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.
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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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
Metaverse in your pocket? How you host the world’s largest hybrid...
60X stronger than steel: world-first high-speed carbon fiber 3D printing
Freeing the App Store: the 36 best quotes from the Epic v Apple court judgement
Cyborg or avatar: will you wear a robot, or operate it?
Photonic computing questions answered: we get technical
Neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium: Key blockers to EV ascendancy
HiPerGator AI: Florida’s new AI supercomputer (and 100 new AI faculty)
7 mobile games now make over $100 million every month
This ‘world’s first’ holographic display works without...
AI fitness is boosting eSports stars’ games, says Counter-Strike player JW
