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TechFirst with John Koetsier — 383 episodes
AI can now edit DNA and create deepfake viruses
Do we really need 400 humanoid robot companies?
Rhoda AI: 1000X less training data required?
Neo's amazing new hands - just released!
Is AI killing jobs or are CEOs using it as an excuse?
Robots in schools? Interviewing Chris Chen from Faraday Future
Goodbye wheelchairs. Hello Cruz: autonomous mobility pods
AI & education: disaster or destiny?
Roomba CEO's new home robot: not humanoid!
AI-native manufacturing
Quantum navigation: Unhackable, GPS-free
Are AI agents the new apps?
Amazing robot hands from Kyper Labs
Welcome to the agentic enterprise
NanoClaw is a safer OpenClaw
Teaching robots like humans: 1000 tasks in 24 hours
Giving AI a human soul
AI, agents, robots: our insane WestWorld future
AI killing creativity: this scientist proved it
93% of jobs will be hit by AI .... $4.5 trillion at stake
Machine unlearning: AI's missing link?
SLMs vs LLMs: 10% of the cost, 100% of the accuracy?
Robots won't do chores?
Generative Hollywood: E! founder Larry Namer on AI
Robot reasoning: why data is not enough
Social humanoid robot for kids under $10,000
AI is now every UI: generative user interfaces explained
Agent-first web: awesome or awful?
World models: LLMs are not enough
Quantum computing, meet edge computing (thanks to diamonds)
Will AI kill your job?
Building TARS from Interstellar in real life
AI is killing teen jobs faster
Terminator? This humanoid robot is literally built for war (and more)
AI agents in manufacturing: reshoring production?
Paypal for agents: welcome to agentic commerce
Giving AI a body is now cheap
Humanoid robots: USA vs China
Fixing AI's suicide problem
Programmable matter for digital touch
Fruit fly AI: SLMs are the new LLMs
AI agents = dream team for creators?
Amazon, NVIDIA, and a new "physical AI" fellowship
AGI: will it kill us or save us?
9 million robot deliveries (!!!)
1 million qubits in 50 square millimeters (!!)
Robotic hands: a $50 trillion opportunity
Do robots really need legs?
This kills 10,000 weeds per minute with lasers
Smart farm robot cuts herbicide, fertilizer use by 90%
Welcome to the agentic browser
Nuclear waste can solve our AI power problem (and more)
Neura Robotics's new humanoid robot can lift 220 pounds
Tiny AI: 8 kilobyte neural networks in shoes, bikes, cameras
IBM's Starling quantum computer: 20,000X faster than today's quantum computers
Inside the race to build humanoid robots with Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas
This personal AI is your 'twin mind'
Massive Microsoft quantum computer breakthrough via entirely new state of matter (!!!)
Europe's answer to humanoid robots: 'best in world' coming this June
Humanoid robots in homes by 2026: Peter Diamandis
Humanoid robots: friends not just workers?
Predicting space weather with AI
Robot love: could you love an AI?
AGI: kind of nonsense?
Making games with your voice, with Roblox' chief scientist
How do we know when a machine is smart?
Can cat qbits save quantum computing?
4000 developers on AI generating code
Boston Dynamics & the golden age of robots
World's tallest autonomous robot works in a warehouse
Moon first, then Mars: a chat with astronaut Jack Fischer
AGI: solved already?
Water from air for 10 cents a gallon?
Robots in agtech: what's next?
World's first micro lunar rover
After AGI
No-notch iPhones, FaceID on Android, biometrics everywhere
Billions of robots in 10 years
Apple Vision Pro: future of surgical training?
AGI in 3 to 8 years
Oysters reporting water quality? Not science fiction!
Here's an all-wheel drive e-bike ... with ChatGPT
App store for your brain: reading brain waves to fix sleep, pain, learning
Hacking reality: Apple Vision Pro and security
Smart buildings 2024: not just energy consumers
VR 2024: inflection point with Apple Vision Pro, Quest 3, enterprise
AI in Bhutan: why Princess Wangchuk is building an AI center
Say hello to your robot coworker
Reinventing speakers: replacing 100 year old tech with MEMS chips
Can VR change history? Maybe 1 mind at a time ...
