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NEXT with John Koetsier500-year ceramic geodesic dome home: now real
The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is now an actual physical reality. I first wrote about Geoship's plan to build long-lasting, inexpensive…
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Chat GPT is NOT generative AI: Intel scientist
Is generative AI the beginning of the end for humans ... or the end of the beginning? And, did you know generative AI has been around since 1972? In this…
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YouTube invalid traffic bug: what 5 YouTube creators say
On November 16th, revenue for skippable ads dropped 50%, 60%, even 90% for many YouTube creators. They say YouTube variously admits it was a bug, says it was…
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3-hour discussion on everything AI :-)
So I did a Twitter Space with a bunch of really smart people, and they said I could upload the results to TechFirst. The only thing ... it's literally over 3…
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Irish drone delivery company expanding to USA and mainland Europe
Drone delivery is super-hot, but there aren't that many major players yet. Google's Wing is doing well, but Amazon is still just getting started, and few other…
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AI, drones, & country-sized digital twins: mirroring the real world in code
Imagine building a digital twin of an entire country: all inputs, outputs, activity, infrastructure, issues, challenges ... That hasn't happened yet, but a…
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Our brains are 1 million times more efficient than ChatGPT: chatting with Gordon Wilson of Rain AI
The wetware in a casket of bone that we each carry on our shoulders is 1 million times more efficient than the AI models run by services like ChatGPT, Stable…
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2023 mobile predictions: billion-dollar apps, TikTok, 3rd party app stores, and more
What will 2023 bring for mobile apps and games? We chat with Data.ai's Ted Krantz about 21 new billion-dollar mobile apps including Call of Duty Mobile…
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Aerospace giant canceled 40,000 Oculus Quest order for this tech
A massive aerospace corporation cancelled an order for 40,000 Oculus Quest VR headsets when they saw the technology in this video. In this very special…
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BMW's heated seats & the evolution of ownership in an era of smart matter
This year we saw consumers push back hard on BMW's decision to include heated seats in vehicles but only make them actually work if people paid a monthly…
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3D printing homes: 80% automated, 50% faster, 99% less waste?
We need more homes for people. We need them cheaper so people can afford them. And we need them eco-friendly and carbon-neutral and self-powering so that our…
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Fixing the $100 trillion physical economy: chatting with Maersk and Saint-Gobain
It's not every day that you get to interview a 357-year-old company founded by a king, and the company that ships 1 out of 6 things moved globally. In this…
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Bots killing the supply chain & driving up prices of everything from diapers to gaming consoles
We've seen it in tickets and gaming consoles. But now it's happening in diapers and food and consumer goods: bots buying, taking up all available supply, and…
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Soundtrack of the metaverse: hip-hop, games, & ads in our ears
In this special episode of TechFirst, I'm sharing the on-stage chat I had with Ghazi Shami, the Founder & CEO of EMPIRE, an innovative hip hop music label, and…
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Tesla: the only company that can pull off Optimus, the Tesla Bot?
Tesla CEO suggested Optimus, the Tesla Bot, would come in around $20,000. He's been wrong about pricing before. But is Tesla the only company that can pull off…
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Unity CEO John Riccitiello on gaming, ironSource acquisition, metaverse
Unity CEO John Riccitiello talks about playing his first game (Pong), coding his first game, co-coding his first game with his daughter, and of course all the…
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When AI creates: how generative AI will change the world
We’re seeing so much generative art today: text, images, even video created by AI. I can’t get the image out of my mind of “The Creation of Adam” by…
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Tesla Bot: MIT prof doubts general-purpose robot's usefulness
Is Tesla Bot more than vaporware? Will it be useful and effective in general tasks and duties? Most robots are designed to do one thing or a small subset of…
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Mobile is the future of augmented reality (for now)
How do you define the future of augmented reality? Is it a $2,000 headset from Apple or a $1500 Oculus Quest Pro from Facebook? Or is it a device that we all…
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Open source AI: essential for a free future?
