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The Tech Jawn

By: Robb Dunewood Stephanie Humphrey Terrance Gaines
  • Summary

  • The Tech Jawn is a technology news podcast focusing on the top tech stories of the week, how technology affects and disaffects the African American Community, delivered from a cast of African American hosts with, collectively, over 75 years of experience in the consumer and corporate IT game.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2023
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Episodes
  • Get Your TikTok Ish Together
    Apr 30 2024

    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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    58 mins
  • Don’t Allow Your Thumbprint To Snitch
    Apr 23 2024

    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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    58 mins
  • Fiber Already Trippin'
    Apr 16 2024

    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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    57 mins

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