The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss an FBI warning about using end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, the ACLU making the argument that police departments shouldn’t allow officers to use AI to draft police reports, all the tech companies that appear to be kissing donald trump's ring, and the SCOTUS being the last chance for TikTok to avoid a ban in the US. 

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss:

A Federal Appeals Court upholding the TikTok divestment law that could see the social media platform banned in January.

Washington DC suing Amazon for not delivering to Black neighborhoods, but, still charging customers for 2-day delivery.

 OpenAI may not have achieved AGI just yet, but, its o1 model is already lying to humans and trying to set itself free.

And, enrollment at HBCUs continues to defy national college enrollment trends.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss Australia's new under-16 social media ban, Kai Cenat turning down a $60 million bag and breaking subscription records on Twitch, a reminder that you don't own your social media accounts, and BlueSky is absolutely a thing, and Meta is worried about it.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss why global mobile internet adoption is slowing down, MIT waiving tuition for all students whose families make less than 200,000 per year, the DOJ wanting Google to sell Chrome, and we've got a few Black Friday holiday deals for you as you head into the holiday weekend.

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Bluesky, Threads, and Spill running the users up in social media, ESPN integrating an AI avatar into its sports coverage, Spotify changing the name of Spotify for Podcasters to Spotify for Creators, and US workers aren't really trying to tell their managers they use AI.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn Amazon workers are appalled by AWS CEO Matt Garmin's return to office remarks and urge a policy reversal.

Meta intends to use a proprietary software tool it calls an “adult classifier” to determine if users who say they are older than 18 might actually be children who are lying about their age.

Who would have thought that dating apps were designed to make money, not matches?

And, Microsoft Is struggling to retain Black, Latin, And Female Employees who seem to be leaving for more inclusive pastures.

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In this Just The Two of Us episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss the release of Apple Intelligence, Apple and Goldman's Sachs having to pay $89 million for Apple Wallet issues, Google, and Microsoft, and Perplexity promoting scientific racism in AI search results, and Congress thinks digital price tags could be problematic.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss new guidelines on pulse oximeters, easy-to-cancel subscriptions, Passkeys replacing passwords, and using AI to ace job interviews.

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At Tesla’s We Robot event last week in Los Angeles company CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Optimus line of humanoid-looking robots, but, they didn’t seem to be all that autonomous. 

14 State Attorneys General sued TikTok claiming the social media platform was designed with the express intention of addicting young people to the app.

Matt Mulleweg, one of the creators of WordPress, and WP Engine, a WordPress-managed host, are going through it legally.

And we shine The Tech Jawn Spotlight on Dr. David Harold Blackwell, the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

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Brothatech wants to get a new camera to look good on video. He wants something better than a webcam, but, without all the complexity of a DSLR.

Maybe we don’t want ChatGPT speaking in ebonics after all because AI seems to make the same racist decisions based on dialect as humans do.

Police seldom disclose the use of facial recognition when used to identify suspects and often lie about its use in public-facing reports. 

And when you put cameras in glasses, real-time facial recognition was bound to follow.

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