Tech Talk Y'all

Tech Talk Y'all

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Tech Talk Y'all episodes

  • Twitter, Tweetbot, and Tesla, going down?

    In this episode: 

    • Tesla suddenly slashes prices on many models. ‘I think the real driver for all of this is falling demand.’
      • The Cheapest And Most Expensive Cars To Maintain, Ranked

      • A Tesla buyer says she feels 'duped' and 'taken advantage of' after missing out on a $13,000 price cut
      • Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
      • Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules
        • Third-party Twitter apps are facing issues, users say

        • Tweetbot is down again

        • Break

          • Using LastPass? You need to switch urgently, says security firm
          • NSA asks congress to reauthorize warrantless data collection
          • Lawyers Barred by Madison Square Garden Found a Way Back In
          • Samsung 'Self-Repair' Program Adds Galaxy S22 Phones, Some Galaxy Books
          • The Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray is the first-ever hybrid Corvette
          • A job application written by ChatGPT fooled recruiters and beat more than 80% of human candidates to an interview
          • Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to step down as chief executive

          • Weird and Wacky: 

            • Netflix offers $385,000 for private jet attendant - BBC News
            • Want a Giant Neon Twitter Bird? You’ll Have to Bid More Than $17,000

            • Tech Rec:

              • Sanjay - Samsung Galaxy Watch5
              • Adam - Anker Wireless Charging Station & 20W Charger


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                43 min
              • Wait, do flowers float?

                In this episode: 

                • Deere & Co. will allow farmers to repair their own equipment
                • Minnesota company rolls out fully electric fire truck
                • The FAA has ordered a temporary nationwide pause on all domestic flights until 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning following a computer failure impacted flights.
                • Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around
                  • Medium embraces Mastodon 

                  • A New Direction for Mojo Vision’s Groundbreaking Technology
                  • Sony and Honda just announced their new electric car brand, Afeela

                  • AD BREAK

                    • Two Minor League baseball pitchers with the exact same name — and eerily similar looks — took a DNA test to find out if they’re actually related after years of being confused for one another.…
                    • Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
                    • Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
                    • A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay
                    • OpenAI has begun testing a paid, enterprise-focused version of its viral ChatGPT bot -- and surveying users about their pricing preferences.

                    • Weird and Wacky: 

                      • Employee TikTok reveals a floor show upgrade from floppy and DVD—possibly for the last time.
                      • Laser-charged Chinese drone can stay in the air indefinitely

                      • Tech Rec:

                        • Adam - Daily Art App
                        • Sanjay - dimensions.com


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                          30 min
                        • I’ve lost all my words, but let’s call it Stream ID

                          In this episode: 

                          • Former Zulily software engineer charged for theft scheme inspired by ‘Office Space’ movie
                          • Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400 million users
                          • Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
                          • With Only 6 Words, Patagonia Explained the Brilliant Reason It Closed All of Its Stores and Paid Its Employees to Take a Week Off
                          • Innocent Black Man Jailed After Facial Recognition Got It Wrong, His Lawyer Says

                          • AD BREAK

                            • Wireless Power Consortium works with Apple on next generation ‘Qi2’ standard based on MagSafe
                            • Goodyear shows off 90 percent sustainable tires and traction-tracking treads at CES 2023
                            • Microsoft Bing With ChatGPT Reportedly Launching In March
                            • Pee is the magic number, as Withings puts a urine analysis lab in your toilet
                            • Introducing Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5, a highly customizable accessibility controller kit
                            • Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

                            • Weird and Wacky: 

                              • ‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’

                              • Tech Rec:

                                • Sanjay - Portable Secret
                                • Adam - Philips Hue Lights

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                                  35 min
                                • Got a breach? Let’s blame the users.

