The Tech Jawn

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.Link to Show Notes

In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss Black Project 2025, Message interactions from Android finally working in iOS, and, a bit later, Cierra Gross, founder, and CEO of Worklution stops by to talk about WrkReciepts, the first ever direct‑to‑consumer HR AI SaaS product.Link to Show Notes

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.Link to Show Notes

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.Link To Notes

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.

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.Link to Show Notes

Verizon experienced a nationwide outage on Monday. An outage any day is bad. Right after a hurricane is particularly bad timing. Who knew that your interest in electric vehicles could depend on what side of the aisle you sit on politically? It seems like maybe auto manufacturer execs should have known.ChatGPT can speak in ebonics. We do a live test during the show and the feature is surprisingly good.A Common Sense Media Study shows that Black students are twice as likely to have their work flagged as AI-generated when indeed it is not.Link to Show Notes

Some new hotness made its way to the Apple Store last Friday.  BrothTech stopped by to pick up a new iPhone 16 Pro Max and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and today he gives us his first impressions.The government appears to be taking child online safety more seriously as the  House Committee on Energy and Commerce forwards two bills on to the full House of Representatives.Section 230 protects online platforms from liability for what users post, but, according to a three-judge panel, not from what platforms recommend. And are you using a digital note-taking app on your smartphone?  Chances are, you probably should be.Link to Show Notes