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

Election misinformation safeguards in social media work fairly well unless the election lies come in foreign languages.

Many of last week’s Twitter rumors have come to pass. Twitter did lay off nearly…

Be careful when having receipts emailed to you.  It looks like Square along with many other credit card processing companies is selling your contact information.

The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Mus…

Google’s vision for RCS hasn’t materialized, but, is it too soon to call it a failure?  Probably not.

Netflix reported its third-quarter earnings, is launching an ad-supported tier in November, and, i…

Kanye West, after having his Instagram and Twitter accounts restricted for antisemitic comments, agrees to buy the right-leaning social media platform Parler.

TikTok has raised the age requirement for…

The Apple Watch’s fall and crash detection experience false positives everywhere from the emergency room to roller coasters.

Meta has notified nearly 1 million Facebook users that their login informat…

James Earl Jones is retiring as the voice of Darth Vader but his menacing tones will live on through A.I. supplied by Ukrainian startup, Respeecher.

Apple reportedly won’t boost iPhone 14 Production…

The Windows 11 22H2 Update is out. It’s the first major update of Windows 11 and we break down some of the new features and old features that Windows users should check out.

The latest version of What…

The iPhone 14 launch isn’t going that smoothly for Apple. iMessage and Facetime aren’t working for many after activation, some 14 Pro and Pro Max freeze after data transfers, and there are a lot of v…

This week’s episode of The Tech Jawn is mostly about the Apple Event and all the new gadgets that are coming out. We talk about the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro, the new Apple Watch Series 8 and Ultra, and w…

The Tech Jawn took Labor Day off and didn’t record a new episode this week.  We didn’t, however, want to leave the feed empty, so, we put together a quick highlight reel from some of our favorite mom…

Twitter’s former Security Chief blows the whistle alleging Twitter misled the public on problems with its security and with bot accounts.

Cosmetics company Sephora will pay $1.2 million in the first m…

Apple wants employees back in the office for a hybrid work week, but, some employees want to remain remote.  Something has got to give, but, we don’t think it's going to be Apple.

A husband of a slain…

It only took one weekend of interacting with people for Meta’s new Blenderbot 3.0 AI chatbot to turn racist.

WeWork co-founder and ousted former CEO, Adam Neumann, secures $350 in venture capital for …

Apple doesn’t want any supply chain disruption in China over Made in Taiwan labels so it's asking its Taiwanese-based suppliers to add Made in China labeling to their products.

TikTok’s contracted mod…

30,000 tech workers have lost their jobs through July, but, we still believe Information Technology is, one of, if not the hottest job industries.

Apple Pay could possibly come to Chrome, Edge, and Fi…

Senators Corey Booker and Ben Ray Luján propose the UnCap America Act that would ban data caps on consumer high-speed broadband in the U.S.

A chess-playing robot in Russia breaks its seven your old op…

Amazon releases Ring Doorbell video to the police without consent from or even notification to Ring owners.

Twitter had a 40+ minute outage, its newsletter service Revue was down for over a day, and s…

Rogers Telecommunications in Canada suffered a 19-hour outage last week affecting all kinds of services including cell and landline access, banking services, internet access, 911/emergency services, …

Google will, soon, start deleting visits to potentially sensitive locations like domestic violence shelters from users' location histories. Search history, however, still remains.

Scammers are using d…

Khaby Lame is now the biggest TikTok creator in the world with over 142.8 million followers.

Even with all the positive stories of black women getting into I.T., the pay gap between white men and blac…