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

Robb Dunewood, Stephanie Humphrey, Terrance Gaines

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

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54:59

Yes, AI Can Replace You

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/12/02

A lot of people are worried about AI eventually being able to replace them on the job, but an MIT study indicates that AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of the U.S. labor market.We also discuss Shopify's Cyber Monday Outage, Disney World wanting visitors to wear smart glasses instead of using their phones, and Netflix killing the casting feature on newer Chromecasts.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechLinks:Shopify's Cyber Monday

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1:04:28

Video Verification For 9 Year Olds?

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/11/25

Roblox is now making kids as young as nine upload a video selfie or ID just to use the chat. The whole point is to keep minors safer by limiting who they can talk to, but in what world should a 9-year-old be uploading a video of themselves so that they can play a game?We also discuss people and companies holding on to tech longer than the makers of it intend for them to, Insurance companies claiming AI to be too much of a risk, and what tech Robb is picking up on sale over the holiday.Hosts:Robb

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50:53

Flip The Camera Bullies

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/11/18

There is a new social media trend going around where participants are asking people to hold their phones, selfie-cam out, while they record videos. It turns out they're flipping the camera so that they may make fun of the unsuspecting person helping them out.We also discuss restaurant reservation apps that allow users' tipping habits to be tracked, women and people of color being underrepresented in podcasting, and more.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance

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59:56

I Like Big Phones And I Cannot Lie

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/11/11

Microsoft and Apple are way behind their competition when it comes to the AI Arms Race, but for very different reasons. Microsoft is using influencers to get the 30-and-under crowd to use Copilot. Apple is using Google's Gemini to power Siri.We also discuss Microsoft Publisher sunsetting in 2026 after a 35-year run, if we are moving away from ultra-thin phones, Patreon's Social Evolution, and more.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines

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1:02:32

Slave To The Algorithm

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/11/04

Tubi's VP of Partnerships suggests creators 'Stop Blaming The Algorithm' And 'Start Being More Flexible'. He's not wrong, but there is more to it than that.We also discuss Disney and YouTube TV still not agreeing to put ABC, ESPN, and other Disney-owned channels back on the platform, Apple's OS 26.1 updates, the upcoming TikTok Awards, and more.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechLinks:YouTube TV and Disney still haven't come to an

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1:04:25

When AI Mistakes A Bag Of Chips For A Gun

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/10/28

Is AI mistaking a child with a bag of chips as an armed student on a school campus an intended result? It's hard to believe that it isn't when we were told "the system worked as intended."We also discuss a finalized TikTok deal potentially being signed on 10/30, if we're ready for "eyes off, hands off" automated driving systems, if you should have a college degree to talk about professional subjects online, and we Spotlight Dean Forbes, the most influential Black person in the UK.Hosts:Robb Dunewood

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1:01:48

The Problem With Deepfakes

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/10/21

Deepfakes of prominent deceased figures from history, like Martin Luther King Jr., are so problematic on Sora 2 that OpenAI changed its policies to allow the families and estates of deceased people to opt out of having their likenesses used on its platform.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechSupport The Tech Jawn by becoming a Patron –https://thetechjawn.com/patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:02:28

Falling In Love With AI

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/10/14

20% of high schoolers say they have either had a romantic relationship with AI or know of someone who has. In our increasingly online-connected world, young people are finding it easier to create friendships with bots than they do with people.In this episode, we also discuss Sora's nearly record-breaking week on the App Store, YouTube welcoming back previously banned creators, NYC suing social media companies for addicting children, and ICE tracking apps being removed from the app stores.Hosts:Robb

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1:04:22

Awww... What Happened To Sora Losers?

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/10/07

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 designed to increase internet speed, reduce costs, and strengthen data

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57:24

AI Fatigue

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/09/30

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.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines

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1:14:31

YouTube's Dope New Features For Creators

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/09/23

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 –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechGuest Host: Angela HollowellLinks:Meta's Ray-Ban Display may be the best smart

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53:12

Concept Of A TikTok Deal

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/09/16

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 that came out this week, and, the Black owned social media network is in

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1:01:46

Carry On Google... Carry On

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/09/09

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:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines

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1:01:44

Apple Intelligence Powered By Google?

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/08/26

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, rehirings, and layoffs.Hosts:Robb Dunewood –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey

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52:37

Substack... Just Say No To Racism

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/08/19

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 –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechLinks:Trump Weighs 10% Government Stake in Intel -- Read MoreRoblox Has Serious Safety Issues For Kids -- Read MoreWhy Doesn't Substack Say No

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58:15

Tech Giants & Government Kickbacks: What's Really...

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/08/12

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 –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechLinks:AOL to discontinue dial-up service -- Read MoreOpenAI Released GPT-5

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1:05:09

AI To Control… Everything?

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/08/05

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 –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechLinks:Electricity prices

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55:40

Tea, The Dating Safety App That Didn’t Keep User's...

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/07/29

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 Elon Musk’s X.ai working on a version of Grok for children.Hosts:Robb

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50:33

Howard University And Google Partner To Make AI...

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/07/22

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 MoreOpen AI not caring about competition rules -- Read MoreMeta not signing the EU's voluntary AI code -- Read MoreUS courts being "frighteningly likely" to overlook AI errors -- Read MoreSupport The Tech Jawn by becoming a Patreon.You

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1:02:26

Who Trains Your AI Matters

The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The... ·

2025/07/15

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 –@RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey –@TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines –@BrothaTechStories Mentioned:Jock Dorsey's New Internetless Messaging App -- Read MoreGrok's Issues With Racism -- Read

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