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- Scroll Phones and Ice Cream Cones
In this episode:
- Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content
- Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
- Airbnb, HotelTonight cancel all Washington, DC, metro reservations ahead of Inauguration
- Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters
- This is Sony’s Airpeak drone
AD BREAK
- Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
- WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal, a smaller encrypted messaging app
- The Future of Phone Design: Flexible Screens That Roll Up
- Ford Halts Focus Car Plant for Full Month Due to Chip Shortage
Weird and Wacky:
- The Pentagon will have to reveal all the information it has about UFOs
- Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - Qoins
- Adam - Everydollar
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message36 min - Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content
- Let's be anti-social social??
In this episode:
- Google, Alphabet employees unionize
- Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
- Besides providing login credentials, the former employee also showed Ticketmaster managers how to exploit a flaw in the URL generation scheme the rival used for unpublished ticketing webpages. To prevent the pages from being accessed by outsiders before they were made public, each one had a unique numerical value. The former employee told his new employer that the values were generated sequentially, and outsiders could use this information to view artist pages while they were still in early draft stages.
- Slack starts 2021 with a massive outage
AD BREAK
- Billionaire Jack Ma Hasn’t Been Seen in 74 Days
- Jack Ma’s absence from public eye sparks Twitter discussions
- Alarms about Ma’s whereabouts weren’t set off until he was replaced last week as the lead judge of a talent show for entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Finance reported. His photo was also removed from a list of judges on the show’s website, fueling speculation that the Chinese government may have gone beyond scuttling an IPO to chastise Ma for his speech.
- Visualized: The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp
- Twitter acquires Breaker podcast app, will integrate its team to Spaces
Weird and Wacky:
- This Company Is Selling Gold-Plated Apple Headphones for an Absurd Price
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - TheStreamable.com
- Adam - soapboxhq.com - a service I’m about to try out
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message28 min - Google, Alphabet employees unionize
- Do the right thing
In this episode:
- Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday
- Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus
- Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads
- FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille.
- Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology
- Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
AD BREAK
- Cyberpunk 2077: how 2020's biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
- Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company NSO
- He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says
- Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues
Weird and Wacky:
- Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
- Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - Aegis
- Adam - memrise
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message33 min - Baby Yoda In Your Living Room
In this episode:
- Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries
- Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021
- Roku and AT&T reach agreement to distribute HBO Max
- Science Just Confirmed Elon Musk's Favorite Interview Question Is Brilliant (You Should Steal It)
- U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack
- Joe Biden warns he will be tough on state sponsors of cyberattacks, as U.S. suffers massive hack
- Security Researcher: ‘solarwinds123’ Password Left Firm Vulnerable in 2019
- GitHub says goodbye to cookie banners
- Amazon Zoox unveils self-driving robotaxi
Weird and Wacky:
- Googling for ‘Baby Yoda’ will bring him into your living room via augmented reality
- Guy drops iPhone out of plane, iPhone survives, takes video of entire ordeal
- Microsoft files patent for a chatbot that 'could' become the 'twin' of a deceased person
- A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | GPT-3
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - locast.org
- Adam - New Silicon MacBook Pro
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message32 min - Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries
- My Soul is Clean... I've Never Built Anything in Flash
In this Episode:
- Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves
- Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program
- French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers
- FTC and states sue Facebook on antitrust grounds
- Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021
- Disney unveils Star, its Hulu replacement for international Disney Plus subscribers
- Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
- On Trusting Macintosh Hardware
- Apple announces $549 AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones, coming December 15th
- Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
- Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - Warby Parker
- Adam - Dropbox Vault
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message34 min - Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves
- 2021: The Rise of Skynet?
In this Episode:
- Tony Hsieh, Zappos Luminary Who Revolutionized the Shoe Business, Dies at 46
- Tony Hsieh, key figure in downtown Las Vegas revitalization, dies at age 46
- A New Zealand Startup Is Using Microbes to Suck Solid Gold Out of E-Waste
- Gut-Wrenching Photos Show Damage at Arecibo Observatory Following Collapse
- Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI
- Salesforce will buy Slack for $28 billion
- Visa Partners With Ethereum Digital-Dollar Startup That Raised $271 Million
- US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters
- Hulu’s Watch Party feature is now available to all subscribers
- Discovery to launch streaming service in January starting at $4.99 per month, Verizon customers get year free
- Warner Bros. will release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max
Weird and Wacky:
- Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah?
- That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say
- Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - RODE PSA 1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm
- Adam - Stamp Ready
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message35 min - Team Apple or Team Pecan?
In this Episode:
- Microsoft Teams takes on Zoom with free all-day video calling on the web
- Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet
- People Can’t Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon’s Cloud Servers Are Down
- Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies
- Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy
- Scientists produce rare diamonds in minutes at room temperature
Weird and Wacky:
- Canadian officials warn drivers not to let moose lick their cars
- A Weird Monolith Is Found in the Utah Desert
- Fugitive Maryland couple found after 9 months on the lam because of 'Words with Friends'
Tech Recs:
- Sanjay - Shure X2U XLR-to-USB Signal Adapter
- Adam - Darn Tough Socks
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message28 min - Application Screencaster Professional Clipper Do It All For You Now Gadgetry Wiz with Widgets
In this Episode:
- Disappearing Tweets? Twitter Now Has a Feature for That
- Messaging app Go SMS Pro exposed millions of users’ private photos and files
- Google completes global RCS rollout as Messages starts testing default end-to-end encryption
- Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode and faster performance
- Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st
- Dolly Parton, Country Saint, Funded Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine
- Hulu will increase the price of its live TV service again on December 18th
- This Device Reads Paralyzed People’s Thoughts Through Their Veins
- This startup wants to replace the white cane for blind people
- Not a test anymore: SpaceX, NASA launch 4 astronauts from Cape in historic mission
Weird and Wacky:
- MeowTalk: Alexa developer’s app to translate cat’s miaow
- Suspect tries to escape FBI agents using underwater "sea scooter" in frigid California lake
Tech Recs:
- Sanjay - Shure SM7B
- Adam - Evernote Screen Capture Feature
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message34 min - I’ll Go Where the Wind Takes Me
In this episode:
- Google made an app for creditors to lock you out of your financed phone if you don’t make payments
- Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021
- Election 2020: Michigan voters approve Proposal 2, protecting electronic data
- Uber rolls out a new feature that lets you book a ride 30 days in advance
- Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test
- Stretchable, self-healing, recyclable device could be the future of wearables
- Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021
- Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what?
- Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks got crushed on the positive vaccine news
- Scientists Develop Nasal Spray That Can Disable Coronavirus
- Netflix Picks France to Test First Linear Offering
- Sonos launches a paid, lossless-quality version of its radio service
Weird and Wacky:
- Best Facial Recognition Fail Ever
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - MaxRewards
- Adam - Freshbooks
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message42 min - Dog Robots & Olive Oil
In this episode:
- Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed
- The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer
- Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data
- Massachusetts Just Passed the World’s Most Advanced Right to Repair Law
- WhatsApp Brings Disappearing Messages To Its Platform
- Spotify Rolls Out Standalone Streaming On Apple Watch App: TechCrunch
- Coronavirus: NHS COVID app failed to record potential exposures due to error
- Portland, Maine has voted to ban facial recognition
- WeWork employees used an alarmingly insecure printer password
- Fortnite to Return to iOS via Nvidia GeForce Now Streaming Servic
Weird and Wacky:
- Driverless race car sums up 2020 by swerving into a wall for no reason
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - CopyQ
- Adam - Alfred
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message28 min - Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed
About Tech Talk Y'all
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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…
news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are).
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