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

Do We Really Want Facial Recognition In Smart Glasses?

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

Robb Dunewood

Tech Podcasts, Black Tech, Tech News, Technology, Black Tech Podcasts, News, Society & Culture

4.8 β€’ 48 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Amazon's Ring Super Bowl ad upset a few folks, France and possibly other countries are seeking digital autonomy from the US., and Meta is reportedly working on Facial recognition for its smart glasses.


Hosts:


Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:


Amazon's Ring Super Bowl Ad upset literally everyone β€” The Verge

France seeks "digital autonomy from the US β€” Fast Company

Meta is working on facial recognition for its smart glasses β€” Engadget


Black History Spotlight:


Dr. George Robert Carruthers β€” NAASM


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Transcript

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0:00.0

In this episode of the Tech John, we discussed Amazon's ring Super Bowl ad upsetting almost everyone.

0:05.8

France and possibly other countries seeking digital autonomy from the U.S.

0:09.3

And men are reportedly working on facial recognition for smart glasses.

0:13.0

We've got all of this, a spotlight, and more in episode 215 of the Tech John from Columbus, Ohio.

0:17.8

I'm your host, Rob Lundwood.

0:19.6

And coming out of Philly, it's your girl, Tech Life's Death. And Terrence is, I'm assuming, on the beach somewhere. Right, he went to... Yeah, he is on vacation right now. I forgot... I was like, I knew he was going to be out, but I forgot where he said he was going. So yeah, shout out to Harry, safe travels, brother tech.

0:39.3

Yeah, so we don't have any A.K.A.s for you this week.

0:43.3

But we do have a whole lot of tech.

0:45.7

Steph and I was just talking about the All-Star game, which I thought the actual All-Star game,

0:50.8

I thought it was better because this little mini tournament that they did.

0:54.4

But in the sports world, there were some, there were some beef with the curlers.

0:59.9

I don't even know what you call them.

1:02.2

They call them stones or whatever, but yeah, it's like Canada and was it the Netherlands?

1:07.1

It was Canada and somebody.

1:08.8

And they was going back and forth.

1:09.8

And it looks like Canada was

1:10.9

actually cheating a little bit. So I didn't know that they had beef and curling. It's beef. And I think

1:16.7

the competition, you know, any sort of competition is going to encourage a little bit of,

1:22.6

a little bit, a little bit of conflict. Yeah. But anyway, I finally did figure out how to watch the Olympic because

1:28.7

it's like, it's like it's on peacock, it's on NBC. Well, that's really the place. It's on peacock and it's on NBC. But you can watch peacock on on Amazon, you can watch it on Peacock. You can watch it on the actual NBC channel. So I was just trying to figure out where do I actually go? I forgot the Olympics started because it's like I don't normally watch like just NBC. So it wasn't until I started thinking about it. Like I think on Saturday after the Olympics started, they was like, oh, wait a minute, the Olympics started yesterday. Let's let's go find some stuff out. So yeah, so it's, it's been a sports weekend. But we are going to get into the tech. But before we do, we have to shout out some brand new patrons. We got not just one.

2:02.9

We got two. So it's been a sports weekend, but we are going to get into the tech. But before we do, we have to shout out some brand new patrons.

2:04.1

We got not just one.

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