Episode 80: Facebook's Gonna Steal Your Grandpa's Pocket Watch - Tech Talk Y'all

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Episode 80: Facebook's Gonna Steal Your Grandpa's Pocket Watch

In this Episode:

  • Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts (1:13)
  • Stratolaunch First Flight Video / World’s biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever (3:20)
  • We've been warned about AI and music for over 50 years (4:32)
  • Verizon will now charge more money for in-store activations (6:43)
  • Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO (10:35)
  • Digital scan of Notre Dame offers hope for its restoration (14:28)
  • Some Galaxy Fold review phones are breaking after a couple days of use (16:07)
  • Blockchain has been unblocked, unchained and broken (19:27)
  • A government department has shared the contact details of hundreds of journalists (21:52)

Weird and Wacky Tech (22:40):

  • Unnerving Footage Shows Boston Dynamics' Robot Dogs Casually Pulling a Truck
  • Instagram Memers Are Unionizing
  • Man receives prison sentence for shooting at fireflies he thought were ‘alien lasers’

Tech Recommendations (27:27):

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

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Sanjay Parekh

Sanjay (suhn' jey) is a serial technology entrepreneur. Currently, he is Entrepreneur in Residence at United Way of Greater Atlanta, a co-founder of TogetherLetters, a service for groups to share updates without using social media, and Edgewise, a marketing content creation company using podcasts as a content engine. He is also a co-host of Tech Talk Y'all, a tech news comedy podcast.