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- NEXT with John Koetsier
Deus ex machina: how AI is reshaping us and our world
Think about it: AI chooses your next song in Spotify, your next video in YouTube, your next news item in Flipboard, which updates from friends and family you…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Quantum computing, quantum supremacy, and a new Quantum Moore's Law with D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz
What changes when quantum computing is mainstream? Quantum computing is on the far reaches of science, using technology that accesses aspects of matter at…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
iPhone 12 Pro's lidar enables 100X faster 3D scanning than conventional photogrammetry
There’s a brand-new sensor in the iPhone 12 Pro, and it’s a big clue about the future of technology. Already just 1 month after iPhone 12 launch, the phone…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
From phone to Star Trek tricorder: This company is working with Qualcomm to put a spectrometer in your phone
I've always wanted a Star Trek tricorder ... a mobile sensor unit that tells you all about the world around you. (Who doesn't?) Now a company in Germany…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Deepfakes, synthetic humans, and the future of stardom with Reface.ai cofounder Dima Shvets
Do deepfakes foreshadow the fall of civilization and the end of all truth? Or are they just good fun? Or is there a third possibility: that they're the…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Are robot chefs the future of food? From Flippy, the burger-making robot, to home cooking, robo-style
Are robot chefs the future of food? We chat with Buck Jordan, the cofounder of Miso Robotics, which makes Flippy … the robot that cooks. We talk about the…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple GateKeeper: Macs phone home whenever they open an app ... but one hacker's blog post forced the world's largest corporate to change course
Did you know your computer transmits a log of every single app you open? Apple has made privacy a core part of the brand -- including entire TV commercials…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold on taking the world's highest-res snowflake photographs and more ...
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold spent 18 months building a custom 100MP camera to take pictures of snowflakes. We chat with him about why :-) and how…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Robots and AI can 10X e-commerce shipping productivity. But are they also better for workers?
In the future, most work might be done by robots, but right now, most is done by humans. How do we manage the transition? And, what does a humans + robots…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
The future of farms is vertical: 400X more yield, 95% less water, 99% less space
Is AI, robotics, and … verticality … about to change farming as we know it? In this episode of TechFirst we chat with Nate Storey, the cofounder and chief…
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From Bali with love: this meditation app with 17M users has a unique approach to making money
In an era of massive budgets, invasive ads, buy now subscription models, and incessant noise, can the good guys still win? In this episode of TechFirst with…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Is Google cheating YouTube creators?
An alleged YouTube bug has retroactively taken thousands of dollars in revenue away from YouTube creators. YouTube, however, has neither acknowledged the…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Fixing US elections: Can digital voting and blockchain save us?
The 2020 US presidential election is insane and, frankly, proves that current election “tech” is trash. Days later we still don’t know who won for sure, and…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Connecting rhinos to the internet of things via space ...
Is space the future of IoT? Australia-based Myriota has the world’s first low power, ultra-low cost global internet of things solution from space. In this…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Fraud in this Russian-owned app targets US election swing states ...
