News and Updates: Major League Baseball will use the bots for balls & strikes in Spring League YouTube is creating a Premium “Lite” plan with reduced ads Apple Vision Pro headsets is getting Apple Intelligence, finally AT&T created SplitPay, but Splitwise is better Meta is building a 31K mile subsea Internet cable that will go around the globe
Mar 03, 2025•22 min•Season 11Ep. 528
New tariffs are driving prices for Temu products thru the roof Elon Musk offered $97 Billion to buy OpenAI Is AI just hype, or is it revolutionary? Hank Azaria penned an OpEd that he thinks Gen AI is going to try to replace him
Feb 20, 2025•22 min•Season 9Ep. 527
News and Updates: Google Maps and Apple Maps have changed the name to Gulf of America in the US, not abroad Google’s reCAPTCHA is useless against bots, but a big money maker Ads are popping up in Jeeps on the display when the vehicle comes to a stop Apple released an emergency update for the iPhone Apple AirPods can be used as hearing aids
Feb 17, 2025•23 min•Season 11Ep. 526
The Vatican releases a very written warning about the risks of A.I., while acknowledging its potential The Big Story: Bumble CEO steps down after changing the platform Dating Apps have serious challenges, can they resolve their issues Are Dating Apps getting worse? I. and the Dating App, will it help or make it worse?
Feb 13, 2025•22 min•Season 11Ep. 525
News and Updates: NIST says using a password manager is better than changing passwords GM got out of the Robotaxi business, but will still use the autonomous driver technology NY Times 1st published article on the WWW Meta to add extra display to the Ray Ban Smart Glasses Meta also will decide the future of The Metaverse Lenovo will do away with the red TrackPoint nub on ThinkPad laptops
Feb 10, 2025•22 min•Season 11Ep. 524
The Big Story: Interview with Don Monistere, CEO General Informatics The Joseph Piediscalzo “Chief” Multimedia & Distance Learning Studio at SLU and why that is special! General Informatics Kickoff Celebration benefitting Boys & Girls Club The outlook for IT in 2025
Jan 30, 2025•23 min•Season 8Ep. 523
News and Updates: President Trump sends a message to TikTok and gets a 75 day reprieve Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram all say, “We can do short form videos too”! Users are not as committed to TikTok as ByteDance once thought President Trump investing in datacenters to help advance AI Is Microsoft 365 Copilot the dumbest rebrand since “New Coke”? A UK man looses laptop with the password to $765 Million in Bitcoin to a landfill
Jan 27, 2025•22 min•Season 9Ep. 522
The Big Story: Interview with Dori Krieger, Executive Director CTIA Wireless Foundation CTIA, Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association & CTIA Wireless Foundation Catalysts and how it is doing great things for the wireless world The inspiring social entrepreneurs that Catalyst has helped to launch
Jan 23, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 521
News and Updates: TikTok Updates leading up to 19Jan2025 HIPAA has new Cybersecurity rules that are much stricter standards Meta is moving the content moderators from California to Texas to avoid biases
Jan 20, 2025•22 min•Season 8Ep. 520
The Big Stories: Sora is released and the videos are amazing, and very easy to use Apple sued because it did not release scans for Child Sexual Abuse Materials A concerned dad takes a naked photo of toddler son for doctors and is accused by Google of Sex Crimes and loses all of his Google related info Federal court says dismantling an iPhone to retrieve data is OK Study says Online Time is good for Teens
Dec 19, 2024•22 min•Season 11Ep. 519
News and Updates: Microsoft will allow upgrades to Win 11 on older PC’s, with a catch Amazon is now selling EV’s GM halts the Cruise Robotaxi project Waymo is expanding Robotaxis to Miami DeFlock maps license plate readers across the country
Dec 16, 2024•22 min•Season 11Ep. 518
The Question of the Week: A follow up on controlling the Wi-Fi in your house for kids The Big Stories: Kids under 16 banned from social media in Australia Meta being forced to verify advertisers Long winded post on LinkedIn are AI Generated and too boring for kids Deepfake videos are causing Billion$$ in fraud loses
Dec 12, 2024•22 min•Season 11Ep. 517
News and Updates: The FBI and CISA warn against using unencrypted text messaging Chat service Matrix seized because of illegal activity Amazon sued in D.C. for not delivery to 2 neighborhoods AT&T will retire all landlines using copper by 2029 Blach Friday and Cyber Monday set records for sales $$ Walmart buys TV maker Vizio to inject Crapware Ads Vinyl albums are making a huge comeback in total sales
Dec 09, 2024•22 min•Season 11Ep. 516
The Question of the Week: Bitcoin crossed over $90,000, is it worth it? The Big Stories: TSA releases new Cyber rules for pipeline & rail companies North Korean hackers may have ability to hack thru macOS Security Mattel apologizes for its Wicked blunder, possibly caused by Generative AI Apple to launch a Smart Home Control Center that looks like an iPad on the wall
Nov 21, 2024•22 min•Season 11Ep. 515
News and Updates: Since election day: 115,000 people have deleted the Twitter/X account Bluesky added 700,00 new users Threads is growing as well Microsoft Copilot: Is ending the Enterprise and Pro versions Releasing the free version in Australia and New Zealand first Getting stronger and encouraging more usage Amazon is creating a Temu killer called Haul Apple Vison Pro is shutting down production because of lack of sales...
