

Tech Talk Y'all
Edgewise Media
Tech Talk Y'all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are).
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Feb 22, 2021 • 32min
Farting Robot Cats Won't Kill You (we think)
In this episode:
Maryland Approves Country’s First Tax on Big Tech’s Ad Revenue
Luxury car brand Jaguar to go all-electric by 2025
LastPass will restrict free users to only one type of device starting next month
Samsung develops high-bandwidth memory with integrated AI processing
AD BREAK
Apple Pay can now be used to spend Bitcoin
Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia
Airbnb Announces Plans to Open Atlanta Technical Hub
Weird and Wacky:
AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad
Got no milk: Nestle creates vegan KitKat bar
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Click & Grow
Adam - Clubhouse
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Feb 15, 2021 • 40min
5-second ads and bitcoin fads
In this episode:
The 5-second Reddit Super Bowl ad you probably missed
This Google Play Pass app with over 10 million installs has been outed as malware
Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content
Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser
The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs
Biden will sign an executive order to fuel the U.S. semiconductor industry
US Chip Firms to Biden: We Need More Funding to Remain Competitive
AD BREAK
Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say
Hacked Water Plant in Florida Relied on Shared Password, Windows 7
Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack
Justice Department drops challenge to California net neutrality rules
States leapfrog federal government in restraining tech
Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment
Weird and Wacky:
GoDaddy wins our 2020 award for most evil company email
New wearable device turns the body into a battery
China Swears It Isn't Building a Time Machine
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - xBox Series X
Adam - Toonly.com
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Feb 8, 2021 • 30min
Monkey mind games and Flash is back (not really)
In this episode:
Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO
Apple Greenlights TV Series on WeWork, With Anne Hathaway
The iPhone's Face ID Will Soon Work With a Mask—if You Have an Apple Watch
Google Explores Alternative to Apple’s New Anti-Tracking Feature
Nike’s new Flyease Go shoes snap right onto your feet
AD BREAK
Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion
Tesla Will Recall 134,000+ Vehicles Affected by Inevitable eMMC Failure
Elon Musk claims Neuralink created a brain implant that a monkey is using ‘to play video games with his mind’
Samsung Believes the Automotive Chip Shortage Could Impact Phones
We Now Know How Much Scalpers Warped PS5, Xbox, Zen 3, Ampere Markets
South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support
Weird and Wacky:
SpaceX All-Civilian Space Mission Raffle
Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change
The story behind 'Blue Check Homes': How an SF artist created a fake company that fooled thousands
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Freshworks
Adam - Substack
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Feb 1, 2021 • 30min
Thanks to Frozen, we know it wasn't a Yeti
In this episode:
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation
NBCUniversal is bringing its live events to Twitter users globally
Robinhood Is Losing Thousands of Traders to a China-Owned Rival
AD BREAK
Musk Targets Telecom for Next Disruption With Starlink Internet
Firefox 85 removes Flash and adds protection against supercookies
Walmart is expanding its robot-powered fulfillment centers to ‘dozens of locations’
Weird and Wacky:
Lord Of The Rings Lego Build Sets New World Record With 150 Million Pieces
Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Iubenda
Adam - Typeform
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Jan 25, 2021 • 28min
Found Billionaires and Farmland Hoarders
In this episode:
Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba
Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
Virgin Orbit just earned the orbit part of its name
AD BREAK
WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode
Instacart to Cut 1,900 Jobs, Including Its Only Union Roles
Amazon offers Biden resources for COVID-19 vaccine rollout
As promised, Twitter made Joe Biden’s @POTUS account start with zero followers
Weird and Wacky:
Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of Covid'
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Polaroid
Adam - Brackets
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Jan 18, 2021 • 36min
Scroll Phones and Ice Cream Cones
In this episode:
Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content
Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
Airbnb, HotelTonight cancel all Washington, DC, metro reservations ahead of Inauguration
Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters
This is Sony’s Airpeak drone
AD BREAK
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal, a smaller encrypted messaging app
The Future of Phone Design: Flexible Screens That Roll Up
Ford Halts Focus Car Plant for Full Month Due to Chip Shortage
Weird and Wacky:
The Pentagon will have to reveal all the information it has about UFOs
Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Qoins
Adam - Everydollar
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Jan 11, 2021 • 27min
Let's be anti-social social??
In this episode:
Google, Alphabet employees unionize
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
Besides providing login credentials, the former employee also showed Ticketmaster managers how to exploit a flaw in the URL generation scheme the rival used for unpublished ticketing webpages. To prevent the pages from being accessed by outsiders before they were made public, each one had a unique numerical value. The former employee told his new employer that the values were generated sequentially, and outsiders could use this information to view artist pages while they were still in early draft stages.
Slack starts 2021 with a massive outage
AD BREAK
Billionaire Jack Ma Hasn’t Been Seen in 74 Days
Jack Ma’s absence from public eye sparks Twitter discussions
Alarms about Ma’s whereabouts weren’t set off until he was replaced last week as the lead judge of a talent show for entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Finance reported. His photo was also removed from a list of judges on the show’s website, fueling speculation that the Chinese government may have gone beyond scuttling an IPO to chastise Ma for his speech.
Visualized: The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp
Twitter acquires Breaker podcast app, will integrate its team to Spaces
Weird and Wacky:
This Company Is Selling Gold-Plated Apple Headphones for an Absurd Price
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - TheStreamable.com
Adam - soapboxhq.com - a service I’m about to try out
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Jan 4, 2021 • 33min
Do the right thing
In this episode:
Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday
Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus
Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads
FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille.
Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology
Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
AD BREAK
Cyberpunk 2077: how 2020's biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company NSO
He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says
Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues
Weird and Wacky:
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Aegis
Adam - memrise
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Dec 21, 2020 • 31min
Baby Yoda In Your Living Room
In this episode:
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries
Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021
Roku and AT&T reach agreement to distribute HBO Max
Science Just Confirmed Elon Musk's Favorite Interview Question Is Brilliant (You Should Steal It)
U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack
Joe Biden warns he will be tough on state sponsors of cyberattacks, as U.S. suffers massive hack
Security Researcher: ‘solarwinds123’ Password Left Firm Vulnerable in 2019
GitHub says goodbye to cookie banners
Amazon Zoox unveils self-driving robotaxi
Weird and Wacky:
Googling for ‘Baby Yoda’ will bring him into your living room via augmented reality
Guy drops iPhone out of plane, iPhone survives, takes video of entire ordeal
Microsoft files patent for a chatbot that 'could' become the 'twin' of a deceased person
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | GPT-3
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - locast.org
Adam - New Silicon MacBook Pro
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Dec 14, 2020 • 34min
My Soul is Clean... I've Never Built Anything in Flash
In this Episode:
Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves
Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program
French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers
FTC and states sue Facebook on antitrust grounds
Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021
Disney unveils Star, its Hulu replacement for international Disney Plus subscribers
Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
On Trusting Macintosh Hardware
Apple announces $549 AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones, coming December 15th
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Warby Parker
Adam - Dropbox Vault
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