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- NEXT with John Koetsier
Hyperloop in Canada? 621 MPH ‘TransPod’ in feasibility studies
TransPod, a four-year-old company with roots in Canada and France has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Alberta to study the…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Fitbit VP Larry Yang: Is the Fitbit Sense the complete health smartwatch?
Are smartwatches becoming table stakes for modern health? Chatting with Fitbit's VP of product, Larry Yang, about the new Fitbit Sense. Arguably the first…
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The 100 safest countries for COVID-19: updated
The safest country in the world for COVID-19 is now Germany, according to a recently released ranking. Germany is followed closely by New Zealand and South…
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Advertising after identity: IBM on AI, marketing, and privacy
The history of advertising recently has been one of identity ... specifically, knowing identity across sites and apps. That’s changing: the third-party cookie…
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COVID-19 'accelerated digital transformation by an average of 6 years,' with Twilio's chief customer officer
Covid-19 was the 'digital accelerant of the decade,' pushing brands' digitization strategies up an average of 6 years. In this edition of TechFirst with John…
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Apple & the IDFA: privacy power move or cash grab?
In iOS 14, Apple is making the IDFA opt-in. Is this a privacy power move or a cash grab? The IDFA is a device identifier that advertisers use to know who's…
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Amazon wants your underwear selfies (and beat Apple to a digital health service)
Late last week Amazon announced Halo, an AI-powered health service. In doing so it beat Apple to exactly what Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly told us the company…
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Elon Musk wants to put a ‘Fitbit in your skull’
Today Elon Musk unveiled more about his mysterious brain-to-computer interface company Neuralink, showcasing a pig named Gertrude with a “Link” installed and…
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10X startups with the chief product officer of Asana
How do you build 10X products and 10X startups with the potential for exponential growth? In this special episode of TechFirst, we chat with the chief product…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
Malicious Chinese SDK found in 1,200 iOS apps with billions of installs: Helix Jump, Talking Tom, PicsArt, more ...
iOS is safer than Android, right? Usually ... because getting on the iOS app store is harder than getting on Google Play. There’s more scrutiny of apps, their…
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Is Apple blurring the lines between radio, music streaming, and podcasting?
Apple announced this morning that it has launched two new “radio” stations on Apple Music: Apple Music Hits, and Apple Music Country. Apple is investing…
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Upgrading Stephen Hawking's communication system with AI and GPT-2
Lama Nachman is an Intel scientist who built Stephen Hawking's communication system. Now she's helping another scientist and roboticist, Peter Scott Morgan…
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70% of Americans want to ban foreign social media apps
Should we ban all foreign apps? President Trump might have a lot of support from Americans who want to do precisely that. In a poll run by TapResearch this…
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Phone spam is worth a massive $100B/year .... can custom verified caller visuals save old-fashioned phone calls?
Phone calls suck, right? It's always the IRS or your "bank" or some other scam. Well ... can a custom verified caller visual save phone calls? As in a…
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Billion-Dollar battle: Fortnite-maker Epic sues Apple for payments ‘monopoly’
Epic Games, the maker of the hit multi-platform Fortnite game, has sued Apple for anti-competitive behavior, alleging that Apple monopolizes the App Store…
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CTO of Github Jason Warner on how to build 10X products with exponential impact
In a tech-driven economy, you could argue that developers rule the world. If so, you could argue that Github rules developers, 50 million of whom are on the…
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If data is the new oil, where’s the refinery?
Where do Google, Microsoft, and IBM go for training data and data enrichment? AI is driving innovation, competitive advantage, and speed to market ... but what…
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Apple vs Trump, Russia, and China: Will sideloading save Apple?