Very first cell phone call: meet the man who made it ... and the engineer who helped make it happen
Can generative AI make rockets launch faster?
81% Of Companies Have Generative AI Teams
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in AI: solved problem?
Apptronik has a totally different approach to building humanoid robots
Generative AI 10X'd this solopreneur's output
Solving the GPU shortage: software to 2-4X existing GPU utilization
The Black Swan cargo drone carries 800 pounds for 1500 miles
Wireless power for robots on the moon
Space phones: why Apple, AT&T, Verizon are adding space comms
Sanctuary AI humanoid general purpose robot: a deep dive with CEO Geordie Rose
Tesla full self driving: worse than a drunk driver?
Humanoid robots: 'we could be one-to-one with humanoids quickly'
Can open source AI save health care? HIPPO AI founder Bart de Witte chats with John Koetsier
Intel research scientist: ChatGPT is NOT generative AI
Is nuclear back? Talking to Nano Nuclear Energy about tiny reactors
Could full-body MRIs save millions of lives and billions of dollars?
Apple VR competitor: my biggest fear is Apple will fail
Generative AI will completely transform gaming as we know it
When AI takes over ... will you even notice?
Generative AI and podcasting: story coming to life
The future of Facebook: where does Meta go from here?
Artificial intelligence out of control? AI in the era of "meganets"
This generative AI lets musicians and listeners create song together
500-year ceramic geodesic dome home: now real
Chat GPT is NOT generative AI: Intel scientist
YouTube invalid traffic bug: what 5 YouTube creators say
3-hour discussion on everything AI :-)
Irish drone delivery company expanding to USA and mainland Europe
AI, drones, & country-sized digital twins: mirroring the real world in code
Our brains are 1 million times more efficient than ChatGPT: chatting with Gordon Wilson of Rain AI
2023 mobile predictions: billion-dollar apps, TikTok, 3rd party app stores, and more
Aerospace giant canceled 40,000 Oculus Quest order for this tech
BMW's heated seats & the evolution of ownership in an era of smart matter
3D printing homes: 80% automated, 50% faster, 99% less waste?
Fixing the $100 trillion physical economy: chatting with Maersk and Saint-Gobain
Bots killing the supply chain & driving up prices of everything from diapers to gaming consoles
Soundtrack of the metaverse: hip-hop, games, & ads in our ears
Tesla: the only company that can pull off Optimus, the Tesla Bot?
Unity CEO John Riccitiello on gaming, ironSource acquisition, metaverse
When AI creates: how generative AI will change the world
Tesla Bot: MIT prof doubts general-purpose robot's usefulness
Mobile is the future of augmented reality (for now)
Open source AI: essential for a free future?
Autonomous construction drone maps progress on billion-dollar projects
Solving touch: the last mile of robotics
Google's drone company Wing unveils 'aircraft library'
Data as the nuclear waste of the Information Age: Ghostery CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz
Building a human OS one smart sole at a time
How MIT's Cheetah robot teaches itself to walk in 3 hours
Digital twin wind farms: Siemens and NVIDIA modeling turbines in AI
Apple's privacy changes cut mobile advertising ROI by 40%
The 500-year-lifespan geodesic dome home is now real, actual, built
Mojo Vision's smart contact lens is basically feature complete
Does social media censorship cause extremism?
Netflix vs TikTok vs Disney vs Facebook: battle of juggernauts
Crypto on native land: special economic zones are the new casinos?
BMW vs Tesla: BMW to sell 25% of its cars online in 3 years
AI for investing: ultimate cheat code?
Automating the on-demand economy: keeping up with Amazon's 200,000 robots
Here is a 3-core battery-free stamp-sized computer with an ARM processor that reinvents IoT
Fitbit for your blood: home infrared spectrometer analyzes blood health
Programmable matter: MIT building self-assembling robots for space
Building an artificial brain: 86B neurons, 500T synapses, and a neuromorphic chip
Rarible: Half of e-commerce ‘doesn’t need to be physical’
DeviantArt finding 40,000 fake NFTs per month
The future of surgery is robotic
Cincinnati Children’s using supercomputer, AI for mental health
Thought to text: brain-computer interface lets you type, move robotic arms with your mind
Saving coral reefs by 3D printing more?
