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1 week ago

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...

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2023 mobile predictions
4 weeks ago

2023 mobile predictions: billion-dollar apps, TikTok, 3rd party app stores, and more

What will 2023 bring for mobile apps and games? In this TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with Data.ai CEO Ted Krantz about 21 new billion-dollar...

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December 26, 2022

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...

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December 17, 2022

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...

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Tesla owners are not happy about price cuts: ‘sobbing in the fetal position’

2 weeks ago
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AI audiobooks from Apple: ‘Digital Narration Technology’ to deliver audio for...

3 weeks ago
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Thank you all, 2023 edition

December 28, 2022
App Store submission guidelines

16 implications of third party app stores on iOS

December 17, 2022
3D printing homes

3D printing homes: 80% automated, 50% faster, 99% less waste?

December 13, 2022
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New report: beating the bear and defeating the recession

December 12, 2022
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Report: media mix modeling for mobile marketers

November 30, 2022
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Fixing the $100 trillion physical economy: chatting with Maersk and Saint-Gobain

November 30, 2022
metaverse audio ads

Soundtrack of the metaverse: hip-hop, games, ads, & air-dropping backstage...

November 22, 2022

Opinion: there is no good alternative to Twitter

November 21, 2022
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E-commerce bots are buying everything and driving up prices. What can we do?

November 16, 2022

New on Forbes >> Spotify: Apple is ruining audiobooks with ‘anticompetitive...

October 26, 2022
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Is Tesla the only company that can pull off Optimus, the Tesla Bot?

October 26, 2022

Unity CEO John Riccitiello on gaming, ironSource acquisition, metaverse

October 20, 2022
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When AI creates: how generative AI will change the world

October 6, 2022
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Tesla Bot: MIT prof doubts general-purpose robot’s usefulness

September 29, 2022

Blippar bets on mobile as the future of augmented reality with new Unity deal

September 15, 2022

Future news: Biohackers co-opt DeepMind’s AlphaFold to create deadly new virus

September 9, 2022
open source AI

Open source AI: essential for a free future?

September 8, 2022

Interviewing Mary D’Onofrio from Bessemer Ventures at Traction Conf

September 7, 2022

Interviewing Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, at Traction Conf

September 7, 2022

Autonomous construction drones map progress on billion-dollar projects

August 24, 2022

Speaking at Traction Conference in Vancouver

August 10, 2022
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Data is the nuclear waste of the Information Age

August 6, 2022

Solving touch: the last mile of robotics

August 5, 2022

Why the crypto crash was great for web3 games (and how to grow now)

July 26, 2022

Insights from the Future >> US admits to psy-ops infiltration of Russian...

July 22, 2022
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Amazon hypes ambient computing: 300 million smart home devices now connected to...

July 20, 2022

Google’s drone company Wing unveils ‘aircraft library’

July 20, 2022

Unity CEO John Riccitiello on the $4.4B ironSource acquisition

July 13, 2022
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  • Our brains are 1 million times more efficient than ChatGPT: chatting with Gordon Wilson of Rain AI
  • Tesla owners are not happy about price cuts: ‘sobbing in the fetal position’
  • AI audiobooks from Apple: ‘Digital Narration Technology’ to deliver audio for millions of books
  • 2023 mobile predictions: billion-dollar apps, TikTok, 3rd party app stores, and more
  • Thank you all, 2023 edition

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