A review of mobile devices, gadgets, technology, and news. Hosted by Rod Simmons, Chris Ashley, and Robb Dunewood.
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Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang and friends stream live to discuss the tech news of the day to help you understand. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture
Robb Dunewood, Stephanie Humphrey, Terrance Gaines
The Tech Jawn is a weekly Tech podcast that covers technology news, with a focus on how tech impacts Black communities and culture. The show discusses major tech trends, gadgets, startups, AI, social media, and other innovations while also addressing issues like digital equity, privacy, and diversity in the tech industry. It is hosted by a group of Black tech enthusiasts: Robb Dunewood, Tech Life Steph (Stephanie Humphrey), and Terrance Gaines (a.k.a. BrothaTech). Their discussions often ble ...
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The essential tech news you need every day in 10 minutes or less. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https://plus.acast.com/s/dth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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There's an AI for That - DTNS Live 5006
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1:00:44Will AI replace apps as the primary interface for technology? Meta’s CTO thinks so. Netflix rolls out dialogue only subtitles. In Australia an AI-generated radio host of a four-hour show went unnoticed for months. And we end the week with another quizzical quiz that we’ll test your knowledge of life after death through technology in big and small s…
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Apple Is Planning To Shift All US iPhone Production To India - DTH
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5:37Apple is planning to shift all US iPhone production to India, Intel is moving to a 4-day per week in-office policy, and Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a mont…
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Talk to My AI Agents – DTNS Live 5005
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1:03:02Can training an LLM on your work enable it to reproduce it with the same precision and quality? Would an energy efficiency label sway your decision on which smartphone or tablet you bought? Is 2025 the year when AI becomes a central pillar in which companies organize themselves around? Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Ch…
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Adobe Released The Latest Versions Of Its Firefly AI models - DTH
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5:46Adobe released the latest versions of its Firefly AI models, TSMC unveils a new technology for creating faster AI chips, and Tesla has begun testing its Full Self-Driving ride-hailing service. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https:/…
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OpenAI has expressed interest in buying Chrome if the Department of Justice forces Google to divest it. Nintendo says not everybody who wants a Switch 2 on launch day will not be able to get one. Bethesda officially drops The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered the same day they reveal. Why is everyone going crazy for it? And its YouTube’s 20th b…
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The EC fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the DMA - DTH
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4:30Meta rolls out live translations for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, Intel reportedly preparing to lay off more than 21,000 employees, WhatsApp rolls out a new Advanced Chat Privacy feature. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https://plus.acast.com…
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A Jump Cut Above the Rest? – DTNS Live 5003
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58:14Would you like your artistic legacy to live on in an LLM? With the age of tap to pay phone, how do you let your waiter know you’re ready to pay? A Columbia student suspended over an interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to develop a ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool. And Instagram launches a mobile video editor. Does CapCut have competition? Starring Sa…
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Meta is using AI to flag teen accounts, is coding still a viable tech field to get into, OpenAI is getting into the social media game, and ChatGPT tried to gaslight Steph. We've got all this and more for you in episode 174 of The Tech Jawn. Hosts: Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech Storie…
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ChatGPT Search May Soon Fall Under The EU’s Digital Services Act - DTH
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4:55ChatGPT Search may soon fall under the EU’s Digital Services Act, OpenAI and the Washington Post ink a deal to display Post content in ChatGPT, and Bluesky adopts a centralized verification system. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: ht…
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AGI or artificial general intelligence is the holy grail for AI researchers. But how will we know when we’ve achieved it? Can AR/VR based therapy help people with social anxieties? The FTC has sued Uber, accusing it of misleading customers into signing up for the monthly subscription Uber One. And are you a tech hoarder? We share what we do with ou…
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FTC sues Uber Over Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices - DTH
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4:05Riot Games says Valorant Mobile is coming soon, Lego opens $1 billion factory in Vietnam, attackers exploit weakness in Google’s DomainKeys Identified Mail checks. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https://plus.acast.com/s/dth. Hosted on Acas…
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Trust Your Lying AI? - DTNS Live 5001
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1:00:36We discuss alternatives to Google’s ubiquitous search tool. Will screenshots be the universal method of capturing digital information for AI digital assistants? Is a trend of using ChatGPT to identify locations from photos another threat to privacy? Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on…
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Google Offers US College Students Free Access To Google One AI Premium - DTH
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5:11Google offers U.S. college students free access to Google One AI Premium, Meta has stopped supporting Apple Intelligence in Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads, and Netflix is developing an AI-powered search experience. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for j…
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Google has been found guilty of breaking the law to establish its dominance in ad tech. What discuss what it means for the company. Community colleges struggle against bots pretending to be students stealing financial aid funds. How has AI impacted irregular digital workers who rely on online work to get by? And Polaroid introduces an updated versi…
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The Trump Administration Considers Barring DeepSeek In The U.S. - DTH
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5:00The Trump administration considers barring Americans from using DeepSeek, TikTok is introducing a new crowd-sourced fact-checking feature called "Footnotes", and Wikimedia partners with Kaggle to release a beta dataset optimized for AI model training. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and supp…
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We discuss Ubisoft’s new dev tools to help game-devs incorporate accessibility into their games for the colorblind. How can sound help patients alleviate issues with motion sickness. TikTok is launching “Footnotes,” a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature. And with the success of A Minecraft Movie, we ponder the potential of what other game IP to lev…
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CISA Will Extend Funding to Mitre For the CVE Program - DTH
