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

We’ve got a special Juneteenth edition of the Tech Jawn where this week, we are joined by serial entrepreneur, business consultant, and Web3 strategist, Florcy Morisset to talk to us about Web3 and w…

Is Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA showing signs of sentience? Most likely not, but, AI, in general, is getting awfully good at fooling humans.

Jack Dorsey and Jaz-Z are team…

Apple held its WWDC22 Keynote and we recap some of the new hardware and software coming out in the coming months.

Tesla and about 50% of other companies want their employees back in the office 100% of…

Will Apple be found liable for the permanent hearing loss suffered by a 12-year-old boy wearing AirPods during an Amber Alert?

Google does an about-face when it comes to allowing users to keep their f…

What legal and moral responsibilities do social media companies have to remove violent content from their platforms?

Does Elon Musk really want to buy Twitter? The deal is currently on hold and public…

AI used in a Northwestern study of police departments is showing that a small percentage of officers own a disproportionate share of the misconduct.

The “Chip Shortage” is actually making the chip sho…

What things should we do to manage our digital footprint after we die? 

We probably should have a plan for all of our data, all of our accounts, and all of our financial information to make things eas…

Elon Musk secured financing for his $46.5 billion takeover bid of Twitter and Twitter’s board has reconsidered and accepted his offer.

Patreon creates the new “Pull Up” incubator for creators of color…

Details on how Twitter’s upcoming edit button might work have surfaced and we all have different takes on how we feel about it.

Slack-like communities are coming to WhatsApp Messenger and this could g…

Elon Musk and Twitter had a heck of a week.  Musk buys 9.2% of the stock becoming the biggest shareholder, is offered a seat on the board, but turns it down. 

Twitter also announces that it is adding …

Facebook’s News Feed was doling out misinformation for months due to a bug in its ranking algorithm that affected as much as half of all views.

Elon Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter becoming the…

Will Smith smacking the taste out of Chris Rock’s mouth at the Oscars isn’t necessarily a tech story, but it needs to be discussed. 

Proposed EU legislation may require messaging platforms to interope…

Facebook locks a bunch of users out of their accounts for not turning on Facebook Protect.  The problem was that Facebook’s email notification looked like a phishing scam which was largely ignored.

Th…

Instagram introduces Enhanced Tags which should make it easier for professional accounts and influencers to receive credit for their work. 

Apple Announces the M1 Ultra, the new Mac Studio, and the 5K…

Apple’s Privacy Update wiped out over a quarter trillion dollars in market cap from 4 of the big social media companies. Google is thinking about privacy too, but it ain’t going quite as hard as Appl…

We kick off this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn with talk about TikTok and its new 10-minute time limit on videos.

Is it time to move beyond passwords?   We discuss efforts to get rid of passwords co…

Some people are outraged that the New York Times has added ad tracking to Wordle, but, should they really be though?

Privacy settings on your social media won’t protect you from snitching on yourself …

It was Superbowl weekend and although we weren’t blown away by many of the commercials we did notice that Google is putting real marketing behind Real Tone.

A black couple opens the world’s first auto…

In this week’s episode of The Tech Jawn, we interview Ekow Sanni-Thomas, founder of Inside Voices, an online platform that helps job-seekers figure out how companies treat people of color by hearing …