The Tech Jawn - DTNS Experiment Week
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Tech Jawn is a second look at the week's tech news headlines delivered from a different perspective. African Americans, demographically, are the biggest users of consumer technology in the country and The Tech Jawn aims to showcase how technology affects them as well as how they affect technology.
Hosted by Robb Dunewood (@robbdunewood), Stephanie Humphrey (@techlifesteph), and Terrance Gaines (@brothatech), the first episode tackles bias in algorithms like Facial Recognition and Artificial Intellegence.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to DTNS Experiment Week. |
| 0:33.0 | All this week DTNS is on summer vacation. |
| 0:36.0 | But in its place is Experiment Week, |
| 0:38.0 | where our producers and contributors are trying out new show ideas |
| 0:42.0 | and releasing them right here on the DTNS feed. |
| 0:45.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:50.0 | African-Americans are being arrested, |
| 0:52.0 | charged, inhaled on faulty ID matches. |
| 0:55.0 | Twitter favors faces with lighter skin tones, even black Twitter. |
| 1:00.0 | Tom and his vehicles be out here at Pedestrian Ballin, |
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