Nov 18, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 514
The Big Stories: Is AI to be blamed for a teen’s death? Fashion retailer using Gen AI instead of real models and photographers AI transcription tools making mistakes at hospitals Microsoft is trying to fix AI “Hallucinations” Google says over 25% of its code is written by AI
Nov 14, 2024•22 min•Season 8Ep. 513
News and Updates: Tech Gumbo started Nov 2014 Google: - Adds Safety Check to Chrome - Adds Unsubscribe to Chrome - Makes it easier reporting features to Waze - Adds AI assistance to Maps, including places to explore on your trip - Begins disabling adblocker uBlock Origin Nvidia joins the Dow Jones Industrial Average Intel is cause for concern in D.C. TSMC stays very profitable making chips
Nov 11, 2024•22 min•Season 11Ep. 512
The Question of the Week: Last week you talked about Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” cars, who else is do that? The Big Stories: A 30-year old law forcing backdoors is creating security risk Meta follows twitter, will ban accounts that track celebrity jets TSMC Chip plant in Arizona making better chips than Taiwan Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Nov 07, 2024•22 min•Season 7Ep. 511
News and Updates: Starlink to petition the FCC to allow 30,000 satellites to achieve Gig speeds Vast has plans to replace the International Space Station The ISS is leaking, but not a risk NASA does a crew swap, 2 still have their extended stay going Info from Old Redbox kiosk easily hacked with customer info revealed SanFran Train System plans to stop using 5 1/4 -inch disk within 10 years Poland radio station using AI “Presenters”, listeners are not happy...
Nov 04, 2024•22 min•Season 9Ep. 510
The Big Interview: A career through multiple companies and how it impacts transportation and logistics Exponent (Crash Reconstruction Photogrammetry) (using photos to reconstruct measurements- also key to modern camera-based autonomy systems) Lloyd Register – London Underground MTA (NYC)- subway system, rail, buses, ferries Jet Blue- electrification of ground support equipment Amazon- last mile delivery
Oct 31, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 509
News and Updates: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the Full Self Driving claims of Tesla and the wrecks involved Lawsuit against TikTok reveals how harmful it is to kids Addictive in 35 minutes Demotes people deemed unattractive 95% of smartphone users 17 and under are on TikTok Discourages kids from making eye contact with other people Filters content to conform with one-sided opinions Children’s TV Channel ratings are off by over 75%, it is all YouTube now...
Oct 28, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 508
The Question of the Week: What’s going on with Fitbit? The Big Stories: Tesla big event, “We, Robot” to show off CyberCab and Optimus Robots was a flop! The Autonomous robots were actually being controlled by humans Waymo, Uber , Lyft got a big stock market bounce because of Tesla’s event Tesla is losing its grip on the EV market in California
Oct 24, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 507
News and Updates: Researchers working on 6G Cellular are achieving 190 gigabits of thru put Win 10 End of Life is 14Oct2025, check now to see if your computer will upgrade, if not, don’t wait to buy a new PC Win 11 24H@ Update has a junk file that is 8.6GB and you can not delete it A new neighborhood in Fla built homes with solar panels and batteries, 15 feet off the ground and easily able to resist winds up to 120mph Hackers breached home robot vacuums, began shout racist slurs...
Oct 21, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 506
The Question of the Week: Who is suing TikTok Now? The Big Stories: AI Assistants recording virtual meetings and creating havoc License Plates readers also keeping bumper sticker info building another database
Oct 17, 2024•22 min•Season 7Ep. 505
News and Updates: GEICO stops covering Cybertrucks from Tesla SpaceX threatened by EU Telcos Starlink to get another rival Starlink gets more spectrum to use from FCC SpaceX demands Spectrum from rivals
Oct 14, 2024•22 min•Season 5Ep. 504
The Big Stories: Laws forces disclosure on digital platforms to not use but or purchase when “renting” media After Helene, people in N.C. are using iOS 18 enabled phones to text via satellites OpenAI will become a “For Profit” business OpenAI is still burning thru Millions of dollars monthly, but still has very high expectations
Oct 10, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 503
News and Updates: Electronic warfare in war torn areas creates GPS spoofing for airlines Man charged with “Evil Twin” Wi-Fi attack on airplane in Australia Twitter’s valuation is down to 25% of the purchase price DirectTV And Dish Network merging to compete with streaming platforms
Oct 07, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 502
The Question of the Week: I have a bunch of old CDs. How long will they last? The Big Stories: TikTok not doing well in the U.S. Court of Appeals TikTok throws Shein & Temu under the bus Google wins an Antitrust case in the EU Passes laws about deepfakes and draws in Social Media platforms
Oct 03, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 501
News and Updates: Several major streaming platforms talk about mergers or bundling Big Tech is investing in Nuclear Power because they need the electricity Protecting autonomous vehicles from data leaks and bad actor hackers
Sep 30, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 500
The Interview with Greg Trahan, Director of Economic Development, LSU and Duke Hartman, CEO, Integer Technologies LLC: LSU & Integer Technologies have partnered to do research to benefit the Navy Research around autonomous vehicles in the air, on the ocean both on the surface and underwater The research is bring under grad and grad students and well as faculty and working engineers together to find solutions The research will also benefit the oil industry, especially in South Louisiana...
Sep 26, 2024•23 min•Season 10Ep. 499
