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1			TITLE: Episode 110	Guest:

2			Stories subject to change up until showtime
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5			Intro
6		Robb	(Intro) -- I am Robb Dunewood from Columbus Ohio
7		Steph
8		Terrance
9			Unscripted Banter
10			Before we get to our tech stories, I want to let everyone know that you can support The Tech Jawn by becoming a Patron over at Patreon.com/TheTechJawn. We have multiple tiers over there, any one of which, gets you access to our Live Stream and After-Party where you can watch us recorod the actual podcast and hang out with us afterwards. Once again, head over to Patreon.com/TheTechJawn. The Tech J A W N
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13			Before we get started I want to give an update on a previous story...
14	1	Robb	Back in episode 106 we talked about the FDA being poised to approve the first ever gene-editing therapy. We are happy to report that it has done so... Specifically for treating Sickle Cell Anemia which affects more than 100,000 Americans, my brother-in-law, being one of them. The therapy, called Casgevy, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics uses the CRISPR gene-editing tool which won the Nobel Prize for chemistry back in 2020. This gene-editing therapy has a ridiculous success rate... 29 of 30 who completed the treament and continued follow-up check-ins report no symptoms of the debilitating desease more than 2 years later. It also has a ridiculous price tag of $2.2 million dollars per patient.	https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979
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19			Genetic testing company 23andMe got hacked and threat actors stole personal data on about 14,000 customers, or, 0.1% of of the company's users... But it gets worse... Via the data of these 14,000 customers, hackers were able to access files containing the personal information of an additional 6.9 million users... But it gets worse.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
20			Days after 23andMe annouced that it had been hacked, it changed its terms of service through a mechanism called acceptance by silence or inaction, which means that customers must explicitly tell the company they disagree with the new terms within 30 days of being notified of the changes or they will be locked into the terms automatically. And I won't even make you guess what those TOS changes do. 23andMe's new TOS prevents customers from formally suing the firm or pursuing class-action lawsuits against it.	https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/23andme-terms-of-service-update-data-breach
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22	2		Steph, I think you were out the week Terrance and I talked about Apple reversing course and deciding to support RCS on the iPhone sometime next year. To be clear, RCS is not coming to iMessage... It's coming to the iPhone... So you should still be able to call folks out with green bubbles who mess up the serenity of your iMessage chats. My gut tells me that Apple will really lean into the differences between RCS and iMessage because last week, Apple reportedly got a reprieve from having to make iMessage interoperable with other messaging systems in the EU per the Digital Markets Act. as It is rumored that the Competition and Markets Authority in the EU doesn't believe enough people use iMessage in the European Economic Area to classify it with "gatekeeper" status. If iMessage isn't a gatekeeper like WhatsApp or Facbook Messenger, it won't have to open up and work with other platforms.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/imessage-will-reportedly-get-a-reprieve-from-eus-interoperability-regulation/
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25			YouTube and TikTok reign supreme among teens	https://www.pcmag.com/news/teens-are-online-almost-constantly-usually-on-these-apps
26			The Pew Research Center finds that 93% of kids aged 13 to 17 use YouTube and 63% are on TikTok.
27			The platform formerly known as Twitter, meanwhile, saw its own decline accelerate. In 2015, 33% of teens used it, while last year 23% did. Now, just 20% say they use X, leaving it behind the chat platform Discord (28%) and the Meta-owned WhatsApp (20%).
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30			The "usual suspects" slowing down government-backed EV charging infrastructure	https://www.axios.com/2023/12/11/electric-car-chargers-ev-biden
31			The federal government, for example, first had to staff the new Joint Office to support the effort.
32			It took more than a year for that office to finalize standards ensuring consistent plug types, charging speeds and payment systems with easy access for all. (Automakers' surprise decision to adopt Tesla's plug style complicated matters.)
33			Another problem: State transportation officials, who are used to overseeing federal road and bridge projects, lack the resources and expertise to plan and manage charging infrastructure, says Loren McDonald, CEO of industry analytics firm EVAdoption.com.
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37			The After Party
38			The NBA In-Season Tournament was a hit
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40			A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop	https://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-salute-50-yars-hip-hop-cbs-tv-special
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