Episode 140: It's Electric

In this Episode: ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: iPhone feature will record police interaction, send location Ditch These Racist Terms From Your Tech Vocabulary GitHub announced it will change the term “Master repository” to “Main repository” due to the former term’s references to slavery, and will be abandoning the terms “whitelist” and “blacklist” to remove any racial connotations from their use. Other organizations that have made similar pledges include: Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Apple, Drupal, Grammarly, Microsoft, Python The UK Government’s cybersecurity branch Netflix Chief Reed Hastings Donates $120 Million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities T-Mobile hit by phone calling, text message outage You can now pay thousands of dollars to talk to celebrities for 10 minutes. Thanks, Cameo Dog-like robots now on sale for $75,000, with conditions Bose shuts down AR development Lyft vows ‘100 percent’ of its vehicles will be electric by 2030 Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS Weird and Wacky: What the Cluck? KFC Announces New Video Game Console Tech Rec: Sanjay - Centriq Adam - DEPSTECH TV/Movie Rec: Sanjay - Trancers Adam - Get Smart Links:‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: iPhone feature will record police interaction, send locationDitch These Racist Terms From Your Tech VocabularyNetflix Chief Reed Hastings Donates $120 Million to Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesT-Mobile hit by phone calling, text message outageYou can now pay thousands of dollars to talk to celebrities for 10 minutes. Thanks, CameoDog-like robots now on sale for $75,000, with conditionsBose shuts down AR developmentLyft vows ‘100 percent’ of its vehicles will be electric by 2030Twitter starts --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message