Apple’s new Tap to Cash feature that allows iPhone users to tap their phones to initiate an Apple Pay transfer makes paying someone really easy.  The question is does it make it too easy?

The US Surgeon General wants tobacco-like warning labels on social media.

The proposed labels would regularly warn users that social media platforms have not been proven safe for their mental health.

The Fearless Fund was dealt a blow in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in its effort to support women-owned Black businesses.  

Ancestry is using AI to help users discover the names and lives of their ancestors who were formerly enslaved.

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we cover Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference Keynote.  Brothech breaks down the new hotness coming to visionOS 2, iOS and iPad OS 18, WatchOS 11, and macOS Sequoia.  

TechLifeSteph catches us up with the saga of the phantom system data on her new Macbook Air.  To make a long story short, Steph had to make a trip to the Genius Bar.

And we wrap things up by talking about New York’s new Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act.  The bill, expected to be passed into law by New York’s governor, essentially outlaws algorithmic feeds for children.

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A pair of studies published in the journal Science indicate that predominately older Republican women are responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news”.

Spotify is raising its prices for the second time in as many years. Will the streaming music service be able to maintain the industry's best churn rate?

The social media platform X has updated its terms of service specifically allowing for adult NSFW content on the platform.  

And be careful when you receive requests for cash through various mobile payment apps. Folks out here scamming during graduation season.

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We’ve got something special in this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn. We interview Cherish Samuels, a unicorn of unicorns, as she is a Black, female, mechanical engineer.

We talk about everything from her journey getting into engineering at a young age, for years being the only face on the job that looks like hers, and how she has transitioned into tech now working on Amazon Fresh, the automated checkout grocery store.

We also talk about Cherish’s son’s unique name, her not changing her last name when she got married, and, people still thinking it's cool to touch black people's hair even after you tell them not to.

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Political deep fakes are a thing in India, they generally aren’t nefarious, and most politicians approve. They probably need to do a better job at making sure folks know they are indeed fake, however.

The latest iOS update, version 17.5, appears to in some instances resurface deleted content, including deleted nudes users thought were gone forever. 

OpenAI is tossing around the idea of letting users responsibly generate AI porn and other NSFW content. 

And, OpenAI has done away with its team focused on long-term AI risks less than one year after announcing it.

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Developer season is upon us with Google I/O kicking off, and, tech pettiness is on full display.  Apple announced iOS 17.5 and there are rumors that ChatGPT is coming to iPhone.

OpenAI took petty to trolling with an event Monday, the day before I/O, with a brand new version of its generative AI bot called ChatGPT-4o.

Online dating site Bumble is betting that AI bots dating other AI can help real people find better matches.

And job seekers are turning to AI to help them fill out job applications which hiring managers are using AI to sift through…

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By the time you hear this Apple’s Let Loose iPad Event has happened.  Here is all the new iPad hotness we think is going to be announced.

The Supreme Court of The United States really wasn’t interested in hearing why Elon Musk thinks he no longer needs a “Twitter Sitter” to approve all of his Telsa-related social media posts.

Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board at BlueSky, the decentralized microblogging platform he started at Twitter way back in 2019.

And should community college be looked at as a cost-effective way to get skills to get that job in AI?

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The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to ban non-compete agreements for most employees allowing workers to switch jobs or start their own businesses more easily.

A Baltimore area gym teacher has been arrested for using AI to make a deep fake recording of his principal making racist and antisemitic comments.

Gunshot detection system ShotSpotter keeps collecting data and notifying police after its contracts with cities have ended. 

And the bill that could impose a TikTok ban if it’s parent company Bytedance doesn’t divest its U.S. interest is about to be signed into law.

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It appears that a lot of folks repeatedly sign up and cancel streaming services based on there being content on them we want to watch, and, they have a name for us. Serial Churners.

The potential TikTok ban is picking up steam again as a revised bill mandating TikTok parent company ByteDance divest its US interest in the social media platform passes the House of Representatives.

A court ruled that the police can compel some suspects to unlock their phones with a thumbprint in some cases.

And schools would like to ban phones in class, but, parents ain’t really trying to hear that.

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Hybrid work appears to be here to stay. Millennials are making it clear that they have no intention of returning to the office 5 days per week. 

Artificial Intelligence will allow artists to perform digitally long after they’ve passed away.  The bigger question is how will the content be licensed and distributed.

X may start charging new users a small fee to be able to post, reply to, and like content on the platform to combat spam and bots.

And fake footage of Iran’s attack on Israel started going viral within moments of actual events. 

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