Tech Gumbo
We started Tech Gumbo in Nov 2014 as a conversational show of news, information & updates about the past, present & future of all things technology in a topical, interesting and digestible way.
Episodes
The Question of the Week: You guys talk about it, but how big is Google?
The Big Stories:
- Schools ban smartphones, social media usage goes down, things get better
- 43% of schools already have a ban on smartphones, very few actually enforce the ban
- Parents struggle with smartphone ban more than students
- Should smartphones be allowed in the classroom?
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----more----News and Updates:
- TikTok sues U.S. Gov’t to block the sale/ban law
- iPhones are having trouble with Zero-Click Spyware
- A 3rd party iOS App store launches in the EU
- Passkeys go over the 400 Mil users on Google
- Microsoft brings passkey support to Office accounts
- LinkedIn launches games on their platform, now you can brag about goofing off
- Starlink is 60% of all spacecraft in orbit
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The Big Stories:
- Is the Gen AI Hype leveling off?
- Google says Gen AI will not take jobs any time soon
- Gen AI could start replacing call centers in 2025
- Microsoft investing Billions in AI Infrastructure where most call centers are now
- Catholic group created an “AI Priest” bot, who gave strange answers and is no longer a Priest
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May 6, 2024 • 22 mins
News and Updates:
- FCC bringing back Net Neutrality
- TikTok says it will shut down US presence before selling
- ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin and why this is complicated
- NHTSA is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot claims and capabilities, and fatal crashes the cause
- Tesla laying off 14K employees, still more to come
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May 2, 2024 • 22 mins
The Question of the Week: What’s next for Tik-Tok?
The Big Stories:
- Datacenters growth explosive growth in numbers and consumption
- Trends why datacenters are growing
- AI and Cloud Computing are culprit for datacenter power and resources consumption
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News and Updates:
- Space Force to practice “On -Orbit Aggression” exercises in space
- Starlink is forced to crackdown on unauthorized users in Sudan, Zimbabwe, South Africa and more
- NASA looking for better ways to get samples back from Mars rover projects
- NASA needs to create a time standard for the Moon
- Will battery power large home appliances
- Roof top solar panels creating too much power in Southern California
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The Question of the Week: How Much Internet Bandwidth Do I Really Need?
The Big Stories:
- EU law passes first comprehensive laws on AI, including new restrictions on how it can be used
- Congress files a bill forcing AI to reveal copyrighted art
- K. criminalizes the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images and videos against women
- Netflix may have used AI Generated images of a real person in a true crime documentary
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News and Updates:
- YouTube is the #1 source for music and video entertainment and education
- YouTube is still cracking down on Ad-Blockers, despite Ad-blockers being available in Chrome Store
- New patch removes “Blue Screen of Death” problem for upgrading to Win11
- Russian security breach into Microsoft still causing problems throughout the US Government
- Disney shows off their new HoloTile
- Humane AP Pin is horrible, way too expensi...
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April 18, 2024 • 21 mins
The Question of the Week: How do I talk about Cyber Security to my elderly parents?
- How Older Adults Can Improve Their Personal Cyber Security And Avoid Scams
The Big Stories:
- Taco Bell & Pizza Hut launching AI App to help run the restaurants
- The truth about AI Drive Thru’s- Its humans in the Philippines
- AI Voice Recognition is still a problem for drive thru’s
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News and Updates:
- Tesla tries to involve Apple in Autopilot crash lawsuit, finally settles
- AI Engineers are getting paid Big Dollar$$
- After ending the Apple Car, could there be an Apple Home Robot?
- AT&T admits leak of 73 million customer’s data after Class-Action lawsuit filled
- The most common damage to smartphones
- Apple has added the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPad 5th Gen
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The Question of the Week: Can you recommend a good back solution for my PC?
The Big Stories:- ChatGPT flooded with celebrity impersonators and given bad info through their ChatGPT Store
- AI is changing the threat of cybersecurity
- Will Generative AI replace me and/or take my job?
- Will Generative AI replace Hollywood and/start creating block buster movies and TV shows?
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News and Updates:
- Gmail turn 20 on 1Apr2024 and changed Google
- Google Podcast Apps is ended, moving everything to YouTube
- FCC says Broadband minimum is now 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up
- Facebook is bringing back the Poke, but should they?
- Amazon ends “Just Walk Out” at Amazon Fresh Stores
- U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, gets hacked by China
- NYC created a chatbot to give answers about NYC laws and gets ...
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The Question of the Week: What’s going on with Google Search?
The Big Stories:
- Passes a law restrict Social Media from kids under 14
- How Big is TikTok by the numbers
- TikTok’s US Investors
- Who actually owns TikTok
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News and Updates:
- Apple sued by US for being a Monopoly
- Apple sued via Class-Action over AirTag safety
- Starlink testing Cellular connections
- GM stops sharing driver behavior data
- Uber Eats paying out because of Facial Recognition failure
- LinkedIn will start including games on the platform
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March 21, 2024 • 22 mins
The Interview: Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili Ph.D., discusses his research on:
- VR Deception
- Forensic analysis of the Roomba
- Using the Progressive App to detect hit & run
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News and Updates:
- The Royal Photo scandal and the ethical dilemma of manipulating photos
- Microsoft still working through the Russian Cyber Breach
- Is your car collecting data and selling your info to insurance companies?
- The NY Times is cracking down on illegal clones of Wordle
- Roku is bricking TVs until “Dispute Resolution Terms” is accepted
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The Question of the Week: You’ve talked about Windows 12, what is the update?
The Big Stories:
- EV’s emit more pollution that gas cars
- Chinese cars are security threat and have little to no safety
- Apple ends it’s Autonomous car project
- Apple fined $2Bil in EU of Music Streaming apps
- Apple faces Class Action Suit over iCloud restrictions
- iOS 17.4 Released with lots of upgrades and patches
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March 11, 2024 • 22 mins
News and Updates:
- Starling getting better, faster, more reliable, new pricing plans
- HughesNet satellite Internet hemorrhaging customers
- Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite Internet trying to get off the ground
- Apple Ring-Oura Ring- Samsung Ring wearables instead of watches that do less?
- Max will join other streaming platforms to begin cracking down on password sharing
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March 7, 2024 • 22 mins
The Question of the Week: What happened to AT&T Last Week?
Interview: We discuss cyber security with Laura Rodrigues from Cynomi
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News and Updates:
- SCOTUS hears Texas & Florida laws about Social Media, very skeptically
- Husband eavesdrops on acquisitions manager wife, makes $1 Million, gets caught
- Vending machine on a college campus was discovered using facial recognition
- Air Canada’s chatbot gave incorrect info, the airline must now honor refund
- Spacecraft lands on the moon, then falls on its side
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