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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Sora 2, the new AI video generation tool / social media platform, has shot to the top of the charts on the App Store, despite the app being invitation-only. Realistic 10-second videos are dominating social media, but is it too soon to say that Sora will eventually rival TikTok?
We also discuss the content of Africa launching the Continental Internet Exchange, a project to establish a continent-wide network infrastructure designe...
Content Creators and consumers are telling AI companies that they don't want AI-generated Influencers and Podcasts, but these companies keep on keeping on. We'll give you one guess as to why.
We also discuss the sitting president telling private sector companies to fire employees he doesn't like, U.S. TikTok kind of feeling like it's state-run, and EA possibly becoming the largest leveraged buyout ever.
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YouTube recently released a bunch of new features for creators. Filmmaker, Author, and Livestreamer Angela Hollowell drops by to tell us all about them.
We also discuss Meta's new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, why you may want to buy a case for your new iPhone 17, and what was announced at the Make It With Notion conference.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
It looks like the White House administration has finally worked out a deal where TikTok parent company ByteDance will sell its U.S. assets to a U.S.-based company. The concept for the deal is in place and will be finalized this Friday. Something tells us there is fine print that will need to be looked at if and when the deal goes through.
We also discuss all the new Apple hotness announced last week as well as the new Apple OSes...
In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss Google not being required to sell Chrome or Android as a penance for its anti-trust behavior and what this decision could mean for Apple and other companies that charge Google to make Google Search the default.
We also cover continued facial recognition misidentifications, Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the Rabbit R1's new operating system, and more.
Hosts:
Due to popular demand and at the behest of the multitudes we’re coming to a podcast app near you with weekly episodes of the Tech Jawn.
We also dig into the recent Black Creator TikTok strike, how black culture is driving the platform right now, and the bigger problem of representation without compensation.
To further illustrate our episode 0 conversation about bias in AI, we discuss why Facebook had to apologize and ta...
Is Apple Intelligence so far behind in the AI game that Apple may have to partner with Google to have Gemini power the next version of Siri, or is the iPhone maker looking for something to perhaps replace the billions in revenue it makes by setting Google as its default search engine?
Maybe both things are true...
We also discuss the TikTok ban getting another extension, Bluesky going dark in Mississippi,
and AI firings, rehir...
Why does Substack have such a hard time saying no to racism?
We also discuss the Trump Administration taking at 10% stake in Intel, Roblox not being safe for kids, social media's new anti-woke agenda, and the TeaOnHer app being just as lax on security as the Tea App.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
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The Trump Whitehouse is taking 15% in kickbacks on the sale of AI chips to China. How is this different than the protection money the mob takes from legitimate businesses?
We discuss this and AOL ending its dial-up service after 34 years, OpenAI releasing GPT-5, Reddit blocking the Wayback Machine, and Google’s vanishing DEI support.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Nearly 50,000 developers were surveyed, and it turns out that they don't trust Artificial Intelligence nearly as much as they used to.
We also discuss AI's power needs causing everyone's light bill to go up, Rivian suing Ohio over its law banning direct-to-consumer auto sales, PayPal's new “Pay With Crypto” features, and we shine The Tech Jawn Spotlight on Dr. Thomas Owusu Mensah.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Tea, the dating safety app designed to help women vet potential partners, was hacked, exposing the very people it was designed to protect, personal pictures, and verification information like images of driver’s licenses.
We also discuss, Astronomer, the AI company whose now former CEO and Head of HR were caught in an adulterous embrace on the kiss cam at the Coldplay concert, Trump’s war on Woke AI in his AI Action Plan, and Elo...
Black folks shouldn't have to "code switch" to get large language models to understand them, and this is why Howard University and Google have teamed on Project Elevate Black Voices.
In this episode, we also discuss...
The White House declaring war on "Woke AI" -- Read More
Open AI not caring about competition rules -- Read More
Meta not signing the EU's voluntary AI code -- Read More
In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss...
Jack Dorsey's new internetless messaging platform, Grok being all kinds of racist and seeming designed to check what Elon thinks before it replies, Meta's new AI Dream Team lacking women and people of color, and if we've found a solution to deep fakes.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Stories Me...
In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss…
Apple's reversal on possibly integrating Anthropic or OpenAI with Siri, Hertz using AI to scan for rental car damage, a US version of TikTok coming out Sept. 5th, and Black AI minstrel shows have begun.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Stories Mentioned:
In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss…
ICE's new facial recognition mobile app, Tinder requiring new California users to use facial recognition to verify their accounts, Section 230 not sheilding Meta and TikTok in a "subway surfing" wrongful death suit, and if AI and robotics are coming for your braids.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss WhatsApp adding ads to the platform, Black influencers shining on the Forbes Top Creators list, smartphone users paying for AI access on their devices, and if Apple should buy the AI startup Perplexity.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Stories Mentioned:
WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen -- T...
In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss Google downsizing its search team, the Trump family starting a phone carrier, and what graduating seniors should do after high school. We've got all this and more in episode 182 of The Tech Jawn.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Guest Host:
Lamarr Wilson - @LamarrWilson
Stories Mentioned
In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss…
The key takeaways from WWDC, the permitless gas turbines powering Xai datacenters, and the lack of adequate high-speed internet access on most HBCU campuses.
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Stories Mentioned
WWDC Keynote Recap — Source
X.ai is doing Memphis Dirty — Source
In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss…
What we expect out of WWDC, why you shouldn't let AI write your legal briefs, if Android XR will be a thing, and will AI soon decimate most entry level white collar jobs?
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Stories Mentioned
What We Can Expect From WWDC — Source
In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss…
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill allowing AI to run amok, the bookmarking/read-it-later service Pocket shutting down, OpenAI buying Jony Ive's hardware startup, and, how far are we prepared to go with AI?
Hosts:
Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood
Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph
Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech
Stories Mentioned
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill — Source
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