NEXT with John Koetsier

iOS 14.5 is perhaps the biggest change in the mobile ecosystem in a decade. 

While most iPhone owners might not see that much change, for the first time they are getting a choice about whether they allow adtech companies and brands to track them around the internet. For the first five years of mobile, anyone who wanted it got our hard-coded UDID, or universal device identifiers. After about 2010, anyone who wanted got our IDFAs, or identifiers for advertisers. There was an opt-out, but few saw it.

Now, we'll all be asked for permission to track, like GDPR cookie notifications on the web..

App Annie CEO Ted Krantz and I chat about what that means for apps, companies, and people.

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Imagine the ability to have a say in who I interview next. Imagine owning a token from your favorite creator or artist that gives you special access or a closer connection.

Now imagine it’s a currency that can grow as the community does. And can be used to purchase goods and services ... or even exchanged for US dollars

That’s a creator coin.

Recently Rally.io raised $57M to make literally a million of them. Including #SMRT​ coin, which is my creator coin.

In this episode of TechFirst I interview Bremner Morris, former Patreon executive and now chief marketing officer of Rally.io.

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Would you feel awkward wearing hearing aids?

About 20% of people have hearing loss. But only a third of them will actually wear hearing aids. Too many people just don't want the stigma of hearing aids. (Or all those finicky wires!)

But what if they looked just like regular earbuds?

Like for example, Signia Actives.

They look just like regular earbuds, and they adapt to different listening needs on the fly via an app.

Noisy room? There's a setting for that.

Music? No problem.

Need to hear what’s in front or behind? Just change a setting.

Need to hear what someone’s saying through a mask? There's a mode for that.

Need more volume? Less? Just turn a dial via the provided app.

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Signia Active: https://www.signia.net/en-us/hearing-aids/active/

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Do you have to reinvent the wheel every time you build a robot? Or can you reuse significant components of functionality like vision, navigation, manual dexterity, and control software?

It turns out that the answer is that you don't have to continually reinvent the wheel. And the result of asking that question was the creation of what might be the world’s first robot venture factory

In, of course, Odense, Denmark, an island with perhaps the world’s greatest density of robotic startups and creators.

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Blue Ocean Robotics: https://www.blue-ocean-robotics.com

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The X Shore Eelex 8000 cruises 20 hours on battery power. It knows when you fall overboard, it won't go beyond geo-fences that you set up. It offers autopilot and it goes 35 knots or 65 kilometers an hour flat out. 

It has a modular design and will save you about $800 every time you "fuel up"

In this episode of tech first, we're chatting with Jenny Keisu, the CEO of X Shore, which has just released the ELX 8,000 electric boat and raised $17 million to bring it to a harbor near you.

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Clubhouse is the hot new social audio star. But Twitter Spaces is available to 30X the audience out of the box … and draws on a social graph you already own.

Does that mean it’s the new winner just waiting to be crowned?

In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier, I chat with Paul Armstrong, CEO and founder of Here/Forth … and owner of the very first sponsored show on Twitter Spaces … sponsored by a Fortune 500 global brand, too yet.

At least, as far as Armstrong knows.

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Punching something is probably a good way of blowing off steam, as long as it's an inanimate object and you're not hurting anyone. It's also a surprisingly good workout.

In this episode I try out Fight Camp's smart boxing fitness program and chat with the founder, former US National Team member Tommy Duquette ... now founder and CEO of Fight Camp.

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Moore's Law is dead, right? Not if we can get working photonic computers.

Lightmatter is building a photonic computer for the biggest growth area in computing right now, and according to CEO Nick Harris, it can be ordered now and will ship at the end of this year. It's already much faster than traditional electronic computers a neural nets, machine learning for language processing, and AI for self-driving cars.

It's the world's first general purpose photonic AI accelerator, and with light multiplexing -- using up to 64 different colors of light simultaneously -- there's long path of speed improvements ahead.

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I take a virtual tour of a virtual learning environment from The Leadership Network based on a collaboration they're doing with Toyota. Is this the future, or is it more like Microsoft Mesh's rich, textured, augmented reality?

There's probably multiple modalities for the future of meetings and collaborative remote work. In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier, I get a tour of TLN's Gemba VR learning and training environment, and compare it to Microsoft Mesh.

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The Leadership Network: https://theleadershipnetwork.com 

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We have synthetic humans earning millions as influencers and models who are created by a computer. What’s driving this … and where’s it all going? To dig in, we’re chatting with Tyler Lastovich, who leads strategy at Generated Photos.

Generated Photos makes realistic faces via AI: generative adversarial networks.

They're growing incredibly fast, count most major gaming companies as their customers, and are talking to major social media outlets as well. The market right now is for synthetic models and characters, but in the future is probably as large as the world: avatars for all of us in an augmented reality and virtual reality world.

We chat about the growth, the implications, the ethical considerations, and much, much more.

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TechFirst transcripts: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/

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