Sitemap - 2020 - TechFirst with John Koetsier
How do we make drones as smart as birds or bats? How Intel’s Loihi chip is 100Xing drone capability
Battery-free IoT: this bluetooth-based tag harvests energy from radio waves
Deus ex machina: how AI is reshaping us and our world
Quantum computing, quantum supremacy, and a new Quantum Moore's Law with D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz
iPhone 12 Pro's lidar enables 100X faster 3D scanning than conventional photogrammetry
Deepfakes, synthetic humans, and the future of stardom with Reface.ai cofounder Dima Shvets
Robots and AI can 10X e-commerce shipping productivity. But are they also better for workers?
The future of farms is vertical: 400X more yield, 95% less water, 99% less space
From Bali with love: this meditation app with 17M users has a unique approach to making money
Is Google cheating YouTube creators?
Fixing US elections: Can digital voting and blockchain save us?
Connecting rhinos to the internet of things via space ...
Fraud in this Russian-owned app targets US election swing states ...
Starlink's internet from space is faster than 95% of US internet connection speeds
Tech for good. And tech for bad.
Smartphones Q3 2020: Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi
Apple's beta software program is ... very beta right now
TikTok owner ByteDance is selling a smart desk lamp with a camera for kids
This AI creates movies from hundreds of smartphones automagically
Starlink’s internet anywhere via SpaceX satellite: $99/month
Facebook Gaming head talks cloud gaming: Facebook launches free cloud gaming service
Apple TV+ ... actually interesting now? (And, Apple gives you 3 more free months)
USA vs Google antitrust: too late, too soon, just political, or just missing the point?
Quibi spent $63 million on ads in its short six-month life
44% of global eCommerce is owned by 4 Chinese companies
97% of creators don't get paid. Cinnamon video is trying to change that ...
Apple booting third-party browser that enables Google Stadia streaming games
Social media, censorship, politics: the NY Post, Biden's laptop, and the right path forward
Wearable DNA sequencing devices just 4-5 years away: Dr. Roel Wuyts, principal scientist at IMEC
No, the iPhone 12 doesn’t actually cost $799
YouTube and Facebook destroy Twitch in at least one critical livestreaming category
Former Apple CEO John Sculley on Apple vs Google: the emerging healthtech battle
Developers: Google, Siri, Alexa are an abstraction layer over your apps
In-flight wireless drone charging: how GET is making the drone economy real
Robots in the cloud: How Amazon’s “fake” robots are making real robots smarter and faster
Here's what the top 10 fitness apps of 2020 have in common
This AI makes fake faces for privacy-safe photo sharing
Google Launch Night: Pixel phones, Google TV, Chromecast, and the new Nest Audio
How Apple might reinvent podcasts with its latest acquisition
Apple’s iOS 14 app clips seemed stupid. Actually ... they’re awesome
Global online content consumption doubled in 2020
Will you buy Amazon's new flying home security drone, Always Home Cam?
Why Facebook's Ray-Ban smartglasses will fail, with Irena Cronin from Infinite Retina
The top 40 companies people want to work for in the tech industry
Keynote chat: How Apple is disrupting mobile as we know it
iOS 14: Google's former iOS app head reveals what apps will win and why
Apple’s Safari 14 blocked 90 web trackers in just 5 minutes
Smart contact lens from Ghent University: an artificial iris that can dynamically change your vision
Apple Music iOS 14 is the ultimate DJ
4 ways Tesla self-driving ‘falls short’ in Consumer Reports testing
How to scam millions with Facebook ads, Shopify stores, and fake products
Apple, Epic, and App Store cash: What did Apple give, and what is it keeping?
How American Express uses AI to automate 8 billion decisions ... with $1 trillion at stake
Autonomous robots & drones: working where no humans should
Hyperloop in Canada? 621 MPH ‘TransPod’ in feasibility studies
Fitbit VP Larry Yang: Is the Fitbit Sense the complete health smartwatch?
The 100 safest countries for COVID-19: updated
Advertising after identity: IBM on AI, marketing, and privacy
Apple & the IDFA: privacy power move or cash grab?
Amazon wants your underwear selfies (and beat Apple to a digital health service)
Elon Musk wants to put a ‘Fitbit in your skull’
10X startups with the chief product officer of Asana
Is Apple blurring the lines between radio, music streaming, and podcasting?
