TechFirst with John Koetsier
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FarmBot … or BotFarm? When the entire farm becomes a robot …
Can an entire farm be a complex multi-component robot? According to AppHarvest CTO Josh Lessing … sure. Kind of. AppHarvest builds greenhouses...
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Why Apple needs sideloading on iPhones (and how that relates to China)
Look. Apple is complicit in Chinese censorship. There’s simply no other way to put it. Thousands of apps have been deleted from the Chinese Apple App...
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This self-driving farm robot kills 100,000 weeds an hour by laser: no herbicide required
The Carbon Robotics self-driving farm bot kills weeds with lasers: no fewer than eight 150-watt lasers, to be precise. It images weeds with brighter...
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What is the metaverse?
Avi Bar-Zeev has been working on the metaverse for 30 years. He’s one of the key people behind Microsoft’s Hololens, co-founded Keyhole which became...
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Google’s drone delivery service Wing: first-ever mall to home service
Do you want sushi delivery by drone? Ice cream or coffee in 2 minutes? Wing is Google’s drone division (OK, Alphabet’s!) and is doing...
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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...
Why former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is taking the highest-resolution...
Robots and AI can 10X productivity. Are they also better for workers?
The future of farms is vertical: 400X more yield, 95% less water, 99% less space
No selling allowed: how Insight Timer is building the biggest meditation...
