How’s the old saying go: Everything eventually comes full circle? Well, while I’m not sure about everything, I do know that statement can be applied to the resurgence in popularity of vinyl records aka LP’s aka da’ wax! Depending on your age, vinyl was either the primary medium for recorded sound when you started purchasing...
Twitter Announces Plans to Charge App Developers for API
Earlier today, Twitter announced plans to charge for its API beginning February 9th. The Twitter API is used by hundreds of web and mobile app developers that provide 3rdParty functionality for the platform. After saying major policy changes will be put to a vote and reneging on his own tweet, this policy change escaped to...
Deepfakes Threaten Women’s Sexual Consent
People have been creating fake images of other people forever. In bygone eras, photo negatives were clipped and spliced onto other negatives to put people in the same frame. As photoshop got better, digital artists would cut the head off the body of a person in an image and paste it on another body. The...
The Limits of ChatGPT and Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of AI
For Sarah, thanks for being a dedicated listener and fan of Top Tech Stories of the Week! I assure you this article wasn’t written by ChatGPT. ChatGPT has gotten a lot of hype in a very short span of time. Teachers are decrying the AI for destroying ‘the research paper’, while students the world over...
Shocked and Surprised Says George Santos’ EX
DC, or the District if you’re old enough, is in our backyard. theSync’s offices are in Annapolis, but our souls lay just minutes outside the Kenilworth Ave border. National news often times is our local news. Policy, scandal, and the politics that surround our Nation’s capital becomes BBQ fodder and is intermixed with conversation at...