Upgrading Stephen Hawking's communication system with AI and GPT-2
70% of Americans want to ban foreign social media apps
Billion-Dollar battle: Fortnite-maker Epic sues Apple for payments ‘monopoly’
CTO of Github Jason Warner on how to build 10X products with exponential impact
If data is the new oil, where’s the refinery?
Apple vs Trump, Russia, and China: Will sideloading save Apple?
Apple ad network gets special privileges that Facebook, Google won’t on iOS14
Remote health revolution: heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, stress rate, all via video
Don't tell Trump, but TikTok’s top competitor is also Chinese owned
State of the global app economy: growth, diversity, and real-world impact
High school student builds AI framework to predict air pollution with 92% accuracy
Will wind one day power your home for free? Checking out IceWind's new home wind-powered generators
Alexa, Siri, Google: The future of smart assistants
Can marketers use AI to predict what you’ll do?
8 of the top 20 TV shows right now are Netflix originals (!!)
Chinese drone app hid ability to collect data, install apps, 'phone home' to Sina Weibo
Don’t laugh: The future of advertising is more exciting than you could possibly imagine
Apple and the elephant in the App Store room
AI, fitness, & home gyms: what COVID is doing to wellness
How Apple’s recent privacy decision threatens billions in Facebook revenue
Disrupting electricity: Is solid state the new hardwired?
Is India the new China? Google invests $10B, following Amazon, Facebook, Apple
Taking TikTok’s crown: will Triller scoop all of its users?
Crypto, AI, blockchain, and privacy: The future of ads is right in front of us ...
How Intel and the National Science Foundation want to use AI to connect trillions of smart devices
Google’s internet balloons use AI to deliver web, voice, video from 12 miles up
What the Hey email app fiasco tells us about Apple App Store submission guidelines
50% of food is wasted while 25,000 starve daily. Can AI fix this?
Are subscriptions the new retail? They've jumped up to 145% since COVID-19
Helm.ai is using "deep teaching" to make self-driving cars AI 100,000X cheaper to train
Telling stories for warm robots with the queen of LinkedIn, Goldie Chan
Apple killed the IDFA. Is this the end of mobile marketing as we know it?
How Guitar Hero's chief architect is using VR to make fitness fun
6 reasons most want to work from home even after Coronavirus (and 6 reasons some don't!)
Why games are making record revenues in a recession, with Unity VP Julie Shumaker
The 100 Safest Countries In The World For COVID-19
Did Apple just reinvent eyeglasses: chatting about Apple smartglasses with Robert Scoble
The unforgivable sin Apple committed with the 2020 MacBook Pro
Scientific data on 5G and radiation exposure from a research scientist
Is Fortnite the new movie theater?
The wacky cyborg future of AI, AR, and VR with brain-machine interfaces
Digital Census 2020: How the US Census Bureau is surveying 330M people in a pandemic
Is Joe Rogan getting underpaid to move to Spotify? $100M might just be the bargain of the year
3-time NYT best-selling author Dan Ariely on depression, loneliness, and anxiety thanks to COVID-19
9 things we lost when Google canceled its smart cities project in Toronto
Using phones ... as phones again: voice up 36% during quarantine
Re-Opening America? Massages, pedicures, and restaurants are big business again in Georgia
Getting robots, drones, self-driving vehicles, and smart machines to work together
Will your next home be a bioceramic geodesic dome? Geoship CEO Morgan Bierschenk says yes ...
Fake news: the truth about lies
The science of sleep: putting WiFi, Bluetooth, speakers, massagers, and more in a bed
Backing up the planet: How scientists are recreating the entire globe in virtual reality
Vonage: 2000% increase in telehealth video usage thanks to Coronavirus
Vonage Founder Jeff Pulver on the next evolution of blockchain-based internet communication
Is Coronavirus good for the mobile app economy?
COVID-19 and the app economy: crisis & opportunity
Digital obesity: 2000-person study shows how tech increases loneliness, social isolation, stress
Zoho launches Remotely, a free virtual collaboration productivity suite, in response to Coronavirus
Living & working with coronavirus in Beijing, China
Where billions go to die: a deep dive into ad fraud
Digital 2020: a state of the union with Hootsuite
TFD11: Killing fake reviews, with TrustRadius CEO Vinay Bhagat
TFD10: How to make your headphones better … with software
TFD9: Future proofing, digital transformation, and more ... what brands need to do in 2020
TFD7: Is indoor air in your house killing you? Chatting with OneLife CEO Christoph Burkhardt