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Apple GateKeeper: Macs phone home whenever they open an app … but one hacker changed Apple policy
Did you know your Mac transmits a log of every single app you open? Apple has made privacy a core part of the brand — including entire TV...
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Why former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is taking the highest-resolution snowflake photos ever
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold spent 18 months building a custom 100MP camera to take pictures of snowflakes. In this edition of TechFirst with...
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Robots and AI can 10X productivity. 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 +...
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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...
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No selling allowed: how Insight Timer is building the biggest meditation community on the planet
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...
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This AI creates movies from hundreds of smartphones automagically
The US desperately needs new election tech. Time for blockchain?
Why Apple Might Lose The US Government’s War On Google
Starlink’s internet from space is faster than 95% of US internet...
Smartphones Q3 2020: Apple Down 11%, Xiaomi Up 42%, Samsung Up 3%, Huawei Down...
Apple’s Beta Software Program Going Nuts, Continually Requesting Updates
USA vs Google antitrust: too late, too soon, just political, or just missing...
TikTok Owner ByteDance Selling Smart Lamp With Camera For School Kids
Digitally Transforming Oklahoma: One Website For Everything
Starlink’s Internet Anywhere Via SpaceX Satellite: $99/month
Disrupting YouTube: can this spicy creator-paying startup challenge the video...
Facebook launches free cloud gaming: Facebook’s head of gaming talks...
Social media, censorship, politics: the NY Post, Biden’s laptop, and the...
Apple’s Privacy-Safe Mobile Attribution Solution Is Buggy: Core Functions...
Apple Extends Free Apple TV+ 3 More Months (And Now There’s Actually Stuff To...
Quibi Spent $63 Million On Ads In Short Six-Month Life
44% Of Global eCommerce Is Owned By 4 Chinese Companies
Wearable DNA sequencing devices just 4-5 years away: Dr. Roel Wuyts, principal...
Wireless in-flight drone charging: the drone economy is no longer a fantasy
Former Apple CEO John Sculley on Apple, Amazon, Google (and more) in the...
Robots in the cloud: How Amazon’s ‘fake’ robots are making real...
The Top 10 Health & Fitness Apps Of 2020 Have One Thing In Common (Mostly)
This AI automagically creates fake faces for privacy-safe photo sharing
The creator economy is now 50M people on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch …...
Why Facebook’s Ray-Ban smartglasses will fail, with Irena Cronin from...
Global online content consumption doubled in 2020
This smart contact lens from Ghent University is an artificial iris that can...
TechFirst hits 100 episodes (and I plan to give away $100 “bills”)
