
                      • Cox Rolls Out Cellphone Service With Starting Price of $15
                      • US theaters will sell $3 movie tickets on September 3rd
                      • The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades
                      • Crypto.com accidentally sent a woman $7.2 million instead of $68
                      • Weird and Wacky: 

                        • Hear me out: chill your earbuds before you wear them
                        • A Giant Truck Designed to Shake the Ground Like an Earthquake or an Approaching Dinosaur
                        • Why Totino’s Needs 25 Ways to Make Pizza Rolls
                        • Tech Rec:

                          • Sanjay - Momondo 
                          • Adam - myQ Chamberlain Smart Garage Control
                          • Adam: Alexa play “Welcome to Atlanta”

                            Sanjay: Google play “Welcome to Atlanta”

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                            34 min
                          • re: MoviePass - I’ve been searching for a place to get Covid

                            In this episode: 

                            • MoviePass to relaunch on Labor Day in beta form with pricing ranging from $10-$30 a month
                            • How Data Is Changing the College Experience
                            • This app beeps every time your computer sends data to Google
                            • Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll
                            • Peloton strikes a deal to sell fitness equipment and apparel on Amazon
                              • Does turning the air conditioning off when you're not home actually save energy? Three engineers run the numbers
                              • YouTube removes video by Tesla investors using kids in FSD Beta test
                              • Court filing in Bored Apes lawsuit revives claims founders built NFT empire on Nazi ideology
                              • Weird and Wacky: 

                                • A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
                                • Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" Is Crashing Computers Worldwide
                                • Banana split: artists set for court battle over who first taped fruit to the wall
                                • Army’s Solar-Powered Drone Crashes After 64 Days in the Air
                                • Tech Rec:

                                  • Sanjay - Pacsafe
                                  • Adam - Anker Soundcore 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker
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                                    47 min
                                  • The helmet’s wearing you for protection
                                    • WeWork’s former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1 billion
                                    • New TV show from MGM called ‘Ring Nation’ uses surveillance video footage from Ring cameras
                                    • Did Fortune Favor The Brave?
                                    • New technology pulls clean drinking water from the air
                                    • InMotion unveils ‘fastest in the world’ 87 MPH V13 Challenger electric unicycle
                                    • A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
                                    • 1 million square feet of L.A. roads are being covered with solar-reflective paint
                                    • Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach
                                    • “It’s Potentially Illegal”
                                      • Nearly half of all teens say they use the internet ‘almost constantly,’ survey finds
                                      • Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
                                      • New Android Campaign Urges Apple to ‘Fix Texting’
                                      • Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays
                                      • After 35 years missing, an Air Force captain mysteriously reappeared in the Bay Area
                                      • Google gets green light to exempt campaign emails from spam detection
                                      • Weird & Wacky: 

                                        • Harvard Professor Trying to Recover Alleged Alien Tech From Ocean
                                        • Colossal to De-Extinct the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger
                                          • Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem in Yellowstone
                                          • Tech Rec:

                                            • Sanjay - Wise card (referral link)
                                            • Adam - HTML Cleaner
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                                              39 min
                                            • You can buy a $6,000 toilet on Amazon, what?

                                              In this episode:

                                              • Amazon buying iRobot in a $1.7 billion all-cash deal
                                              • Elon Musk sells 7.92 million Tesla shares worth $6.88 billion
                                              • Jeff Bezos' Megayacht Was Quietly Towed From a Dutch Shipyard — Watch the Video
                                              • California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot
                                              • DuckDuckGo browser’s stricter privacy protection will also apply to Microsoft scripts now
                                              • Slack resets passwords after exposing hashes in invitation links
                                              • AD BREAK

                                                • Netflix is expanding its push into video games, but few subscribers are playing along
                                                • Burger King just emailed everyone a blank receipt in a whopper of a mistake
                                                • Phishers who breached Twilio and targeted Cloudflare could easily get you, too
                                                • Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
                                                • Weird and Wacky:

                                                  • Britney Spears - Toxic (on Devices feat. Epilator)
                                                  • Boeing 737 mysteriously discovered in random field and no one knows how it got there
                                                  • Copy-paste error results in Nevada homebuyer getting 87 properties for the price of one home
                                                  • Tech Rec:

                                                    • Sanjay - GeoGuessr  - Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse.
                                                    • Adam - Spotify Car Thing
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                                                      31 min
                                                    • MLK was a Trekkie (we think)

                                                      In this episode: 

                                                      • T-Mobile Is Tracking Users by Default. How to Turn It Off
                                                      • These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret
                                                      • Secret Service may disable iMessages to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 controversy
                                                      • Elon Musk countersues Twitter over merger, but details aren’t yet public
                                                      • Elon Musk’s antics turn owners and would-be buyers against Tesla: ‘I love my vehicle, but I really wish I didn’t have to respond to my friends and family about his latest tweet’
                                                      • The Space Force is scrapping the annual fitness test in favor of wearable trackers
                                                      • Spotify wants users to pay for separate ‘Play’ and ‘Shuffle’ buttons
                                                      • Trailblazing Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols dies at 89
                                                      • AD BREAK

