The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture

The Apple Event where the iPhone 15, USB-C Airpods, and new Apple Watches are officially being announced is upon us and we do a bit of speculation on what all the new hotness will look like.

We are so…

Brothatech downloaded and installed iOS Beta 17 which is expected to be officially released next month.

Apple is, oddly supportive of SB 244, a right-to-repair bill being considered in California and …

In most of episode 95 of The Tech Jawn, we’ll be talking to our featured guest, but before we get to the interview we discuss another case of facial recognition misidentifying a person of color leadi…

Will Melody Hobson’s $1.45 billion Project Black fund which plans to “minoritize” existing businesses help to narrow the wealth gap?

Spotify has invested less than 10% of the $100 million it pledged t…

An Asian MIT student asked Playground AI to make her profile pic look more professional, and it turned her into a white woman.

Local governments can’t wait on Washington to implement federal guideline…

Samsung held its Galaxy Unpacked event last week and officially announced the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5, the Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic, and the Galaxy Tab 9 series of Tablets.

TikTok is ge…

Nearly 200 school systems are suing the parent companies of Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok in a class-action lawsuit over alleged harms to students via their social media platforms.

Several s…

Google’s new privacy policy indicates the search giant wants to scrape all your data for use with its A.I. Not just all Google data. Like, literally, all your data on the internet.

The Actor’s union, …

Did an A.I.-powered robot give a reporter the side-eye when questioned about rebelling against humans? It did appear that the bot felt some type of way about the question.

NYC’s anti-bias law for hiri…

Adult website Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws. Will constituents push back against lawmakers?

Bipartisan support for a proposed bill eying a ban on TikTok …

Meta is yanking news off Facebook and Instagram in Canada because the country’s newly passed Online News Act will force the company to pay news organizations for their content.

We’re learning the fall…

Timnit Gebru, co-founder of Black in AI, advocate for diversity in technology, and founder of the DAIR, believes that we should have some type of government oversight for Artificial intelligence.

The …

Many people think the price of Electric Vehicles is the biggest obstacle holding them back from switching to EVs, but, the availability of working charging stations is also a big concern.

Thousands of…

A USAF Colonial last week told a story about a murderous AI drone simulation, but, walked the story back this week claiming that he “misspoke”.

YouTube ain’t even trying anymore when it comes to remov…

In honor of Memorial Day The Tech Jawn crew did not record a new episode so we are hitting you with a recent episode from the archives.

In episode 74 we were joined by the founder and managing partne…

DoorDash is facing a lawsuit claiming the food delivery service charges iPhone users more for identical deliveries than Android users.

Google Photos, after misidentifying Black men as Gorillas back in…

Google AI, err ughm, Google I/O kicked off last Wednesday. The company spent most of its 2 hours plus keynote talking about Artificial intelligence, and it also officially announced the Pixel Tablet…

Is ChatGPT better at picking stocks than hedge fund managers?  According to an 8-week study in the UK, the answer is yes, and it's not even close.

The Writer’s Guild of America is currently on strike,…

Juice Jacking may not be as big of an issue as the FBI and literally every other media outlet made it out to be last month seeing how there are no reports of it ever happening on record.

Monthly subsc…

There is no way to sugarcoat it.  Google employees think Bard is trash and you simply can’t trust it even if its tongue came notarized.

Meta will soon start doling out payments from the $725 million C…