Tech Talk Y'all

In this episode:  Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid? Apple Music to sponsor Super Bowl halftime show James Earl Jones Steps Back From Voicing Darth Vader, Signs Off on Using Archived Recordings to Recreate Voice With A.I. Darth Vader's voice in Obi-Wan Kenobi was entirely AI-generated Walmart Is Making Its First Move Into the Metaverse With Virtual Worlds on Roblox Google’s making it even easier to remove your personal info from search Google kills Stadia, will refund game purchases Some Google Photos users finding that old images have been ‘corrupted’ [Updated] Zynga’s Marko Lastikka teams up with Netflix to open new studio This Surveillance Artist Knows How You Got That Perfect Instagram Photo Netflix expands its password-sharing crackdown Turnstile is Cloudflare’s latest attempt to rid the web of CAPTCHAs Amazon's new Kindle Scribe is an e-reader you can write on — here are the 6 best features we know about so far DALL·E Now Available - Without Waitlist Weird and Wacky:  Random: This Super Mario Maker 2 Fan Spent Seven Years Crafting 'Super Mario Bros. 5' Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights Tech Rec: Sanjay - Lively HSA Adam - Use The Keyboard --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode:  Ethereum completes the “Merge,” which ends mining and cuts energy use by 99.95% Coloradans can now pay state tax bills with cryptocurrency TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now Hilton to design astronaut suites, facilities for Voyager’s private space station Starlab Watch out, Zoom - Slack is here to eat your lunch Framework’s new Chromebook is upgradable and customizable Elon Musk Says the Optimus, Tesla's Human-Like Robot, Will Premiere on September 30 Amid Investor Hesitancy Twitter is facing an exodus of hundreds of workers since Elon Musk pitched them on his vision for the company three months ago AD BREAK Uber apparently hacked by teen, employees thought it was a joke Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems Google accidentally transferred a quarter of a million dollars to a blogger and took almost a month to ask for it back Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges Weird and Wacky:  3D printed Blizzflosser is the most customized and quickest way to gently floss all your teeth at once The last man selling floppy disks says he still receives orders from airlines Watch this team of drones 3D-print a tower Tech Rec: Sanjay - USB-C to USB-A adapter & Buy Mullvad cards on Amazon! (ep 175) Adam - Carrot Weather --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

Good buy, Type O’s: iMessages can finally be edited Uber Eats to Begin Delivering Food with Autonomous Vehicles Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’ The Nissan Leaf can now officially power buildings Brush up on your office lingo with Biz Jargon voice navigation Copywriter website: Joe Coleman  Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite A 22-year-old TikToker fooled millions by pretending to be an AI-generated image Peloton's founder is severing his last remaining ties with the embattled company California sues Amazon Twitter shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal Patagonia reinvents itself again Weird and Wacky:  Man Asks AI to Recreate His Photos This Muzzle, Er, Microphone Lets You Swear Around Friends Tech Rec: Sanjay - Water Resistant Atomic Clock  Adam - The Magic Email --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode:  Can new technology tell if you’re lying on LinkedIn? Open source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach ‘LOTR: The Rings Of Power’ Forges Biggest Premiere Viewership Ever For Amazon Prime Video Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own Farewell, Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button. Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme Weird and Wacky:  An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy. Hacked Russian Taxi App Orders Dozens of Cabs to the Same Address, Chaos Ensues Tech Rec: Sanjay - Fanttik X8 APEX Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor  Adam - YouTube TV --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode:  Jack Dorsey’s biggest regret is Twitter became a company T-Mobile & SpaceX Starlink say your 5G phone will connect to satellites next year The man who tracks Elon Musk's jet says he would stop if Elon took him on a flight and gave him an interview French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes MTV VMAs: Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform as Bored Apes in the Metaverse California to install solar panels over canals to fight drought Soon electric vehicles could charge faster than your iPhone Cox Rolls Out Cellphone Service With Starting Price of $15 US theaters will sell $3 movie tickets on September 3rd The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades Crypto.com accidentally sent a woman $7.2 million instead of $68 Weird and Wacky:  Hear me out: chill your earbuds before you wear them A Giant Truck Designed to Shake the Ground Like an Earthquake or an Approaching Dinosaur Why Totino’s Needs 25 Ways to Make Pizza Rolls Tech Rec: Sanjay - Momondo  Adam - myQ Chamberlain Smart Garage Control Adam: Alexa play “Welcome to Atlanta” Sanjay: Google play “Welcome to Atlanta” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode:  MoviePass to relaunch on Labor Day in beta form with pricing ranging from $10-$30 a month How Data Is Changing the College Experience This app beeps every time your computer sends data to Google Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll Peloton strikes a deal to sell fitness equipment and apparel on Amazon Does turning the air conditioning off when you're not home actually save energy? Three engineers run the numbers YouTube removes video by Tesla investors using kids in FSD Beta test Court filing in Bored Apes lawsuit revives claims founders built NFT empire on Nazi ideology Weird and Wacky:  A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" Is Crashing Computers Worldwide Banana split: artists set for court battle over who first taped fruit to the wall Army’s Solar-Powered Drone Crashes After 64 Days in the Air Tech Rec: Sanjay - Pacsafe Adam - Anker Soundcore 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

