Tech Talk Y'all

Tech Talk Y'all

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  • 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?

                                    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise!

                                    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
                                                              • Elon is backing out (but you knew that)

                                                                In this episode:

                                                                • The Hummer EV produces more CO2 than a gas-powered sedan
                                                                • Apple expands industry-leading commitment to protect users from highly targeted mercenary spyware
                                                                • FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
                                                                • Amazon is giving Prime subscribers a free year of Grubhub+ deliveries
                                                                • TikTok is reportedly giving up on its live shopping plans in the US and Europe
                                                                • Facebook Accessed Deleted User Data, Fired Screener Claims
                                                                • Robocalls Are (Finally) Being Shaken Up
                                                                • U.S. adds ‘Cryptoqueen’ to most-wanted list over alleged $4 billion fraud

                                                                • AD BREAK

                                                                  • Hacker claims to have stolen 1 bln records of Chinese citizens from police
                                                                  • A HackerOne Employee Stole Vulnerability Reports From Security Researchers
                                                                  • British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts were hacked to promote crypto scams
                                                                  • Steve Jobs Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
                                                                  • No bids on Chevy’s first NFT, even though it came with a free Corvette Z06
                                                                  • Tesla Is No Longer the World's Biggest Electric Vehicle Producer
                                                                  • Tesla EVs can now scan the road for potholes and adjust the suspension height

                                                                  • Weird and Wacky:

                                                                    • Chinese Company Under Fire Because Its Ice Cream Doesn’t Melt
                                                                    • Jeff Bezos’ $500 Million Superyacht Is Now Stuck In Rotterdam

                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                      • Clara - The Story Graph
                                                                      • Adam - Secura 60-Minute Visual Countdown Timer

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                                                                        28 min
                                                                      • Would you put this wearable in your eye?

                                                                        Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise!

                                                                        In this episode:

                                                                        • Micron’s new 1.5TB microSD can record video for five years straight
                                                                        • Wearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boost
                                                                        • Sleep pods are coming for passengers flying economy
                                                                        • U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores

                                                                        • AD BREAK

                                                                          • Tesla Cuts 200 Autopilot Workers as California Site Closes
                                                                          • Newly developed algorithm able to predict crime a week in advance with 90% accuracy
                                                                          • Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
                                                                          • Smart contact lens prototype puts a Micro LED display on top of the eye
                                                                          • How to survive the inevitable CD revival
                                                                          • Amazon agrees to drop Prime cancellation ‘dark patterns’ in Europe

                                                                          • Weird and Wacky:

                                                                            • Inside giant flying luxury hotel that can stay in the air for years
                                                                            • Engineer Designs Functional Bicycle With Back Wheel Split Into Two Half Wheels
                                                                            • Random: "Die-Hard Nintendo Fan" Reportedly Forked Out Over $40K To Ask For A New F-Zero

                                                                            • Tech Rec:

                                                                              • Clara - Swimply

                                                                              • Adam - Airthings Corentium Home Radon Detector

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                                                                                28 min
                                                                              • We agree Wayne Brady is Amazing!

                                                                                In this episode:

                                                                                • Ted Sarandos Explains Why Netflix Will Add New Ad-Supported Tier to Streaming Service
                                                                                • Microsoft Thinks It Should Be Easier To Interrupt People During Meetings, And It's Kind of Brilliant
                                                                                • Twitter tests 'notes' feature with 2,500 word limit
                                                                                • Apple Watch becomes ultimate lifeguard after calling 911 for swimmer trapped in cold river
                                                                                • The US needs a common charger, Dems say

                                                                                • AD BREAK

                                                                                  • Israel Ministry of Defense to test drone-packing advanced robotic tank
                                                                                  • Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to unionize
                                                                                  • When Customers Say Their Money Was Stolen on Zelle, Banks Often Refuse to Pay
                                                                                  • A NASA rover just found trash on Mars
                                                                                  • A Single Beaver Caused Internet Outages in Canada

                                                                                  • Weird and Wacky:

                                                                                    • Scientists create tiny fish-shaped robot that ‘swims’ around picking up microplastics
                                                                                    • Amazon's new pitch: let Alexa speak as your relatives from beyond the grave

                                                                                    • Tech Rec:

                                                                                      • Clara - https://alar.my/

                                                                                      • Adam - EpocCam

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                                                                                        30 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…

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