Drone explosion: Cargo UP, air taxi DOWN
Engineering plants to talk via bioluminescence
Why gaming powerhouse Zynga bought Chartboost ... before getting bought by Take-Two
Why is livestream shopping such a massive trend right now?
Million-qubit quantum computing ... at $300 per qubit?
Drone defense: how we can protect airports, stadiums, infrastructure from drone-based terrorism?
Meet the AI-powered Cray X German Bionic exoskeleton
2022 app predictions: TikTok, Facebook, Roblox, NFTs, metaverse, fintech ...
Can Coincast make crypto as easy as texting?
Can Unity make metaverse glue connecting millions of games?
New titans of adtech: challenging Google & Facebook?
Brave adds crypto wallet, NFTs, and DApps natively in browser
Making homes smart from the start: can we build smart homes instead of renovating them?
Why smart buildings are stupid hard
Real-world cybersecurity: HP & Siemens CISOs on WFH, hacking, and sleeping at night
Farms as robots: Can an entire farm be a complex multi-component robot?
China shows us why Apple needs sideloading
Self-driving farmbot kills 100,000 weeds/hour by laser: no herbicide!
Google’s drone delivery service Wing starts mall-to-home deliveries
What is the metaverse?
Amazon is killing Google and Apple in smart home tech
Metaverse in your pocket? The tech behind world's largest virtual event
60X strong than steel: world first high-speed carbon fiber 3D printing
Epic v Apple: the 36 most interesting findings in the Fortnite lawsuit freeing the App Store
Cyborg or avatar: will you wear a robot, or operate it?
Photonic computing questions answered: Lightmatter CEO
We’re at 2% EVs. Biggest threat to 100%?
Tesla Bot: Elon Musk reveals humanoid Tesla robot which is apparently not a joke
New AI supercomputer + 100 new AI faculty at University of Florida
How big is gaming now? 7 mobile games now make over $100 Million every month
Are holographic displays the future of the metaverse?
Retail got Amazoned. Is that GOOD news for microbrands?
Is AI a bionic arm for the work we hate?
eSports stars are now using AI-designed physical fitness workouts to be better, faster, smarter
Manipulating the sine wave of electricity with software
Million Doge Disco = Pokemon Go + blockchain + NFTs + partying + augmented reality + fun
Wearable tech ... isn't really wearable. This smart fabric startup aims to change that
Building autonomous robots 10X faster with 3D printing and a modular robotics platform
Wristcam is the only camera available for Apple Watch (and yes, it works just like Dick Tracy's communicator)
Drone delivery is here. Right now. For real. And it's awesome.
iOS 15 at WWDC: the future of health unveiled in beta
They made the first-ever NBA championship ring NFT. Cool enough to go all Beeple on the world?
Would you pay $60/month to be 20% smarter?
No pilot, no problem: This startup just announced level 4 drone autonomy
App Annie CEO Ted Krantz on iOS 14.5, super apps, mobile ecosystem consolidation, and more
1 million creator coins are coming. Here's how they work
New AirPod earbuds ... or hearing aids? Signia Active is hearing aids without shame
Blue Ocean Robotics: the world's only robotics venture factory?
The X Shore electric boat is the Tesla of the sea
Twitter spaces versus Clubhouse: access vs ego?
Fight Camp: chatting with former US national boxing team member Tommy Duquette about boxing and his smart gloves
Beating Moore's Law: This photonic computer is 10X faster than NVIDIA GPUs using 90% less energy
Are shared virtual experiences the future of meetings and work?
Synthetic humans: is the future of fashion fake?
