TechFirst with John Koetsier
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Fixing the $100 trillion physical economy: chatting with Maersk and Saint-Gobain
It’s not every day that you get to interview a 357-year-old company founded by a king, and the company that ships 1 out of 6 things moved...
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Soundtrack of the metaverse: hip-hop, games, ads, & air-dropping backstage passes to crypto wallets
In this special episode of TechFirst, I’m sharing the on-stage Web Summit chat I had with Ghazi Shami, the Founder & CEO of EMPIRE, an...
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E-commerce bots are buying everything and driving up prices. What can we do?
We’ve seen it in tickets and gaming consoles. But now it’s happening in diapers and food and consumer goods: bots buying, taking up all...
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Is Tesla the only company that can pull off Optimus, the Tesla Bot?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled Optimus, the Tesla bot, a few weeks ago at Tesla AI Day. It was a slightly underwhelming event, but showed good progress...
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Unity CEO John Riccitiello on gaming, ironSource acquisition, metaverse
Where does the metaverse fit in the future of gaming? Perhaps someone who played Pong when it first came out, and coded text-based games on a PDP...
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Tesla Bot: MIT prof doubts general-purpose robot’s usefulness
Blippar bets on mobile as the future of augmented reality with new Unity deal
Open source AI: essential for a free future?
Autonomous construction drones map progress on billion-dollar projects
Data is the nuclear waste of the Information Age
Solving touch: the last mile of robotics
Google’s drone company Wing unveils ‘aircraft library’
From smart soles to … human OS?
How MIT’s Cheetah robot teaches itself to walk in 3 hours
Digital twin wind farms: Siemens and NVIDIA modeling turbines in AI
Geoship now has an actual prototype built of the 500-year-lifespan geodesic...
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...
A Fitbit for your blood: this infrared spectrometer analyzes your health at home
Programmable matter: MIT building self-assembling robots for space
Building an artificial brain: 86B neurons, 500T synapses, and a neuromorphic...
Rarible: Half of e-commerce ‘doesn’t need to be physical’
DeviantArt finding 40,000 fake NFTs a month
The future of surgery is robotic
Cincinnati Children’s using supercomputer, AI for early mental health and...
Thought to text: brain-computer interface lets you type, move robotic arms with...
Can we save dying coral reefs by 3D printing more?
