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NEXT with John Koetsier
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NEXT with John KoetsierReal-world cybersecurity: HP & Siemens CISOs on WFH, hacking, and sleeping at night
How do CISOs sleep at night? By failing fast, apparently. In this episode of TechFirst we chat with HP chief information security officer Joanna Burkey and…
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Farms as robots: Can an entire farm be a complex multi-component robot?
Can an entire farm be a complex multi-component robot? According to AppHarvest CTO Josh Lessing ... sure. Kind of. AppHarvest builds greenhouses that know…
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China shows us why Apple needs sideloading
Apple is complicit in Chinese censorship. There’s simply no other way to put it. Thousands of apps have been deleted from the Chinese Apple App Store…
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Self-driving farmbot kills 100,000 weeds/hour by laser: no herbicide!
The Carbon Robotics self-driving farm bot kills weeds with lasers: 8 150-watt lasers, to be precise. That’s pretty cool, but much cooler is that no toxic…
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Google’s drone delivery service Wing starts mall-to-home deliveries
Do you want sushi by drone? Ice cream or coffee in 2 minutes? Wing is Google's drone division (OK, Alphabet's!) and is doing just that right now in three…
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What is the metaverse?
Avi Bar-Zeev has been working on the metaverse for 30 years. He’s one of the key people behind Microsoft’s Hololens, co-founded Keyhole which became Google…
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Amazon is killing Google and Apple in smart home tech
Here's (almost) everything Amazon announced for smart home just two days ago, including Amazon Astro, Ring Always Home Cam, Ring Alarm Pro, Ring Video…
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Metaverse in your pocket? The tech behind world's largest virtual event
Can I only experience a Facebook metaverse in Oculus Quest? Can I only enter your virtual event with an HTC Vive Pro? Or can we build connections, doors…
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60X strong than steel: world first high-speed carbon fiber 3D printing
We know carbon fiber is strong: 60X stronger than steel. The problem has always been finding ways to 3D print it at speed, and for large objects. Arevo says…
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Epic v Apple: the 36 most interesting findings in the Fortnite lawsuit freeing the App Store
Epic sued Apple for the right to sell in-app purchases in Fortnite itself and not pay Apple a 30% cut. And it won ... but also lost, as the judge ruled in…
NEXT with John KoetsierCyborg or avatar: will you wear a robot, or operate it?
Some robots won't replace us. Some will augment us: make us faster, stronger, bigger, more capable. Sarcos Robotics has built both robots that you can wear and…
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Photonic computing questions answered: Lightmatter CEO
Four months ago I interviewed Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris on his photonic supercomputer. There are now almost 400K view and 2,600 comments ... with lots of…
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We’re at 2% EVs. Biggest threat to 100%?
US President Biden said his goal is that 50% of cars sold in 2030 will be zero-emission vehicles: less than 9 years away. So … is that doable? Maybe, but the…
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Tesla Bot: Elon Musk reveals humanoid Tesla robot which is apparently not a joke
Presumably Tesla isn’t busy enough building “full self driving” or cars that have half-year waitlists for new buyers. (Or worse: anyone wondering where…
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New AI supercomputer + 100 new AI faculty at University of Florida
What could an AI-focused 22nd most powerful supercomputer in the world and 100 new AI faculty do for the University of Florida? I chat with UF provost Dr…
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How big is gaming now? 7 mobile games now make over $100 Million every month
There are now seven mobile games that pull in over $100 million in an average month, according to a new App Annie report. And 810 scoop up more than $1 million…
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Are holographic displays the future of the metaverse?
If I had a dollar for every 3D startup that has failed, I'd probably have ... a few hundred bucks. Getting no-glasses no-headset 3D right is insanely…
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Retail got Amazoned. Is that GOOD news for microbrands?
Amazon is the beast, the bear, the devil that controls over half of digital retail in America. And they've copied successful products for Amazon Essentials …
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Is AI a bionic arm for the work we hate?