A computer for your brain? Neurosity releases the Crown to boost productivity
Imagine 80 million self-driving trucks. Nuport Robotics wants to make every truck autonomous
Why Clubhouse is winning … and can Facebook and Twitter catch up, with Josh Constine
Google’s new Nest Hub is the sleep tracker I want
'The Future Starts Now' book: 18 futurists collaborate on visions of tomorrow
This smart contact lens packs 14,000 pixels per inch into its micro-LED display
Clubhouse. Twitter Spaces. Facebook. What is happening in social audio right now, with Jeremiah Owyang
Is Elon Musk wrong about LIDAR in self-driving cars? This autonomous driving exec says yes ...
Robot spas, here we come: the LUUM lash extension robot in action
How Google is making the entire world smart, one jacket, t-shirt, and shoe at a time ...
$100 trillion of annual commerce is at risk. Can quantum computing save us?
This startup prints camera lenses like computer chips, 5000 at a time, with full EM spectrum sensing
Veteran to janitor to physicist: how Josh Carroll changed his life with YouTube
Biden’s Peloton vs national security: the danger of smart products to all of us (and our leaders)
The bank of nature? A stock exchange for trees, swamps, and biodiversity is tokenizing the planet
Interstellar travel via propellant-less propulsion: The Mach Drive that NASA is funding
YouTube #1 creator PewDiePie is coming to Facebook
Infosec is the new war. Big tech is ground zero. Chatting with Twitter's chief information security officer and Info-Tech Research Group
How do we make drones as smart as birds or bats? How Intel’s Loihi chip is 100Xing drone capability
Battery-free IoT: this bluetooth-based tag harvests energy from radio waves
Deus ex machina: how AI is reshaping us and our world
Quantum computing, quantum supremacy, and a new Quantum Moore's Law with D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz
iPhone 12 Pro's lidar enables 100X faster 3D scanning than conventional photogrammetry
From phone to Star Trek tricorder: This company is working with Qualcomm to put a spectrometer in your phone
Deepfakes, synthetic humans, and the future of stardom with Reface.ai cofounder Dima Shvets
Are robot chefs the future of food? From Flippy, the burger-making robot, to home cooking, robo-style
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
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold on taking the world's highest-res snowflake photographs and more ...
Robots and AI can 10X e-commerce shipping productivity. But are they also better for workers?
The future of farms is vertical: 400X more yield, 95% less water, 99% less space
From Bali with love: this meditation app with 17M users has a unique approach to making money
Is Google cheating YouTube creators?
Fixing US elections: Can digital voting and blockchain save us?
Connecting rhinos to the internet of things via space ...
Fraud in this Russian-owned app targets US election swing states ...
Starlink's internet from space is faster than 95% of US internet connection speeds
Smartphones Q3 2020: Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi
Apple's beta software program is ... very beta right now
TikTok owner ByteDance is selling a smart desk lamp with a camera for kids
How do you digitally transform an entire government? Chatting with Oklahoma's lieutenant governor Matt Pinnell
This AI creates movies from hundreds of smartphones automagically
Starlink’s internet anywhere via SpaceX satellite: $99/month
Facebook Gaming head talks cloud gaming: Facebook launches free cloud gaming service
Apple's privacy-safe tech has bugs, suggesting that iOS 14's privacy delays were for internal reasons, not ecosystem health
Apple TV+ ... actually interesting now? (And, Apple gives you 3 more free months)
USA vs Google antitrust: too late, too soon, just political, or just missing the point?
Quibi spent $63 million on ads in its short six-month life
44% of global eCommerce is owned by 4 Chinese companies
97% of creators don't get paid. Cinnamon video is trying to change that ...
