The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture
The Tech Jawn is a weekly Tech podcast that covers technology news, with a focus on how tech impacts Black communities and culture. The show discusses major tech trends, gadgets, startups, AI, social media, and other innovations while also addressing issues like digital equity, privacy, and diversity in the tech industry.
It is hosted by a group of Black tech enthusiasts: Robb Dunewood, Tech Life Steph (Stephanie Humphrey), and Terrance Gaines (a.k.a. BrothaTech). Their discussions often blend mainstream tech topics with culturally relevant perspectives, making the podcast unique in its approach.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 201
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Have Social Media Chickens Come Home To Roost? - The Tech Jawn 79
Netflix’s Love is Blind Reunion live stream didn’t go down as planned. It turns out the cast, not, the technology is the reason for the postponement.
Consumers just aren’t buying computers like they u…
EV Charging At Walmart... Makes Sense: The Tech Jawn 78
Rumor has it that Sony is working on a new handheld PlayStation built for remote play. The “Q Lite” is designed to stream games over the internet from a PlayStation 5.
Walmart plans to build a nationw…
Interview With Lawyer, Author, and COO of DEI Directive, Flo Nicolas: The Tech Jawn 77
In this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn, we cover a couple of tech stories like Twitter’s logo changing to the logo of Dogecoin and the open letter to pause new AI development for 6 months, but the m…
Minoritizing: The Tech Jawn 76
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…
A.I. Is Finessing Humans For Real For Real: The Tech Jawn 75
The U.S. is threatening to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don’t sell their stake, but, the social media giant argues that a forced sale won’t address security issues.
Google cancels Google Glass, ag…
An Interview With RareBreed Ventures Founder And Managing Partner, Mac Conwell - The Tech Jawn 74
This week on The Tech Jawn we are joined by special guest Mac Conwell, founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures.
He hangs out with us to talk about the run on and ultimate failure of Silico…
Bias and Racial Inequality in Ed Tech: The Tech Jawn 73
The August 2022 LastPass breach just keeps getting worse and worse. It turns out that a developer with “literal” keys to the kingdom was hacked on his home computer which, ultimately, lead to a serie…
The State of Black Professionals in Tech: The Tech Jawn 72
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wants workers back into the office at least three times per week, but, 16,000 employees, really ain’t trying to hear that.
Google is changing directions when it comes to podcasti…
No Murder Bots In Policing: The Tech Jawn 71
Twitter drops the less secure sms based two-factor authentication for free users, but, lets you keep it if you are a Twitter Blue subscriber.
Meta, taking a page from Twitter’s playbook is launching,…
Hate Speech Just Might Be Lucrative: The Tech Jawn 70
This year, an anti-Tesla full self-driving ad aired in several markets during the Superbowl. The Dawn Project spent $598,000 on the 30-second spot, but, we aren’t certain what the motivation was.
In G…
Big Tech Layoffs Are Reversing Trends In Diversity: The Tech Jawn 69
Nex Cubed is launching a $40 million fund that will invest in startups where at least one founder is an HBCU student, alumni, or faculty.
It’s a slow news cycle for Apple and we keep getting hit with …
TikTok Manually Plays Hot Or Not With Your Content: The Tech Jawn 68
There are rumors that a foldable iPad could be coming as soon as 2024, but would the price of such a device be cost-prohibitive?
The venture capital scene got substantially worse for Black Founders in…
Tech Layoffs Continue Into 2023: The Tech Jawn 67
Twitter shuts off access to several third-party Twitter clients with zero notice. Twitter had the right to do it, but, was Twitter right to do it?
Apple announces new M2 processors, refreshed MacBook …
Is All Fair In Love And AI? The Tech Jawn 66
Are black and brown renters being denied access to housing based on biased algorithms? A renter’s screening company says it's not its issue because it doesn’t make renting decisions.
Wyoming wants to …
We Back: The Tech Jawn 65
MSG Entertainment is being petty with its facial recognition capabilities. The company is actively banning employees from law firms that are litigating cases against it from patronizing its venues.
In…
Wrapping Up Before The Holidays: The Tech Jawn 64
Apple decides not to scan your iCloud photos against the Child Sexual Abuse Material database, or, CSAM, and has other plans to expand its Communication Safety features.
The Federal Trade Commission f…
An Hour With Black, Female, Mechanical Engineer, Cherish Samuels: The Tech Jawn 63
We’ve got something special in this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn. We interview Cherish Samuels, a unicorn of unicorns, as she is a Black, female, mechanical engineer.
We talk about everything from …
Aggressive Weight Loss Goals: The Tech Jawn 62
Twitter grappled with nuisance spam from the Chinese State intended to obscure news of covid restriction protests happening in cities across the country.
Even though Amazon Alexa devices are pretty po…
No Experimentation On Thanksgiving Dinner : The Tech Jawn 61
Is Taylor Swift really that big, or, is TicketMaster's and Live Nation’s monopoly on ticket sales and venues the cause for Swifties not being able to purchase tickets?
Microsoft is eager to acquire ga…
The Tech Winter Is Getting Colder: The Tech Jawn 60
Google is set to pay nearly $400 million to settle lawsuits with 40 state's attornies general over location data it wasn’t supposed to be collecting.
Regardless of how you feel about Elon Musk’s acqui…