TechFirst with John Koetsier
A top 50 tech podcast. Interviews and insights from tech leaders for my Forbes column. Focus: tech that is changing the world and innovators who are shaping the future. Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | other.
Here is the 500-Year geodesic dome home: Geoship reveals its first livable home
The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is now an actual physical reality. I first wrote about Geoship’s plan to build long-lasting...
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Irish drone delivery startup Manna Aero expanding to U.S. and mainland Europe
Drone delivery is super-hot, but there aren’t that many major players yet. Google’s Wing is doing well, but Amazon is still just getting...
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YouTube invalid traffic bug: what 5 YouTube creators say
On November 16th, revenue for skippable ads dropped 50%, 60%, even 90% for many YouTube creators. They say YouTube variously admits it was a bug...
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3-hour discussion on everything AI (!!!)
So I did a Twitter Space with a bunch of really smart people, and they said I could upload the results to TechFirst. The only thing …...
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AI, drones, & country-sized digital twins: mirroring the real world in code
Imagine building a digital twin of an entire country: all inputs, outputs, activity, infrastructure, issues, challenges … That hasn’t...
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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?
Drone explosion: Cargo UP, air taxi DOWN
Smart seeds: engineering plants to talk via bioluminescence
Why gaming powerhouse Zynga bought Chartboost … before getting bought by...
Why is livestream shopping such a massive trend right now?
Million-qubit quantum computing … at $300 per qubit
Drone defense: 3 ways to detect and stop 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 to connect millions of games and billions of...
Privacy, consolidation, and context in adtech: Liftoff CEO Mark Ellis
Crypto in the browser? Brave adds crypto wallet, NFTs, and DApps natively in...
Smart homes: making them smart from the very beginning
Why smart buildings are stupid hard (and what Mapped is doing about it)
Why 30% of young workers bypass corporate security on purpose
FarmBot … or BotFarm? When the entire farm becomes a robot …
Why Apple needs sideloading on iPhones (and how that relates to China)
This self-driving farm robot kills 100,000 weeds an hour by laser: no herbicide...
What is the metaverse?
Google’s drone delivery service Wing: first-ever mall to home service