Apple’s App Store dominance is under fire like never before, thanks to its own desire for control of its platform, antitrust regulation at home and abroad and…
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Apple ad network gets special privileges that Facebook, Google won’t on iOS14
Is Apple playing fair? Apple looks to be giving its own ad network a leg up on competitors with customer data that other ad networks can’t access. In iOS 14…
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Remote health revolution: heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, stress rate, all via video
There’s a new app that can tell your heart rate, heart rate variability, oxygen saturation, respiration or breathing rate, and mental stress just by taking a…
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Don't tell Trump, but TikTok’s top competitor is also Chinese owned
President Trump wants to ban TikTok in the U.S., but he’ll consider allowing a U.S. company to purchase it. As long as, in a novel twist, the U.S. government…
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State of the global app economy: growth, diversity, and real-world impact
Two things have grown like crazy in 2020: Coronavirus, and the global app economy. 2020 has been crazy, but there’s been massive growth in some sectors, and…
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High school student builds AI framework to predict air pollution with 92% accuracy
A high school student at Jericho High School in New York has built an AI framework that can predict air pollution levels with 92% accuracy using neural…
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Will wind one day power your home for free? Checking out IceWind's new home wind-powered generators
Wind power has been around for a long time. For commercial applications, there are massive turbines with wings the size of 747s. For home, there have been a…
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Alexa, Siri, Google: The future of smart assistants
Alexa, Siri, Google: which is the smartest? Dumbest? Most useful? Growing the fastest? And ... what capabilities will AI assistants have in the future? In this…
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Can marketers use AI to predict what you’ll do?
If you’ve been around marketing, you'll have heard the phrase "customer journey." It's what people do when they buy ... or don't buy. Naturally, marketers want…
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8 of the top 20 TV shows right now are Netflix originals (!!)
A staggering 40% of the top 20 TV shows and series in the U.S. are produced, owned, and delivered on one network that isn’t available over the air or on…
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Chinese drone app hid ability to collect data, install apps, 'phone home' to Sina Weibo
The Android DJI Go 4 app lets you fly your drone. It also contains sophisticated hidden functionality that can “phone home” every hour to Sina Weibo, one of…
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Don’t laugh: The future of advertising is more exciting than you could possibly imagine
Ads suck and we all know it. They’re invasive, they track us, they create horrible user experiences, and most of the time, they’re incredibly annoying. The…
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Apple and the elephant in the App Store room
Apple’s App Store has reasonable commission rates that are roughly comparable to other online services, significantly cheaper than traditional offline retail…
- NEXT with John Koetsier
AI, fitness, & home gyms: what COVID is doing to wellness
During COVID-19, we can't really go to the gym. So many of us are working out in our (new?) home gyms. Is that making us fitter? And, can an AI coach motivate…
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How Apple’s recent privacy decision threatens billions in Facebook revenue
Facebook is one of the two most dominant companies in an $80 billion industry that impacts hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, in consumer…
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Disrupting electricity: Is solid state the new hardwired?
The electricity that powers our digital future is very, very analog. Is that about to change? We don’t think a lot about the technology that drives our…
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Is India the new China? Google invests $10B, following Amazon, Facebook, Apple
Everyone is investing in India lately. In April, Facebook announced it was investing $5.7 billion in India. In January it was Amazon, investing $1 billion in…
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Taking TikTok’s crown: will Triller scoop all of its users?
TikTok was THE mobile phenomenon of 2019 with almost 700M app installs. But with the ban talk getting louder and louder ... are other contenders poised to…
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Crypto, AI, blockchain, and privacy: The future of ads is right in front of us ...
Ads suck and we all know it. They’re invasive, they track us, they create horrible user experiences, and most of the time, they’re incredibly annoying. The…
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How Intel and the National Science Foundation want to use AI to connect trillions of smart devices
Can AI help us connect trillions of smart devices? There are currently perhaps 20 billion devices connected to the internet: things like laptops, phones…
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Google’s internet balloons use AI to deliver web, voice, video from 12 miles up
3.8 billion people on the planet don’t have access to the internet. But that could be about to change soon. While Elon Musk’s SpaceX is building internet…
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What the Hey email app fiasco tells us about Apple App Store submission guidelines
Recently Apple blocked updates to the Hey email app on the iOS App Store and threatened to delete it. What does this tell us about App Store guidelines? And…
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50% of food is wasted while 25,000 starve daily. Can AI fix this?