A ad fraud scheme dubbed Matryoshka is preferentially targeting U.S. swing states in a reportedly Russian-owned mobile app that has historically been linked…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Starlink's internet from space is faster than 95% of US internet connection speeds
Could rural Montana be the next Silicon Valley? Check internet speed off your list of reasons why not. Even though Elon Musk’s SpaceX says its expanded “Better…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Smartphones Q3 2020: Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi
Smartphone shipments dropped just 1.3% in Q3 according to a report from IDC, hitting 353.6 million: more than expected given the Covid-19 pandemic. Samsung was…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple's beta software program is ... very beta right now
Apple’s beta software program provides pre-release software for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV before broad public releases to everyone. It’s for…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
TikTok owner ByteDance is selling a smart desk lamp with a camera for kids
File this one in the didn’t-expect-that department. TikTok parent company ByteDance has launched a smart desk lamp for school kids in China. The Dali Smart…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
How do you digitally transform an entire government? Chatting with Oklahoma's lieutenant governor Matt Pinnell
Imagine being able to get a driver's license, pay your taxes, get a fishing license all online. And: anything you want to do with your government, you can do…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
This AI creates movies from hundreds of smartphones automagically
Can AI combine data from hundreds or thousands of smartphones simultaneously to make great videos? IMINT algorithms are in 100s of millions of devices globally…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Starlink’s internet anywhere via SpaceX satellite: $99/month
It’s the ultimate Covid product: fast, low-latency internet anywhere on the planet for just $99 per month, plus a $500 up-front payment to get the connection…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Facebook Gaming head talks cloud gaming: Facebook launches free cloud gaming service
Facebook is launching a cloud gaming service to compete with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Stream, and all the other cloud gaming services. In this…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple's privacy-safe tech has bugs, suggesting that iOS 14's privacy delays were for internal reasons, not ecosystem health
Apple’s iOS 14 is probably the most privacy-safe mobile operating system on the planet. But a major part of the planned functionality was delayed until 2021…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple TV+ ... actually interesting now? (And, Apple gives you 3 more free months)
Apple has extended Apple TV+ for free for three more months for customers who bought an Apple product and received their first year free. The good thing is…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
USA vs Google antitrust: too late, too soon, just political, or just missing the point?
This week the U.S. government filed suit against Google. Smart move, or just politics? And, which member of big tech -- Amazon, Facebook, Apple -- is next?…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Quibi spent $63 million on ads in its short six-month life
Raising $1.75 billion wasn’t enough to make Quibi a success. Nor was a massive spend on advertising. The short-form video startup had a short six-month…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
44% of global eCommerce is owned by 4 Chinese companies
58% of global e-commerce is concentrated in just six companies. And just four Chinese companies account for almost half of global digital sales. Global…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
97% of creators don't get paid. Cinnamon video is trying to change that ...
Cinnamon is a new video platform with a couple of unique features. First, you get paid for videos you upload. Second, it happens without ads. And third, it…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple booting third-party browser that enables Google Stadia streaming games
Apple is removing a browser app from the App Store that allows people to play Stadia, Google’s streaming game service, according to the developer. “My app is…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Dyson Hot+Cool cleaned 70% of smoke particles from my air during the fires in California, Oregon, Washington
Can the Dyson Pure Hot + Cool clean your air from smoke and soot? That’s what I have been testing for parts of the past few months during the western fires…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Social media, censorship, politics: the NY Post, Biden's laptop, and the right path forward
Should social media censor free speech? Something fairly unprecedented happened this past week: Facebook and Twitter both blocked a NY Post story. Now ……
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Wearable DNA sequencing devices just 4-5 years away: Dr. Roel Wuyts, principal scientist at IMEC
Do we now have near real-time gene sequencing? And if so … what does that unlock? In this edition of TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with Dr Roel Wuyts…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
No, the iPhone 12 doesn’t actually cost $799
You might think the iPhone 12 starts at one dollar under $800. You might even have a distinct memory of seeing a price that looked suspiciously like $799…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
YouTube and Facebook destroy Twitch in at least one critical livestreaming category
We watched almost 7.5 billion hours of live streaming content in the last three months, up 92% from last year. Amazingly, just one company owns a massive 91.1%…
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley on Apple vs Google: the emerging healthtech battle
Could Apple and Google soon be two of the most important companies in health? In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with former Apple CEO…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Developers: Google, Siri, Alexa are an abstraction layer over your apps
In the stone ages of mobile a couple of years ago, you actually had to tap on an app icon and open an app in order to access its functionality. While…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
