TechTime with Nathan Mumm | E95: How to find your Internet Footprint Online, and Amazon Unionized | Airdate: 4-5-22

By Nathan Mumm | April 11, 2022

Welcome to TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go “Hummmm” Technology news of the week for April 3rd – April 9th, 2022.

Today on the show, Do you know your Internet Footprint and why your ID tag is essential? First, we explain how to find your Footprint online and then if you should be worried. We also talk about Elon Musk now serving on the board of Twitter, Hackers breaching MailChimp’s internal tools to target crypto customers. Amazon workers on Staten Island voted for a union in a stunning victory that upsets Amazon’s leadership structure. Then we have on our most exciting games of “Two Truths and a Lie.” In addition, we have our standard features, including “This Week in Technology,”; “Mike’s Mesmerizing Moment,” and, of course, our “Pick of the Day” whiskey tasting. So sit back, raise a glass, and Welcome to TechTime with Nathan Mumm.

 Episode 95:  Starts at 1:37

— [Now on Today’s Show]: Starts at 3:14
— [Top Stories In The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 6:55

— [Pick of the Day – Whiskey Tasting Review]: Starts at 22:20

Penelope Straight Bourbon Whisky | 80 Proof | 35.00

— [Technology Insider]: Starts at 25:04
 Today, on Technology Insider, do you know what your Internet Footprint looks like? How can you find your Footprint, and should you be sacred? Everyone has a different level of concern, and just like your actual fingerprint, each is unique.

— [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 42:25

April 3, 1973 – The First Cell Phone Call

Martin Cooper considered the “father of the cellular phone”, makes the first cell phone call on a New York City street.

Martin Cooper’s first job was at Teletype Corporation in Chicago in 1954 and joined Motorola, Inc. as a senior development engineer in the mobile equipment group. He developed many cellular devices including the first cellular-like portable handheld police radio system, produced for the Chicago police department in 1967.

— [Two Truths and a Lie]: Starts at 47:50

What Two Articles are Famous April Fools Jokes.

LIE: Lenovo’s Think Reality Smart Glasses  –  As you move your head to view the different desktops floating in front of you, you can continue multitasking between Excel spreadsheets, email, or that Word document .

TRUTH: Virgin Volcanic

Sir Richard Branson has launched Virgin Volcanic, promising to let people get to the center of the Earth and back via their nearest volcano.

TRUTH: Emoji Number (License) Plates

Honda showed off the world’s first emoji License plate at the 2022 CES show in Las Vegas. But what people thought was a tongue and cheek license plate is actually the real deal.

— [Mike’s Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 52:02

— [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 53:48

Penelope Straight Bourbon Whisky | 80 Proof | 35.00
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