Who owns the AI that searches for the knowledge you need? Who owns the AI that manages your home’s energy use? Who owns the AI that lets you speak and get the…
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Autonomous construction drone maps progress on billion-dollar projects
Who knew, but maintaining state and level of progress on massive construction jobs is actually a really hard problem. Exyn Technologies has adapted their mine…
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Solving touch: the last mile of robotics
When will we solve the “last-mile” problem of robotics? We’ve made robots that can go to the bottom of the ocean, that can operate in hard radiation in a…
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Google's drone company Wing unveils 'aircraft library'
Sometimes you need a big drone. Sometimes a small one will do. Some deliveries are urgent. Others are far away. For each, a slightly different drone would be…
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Data as the nuclear waste of the Information Age: Ghostery CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz
Data is the nuclear waste of the web and machine learning, Ghostery CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz tells me in the last TechFirst podcast. And big tech is redefining…
NEXT with John KoetsierBuilding a human OS one smart sole at a time
Plantiga makes sensor insoles for shoes that help people get better, faster, and healthier. They track how you run, walk, jump, and change direction, and…
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How MIT's Cheetah robot teaches itself to walk in 3 hours
Programming robots is so 2010. Providing the AI framework within with they can teach themselves is accelerating training and development of new behaviors from…
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Digital twin wind farms: Siemens and NVIDIA modeling turbines in AI
When you plunk a $100 million wind farm down on 98,000 acres of varying terrain, you want to know a few things. You want to know that you’re optimizing the…
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Apple's privacy changes cut mobile advertising ROI by 40%
Everyone wants privacy. Most of us also care about an environment in which businesses can grow too. But can both of these be reconciled? If you are in the…
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The 500-year-lifespan geodesic dome home is now real, actual, built
We desperately need more housing that is affordable, sustainable, and mass producible. Geoship thinks they've created exactly that, and have now actually built…
NEXT with John KoetsierMojo Vision's smart contact lens is basically feature complete
Mojo Vision has been working on smart contact lenses since years. Recently the company announced its most advanced prototype ever, which VP Steven Sinclair…
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Does social media censorship cause extremism?
What if the very things we want big social platforms to do to stop the spread of extremism, racism, propaganda, and lies is actually causing more problems than…
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Netflix vs TikTok vs Disney vs Facebook: battle of juggernauts
Who's winning in the media and entertainment battles? We are currently seeing an epic battle in the mobile space for consumer time, attention, and dollars. Two…
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Crypto on native land: special economic zones are the new casinos?
Catawba Indian Nation in Rock Hill, South Carolina has established a new Special Economic Zone where the tribe will provide space and regulatory certainty for…
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BMW vs Tesla: BMW to sell 25% of its cars online in 3 years
BMW sells 2.5 million cars and 194,000 motorcycles annually, almost all in a traditional car dealership. But the 100-year-old car brand wants to sell cars…
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AI for investing: ultimate cheat code?
Will super-smart artificial intelligence be the ultimate cheat code for beating the market? Probably not ... but its could ensure you retire with 25% more than…
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Automating the on-demand economy: keeping up with Amazon's 200,000 robots
Digital retail giant Amazon has over 200,000 robots helping deliver more than 350 million different products in an unceasing flood of billions of deliveries…
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Here is a 3-core battery-free stamp-sized computer with an ARM processor that reinvents IoT
We have billions of smart things. How can we create a true internet of things with trillions? We won't ... unless we have a super-cheap, super-small…
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Fitbit for your blood: home infrared spectrometer analyzes blood health
COR is an infrared spectrometer that measures your blood health and how the food you eat and the exercise that you engage in impacts it. The first product of…
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Programmable matter: MIT building self-assembling robots for space
MIT scientists are building ElectroVoxels, small, smart, self-assembling robots designed for space. It's programmable matter, infinitely recyclable large-scale…
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Building an artificial brain: 86B neurons, 500T synapses, and a neuromorphic chip
Is neuromorphic computing the only way we can actually achieve general artificial intelligence? Very likely yes, according to Gordon Wilson, CEO of Rain…
NEXT with John KoetsierRarible: Half of e-commerce ‘doesn’t need to be physical’
Will NFTs be a trillion-dollar market by 2030? Or will they vanish in a blazing explosion of hate from all the naysayers? (I might give even odds on each side…
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DeviantArt finding 40,000 fake NFTs per month
So you got a great deal on your brand-new mutant ape yacht puppy NFT? But is it legit? DeviantArt is now scanning 5 million NFTs a week. Every month, it's…
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The future of surgery is robotic
How soon will we have robot surgeons? Health care has gone remote lately, but in reality, most of it is fairly simple: video conferencing during Covid. But…
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Cincinnati Children’s using supercomputer, AI for mental health
Studies say you can prevent about 50% of mental health challenges if you catch and address them early. Doctors from Cincinnati Children’s hospital are using…
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Thought to text: brain-computer interface lets you type, move robotic arms with your mind
Thinking to type sounds interesting to most of us. Crazy and futuristic, yes, but also freeing and fast. But for those with massive spinal cord injuries or…
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Saving coral reefs by 3D printing more?
