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In this episode host Jim Love, speaks with Joseph Toma, the CEC of Jugo, a mixed reality technology platform.  Jugo has just released a survey on modern video call behaviors, with some surprising results.

It turns out that Threads may be ruffling some feathers at
Twitter, OpenAI is looking to hire for its new A team, only
A stands for alignment. And Google hits a new milestone
to advance quantum computing.

OpenAI traffic declines for the first time, the Transportation Security Agency wants to expand facial recognition to all US airports, another colossally influential Reddit forum is pulling back … and oh, don’t spend that 300k salary you are going to make as a prompt engineer – just yet…

OpenAI says “no cheating on paywalls,” GitHub makes code more secure and what would you do if you lost all of your emails? Virgin Media customers might just find out. 

I don’t know how else to say this, but Google has a god given right to your data. It says so in their privacy policy. Computers save us time, but they also cost us between 11 and 20 per cent of our time according to one study. And there are issues with AI generated code.

Not long ago many of us thought bookstores were dead, killed off by the unstoppable force of internet commerce and eBooks. In fact, a couple of bookstore chains are actually seeing a resurgence and are doing very well.  In this episode we speak with James Daunt, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, about how his vision and leadership have led the way for a turnaround of this iconic bookstore chain.   

In 2015, Time Magazine published a story with the headline “You Now Have a Shorter Attention Span Than a Goldfish.” Supposedly this was based on a study by Microsoft that stated that the average attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds but humans with our digital lifestyle in 2015 now had an attention span of 8 seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000 before the mobile revolution began.  But according to a study by dentsu, the complete story is a lot more complex.

Who has to spy on you? The government can just buy your info on the open market.  Writers launch a class action against Open AI. The Dutch government joins with the US in restricting China’s use of chip making equipment and they’ve figured it out.

Leaders of a subreddit with 7 million members leaves Reddit, a group of university students prove that voice id is easily faked and the European Union is “crash testing” Artificial Intelligence

Is immigration the secret to AI dominance?  If so, is it Canada’s secret weapon?  Google tries to fix the damage done by Reddit’s moderator strike and two Windows updates you don’t want to miss.