Tech Talk Y'all

Tech Talk Y'all

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  • Amazon’s massive (surprise) network, Twitter’s feed debacle, and AI’s dominance

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    In this episode: 

    • Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network and it’s gigantic
    • Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks
    • Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter ‘For You’ feed
    • Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
    • Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
    • The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
    • Judge Rules Against Internet Archive on Controlled Digital Lending | Authors Alliance 
    • TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10

    • Ad Break

      • Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence
      • Levi's Will Use AI Models Alongside Human Ones
      • The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality
      • IFTTT now has AI-powered automations for paying subscribers
      • Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
      • Here's why Apple released a new iPhone app for classical music only
      • Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan
      • 4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year

      • Weird and Wacky: 

        • Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
        • Wikipedia’s new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced

        • Tech Rec:

          • Sanjay - Bitwarden
          • Adam - PromptPal

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            41 min
          • Bing, Bard, and the AI in between

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            In this episode: 

            • Bing AI Chat versus Google Bard: A first look
            • Meta's paid verification program goes live in the US
            • Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread
            • UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
            • Duolingo is working on a music app
            • Mozilla launches a new startup focused on 'trustworthy' AI

            • Adddddd Time

              • Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion) | Insid...
              • Multiple Internet to Baseband Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
              • Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous



              • Weird and Wacky: 

                • Elon Musk Sets Poop Emoji as an Autoreply to Twitter’s Press Email

                • Tech Rec:

                  • Adam - VistaSocial
                  • Sanjay - New York Times Daily Mini Crossword Puzzle 

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                    35 min
                  • Dumping on the internet

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                    In this episode: 

                    • Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th
                    • Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans
                    • Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
                    • Meta winds down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook
                    • Microsoft Teams will let you transform into a 3D avatar in May
                    • Researchers shrink camera to the size of a grain of salt
                    • It Sure Seems Like Amazon Is Making a New Web Browser

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                      • Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile
                      • UK data center startup offers to heat Britain's swimming pools with waste heat
                      • DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine
                      • Future NASA moonwalkers to sport sleeker spacesuits
                      • Ember is in the baby bottle business now
                      • TSA Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Unnecessary Pat-Downs

                      • Weird and Wacky: 

                        • Should we automate the CEO?
                        • Researchers think alien civilizations might be creating black holes to store quantum data
                        • Meet the Man Spending 100 Days Underwater for Science
                        • Match Group’s CEO says he spent $50K in three months on Clash of Clans

                        • Tech Rec:

                          • Sanjay - Dumb Password Rules 
                          • Adam - Future Tools 

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                            36 min
                          • Let’s keep Skynet busy creating art

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                            In this episode: 

                            • OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps
                            • Grammarly adding ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more
                            • Museum Under Fire for Showing AI Version of Vermeer Masterpiece
                            • 'Most disturbing website on Internet' can find every single picture that exists of you
                            • Using A.I. to Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss

                            • Ad Break

                              • Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off
                              • Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire
                              • How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday
                              • U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks
                              • US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off
                              • Amazon is shutting down eight cashierless Go stores
                              • New ‘Dashboard’ Allows Travelers to See Which Airlines Seat Families Together
                              • U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs and thousands of charging stations
                              • The privacy loophole in your doorbell

                              • Weird and Wacky: 

                                • Why some travelers fly across the world without leaving the airport

                                • Tech Rec:

                                  • Adam - StoryBrand BrandScript
                                  • Sanjay - TabFS 


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                                    45 min
                                  • Your phone premise is bunk

                                    Intro 

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                                    In this episode: 

                                    • Robot window washers are here to clean our skyscrapers
                                    • Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
                                    • Chinese startup Realme launches $649 smartphone it says can be fully charged in just over 9 minutes
                                    • UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas For Directly Regulating The Internet, Service Providers
                                    • U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs and thousands of charging stations

                                    • Break

                                      • From backyard trick shots to a $100m theme park - The Hustle
                                      • LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022
                                      • Space community considers launching Moon timezone
                                      • OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps
                                      • Microsoft's new AI chatbot has been saying some 'crazy and unhinged things'

                                      • Weird and Wacky: 

                                        • Teacher Charged After Crypto Mining Operation Discovered in School Crawl Space

                                        • Tech Rec:

                                          • Sanjay - Time Buddy - Clock & Converter
                                          • Adam - Recipe Calculator

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                                            38 min
                                          • Twitter, where to go to find out what Elon is doing

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                                            In this episode: 

                                            • Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes
                                            • The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here
                                            • Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
                                              • Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication

                                              • Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month
                                              • Instagram's co-founders' personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features
                                              • Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
                                              • Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan

                                              • BREAK

                                                • City of Atlanta embraces AI to improve customer service
                                                • More than 200 books in Amazon's bookstore have ChatGPT listed as an author or coauthor
                                                • Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
                                                • Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket — Spotify
                                                • Snoop Dogg Brings Death Row Music Catalog to TikTok
                                                  • Conner Price

                                                  • New Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computers a Huge Step Closer
                                                  • Your Google docs are about to look a little bit different
                                                  • Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch
                                                  • GM Patents Self-Cleaning Touch Screen That Erases Fingerprints

