In this week's episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about google going nuclear, Netflix playlists (which seems weird), a Florida man, Ebay selling NFT's (cause, why not), plus our weird and wacky and tech recs segments that everyone loves! See the full show notes with links here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
In this week's episode, we talk about Yahoo and AOL (hopefully the last time) being sold, Google encouraging two-factor authentication, amazingly funny (and scary) Instagram ads that Facebook won't show you, a boy that ordered $3k of Sponge Bob popsicles, and much much more! See the full show notes with links here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message...
In this episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about the fight between Roku and YouTube TV, Telecom companies make some bad PR moves, an app that lets you create NFT's for free, and so much more! See the full show notes (with links) here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
In this episode of Tech Talk Y’all we talk about an electric Ferrari, a self-driving car crash, a drunken self-driving car (?) and so much more! View the full show notes (with links) here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
In this episode of Tech Talk Y'all we talk about iMessage, Topps getting into the NFT game, Spotify's Car Thing (yes, that's its real name), Clubhouse, a casino hacked through a fishtank thermometer, and of course our tech recs! Get the full show notes here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
In this episode, we talk about NFTs (again), Twitter, Twitch, Tom Brady, Best Buy's new service to compete with Amazon Prime (and it may be a good deal for a lot of people), and much more. You can see the full show notes and links to all articles here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
In this episode: Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now What Biden's infrastructure plan would do for tech It’s game over for Arizona’s controversial App Store bill Google Play limiting Android 11+ apps from seeing what’s installed on devices this May Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says AD BREAK Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency Netflix lays out plans to slash its greenhouse gas emissions Army moves ...
Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 Dorsey said previously he would convert the winning bid into bitcoin and donate it to GiveDirectly for its Africa Response, and he tweeted his receipt Monday afternoon. GiveDirectly is a charitable organization which gives money directly to people living in poverty. (205) NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money (280) Trading App Robinhood Says It Fil...
In this episode: Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison Dropbox will have a free password manager in April — if you’ve got 50 or fewer passwords Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales We finally know how bad for the environment your Netflix habit is Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds Mini will introduce last gas model...
In this episode: Senators Call for 100Mbps Minimum Broadband Standard Bitcoin’s Climate Problem Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M Gogo delays 5G launch due to chipset shortages Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household AD BREAK Made in Tel Aviv and New York: Instagram Lite Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million Beeple’s 'Th...
1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak Jack Dorsey's Square to acquire majority stake in Jay-Z's music service Tidal Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT Google says it won’t use new ways of tracking you as it phases out browser cookies for ads ...
Spotify to launch HiFi high-quality-audio subscription later this year Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business The NFT Market Tripled Last Year, and It’s Gaining Even More Momentum in 2021 Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000 Greg Mike Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal AD BREAK Facebook strikes last-minute deal with Australia around news cont...
In this episode: Maryland Approves Country’s First Tax on Big Tech’s Ad Revenue Luxury car brand Jaguar to go all-electric by 2025 LastPass will restrict free users to only one type of device starting next month Samsung develops high-bandwidth memory with integrated AI processing AD BREAK Apple Pay can now be used to spend Bitcoin Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia Airbnb Announces Plans to Open Atlanta Technical Hub...
In this episode: The 5-second Reddit Super Bowl ad you probably missed This Google Play Pass app with over 10 million installs has been outed as malware Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs Biden will sign an executive order to fuel the U.S. semiconductor industry US Chip Firms to Biden: We Need More Funding to Remain Competitive AD BREAK Hacker Tried to ...
In this episode: Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO Apple Greenlights TV Series on WeWork, With Anne Hathaway The iPhone's Face ID Will Soon Work With a Mask—if You Have an Apple Watch Google Explores Alternative to Apple’s New Anti-Tracking Feature Nike’s new Flyease Go shoes snap right onto your feet AD BREAK Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion Tesla Will Recall 134,000+ Vehicles Affected by Inevitable eMMC Failure Elon Musk claims Neuralink created a brain imp...
In this episode: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation NBCUniversal is bringing its live events to Twitter users globally Robinhood Is Losing Thousands of Traders to a China-Owned Rival AD BREAK Musk Targets Telecom for Next Disruption With Starlink Internet Firefox 85 removes Flash and adds protection against supercookies Walmart is expanding its robot-powered fulfillment centers to ‘dozens of locations’ Weird...