Will AI replace us, or make us better? According to AI expert Slater Victoroff, AI is a bionic arm that's going to make us better and faster, whether we're a…
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eSports stars are now using AI-designed physical fitness workouts to be better, faster, smarter
Mashing those buttons may not take massive muscles. But long-term success in eSports takes physical and mental fitness. At least according to Counter-Strike…
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Manipulating the sine wave of electricity with software
Smart electricity startup Amber just signed a significant agreement with German giant Infineon to bring its technology closer to market. Amber's tech is a…
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Million Doge Disco = Pokemon Go + blockchain + NFTs + partying + augmented reality + fun
Throw everything cool and techy in a blender and what do you get? Million Doge Disco. It's an augmented reality game similar to Pokemon Go with NFTs ✅ and…
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Wearable tech ... isn't really wearable. This smart fabric startup aims to change that
There's a dirty little secret of most wearable tech, and the dirty little secret is ... it's not actually wearable. It's strappable, it's mountable. It's not…
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Building autonomous robots 10X faster with 3D printing and a modular robotics platform
What if building a robot was like picking options on a car? I'll have the vision module, the speech module ... better give me a wheeled transportation package…
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Wristcam is the only camera available for Apple Watch (and yes, it works just like Dick Tracy's communicator)
Whether you want to be Dick Tracy or you want to just not take your phone on a hike, there is now a solution: Wristcam. It's the only camera available globally…
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Drone delivery is here. Right now. For real. And it's awesome.
Next-day delivery? Same-day delivery? Super-lame. What about 5-minute delivery? That's Manna from heaven ... or manna from drones. Manna is running autonomous…
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iOS 15 at WWDC: the future of health unveiled in beta
Medical AI has a bright future. Apple’s focus on health data collected by wearable technology and new capabilities for streaming that data to doctors just…
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They made the first-ever NBA championship ring NFT. Cool enough to go all Beeple on the world?
If we thought crypto was polarizing, NFTs are 10X worse. Are they cool? Are they awesome? Are they nonsense? Are they a cash grab? Are they even anything real…
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Would you pay $60/month to be 20% smarter?
Humm is a small grey patch you wear on your forehead that boosts the normal electrical signals in your prefrontal cortex, making you learn faster, retain…
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No pilot, no problem: This startup just announced level 4 drone autonomy
Pilot free level 4 drone autonomy? Exyn Technologies says they've achieved it, and in this episode we chat with CEO Nader Elm. Topics: what drone autonomy…
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App Annie CEO Ted Krantz on iOS 14.5, super apps, mobile ecosystem consolidation, and more
iOS 14.5 is perhaps the biggest change in the mobile ecosystem in a decade. While most iPhone owners might not see that much change, for the first time they…
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1 million creator coins are coming. Here's how they work
Imagine the ability to have a say in who I interview next. Imagine owning a token from your favorite creator or artist that gives you special access or a…
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New AirPod earbuds ... or hearing aids? Signia Active is hearing aids without shame
Would you feel awkward wearing hearing aids? About 20% of people have hearing loss. But only a third of them will actually wear hearing aids. Too many people…
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Blue Ocean Robotics: the world's only robotics venture factory?
Do you have to reinvent the wheel every time you build a robot? Or can you reuse significant components of functionality like vision, navigation, manual…
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The X Shore electric boat is the Tesla of the sea
The X Shore Eelex 8000 cruises 20 hours on battery power. It knows when you fall overboard, it won't go beyond geo-fences that you set up. It offers autopilot…
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Twitter spaces versus Clubhouse: access vs ego?
Clubhouse is the hot new social audio star. But Twitter Spaces is available to 30X the audience out of the box … and draws on a social graph you already own…
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Fight Camp: chatting with former US national boxing team member Tommy Duquette about boxing and his smart gloves
Punching something is probably a good way of blowing off steam, as long as it's an inanimate object and you're not hurting anyone. It's also a surprisingly…
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Beating Moore's Law: This photonic computer is 10X faster than NVIDIA GPUs using 90% less energy
Moore's Law is dead, right? Not if we can get working photonic computers. Lightmatter is building a photonic computer for the biggest growth area in computing…
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Are shared virtual experiences the future of meetings and work?
I take a virtual tour of a virtual learning environment from The Leadership Network based on a collaboration they're doing with Toyota. Is this the future, or…
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Synthetic humans: is the future of fashion fake?