WeWork’s former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1 billion New TV show from MGM called ‘Ring Nation’ uses surveillance video footage from Ring cameras Did Fortune Favor The Brave? New technology pulls clean drinking water from the air InMotion unveils ‘fastest in the world’ 87 MPH V13 Challenger electric unicycle A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave 1 million square feet of L.A. roads are being covered with solar-reflective paint Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach “It’s Potentially Illegal” Nearly half of all teens say they use the internet ‘almost constantly,’ survey finds Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser New Android Campaign Urges Apple to ‘Fix Texting’ Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays After 35 years missing, an Air Force captain mysteriously reappeared in the Bay Area Google gets green light to exempt campaign emails from spam detection Weird & Wacky:  Harvard Professor Trying to Recover Alleged Alien Tech From Ocean Colossal to De-Extinct the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem in Yellowstone Tech Rec: Sanjay - Wise card (referral link) Adam - HTML Cleaner --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode: Amazon buying iRobot in a $1.7 billion all-cash deal Elon Musk sells 7.92 million Tesla shares worth $6.88 billion Jeff Bezos' Megayacht Was Quietly Towed From a Dutch Shipyard — Watch the Video California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot DuckDuckGo browser’s stricter privacy protection will also apply to Microsoft scripts now Slack resets passwords after exposing hashes in invitation links AD BREAK Netflix is expanding its push into video games, but few subscribers are playing along Burger King just emailed everyone a blank receipt in a whopper of a mistake Phishers who breached Twilio and targeted Cloudflare could easily get you, too Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes Weird and Wacky: Britney Spears - Toxic (on Devices feat. Epilator) Boeing 737 mysteriously discovered in random field and no one knows how it got there Copy-paste error results in Nevada homebuyer getting 87 properties for the price of one home Tech Rec: Sanjay - GeoGuessr  - Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. Adam - Spotify Car Thing pRvX5DgMEyTG8efbxkwl --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode:  T-Mobile Is Tracking Users by Default. How to Turn It Off These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret Secret Service may disable iMessages to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 controversy Elon Musk countersues Twitter over merger, but details aren’t yet public Elon Musk’s antics turn owners and would-be buyers against Tesla: ‘I love my vehicle, but I really wish I didn’t have to respond to my friends and family about his latest tweet’ The Space Force is scrapping the annual fitness test in favor of wearable trackers Spotify wants users to pay for separate ‘Play’ and ‘Shuffle’ buttons Trailblazing Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols dies at 89 AD BREAK Thousands of Solana wallets drained in multimillion-dollar exploit Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year Samsung Repair Mode ensures your data isn’t stolen during phone repair FTC Seeks to Block Virtual Reality Giant Meta’s Acquisition of Popular App Creator Within Anti-aging drugs are being tested as a way to treat covid Weird and Wacky:  Creepy AI asked to predict what the last human on Earth will look like – the results suggest a mutant future Researchers repaired cells in damaged pig organs an hour after the animal’s death Have you seen the chairs that automatically return to their origina --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient Twitter Pares Office Space to Save Cash, Deepen Remote-Work Tilt Senate passes bill to boost U.S. chip production and China competition, sending to House Don’t Look Now, but Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of disclosure Apple politely explains why iPhone cases are a waste of money AD BREAK Tesla's $1.5 Billion Bet on Bitcoin Went Exactly as You Might Have Expected--Not Good Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop Spotify Hits 188M Paying Subs, Exceeding Expectations, and Grows Quarterly Ad Revenue Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation Weird and Wacky: 765 Price Canyon Rd, Pismo Beach, CA 93449 It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered Another Earth Tech Rec: Sanjay - https://loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ng/ Adam - Rhodia A5 Webnotebook, Dot, Black --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message