Can we save the coral reefs by 3D printing more? Not reefs themselves, of course: those are built by living creatures, the coral ... but by 3D printing the…
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Drone explosion: Cargo UP, air taxi DOWN
Have you taken a flying Uber yet? We're in the middle of a flight revolution. In the past two years, there's been $5 billion of investment in personal drones…
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Engineering plants to talk via bioluminescence
What if plants could tell us when pests are attacking them, or they’re too dry, or they need more fertilizer. One startup is gene engineering farm plants so…
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Why gaming powerhouse Zynga bought Chartboost ... before getting bought by Take-Two
Five days ago, gaming giant Take-Two bought Zynga for $13 billion. But before that, Zynga bought Chartboost for $250 million. What's going on? Why is a gaming…
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Why is livestream shopping such a massive trend right now?
Livestream shopping is a $66 billion business in China, but only a $1 billion business in the U.S. That’s likely to change soon if Facebook, Google, Amazon…
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Million-qubit quantum computing ... at $300 per qubit?
Quantum computing currently costs $10,000 a qubit: just one of the reasons why it's hard and expensive to scale. SEEQC is taking a different approach to…
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Drone defense: how we can protect airports, stadiums, infrastructure from drone-based terrorism?
Drones are super-cool and fun. They could also be a terrorist's favorite weapon, allowing them to strike from a distance in safety. But how do you defend…
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Meet the AI-powered Cray X German Bionic exoskeleton
Billions of people have jobs that require heavy lifting, and most of them will lose health and ability over years of repetitive stress. German Bionic thinks…
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2022 app predictions: TikTok, Facebook, Roblox, NFTs, metaverse, fintech ...
It is NEXT YEAR PREDICTIONS time again :-) This TechFirst we're chatting with App Annie CEO Ted Krantz about what's hot, what's big, and what's growing in…
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Can Coincast make crypto as easy as texting?
(Sponsored by my creator coin: $SMRT. Get some here: https://rally.io/creator/SMRT/.) If crypto is the future of finance, the future sucks. It’s hard…
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Can Unity make metaverse glue connecting millions of games?
Unity might be better positioned than any other company to usher in the Oasis ... AKA the metaverse. 71% of the top thousand mobile games are made with the…
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New titans of adtech: challenging Google & Facebook?
Adtech is in upheaval. We've seen 7 billion-dollar acquisitions so far this year and we've seen massive change: Uber Eats has an ad network. Doordash has an ad…
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Brave adds crypto wallet, NFTs, and DApps natively in browser
Crypto is hard. Wallets are hard. NFTs are hard. Connecting to DApps, distributed apps, is hard. Brave is trying to make that simpler by building all of this…
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Making homes smart from the start: can we build smart homes instead of renovating them?
Most smart homes are aftermarket affairs: cobbled together bits and pieces of Alexa and Google and Apple HomeKit to make our lights go on, our music play, our…
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Why smart buildings are stupid hard
There are perhaps a billion buildings on the planet. Maybe a million of those are of significant size, and all of them are going to be smart at some point in…