Tech Talk Y'all

In this episode: Senators Call for 100Mbps Minimum Broadband Standard Bitcoin’s Climate Problem Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M Gogo delays 5G launch due to chipset shortages Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household AD BREAK Made in Tel Aviv and New York: Instagram Lite Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million Beeple’s 'The First 5000 Days', the 1st purely digital NFT based artwork offered by a major auction house has sold for $69,346,250. Weird and Wacky: Please do not give billionaire Jack Dorsey money for his tweet New Study Proposes Warp Drive That Might Actually Work An Old Macy's Was Turned Into A New High School In Vermont And It Still Looks Like A Store Tech Rec: Sanjay - Corsair HS35 - Stereo Gaming Headset Adam - Reaper --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak Jack Dorsey's Square to acquire majority stake in Jay-Z's music service Tidal Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT Google says it won’t use new ways of tracking you as it phases out browser cookies for ads Netflix has created a TikTok clone that lets people scroll through funny clips Amazon in Talks to Carry Many NFL Games Exclusively on Prime Video AD BREAK F.C.C. Approves a $50 Monthly High-Speed Internet Subsidy Va. becomes 2nd state with consumer data protection law Twitter users on Android can now join the platform’s Clubhouse-like Spaces Volvo Cars to be fully electric by 2030 Elon Musk moved to Texas and embraced celebrity. Can Tesla run on Autopilot? Weird and Wacky: We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births Than Usual This Year Tech Rec: Sanjay - 2fa.directory Adam - Mercury Bank --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

Spotify to launch HiFi high-quality-audio subscription later this year Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business The NFT Market Tripled Last Year, and It’s Gaining Even More Momentum in 2021 Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000 Greg Mike Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal AD BREAK Facebook strikes last-minute deal with Australia around news content Net neutrality law to take effect in California after judge deals blow to telecom industry Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets The Army Is Building the World's Most Powerful Laser Weapon. Ever. A quantum computer just solved a decades-old problem three million times faster than a classical computer Weird and Wacky: MyHeritage now lets you animate old family photos using deepfakery Tech Rec: Sanjay - Mullvad.net Adam - Google Authenticator App --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message