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4:18Nvidia announces a $5.5 billion charge tied to exports of H20 AI chips, Meta reportedly offered FTC $1B to settle current case, Grok AI chatbot now includes Grok Studio for docs, code, and apps. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https://plus.…
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Before You Hire See If AI Can Do IT
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1:00:12In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss… The FCC vs. Meta trial kicking off, Gail King and nem going to space, two Yale juniors getting $3.1 mil in pre-seed funding for their AI social media platform, and Shopify saying you must prove AI can't do the work before you hire new folk. We've got all this, we're joined by special guest host Nica Mont…
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Protecting Your Data & The AI Revolution - DTNS Live 4998
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58:09Apple says it has a workaround to training its AI models with data that doesn’t violate its customers' privacy. The town that used AI to see what everybody wanted. OpenAI is working on a X-like social media platform. Is this what we want? And we share our data security habits when we travel abroad with tech. Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Nica M…
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Japan Issued A Cease And Desist Order Against Google for Monopolistic Practices - DTH
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5:09Japan issued a cease and desist order against Google for monopolistic practices, a new Android Update forces devices to reboot if they’ve been unlocked for 3 days, and Apple details how it plans to improve its AI models. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can …
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The Latest on Tech Tariffs - DTNS Live 4997
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56:49Which tech products are affected by tariffs and which have been given exemptions? Justin is here to break it down for us. Should ChatBots be made to be less human-like so people don’t assume its intelligent? Would you feel violated if your ride-hailing service recorded your conversation during the ride? And if smartphones are durable to resist brea…
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FTC v. Meta: Lawyers Accuse Meta of “Buy-Or-Bury Strategy” - DTH
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4:36US temporarily exempts some tech products from tariffs, Sony hikes the price of the PS5 in some regions, Samsung pauses global rollout of One UI 7. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https://plus.acast.com/s/dth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com…
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Toshiba unveils the Aurex AX-RP10, a portable wireless record player. MIT researchers study if English-speaking robots improve the quality of dialogue between parents and children. Plus would you subscribe to your appliance? And it’s time again for our Friday end-of-week Great Debates! Unemployed or Phoneless, Smell vs Taste; which side will you ta…
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Google Has Laid Off Hundreds Of Employees From Its Platforms And Devices Division - DTH
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5:09Google has laid off hundreds of employees from its Platforms and Devices division, Meta is heading to court with the Federal Trade Commission, and Microsoft is rolling out Recall to Windows Insiders. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: …
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Have you ever experienced GTP or Game Transfer Phenomenon? A condition where the physical world and video games bleed together. What new research discovered about the stylistic differences between news articles written by human journalists and those generated by AI. And Apple airlifts U.S. around 1.5 million iPhones to avoid tariffs on Chinese impo…
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That Kid Is Fast Fast: SMRpodast 621
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1:00:29Episode 621 of The SMRpodcast is online and available for download. The fellas talk about track, tariffs, world record deadlifts, and we even throw some tech in there. Hosts: Chris Ashley @bigchrisashley Robb Dunewood @robbdunewood Rod Simmons @rodsimmons Picks: Dyson - Hot+Cool AM09 Tower, Heater and Fan -- Best Buy SHOKZ New OpenRun Pro 2 - Amazo…
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The Nasdaq Soared 12% To Its Best Day Since 2001 - DTH
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4:50The Nasdaq soared 12% to its best day since 2001, a Facebook whistleblower said the company collaborated with China to undermine U.S. security, and Google DeepMind will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can …
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Nintendo’s recent Switch 2 announcement was a hit. The pricing for the games and console is not so much. Fans of Internet derived shorthand like Kthxbai, thx, and l8r in text messages might need to rethink their approach if you want to seem sincere. Google AI makes the Wizard of Oz look better on the Sphere in Vegas. And why house robots always see…
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Google introduces AI-powered Workspace Flows, Nintendo postpones the Switch 2 release in China, Samsung’s Ballie robot heads to the US and South Korea. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month: https://plus.acast.com/s/dth. Hosted on Acast. See acast…
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Signal is Secure. People Are Not - DTNS Live 4993
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56:20Shannon’s here to show off Gemini’s new AI live streaming and screen sharing features. We explore how to avoid your own Signalgate communications debacle. Where Zipline is expanding its remotely piloted air delivery service. And what everyone’s favorite FAST services are. Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to th…
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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss… X.ai buying X, Meta stopping its fact-checking program, the TikTok ban deadline being extended again, and DOGE's planned IRS Hackathon. Hosts: Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech Stories Mentioned: — X.ai buys X (formerly Twitter) for $45 billi…
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Meta Is Launching Teen Accounts On Facebook And Messenger - DTH
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4:28Google’s Gemini Live is now available on Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 series devices, Shopify’s CEO says prove you can’t use AI before you hire, and Meta is launching Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just $3 a month…
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Got Jokes? Social Media Doesn't - DTNS Live 4992
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57:12Meta releases a new version of Llama LLM over the weekend. How does it compare with previous versions and its rivals? Small Indian tech shops are building a niche market by hacking together hybrid-laptops from various cast away parts. How Tom used ChatGPT on his vacation to Japan. And Bluesky might have less toxicity, it also has less fun. Starring…
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Nintendo Reevaluates Switch 2 US Preorders Amidst Tariffs - DTH
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4:36UK court rules secret surveillance case against Apple must be made public, OpenAI said to be considering a purchase of Jony Ive’s io Products, Google rolls out new Gemini Live features to Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 devices. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Want an ad-free feed and support the show directly? You can for just …
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Not Everyone Has Good AI Feels - DTNS Live 4991
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59:49Vimeo is rolling out Vimeo Streaming, enabling video creators launch their own subscription streaming services. AI experts are way more optimistic about AI’s future than the general U.S. public. Speaking of AI, Microsoft's Copilot can now browse the web and perform actions for you. And it's Friday! We’ve got another fun trivia quiz that will test y…
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