In-flight wireless drone charging: how GET is making the drone economy real
Drone deliveries won’t be common until we figure out distributed charging. But maybe … we already have ... In this episode of TechFirst, we chat with Leonid…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Robots in the cloud: How Amazon’s “fake” robots are making real robots smarter and faster
Is the future of robotics in the cloud? In this episode of TechFirst we're chatting with and Amazon exec, AWS Robotics general manager Roger Barga, about how…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Here's what the top 10 fitness apps of 2020 have in common
Health and fitness apps are winning the Covid-19 era, thanks to closed gyms. But a certain kind of health and fitness app is winning mobile, according to a new…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
This AI makes fake faces for privacy-safe photo sharing
Can you share personal photos online … without sharing your face with the giant global database that is the internet? And, can you share photos of crowds of…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Mapping the creator economy: 50M YouTube, Instagram, Twitch creators, 2M full-time pros ... and growing fast
Are 50 million YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch creators the new founders? And … are they far more numerous and economically important than we think? In this…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Google Launch Night: Pixel phones, Google TV, Chromecast, and the new Nest Audio
There’s now a Google TV as well as an Apple TV. A new Chromecast. Google Home is now Nest Audio, and there are now new Google Pixel smartphones. Google…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
How Apple might reinvent podcasts with its latest acquisition
Imagine the perfect custom talk radio station tailored exactly to your unique likes, with a never-ending flow of great content. That’s exactly what Apple could…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple’s iOS 14 app clips seemed stupid. Actually ... they’re awesome
I was not a fan of App Clips when Apple announced them for iOS 14. And wow ... was I wrong. This story is also available in my Forbes column here…
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Global online content consumption doubled in 2020
I happened to see my wife’s screen time analytics on her phone recently. She’s spending an average of over seven hours a day on her phone. And she’s not alone…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Will you buy Amazon's new flying home security drone, Always Home Cam?
Amazon's new flying home security drone does not have lasers. Nor can you mount a gun on it, much to the dismay of many, apparently. But will you buy it? To…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Why Facebook's Ray-Ban smartglasses will fail, with Irena Cronin from Infinite Retina
A week ago Facebook announced it was working with Ray-Ban on a multi-year deal to build and ship smartglasses. Mark Zuckerberg says they’re “the next step on…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
The top 40 companies people want to work for in the tech industry
Want to work at Tesla? Apple? Reddit? Netflix? You’re not alone. Most people want to work for a company that is doing amazing work in the forefront of their…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Episode 100!!!
This is episode 100! Thank you so much for subscribing to TechFirst. I very much appreciate it. In a year we've taken this podcast to a top-100 podcast in the…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Keynote chat: How Apple is disrupting mobile as we know it
iOS 14 is a game-changer in more than a few ones. One of them is definitely privacy. I've been writing a lot about privacy, Apple, and what Apple's been doing…
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iOS 14: Google's former iOS app head reveals what apps will win and why
Is iOS 14 fundamentally changing what kinds of apps can be successful? And … with iOS 14 … is Apple building a fundamentally different future for software? In…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple’s Safari 14 blocked 90 web trackers in just 5 minutes
Literally five minutes ago I updated to the new version of Safari, version 14. Then I browsed Forbes, hit up Techmeme, checked Twitter briefly, went to Fox…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Smart contact lens from Ghent University: an artificial iris that can dynamically change your vision
Could smart contact lenses grant millions the gift of sight? In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier with chat with Andrés Vásquez Quintero, a…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple Music iOS 14 is the ultimate DJ
I used to think that Apple Music was an enormous treasure chest filled with amazing things that you could never really get out. And I used to think that…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
4 ways Tesla self-driving ‘falls short’ in Consumer Reports testing
Consumer Report says extensive testing on Tesla’s “full self-driving” capability shows that it falls short of its name, isn’t worth the $8,000 price tag, and…
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How to scam millions with Facebook ads, Shopify stores, and fake products
It’s been a little challenging to get fitness equipment lately, hasn’t it? Scammers have noticed too. That’s why there’s been a proliferation of scammy-looking…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Apple, Epic, and App Store cash: What did Apple give, and what is it keeping?
When you generate economic activity on an iPhone, Apple wants a piece. That’s not changing in the new App Store review guidelines Apple released this morning…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
How American Express uses AI to automate 8 billion decisions ... with $1 trillion at stake
How do you automate risk 8 billion times a year? In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with Anjali Dewan, American Express’ VP of Risk…
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Autonomous robots & drones: working where no humans should
We talk a lot about self-driving cars. But what about autonomous robots, doing work that isn’t safe for people? We’re talking environments like mines a mile…