Apple booting third-party browser that enables Google Stadia streaming games
Dyson Hot+Cool cleaned 70% of smoke particles from my air during the fires in California, Oregon, Washington
Social media, censorship, politics: the NY Post, Biden's laptop, and the right path forward
Wearable DNA sequencing devices just 4-5 years away: Dr. Roel Wuyts, principal scientist at IMEC
No, the iPhone 12 doesn’t actually cost $799
YouTube and Facebook destroy Twitch in at least one critical livestreaming category
Former Apple CEO John Sculley on Apple vs Google: the emerging healthtech battle
Developers: Google, Siri, Alexa are an abstraction layer over your apps
In-flight wireless drone charging: how GET is making the drone economy real
Robots in the cloud: How Amazon’s “fake” robots are making real robots smarter and faster
Here's what the top 10 fitness apps of 2020 have in common
This AI makes fake faces for privacy-safe photo sharing
Mapping the creator economy: 50M YouTube, Instagram, Twitch creators, 2M full-time pros ... and growing fast
Google Launch Night: Pixel phones, Google TV, Chromecast, and the new Nest Audio
How Apple might reinvent podcasts with its latest acquisition
Apple’s iOS 14 app clips seemed stupid. Actually ... they’re awesome
Global online content consumption doubled in 2020
Will you buy Amazon's new flying home security drone, Always Home Cam?
Why Facebook's Ray-Ban smartglasses will fail, with Irena Cronin from Infinite Retina
The top 40 companies people want to work for in the tech industry
Episode 100!!!
Keynote chat: How Apple is disrupting mobile as we know it
iOS 14: Google's former iOS app head reveals what apps will win and why
Apple’s Safari 14 blocked 90 web trackers in just 5 minutes
Smart contact lens from Ghent University: an artificial iris that can dynamically change your vision
Apple Music iOS 14 is the ultimate DJ
4 ways Tesla self-driving ‘falls short’ in Consumer Reports testing
How to scam millions with Facebook ads, Shopify stores, and fake products
Apple, Epic, and App Store cash: What did Apple give, and what is it keeping?
How American Express uses AI to automate 8 billion decisions ... with $1 trillion at stake
Autonomous robots & drones: working where no humans should
Hyperloop in Canada? 621 MPH ‘TransPod’ in feasibility studies
Fitbit VP Larry Yang: Is the Fitbit Sense the complete health smartwatch?
The 100 safest countries for COVID-19: updated
Advertising after identity: IBM on AI, marketing, and privacy
COVID-19 'accelerated digital transformation by an average of 6 years,' with Twilio's chief customer officer
Apple & the IDFA: privacy power move or cash grab?
Amazon wants your underwear selfies (and beat Apple to a digital health service)
Elon Musk wants to put a ‘Fitbit in your skull’
10X startups with the chief product officer of Asana
Malicious Chinese SDK found in 1,200 iOS apps with billions of installs: Helix Jump, Talking Tom, PicsArt, more ...
Is Apple blurring the lines between radio, music streaming, and podcasting?
Upgrading Stephen Hawking's communication system with AI and GPT-2
70% of Americans want to ban foreign social media apps
Phone spam is worth a massive $100B/year .... can custom verified caller visuals save old-fashioned phone calls?
Billion-Dollar battle: Fortnite-maker Epic sues Apple for payments ‘monopoly’
CTO of Github Jason Warner on how to build 10X products with exponential impact
If data is the new oil, where’s the refinery?
Apple vs Trump, Russia, and China: Will sideloading save Apple?
Apple ad network gets special privileges that Facebook, Google won’t on iOS14
Remote health revolution: heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, stress rate, all via video
Don't tell Trump, but TikTok’s top competitor is also Chinese owned
State of the global app economy: growth, diversity, and real-world impact
High school student builds AI framework to predict air pollution with 92% accuracy
Will wind one day power your home for free? Checking out IceWind's new home wind-powered generators
Alexa, Siri, Google: The future of smart assistants
Can marketers use AI to predict what you’ll do?
8 of the top 20 TV shows right now are Netflix originals (!!)
Chinese drone app hid ability to collect data, install apps, 'phone home' to Sina Weibo
Don’t laugh: The future of advertising is more exciting than you could possibly imagine
Apple and the elephant in the App Store room
AI, fitness, & home gyms: what COVID is doing to wellness
How Apple’s recent privacy decision threatens billions in Facebook revenue
Disrupting electricity: Is solid state the new hardwired?
Is India the new China? Google invests $10B, following Amazon, Facebook, Apple
Taking TikTok’s crown: will Triller scoop all of its users?