                                                  • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                    • NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App!
                                                    • Airless Basketball Prototype
                                                    • This iPhone just sold for a record-breaking $63,000 at auction

                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                      • Adam - McCheapest 
                                                      • Sanjay - Every Noise


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                                                        45 min
                                                      • More twitter = more Elon

                                                        In this episode: 

                                                        • Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue
                                                        • IRS builds out task force to explore running its own free e-file system
                                                        • Spotify's latest feature lets users exclude playlists from impacting recommendations
                                                        • Tesla's biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD

                                                        • AD BREAK

                                                          • Tesla will open some of its charging stations to other electric cars
                                                          • Elon Musk wanted more Elon Musk on Twitter so Twitter is now all Elon Musk
                                                          • AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.
                                                          • Dutch host first summit on 'responsible' use of AI in the military
                                                          • I'm Hating It: McDonald's AI-Powered Drive-Thru Sucks

                                                          • Tech Rec:

                                                            • Sanjay - Artifact
                                                            • Adam - Color wheel - color theory and calculator | Canva Colors


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                                                              30 min
                                                            • Come get your obni-tweet

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                                                              In this episode: 

                                                              • RIP To The Best Bots On Twitter
                                                              • Elon Musk will share Twitter ad revenue — but only with creators who pay for Twitter Blue
                                                              • Twitter broke after deploying 4,000-character Tweets
                                                                • Twitter Went Down Because Employee Accidentally Deleted Data

                                                                • Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
                                                                • Twitter founder Jack Dorsey mocked new owner Elon Musk's company over a major outage
                                                                • U.S. Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off the Coast of the Carolinas
                                                                • AMC Theatres® Presents Sightline at AMC, the Next Evolution of Value Pricing at the Movies With Multiple Options to Meet the Viewing Preferences of AMC Moviegoers – Including a Lower Ticket Price for Select Seats.
                                                                • ‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI
                                                                • NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s New Glenn
                                                                • The internet is falling out of love with Google – and it’s Bing’s time to shine

                                                                • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                  • Long-lost secret letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, have just been decoded
                                                                  • The Coca-Cola phone is a real thing, and it’s absolutely stunning

                                                                  • Tech Rec:

                                                                    • Adam - Scam Charge
                                                                    • Sanjay - Downdetector 

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                                                                      33 min
                                                                    • Wide open spaces and secret bases

                                                                      In this episode: 

                                                                      • Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S.
                                                                      • Smaller, Cheaper Flow Batteries Throw Out Decades-Old Designs
                                                                      • Frontier rolls out 5Gbps fiber internet across the US
                                                                      • FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls
                                                                      • Google Fi says hackers accessed customers' information
                                                                      • Report: Apple is planning both a foldable screen and a kickstand for the iPad
                                                                      • ChatGPT creator rolls out 'imperfect' tool to help teachers spot potential cheating

                                                                      • Break

                                                                        • Microsoft blames router IP address change for global outage
                                                                        • Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA
                                                                        • Elon Musk pushes forward with Twitter payments vision
                                                                        • Electric vehicle "spontaneously combusts" on California freeway. Oh you know the brand
                                                                        • Surgeon General says 13 is 'too early' to join social media
                                                                        • Netflix lists rules and exemptions to prevent account sharing outside household
                                                                        • Walmart throws shade at Amazon over new $150 minimum for free grocery delievery

                                                                        • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                          • Missing Tiny, Deadly Radioactive Capsule Spurs Nationwide Search in…
                                                                            • Missing radioactive capsule found in Western Australia
                                                                            • Seeking a Needle in a Haystack, Australians Find Lost Radioactive D...

                                                                            • Clever Hacker Finds the Perfect Way to Creatively Vandalize London's Knightrider Court
                                                                            • Sleep Company Will Pay You to Eat Cheese Late at Night
                                                                            • Fashion of the Future: Sweaters Made From Human Hair
                                                                            • This Seinfeld/Pulp Fiction deepfake is a little too good

                                                                            • Tech Rec:

                                                                              • Sanjay - Asteroid Launcher
                                                                              • Adam - Personal Values Assessment

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                                                                                47 min
                                                                              • The disaster recovery configuration was a disaster


                                                                                In this episode: 

                                                                                • Twitter hired experts for case against Musk—now Musk won’t pay them...
                                                                                • Elizabeth Holmes made an 'attempt to flee the country' after her conviction, prosocuters say
                                                                                • WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
                                                                                • New Tech Can See People Through Walls Using WiFi

                                                                                • Break

                                                                                  • U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server...
                                                                                  • NYSE says Tuesday's trading glitch due to 'manual error'
                                                                                  • Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
                                                                                  • Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising...
                                                                                  • Obnoxiously loud car? A traffic camera might be listening



                                                                                  • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                    • Undercover agents for Russia asked Google how to 'disappear' from trouble. They got caught and sent to prison for years.
                                                                                    • ‘Authentic’ Splash Mountain water sells on eBay after ride closes at Walt Disney World

                                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                                      • Adam - Anki
                                                                                      • Sanjay - Rotten Recipes: Find flavors pairings

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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…

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