                                  In this episode: 

                                  • Twitter experiences a widespread global outage
                                  • California Bans Tesla From Marketing Its EVs As "Full Self-Driving"
                                  • For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans
                                  • Andrew Tate detained in Romania over rape and human trafficking case
                                  • Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

                                  • AD BREAK

                                    • What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
                                    • Comcast Xfinity accounts hacked in widespread 2FA bypass attacks
                                    • DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites
                                    • India makes USB Type-C charging must for device makers from March 2025
                                    • Delta will reportedly make its in-flight Wi-Fi free

                                    • Weird and Wacky: 

                                      • 73-year-old pays $370/month to live in a plane he bought for $100,000 from a salvage yard: ‘I have no regrets’

                                      • Tech Rec:

                                        • Adam - Kindle Unlimited
                                        • Sanjay - FollowUpThen

                                        • New Year’s Resolutions

                                          • Adam - learn a skill for 30-minutes a day
                                          • Sanjay - get control of the inbox, say no more


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                                            33 min
                                          • Not puppet master, puppet disaster

                                            In this episode: 

                                            • After outcry over blocking links to Mastodon, Twitter announces ban on "promotion" of other social platforms
                                            • Elon Musk launches poll asking if he should quit as Twitter CEO
                                              • Twitter Users Say Elon Musk Should Quit as Boss

                                              • Elon Musk suggests journalists want to cause harm to him and his family after restoring suspended Twitter accounts 
                                                • Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accounts of Several Journalists 

                                                • MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show
                                                • Electric school buses are practically free now
                                                • Amtrak unveils new train cars with plenty for customers to love - The Points Guy 

                                                • AD BREAK

                                                  • Google will soon translate your doctor's terrible handwriting
                                                  • Anker’s Eufy deleted these 10 privacy promises instead of answering our questions
                                                  • Some universities are now restricting TikTok access on campus
                                                  • Nike Training Club on Netflix Launches Dec. 30: Everything You Need to Know 
                                                  • FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail, will live with his parents

                                                  • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                    • James Cameron Commissioned A Scientific Study To Settle The Long-Running Debate Over Whether Jack Could Have Joined Rose On Her Makeshift Raft In “Titanic” 
                                                    • Hands-On With Dyson’s $1,000 Air Purifying Headphones 

                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                      • Sanjay - Mayfair
                                                      • Adam - Timer+

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                                                        34 min
                                                      • A chatbot threatening legal action, great idea?
                                                        • ElonJet
                                                          • Musk bans Twitter account tracking his jet, threatens to sue creator
                                                          • Elon Musk Is Taking Legal Action Against Student Who Tracks His Private Jet
                                                          • Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists

                                                          • Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon
                                                          • Elon Musk Gets Viciously Booed by Stadium Crowd at Dave Chappelle Show
                                                          • A Tesla owner says his Model Y ordered him to pull over before it suddenly shut down, trapping him inside

                                                          • AD BREAK

                                                            • US scientists reach long-awaited nuclear fusion breakthrough, source says
                                                            • DoNotPay is launching an AI chatbot that can negotiate your bills
                                                            • ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI
                                                            • AI image generation tech can now create life-wrecking deepfakes with ease
                                                            • FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas
                                                            • We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue.
                                                            • Supreme Court asks for Biden administration's views in Google copyright case
                                                            • Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation

                                                            • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                              • Parents who say their kids won't eat or shower because they're addicted to Fortnite slam Epic Games with lawsuit
                                                                • Stop It Video


                                                                • Tech Rec:

                                                                  • Sanjay - The age of everyone
                                                                  • Adam - Canva MagicWrite


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                                                                    37 min
                                                                  • AI thinks I have no follow through
                                                                    • Tesla finally delivers first electric Semi to Pepsi after years of delay
                                                                    • Tesla says it is adding radar in its cars next month amid self-driving suite concerns
                                                                    • Twitter will reportedly charge $11 on iOS for Blue subscription to offset App Store fees
                                                                    • Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe
                                                                    • Microsoft Eyes ‘Super App’
                                                                    • The future of watching football is here
                                                                    • We gave ChatGPT a college-level microbiology quiz.

                                                                      • Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach
                                                                      • NFTs minted on FTX break
                                                                      • North Carolina Power Outages
                                                                      • A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
                                                                      • San Francisco temporarily bans police robots from using lethal force

                                                                      • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                        • ‘Goonies’ house in Astoria sells to a fan who wants to protect the landmark
                                                                        • This ATM at Art Basel has a twist: It posts a picture of you with your bank balance
                                                                        • Dyson's Air Purifying Headphones Will Cost $949

                                                                        • Tech Rec:

                                                                          • Sanjay - Meething
                                                                          • Adam - TinyWow

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                                                                            36 min
                                                                          • Don’t piss off the swifties & Why are we arming the robots?

