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

What legal and moral responsibilities do social media companies have to remove violent content from their platforms?

Does Elon Musk really want to buy Twitter? The deal is currently on hold and public spats with the CEO have analysts wondering.

USB-C may be coming to the iPhone 15 next year.

And we dive into Google i/o. Google announced new hardware, new software, and the company seems to be for real for real when it comes to inclusivity in image processing.

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AI used in a Northwestern study of police departments is showing that a small percentage of officers own a disproportionate share of the misconduct.

The “Chip Shortage” is actually making the chip shortage worse because chip manufacturers can’t get the chips they need to make the chips we need.

The Amazon union saga is far from over as it fires managers who “didn’t prevent” the Staten Island warehouse from organizing right as that union’s leader meets with the president and appears in front of Congress.

And the fall of Roe v. Wade could have big effects on Big Tech. We discuss some of the ways tech companies are scrambling to protect employees, end-users, and the massive amounts of data it collects. 

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What things should we do to manage our digital footprint after we die? 

We probably should have a plan for all of our data, all of our accounts, and all of our financial information to make things easier for the loved ones that we leave behind.

No one really likes them, but, ads in our media, social and traditional, work better than you might think they do.

And, Apple’s Self Service Repair is not for the faint at heart.

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Elon Musk secured financing for his $46.5 billion takeover bid of Twitter and Twitter’s board has reconsidered and accepted his offer.

Patreon creates the new “Pull Up” incubator for creators of color and offers resources, training, and funding for marginalized small business owners.

The recently launched CNN+ streaming service calls it quits barely 3 weeks after its debut. 

And, the EU has passed the Digital Services Act which will force big tech companies to take greater responsibility for the content that appears on their platforms and can fine them up to 6% of annual turnover for non-compliance.

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Details on how Twitter’s upcoming edit button might work have surfaced and we all have different takes on how we feel about it.

Slack-like communities are coming to WhatsApp Messenger and this could give the super-popular messaging app more of a social media app look and feel.

Flossing on the Gram is not really a good idea right after you have just filed for bankruptcy.

And we interview Jeremy Butler, founder of Savage Kingdom, and he dives into just what NFTs are and how his company is providing dope artwork and teaching the community about the blockchain and financial literacy.

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Elon Musk and Twitter had a heck of a week.  Musk buys 9.2% of the stock becoming the biggest shareholder, is offered a seat on the board, but turns it down. 

Twitter also announces that it is adding an “Edit” button to the platform.  They’ve been working on it for over a year and the feature will first come to Twitter Blue subscribers.

Dall.E is a neural network AI that can create images from concepts expressed in natural language.  You tell it what to draw, it draws it, and it is actually pretty good at it.

And we interview Afua Bruce, Adjunct Faculty at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the book “The Tech That Comes Next”.

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Facebook’s News Feed was doling out misinformation for months due to a bug in its ranking algorithm that affected as much as half of all views.

Elon Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter becoming the company's biggest individual shareholder.

Apple and Meta shared user personal data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement.

And Amazon workers on Staten Island voted to form a union.

We’ve got all this, our spotlight, and more in episode 29 of The Tech Jawn.

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Will Smith smacking the taste out of Chris Rock’s mouth at the Oscars isn’t necessarily a tech story, but it needs to be discussed. 

Proposed EU legislation may require messaging platforms to interoperate, but the bigger issue may be getting the carriers to roll out a standard like RCS.

Is an Apple hardware subscription plan a good thing for consumers?

And Tesla is straight buggin when it comes to racism in the workplace and Google has a new class-action lawsuit to contend with for alleged racist practices.

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Facebook locks a bunch of users out of their accounts for not turning on Facebook Protect.  The problem was that Facebook’s email notification looked like a phishing scam which was largely ignored.

The global chip shortage is getting real and it's getting worse.  First it was graphic cards that became impossible to buy.  Now some SUVs are shipping without the chips that control seat warmers.

The toy company that first created transformers is now working on a moon rover, and yes, it actually transforms.

And, is the digital divide literally killing us?  Studies show a link between internet access and Covid-19 deaths.

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Instagram introduces Enhanced Tags which should make it easier for professional accounts and influencers to receive credit for their work. 

Apple Announces the M1 Ultra, the new Mac Studio, and the 5K Studio Display, and they all sound kind of awesome.

And we interview Gary Joanis, Pharmaceutical Consultant for Viral Vaccines & Advanced Therapeutic Medicines for Sequoia Consulting Group, where we discuss the Covid-19 vaccine and try to dispel some of the misinformation.

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