In this episode: Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner Virgin Orbit just earned the orbit part of its name AD BREAK WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode Instacart to Cut 1,900 Jobs, Including Its Only Union Roles Amazon offers Biden resources for COVID-19 vaccine rollout As promised, Twitter made Joe Biden’s @POTUS account start with zero followers Weird and Wacky: Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of C...
In this episode: Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP Airbnb, HotelTonight cancel all Washington, DC, metro reservations ahead of Inauguration Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters This is Sony’s Airpeak drone AD BREAK Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal...
In this episode: Google, Alphabet employees unionize Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business Besides providing login credentials, the former employee also showed Ticketmaster managers how to exploit a flaw in the URL generation scheme the rival used for unpublished ticketing webpages. To prevent the pages from being accessed by outsiders before they were made public, each one had a unique numerical value. The former employee told his new employer that the value...
In this episode: Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille. Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Andro...
In this episode: Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 Roku and AT&T reach agreement to distribute HBO Max Science Just Confirmed Elon Musk's Favorite Interview Question Is Brilliant (You Should Steal It) U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack Joe Biden warns he will be tough on state sponsors of cyberattacks, as U.S. suffers massive h...
In this Episode: Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers FTC and states sue Facebook on antitrust grounds Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 Disney unveils Star, its Hulu replacement for international Disney Plus subscribers Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed On Trusting Macintosh Hardware Apple announces $549 AirPod...
In this Episode: Tony Hsieh, Zappos Luminary Who Revolutionized the Shoe Business, Dies at 46 Tony Hsieh, key figure in downtown Las Vegas revitalization, dies at age 46 A New Zealand Startup Is Using Microbes to Suck Solid Gold Out of E-Waste Gut-Wrenching Photos Show Damage at Arecibo Observatory Following Collapse Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI Salesforce will buy Slack for $28 billion Visa Partners With Ethereum Digital-Dollar Startup That Ra...
In this Episode: Microsoft Teams takes on Zoom with free all-day video calling on the web Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet People Can’t Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon’s Cloud Servers Are Down Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy Scientists produce rare diamonds in minutes at room temperature Weird and Wacky: Canadian officials warn drivers not to let m...
In this Episode: Disappearing Tweets? Twitter Now Has a Feature for That Messaging app Go SMS Pro exposed millions of users’ private photos and files Google completes global RCS rollout as Messages starts testing default end-to-end encryption Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode and faster performance Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st Dolly Parton, Country Saint, Funded Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Hulu will increase the price of its live ...
In this episode: Google made an app for creditors to lock you out of your financed phone if you don’t make payments Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 Election 2020: Michigan voters approve Proposal 2, protecting electronic data Uber rolls out a new feature that lets you book a ride 30 days in advance Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test Stretchable, self-healing, recyclable device could be the future of wearables Many webs...
In this episode: Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data Massachusetts Just Passed the World’s Most Advanced Right to Repair Law WhatsApp Brings Disappearing Messages To Its Platform Spotify Rolls Out Standalone Streaming On Apple Watch App: TechCrunch Coronavirus: NHS COVID app failed to record potential exposures due t...
In this episode: To Encourage Autonomous Vehicles in Your State Create a No-Fault Insurance Pool How to turn on Zoom’s new end-to-end encryption—and why you may not want to UK to ban sale of carrier-locked phones from December 2021 Ticketing Tech Company Experience Shutting Down Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 Fix, or Toss? The ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Gains Ground Alphabet’s Loon sets a new record for longest stratospheric fli...
In this episode: Google kills off app that let you check in on loved ones during an emergency Google confirms the Nest Secure has been discontinued Google Monopoly Case by U.S. Sets Stage for Multi-Pronged Attack Hulu Gets Sidelined in Disney’s Global Streaming Ambitions Quibi is shutting down Quibi apps arrive on Apple TV, Android TV, and Fire TV, but are they too late? The first AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English data Hacked Billboards Can Make Teslas See 'Phanto...
In this Episode: Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call Google’s Nest announces new smart thermostat with simpler design, lower price Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent S.F. rent prices plunge as much as 31% — steepest decline in U.S., new report says Zoom prepares to roll out end-to-end encryption in 4 phases Zoom will start letting people host o...