                                                                            In this episode: 

                                                                            • Elon Musk summons Twitter engineers amid mass resignations and puts up poll on Trump ban
                                                                            • Elon Musk posts pictures with engineers as they leave a Twitter 'code review' at 1:30 a.m.
                                                                            • Banned Twitter users return: ‘We’re coming back with a vengeance’
                                                                            • Twitter has stopped enforcing its covid misinformation policies
                                                                            • 11 (and counting) things journalism loses if Elon Musk destroys Twitter
                                                                            • Elon Musk says Twitter will begin manually authenticating Blue, Grey, and Gold accounts as soon as next week

                                                                            • AD BREAK

                                                                              • The World Cup's New High-Tech Ball Will Change Soccer Forever
                                                                              • Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for fraud
                                                                              • San Francisco police get green light for deadly robots
                                                                              • Apple Says Your iPhone's Usage Data is Anonymous, but New Tests Say That's Not True
                                                                              • If you have hemophilia, you can now get a one-time gene therapy for $3.5 million
                                                                              • Lab-grown blood injected into live human beings for the first time

                                                                              • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                • 14-yo Crowned ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ for Headphones That Treat Ear Infections With Blue Light
                                                                                • SF’s New 'Futuristic’ Public Toilet Breaks Down On Just Third Day On the Job

                                                                                • Tech Rec:

                                                                                  • Adam - OpenAI 
                                                                                  • Sanjay - Pkge.net 

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                                                                                    35 min
                                                                                  • Do the research, and let me know
                                                                                    • Elon Musk gives ultimatum to Twitter employees: Do ‘extremely hardcore’ work or get out
                                                                                    • Musk Steps Up Purge of Twitter Engineers Who Criticize Him
                                                                                    • Twitter Closes All Of Its Office Buildings as Employees Resign En Masse
                                                                                    • Musk declines former tech CEO's offer to run Twitter for him
                                                                                    • Elon Musk says he's sleeping at Twitter's HQ 'until the org is fixed'
                                                                                    • Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
                                                                                    • Twitter is bringing back end-to-end encrypted DMs
                                                                                    • New Twitter accounts won’t be able to buy Blue verification for 90 days
                                                                                    • 'FTX Has Been Hacked'

                                                                                      • Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts
                                                                                      • Exclusive: Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity
                                                                                      • Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees
                                                                                      • Nike to Open Its Own Virtual Sneaker Store and Trading Platform
                                                                                      • Today @Cruise launched *daytime* driverless rides.
                                                                                      • DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection beta is now available to all Android users
                                                                                      • Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

                                                                                      • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                        • To be built in Saudi Arabia, this $5 billion gigayacht concept is so massive that it can dwarf an oligarch’s superyacht
                                                                                        • ‘A whole new world’: Georgia debuts all-terrain wheelchairs at its state parks

                                                                                        • Tech Rec:

                                                                                          • Sanjay - Aspiration Bank
                                                                                          • Adam - iRobot Vacuum (Roomba)


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                                                                                            37 min
                                                                                          • Always double the chocolate
                                                                                            • Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back
                                                                                            • Twitter Employees File Class-Action Lawsuit for Mass Layoffs with No Notice
                                                                                            • Elon Musk’s response to fake verified Elon Twitter accounts: a new permanent ban policy for impersonation
                                                                                            • Twitter lost more than 1.3 million users in the week after Elon Musk bought it

                                                                                              • Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week
                                                                                              • Signal is the latest app to roll out a Stories feature
                                                                                              • ‘Batteries on wheels’: EV buses could help decarbonize more than just transit
                                                                                                • Atlanta Public School gets federal funding for 25 electric buses

                                                                                                • AirBnB Displaying total price and simplifying checkout
                                                                                                  • AirBnB thread from CEO

                                                                                                  • New Startup Develops Potential Cure for Type 1 Diabetes
                                                                                                  • Amazon’s leaked ‘Clinic’ would connect patients to telemedicine
                                                                                                  • The lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI that could change the rules of AI copyright

                                                                                                  • Weird and Wacky: 

                                                                                                    • Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game
                                                                                                    • Your next car might not drive if you've been drinking


                                                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                                                      • Sanjay - Lose the Very
                                                                                                      • Adam - Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2

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