Crypto, AI, blockchain, and privacy: The future of ads is right in front of us ...
How Intel and the National Science Foundation want to use AI to connect trillions of smart devices
Google’s internet balloons use AI to deliver web, voice, video from 12 miles up
What the Hey email app fiasco tells us about Apple App Store submission guidelines
50% of food is wasted while 25,000 starve daily. Can AI fix this?
Are subscriptions the new retail? They've jumped up to 145% since COVID-19
Helm.ai is using "deep teaching" to make self-driving cars AI 100,000X cheaper to train
Telling stories for warm robots with the queen of LinkedIn, Goldie Chan
Apple killed the IDFA. Is this the end of mobile marketing as we know it?
Clearbanc founder and Dragon's Den star Michele Romanow on growth, COVID, customer acquisition, and much more ...
How Guitar Hero's chief architect is using VR to make fitness fun
This project to decentralize the internet already has 5-10X more cloud storage space than all other blockchain projects together
6 reasons most want to work from home even after Coronavirus (and 6 reasons some don't!)
Why games are making record revenues in a recession, with Unity VP Julie Shumaker
The 100 Safest Countries In The World For COVID-19
Did Apple just reinvent eyeglasses: chatting about Apple smartglasses with Robert Scoble
The unforgivable sin Apple committed with the 2020 MacBook Pro
Scientific data on 5G and radiation exposure from a research scientist
2-time NBA dunk champion Zach LaVine on sports, eSports, GIF vs JIF, Android vs iOS, self-driving cars, and JBL headphones
Is Fortnite the new movie theater?
The wacky cyborg future of AI, AR, and VR with brain-machine interfaces
Digital Census 2020: How the US Census Bureau is surveying 330M people in a pandemic
Is Joe Rogan getting underpaid to move to Spotify? $100M might just be the bargain of the year
3-time NYT best-selling author Dan Ariely on depression, loneliness, and anxiety thanks to COVID-19
Working from home with 1M clients, 55K employees, 52 countries, 75B annual transactions totaling $10 trillion
9 things we lost when Google canceled its smart cities project in Toronto
Using phones ... as phones again: voice up 36% during quarantine
Re-Opening America? Massages, pedicures, and restaurants are big business again in Georgia
Getting robots, drones, self-driving vehicles, and smart machines to work together
Will your next home be a bioceramic geodesic dome? Geoship CEO Morgan Bierschenk says yes ...
Fake news: the truth about lies
The science of sleep: putting WiFi, Bluetooth, speakers, massagers, and more in a bed
Backing up the planet: How scientists are recreating the entire globe in virtual reality
Vonage: 2000% increase in telehealth video usage thanks to Coronavirus
Vonage Founder Jeff Pulver on the next evolution of blockchain-based internet communication
Is Coronavirus good for the mobile app economy?
Tech to connect with quarantined elders in a COVID-19 world with photographer and technologist George Krieger
COVID-19 and the app economy: crisis & opportunity
Digital obesity: 2000-person study shows how tech increases loneliness, social isolation, stress
Zoho launches Remotely, a free virtual collaboration productivity suite, in response to Coronavirus
Living & working with coronavirus in Beijing, China
Where billions go to die: a deep dive into ad fraud
Digital 2020: a state of the union with Hootsuite
TFD11: Killing fake reviews, with TrustRadius CEO Vinay Bhagat
TFD10: How to make your headphones better … with software
TFD9: Future proofing, digital transformation, and more ... what brands need to do in 2020
TFD8: Is TikTok digital crack cocaine? Speaking with Dr. Julie Albright, author of Left To Their Own Devices
TFD7: Is indoor air in your house killing you? Chatting with OneLife CEO Christoph Burkhardt
Top 100 apps of 2019: Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google Pay, Wish, and more
Full self-driving cars within 3 years? Expert says yes ...
iOS spellcheck's massive failure: a symptom of Apple's bad AI?
Tesla Cybertruck: Automotive designer Fede Ponce on why he ordered
Amazon's smart home VP on the future of smart home (and what he has in his smart house)
Are we wasting billions on smart home tech?