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Dec. 25, 2024
(BNS) Calvin And Hobbes - With Daniel Kibblesmith
Was Calvin And Hobbes the greatest comic strip ever? Or maybe a great work of art of the 20th Century? Why did Bill Watterson disappear? Was Calvin "good" (morally)? Was Hobbes "real"? Why were there never any toys? Would we…
Dec. 23, 2024
Mon. 12/23 – The Revenge Of Google Glass?
How about a Ring Doorbell, but from Apple? How about Meta Ray Ban’s but crossed with Google Glass? How everybody is combining forces to bid for defense contracts. How Tether won the crypto profitability wars. And how Britann…
Dec. 20, 2024
Fri. 12/20 – Gemini Flash Thinking
Gemini Flash Thinking a model making a serious run at “reasoning.” The FAA has had to ban drones in New Jersey cause of all those weird drone sightings. Self Driving technology continues to prove it is safer. An open source …
Dec. 19, 2024
Thu. 12/19 – 1800CHATGPT
Apple says Meta is getting annoying. You can now call 1800CHATGPT to, you know, talk to ChatGPT. Apple scraps plans for a hardware subscription package. Oura’s big new raise also indicates how well its smart-ring business is…
Dec. 18, 2024
Wed. 12/18 – Is Your Home Internet Router About To Be Banned?
Is your home internet router about to be banned? The US has a new Chinese tech target. An AI dev kit from Nvidia. Who actually buys the most chips from Nvidia? Hollywood has flip-flopped on the whole theatrical release strat…
Dec. 17, 2024
Tue. 12/17 – TikTok CEO Dines With Trump
On the same day that ByteDance asks the US Supreme Court to intervene, the TikTok CEO meets with Donald Trump. DeepMind’s big new competitor to Sora called Veo 2. The FTC comes down against so called “junk fees.” And on thei…
Dec. 16, 2024
Mon. 12/16 – The Coming Battle Of Elon v. Sam
I break down the coming battle of the titans that is going to likely play out in 2025 between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Mark Gurman says Apple is finally going foldable. Oh, and that Magic Mouse is finally that sin against G…
Dec. 14, 2024
(BNS) Top 10 Tech Stories Of 2024 (On The Newsworthy Podcast)
Brian on The Newsworthy podcast with Erica Mandy. Find out more about the show here.
Dec. 13, 2024
Fri. 12/13 – Gemini As The New Android/OS?
Ok, what if AI models are really the new OS for… everything. But also: smartglasses and a Vision Pro competitor. I’ll explain. Could NotebookLM become a fully fledged product? Seemingly the leader in the clubhouse in the rac…
Dec. 12, 2024
Thu. 12/12 – The “Killer App” For Vision Pro?
More fallout from the whole Cruise wind-down. What it’s like to use some of the new Gemini 2.0 features. Has Apple, quite belatedly, finally done a feature update that provides the Vision Pro with a “killer app?” An Instagra…
Dec. 11, 2024
Wed. 12/11 – Gemini 2.0
GM shocked everybody by shutting down the Cruise robotaxi business. ChatGPT is finally on your iPhone once you update it. Could all Apple watches someday have satellite texting? And then, I guess Google wanted to pre-empt Sa…
Dec. 10, 2024
Tue. 12/10 – Amazon Autos
You can now buy a car on Amazon. A new AI unicorn doing something with AI I hadn’t heard about before. New AI enhanced smartglasses. Microsoft says it has a new datacenter design that uses zero water. And if you were able to…
Dec. 9, 2024
Mon. 12/09 – OpenAI Releases Sora
OpenAI’s Sora model is here! TikTok is still in trouble. China does more turnabouts is fair play, this time with Nvidia. I Apple, belatedly, getting serious about gaming on the Vision Pro? And did Google just make a huge, hi…
Dec. 6, 2024
Fri. 12/06 – Santa Sam Makes His First Delivery
Santa Sam has made his first delivery of the promised 12 days of launches from OpenAI. David Sacks is named the AI and Crypto Czar. Samsung’s entire UI is getting a radical overhaul. OpenAI is seemingly about to restructure …
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Brian McCullough
Host, Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough is the co-founder of Ride Home Media and host of The Techmeme Ride Home. He founded ResumeWriters.com and is the author of How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone.