                                                        • Thousands of Solana wallets drained in multimillion-dollar exploit
                                                        • Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals
                                                        • Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year
                                                        • Samsung Repair Mode ensures your data isn’t stolen during phone repair
                                                        • FTC Seeks to Block Virtual Reality Giant Meta’s Acquisition of Popular App Creator Within
                                                        • Anti-aging drugs are being tested as a way to treat covid
                                                        • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                          • Creepy AI asked to predict what the last human on Earth will look like – the results suggest a mutant future
                                                          • Researchers repaired cells in damaged pig organs an hour after the animal’s death
                                                          • Have you seen the chairs that automatically return to their origina
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                                                            42 min
                                                          • Are we prepping for Y4K?

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                                                            In this episode:

                                                            • Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient
                                                              • Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient
                                                              • Twitter Pares Office Space to Save Cash, Deepen Remote-Work Tilt
                                                              • Senate passes bill to boost U.S. chip production and China competition, sending to House
                                                              • Don’t Look Now, but Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill
                                                              • Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024
                                                              • The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris
                                                              • Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of disclosure
                                                              • Apple politely explains why iPhone cases are a waste of money

                                                              • AD BREAK

                                                                • Tesla's $1.5 Billion Bet on Bitcoin Went Exactly as You Might Have Expected--Not Good
                                                                • Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop
                                                                • Spotify Hits 188M Paying Subs, Exceeding Expectations, and Grows Quarterly Ad Revenue
                                                                • Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet
                                                                • Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation
                                                                • Weird and Wacky:

                                                                  • 765 Price Canyon Rd, Pismo Beach, CA 93449
                                                                  • It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered Another Earth
                                                                  • Tech Rec:

                                                                    • Sanjay - https://loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ng/
                                                                    • Adam - Rhodia A5 Webnotebook, Dot, Black

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                                                                      35 min
                                                                    • My Only Friends Are My Co-workers?

                                                                      In this episode:

                                                                      • Judge grants Elon Musk an October court date, in early win for Twitter
                                                                        • Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover trial set to start in October
                                                                        • Twitter blames Musk and ad market headwinds for declining revenue
                                                                        • Mattel to launch SpaceX vehicles as new Matchbox toys and collectibles
                                                                        • Tesla gets exclusive lane at a US-Mexico border crossing
                                                                        • Instagram’s new payments feature lets users buy products via DMs
                                                                        • Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now
                                                                        • Amazon makes Prime Video look more like Netflix (and every other streaming app)
                                                                        • Microsoft is launching a Facebook rip-off inside Teams
                                                                        • Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works
                                                                        • AD BREAK

                                                                          • Looking to get your funds out of a collapsed crypto platform? Don’t get your hopes up
                                                                          • FCC chair seeks to raise national broadband standard
                                                                          • Netflix Tests Another Way to Charge for Password Sharing
                                                                          • Meta’s Forced Sale of Giphy Halted as UK Court Orders Review
                                                                          • Lawmakers Urge FTC to Reign in Deceptive VPN Advertising
                                                                          • Weird and Wacky:

                                                                            • How one company has pigeon-proofed all of New York City
                                                                            • BMW Wants to Charge for Heated Seats. These Grey Market Hackers Will Fix That.
                                                                            • Tech Rec:

                                                                              • Sanjay - Raindrop.io
                                                                              • Adam - https://snaptik.app
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                                                                                32 min
                                                                              • Are you ready to powderize your poop?

                                                                                In this episode:

                                                                                • Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
                                                                                • How Elon’s bizarre Twitter takeover saga could have just been a cover for him to sell $8.5 billion in Tesla stock
                                                                                • Japan Wants to Bring Artificial Gravity to the Moon
                                                                                •  Peloton will stop making its own bikes
                                                                                • Spotify Buys Music Trivia Game Heardle
                                                                                • AD BREAK

                                                                                  • Marriott Hotels suffers fresh data breach, 20GB of information leaked
                                                                                  • Honda Vehicle Vulnerability Allows Remote Unlocking And Starting
                                                                                  •  White House says Americans should be ‘really careful’ about using period tracker apps
                                                                                  • Amazon says more than 300 million items sold during ‘biggest’ Prime Day event
                                                                                  • Weird and Wacky:

                                                                                    • Could Your Old Poop Cure You of Future Diseases?
                                                                                    • Musician Plays Solo on Enormous 69 String Bass
                                                                                    • A couple spent $300,000 building a hidden underground home that you can enter by going down a 12-foot spiral slide — tucked inside an unassuming tent

                                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                                      • Clara - Daylio
                                                                                      • Adam - Stream Deck
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                                                                                        27 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…