50% of the food produced globally is wasted. At the same time, a child dies from hunger every 10 seconds, and 25,000 people starve to death every single day…
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Are subscriptions the new retail? They've jumped up to 145% since COVID-19
Are subscriptions the new retail? We know digital retail is way up, thanks to COVID. But … surprisingly ... subscription purchases are way up too. Streaming…
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Helm.ai is using "deep teaching" to make self-driving cars AI 100,000X cheaper to train
Can we design AI that will teach itself how to drive a car? Self-driving cars will unlock trillions in market value and probably change our lives with…
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Telling stories for warm robots with the queen of LinkedIn, Goldie Chan
What can we learn from the queen of LinkedIn about telling stories for warm robots? If you’ve been around LinkedIn, you’ve probably noticed Goldie Chan. The…
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Apple killed the IDFA. Is this the end of mobile marketing as we know it?
At WWDC this year Apple essentially killed the IDFA, the identifier for advertisers. It’s not completely gone … but it’s now opt-in with a big scary warning…
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Clearbanc founder and Dragon's Den star Michele Romanow on growth, COVID, customer acquisition, and much more ...
Need offbeat growth tactics for uncertain times? These are definitely uncertain times. COVID would have been enough, with its massive health and economic…
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How Guitar Hero's chief architect is using VR to make fitness fun
Can virtual reality make your home gym less boring ... and maybe improve your workouts? In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with Eric…
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This project to decentralize the internet already has 5-10X more cloud storage space than all other blockchain projects together
Can we really decentralize the internet with blockchain? The internet was originally designed to be decentralized ... and that’s how it was supposed to work…
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6 reasons most want to work from home even after Coronavirus (and 6 reasons some don't!)
What are the top reasons you want to keep working from home after Coronavirus? Here's what about 150,000 people said in a survey. Time with family (34%) No…
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Why games are making record revenues in a recession, with Unity VP Julie Shumaker
Why games are making record revenues in a recession, with Unity VP Julie Shumaker. In a recession revenues generally go down. That’s not been the case in 2020…
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The 100 Safest Countries In The World For COVID-19
Switzerland is the safest country in the world right now for COVID-19. South Sudan is, according to a massive 250-page report, the most dangerous nation. The…
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Did Apple just reinvent eyeglasses: chatting about Apple smartglasses with Robert Scoble
Glasses haven’t changed much in 500 years: Take glass, grind it to a shape, refract the angle of light impacting your eye … see better, hopefully. But a new…
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The unforgivable sin Apple committed with the 2020 MacBook Pro
Everyone in my family uses a Mac, most of them on laptops. That includes my two sons, one in university and one in high school, both of whom are doing school…
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Scientific data on 5G and radiation exposure from a research scientist
Is 5G safe or is it dangerous to humans, animals, and the environment? There are a lot of concerns and worries about 5G. Pictures of dead birds near cell…
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2-time NBA dunk champion Zach LaVine on sports, eSports, GIF vs JIF, Android vs iOS, self-driving cars, and JBL headphones
You’re an NBA all-star ... what do you do when the league’s shut down thanks to Coronavirus? If you’re Chicago Bull and 2-time NBA dunk champion Zach Lavine ……
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Is Fortnite the new movie theater?
Massively social platforms built around gaming or video or news might be our new way to experience entertainment. We've already seen concerts in Fortnite --…
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The wacky cyborg future of AI, AR, and VR with brain-machine interfaces
(cross-posted from my future39 podcast) Today we plug our computers in to power. Tomorrow, we might plug ourselves into them. AR and VR are changing how we see…
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Digital Census 2020: How the US Census Bureau is surveying 330M people in a pandemic
How do you survey 330 million people across 4M square miles? Every 10 years: the United States government is constitutionally required to take a census, which…
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Is Joe Rogan getting underpaid to move to Spotify? $100M might just be the bargain of the year
Joe Rogan is getting $100M+ to move to Spotify exclusively. But that might just be less than he's worth ...
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3-time NYT best-selling author Dan Ariely on depression, loneliness, and anxiety thanks to COVID-19
Dan Ariely is working with Wisdo on a 25 million student study. The question: Are we losing our young people to depression, anxiety, and loneliness thanks to…
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Working from home with 1M clients, 55K employees, 52 countries, 75B annual transactions totaling $10 trillion
I work from home. Many others do too. But not many companies with 55,000 employees with a million clients in 52 countries. Especially fintech companies…