TechFirst with John Koetsier
The TechFirst podcast publishes my interviews with tech leaders for my Forbes column. TechFirst is a top 50 podcast, and I focus on tech that is changing the world and innovators who are shaping the future. Get TechFirst wherever podcasts are found: Apple | Spotify | Google | other
App Annie CEO Ted Krantz on iOS 14.5, adtech consolidation, super apps, and the implications of privacy
iOS 14.5 is perhaps the biggest change in the mobile ecosystem in a decade. While most iPhone owners might not see that much change, for the first...
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1 million creator coins are coming. How they work, and why they matter
Have you ever bought creator coins? Imagine the ability to have a say in who I interview next. Imagine owning a token from your favorite creator or...
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Twitter spaces versus Clubhouse: access vs ego?
Clubhouse is the hot new social audio star. But Twitter Spaces is available to 30X the audience out of the box … and draws on a social graph you...
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New AirPod earbuds … or hearing aids? Signia Active is hearing aids without shame
Would you feel awkward wearing hearing aids? About 20% of people have hearing loss. But only a third of them will actually wear hearing aids. Too...
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Reduce, reuse, recycle? Here’s the world’s first robotics venture factory
Do you have to reinvent the wheel every time you build a robot? Or can you reuse significant components of functionality like vision, navigation...
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Testing Fight Camp, a smart fitness system with smart gloves, a real punching...
Synthetic humans and AI-generated avatars: is the future of fashion fake?
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Beating Moore’s Law: This photonic computer is 10X faster than NVIDIA...
Are shared virtual experiences the future of meetings and work?
Imagine 80 million self-driving trucks. Nuport Robotics wants to make every...
Why Clubhouse is winning, with Josh Constine (hint: it’s all about...
This smart contact lens packs 14,000 pixels per inch into its micro-LED display
Google’s Jacquard tech is making the entire world smart, one jacket, t...
Clubhouse. Twitter Spaces. Mark Cuban’s Fireside. What is happening in...
Quantum computing: Here’s the world’s first non-photonic quantum...
Is Elon Musk wrong about LiDAR in self-driving cars? This autonomous driving...
Robot spas are coming: Here’s the LUUM lash extension robot in action
From veteran to janitor to physicist: how Josh Carroll changed his life with...
Biden’s Peloton vs national security: the danger of smart products to all of us...
This startup prints smartphone lenses like computer chips, 10,000 at a time...
Interstellar travel via propellant-less propulsion: Chatting with the inventor...
Green blockchain: a stock exchange for trees, swamps, and biodiversity is...
YouTube #1 creator PewDiePie is coming to Facebook
Infosec is the new war. Big tech is ground zero. Chatting with Twitter’s...
Reface.ai is building a real platform for synthetic influencers with deepfake...
Making drones as smart as birds via Intel’s neuromorphic Loihi chip
iPhone 12 Pro’s lidar enables 100X faster 3D scanning than conventional...
Battery-free IoT: this bluetooth tag harvests energy from radio waves
The new Quantum Moore’s Law, quantum supremacy, and integrating quantum...
Star Trek tricorder for real? New tech puts a spectrometer in your phone
Are robot chefs the future of food? Chatting with the maker of Flippy, the...
Apple GateKeeper: Macs phone home whenever they open an app … but one...