We have synthetic humans earning millions as influencers and models who are created by a computer. What’s driving this … and where’s it all going? To dig in…
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A computer for your brain? Neurosity releases the Crown to boost productivity
Would you wear a computer on your head? In public? What if it made you more productive? Today on TechFirst with John Koetsier we’re chatting with Alex Castillo…
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Imagine 80 million self-driving trucks. Nuport Robotics wants to make every truck autonomous
Nuport Robotics just landed a deal with Canada's largest retailer, Canadian Tire, and the Canadian government to test its self-driving truck capability. The…
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Why Clubhouse is winning … and can Facebook and Twitter catch up, with Josh Constine
Clubhouse is the media darling of the social audio world ... the hot date. Why? And … can Facebook and Twitter catch up? To get some answers, we’re chatting…
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Google’s new Nest Hub is the sleep tracker I want
Can you think a sleep tracker you haven't even tried might just be the best sleep tracker ever? Apparently yes. But hear me out ... there's reasons :-) Episode…
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'The Future Starts Now' book: 18 futurists collaborate on visions of tomorrow
Late in 2019 two Theo Priestly and Bronwyn Williams brought together 18 futurists to share visions of tomorrow. I'm super-pumped to have a chapter in the book…
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This smart contact lens packs 14,000 pixels per inch into its micro-LED display
What is the future of technology? Mobile is the thing right now, but augmented/mixed/virtual reality via headsets and smartglasses is coming But what about…
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Clubhouse. Twitter Spaces. Facebook. What is happening in social audio right now, with Jeremiah Owyang
Social audio is having a moment. We're seeing an explosion of players in the space: up to 30 at analyst and thought leader Jeremiah Owyang's last count. And…
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Is Elon Musk wrong about LIDAR in self-driving cars? This autonomous driving exec says yes ...
Do self-driving cars need LIDAR? Elon Musk says no, but most other experts say yes. And we’re going to talk to one of them today Omer Keilaf, founder and CEO…
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Robot spas, here we come: the LUUM lash extension robot in action
Would you let a robot make you prettier? The LUUM lash extension robot could soon do all kind of spa treatments ... and even do hair transplants. We have robot…
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How Google is making the entire world smart, one jacket, t-shirt, and shoe at a time ...
In this episode of TechFirst we chat with Google director of engineering Ivan Poupyrev. He's making the world smart, starting with clothing (we buy 150 billion…
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$100 trillion of annual commerce is at risk. Can quantum computing save us?
Digital security sucks, and it’s about to get much worse. The question is: can quantum computing save us? In this episode of TechFirst I chat with Quantropi…
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This startup prints camera lenses like computer chips, 5000 at a time, with full EM spectrum sensing
A new startup out of Harvard Labs has invented a way to print camera lenses 5,000 at a time just like computer chips, and in the same semiconductor foundries…
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Veteran to janitor to physicist: how Josh Carroll changed his life with YouTube
Could you learn trigonometry in 3 weeks if your life depended on it? In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with Josh Carroll, who volunteered…
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Biden’s Peloton vs national security: the danger of smart products to all of us (and our leaders)
Biden’s Peloton vs national security: what’s risky about the president of the US using a Peloton or a Fitbit? And ... what does that mean for the rest of us?…
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The bank of nature? A stock exchange for trees, swamps, and biodiversity is tokenizing the planet
Can forests be banks? A new venture capital group is buying forests and wetlands. But they’re not cutting down the trees or starting farms ... they’re…
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Interstellar travel via propellant-less propulsion: The Mach Drive that NASA is funding
Imagine a "rocket" that only uses electricity. Have a ragtag group of physicists and engineers exploited a little-known feature of Einstein's equations to…
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YouTube #1 creator PewDiePie is coming to Facebook
PewDiePie is the top creator on YouTube, with over 107M subscribers and 26B views. Now he’s coming to Facebook, and we’re chatting with the cofounder of the…
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Infosec is the new war. Big tech is ground zero. Chatting with Twitter's chief information security officer and Info-Tech Research Group
We’re in a crazy, complex, almost alternate reality now. We see hacking from nation-states, hacking from criminals, hacking for fun, hacking for profit ... and…
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How do we make drones as smart as birds or bats? How Intel’s Loihi chip is 100Xing drone capability
Intel's Loihi chip is a neuromorphic chip which tries to emulate the human brain. As far as we've come with convention computing, we are still way behind tiny…
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Battery-free IoT: this bluetooth-based tag harvests energy from radio waves
The internet of things sounds great, but has huge issues. Ubiquity is one. Battery power is another. Cost of sensors -- and sensing tech to sense the sensors…