In an age when digital media permeates every aspect of our lives, understanding its influence is more critical than ever. Algorithmic Saga: Understanding Media, Culture, and Transformation in the AI Age (Atique Mindscape Publishing, 2025), serves as a compass, guiding readers through the complexities of our interconnected world. From the moment we wake to a flurry of notifications to the late-night scrolling that often accompanies our downtime, we find ourselves enmeshed in a digital landscape that

We look at the impact data-scraping robots from AI firms are having on the online encyclopedia used by hundreds of millions of people. Also in this edition of Tech Life: if you work in the fashion industry, if you are a fashion model, are you worried about AI ? A lot are, and we find out why. And how do we prevent children from seeing online adult content ? Many parts of the world are requiring sites to verify the ages of their users. Now the biggest adult site argues that we need a better

In this episode, Hung Bui, Technology Vice President at Qualcomm, joins us to explore the latest high-efficiency techniques for running generative AI, particularly diffusion models, on-device. We dive deep into the technical challenges of deploying these models, which are powerful but computationally expensive due to their iterative sampling process. Hung details his team's work on SwiftBrush and SwiftEdit, which enable high-quality text-to-image generation and editing in a single inference step. He

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has selected Slingshot Aerospace for a Provision of Optical Delivery Partner contract to expand the UK’s satellite tracking capabilities. The University of Florida, in collaboration with NASA, MIT, Vanguard Automation, AIM Photonics and Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, have a suite of photonic AI chips en route to the International Space Station (ISS). The Philippines and Malaysia have signed the Artemis Accords, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star

The UI ParadoxYou’re still dragging rectangles around in Power Apps? Fascinating. It’s 2025, and half of you are still nudging buttons pixel by pixel like it’s 2019. The rest have discovered something far more sophisticated—describing their pages in plain English and letting AI build the layout. One group babysits pixels. The other supervises intelligence.Manual canvas apps are the digital equivalent of painting by hand—slow, strangely cathartic, and deeply impractical when you realize you need a

There's an elephant in the room along with artificial intelligence - its impact on the climate. Demand for electricity has skyrocketed as Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft build vast new data centres to handle the anticipated global demand for AI products and services. Is that wise? In conversation with legendary entrepreneur and ClimateSalad CEO Mick Liubinskas, we explore whether we're approaching the age of AI with enough prudence. The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce is produced

OpenAI has officially done its whole reorg to for-profit thing. Amazon is cutting a metric ton of employees and its blaming AI. Elon launches Grokpedia to take on Wikipedia. And does Anthropic’s success in the enterprise give it a leg up on OpenAI in the one metric that counts? Making money? OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft (The Verge) Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as Jassy Looks to Reduce Bureaucracy (Bloomberg) Elon Musk launches a

Let’s be adults about this. If you’re an agent, lender, inspector, roofer, HVAC, contractor, remodel, solar, or any local service business… the reason you’re not getting enough booked conversations is not “the market,” “the algorithm,” or “people are cheap right now.” The reason is simpler: You are not in the first conversation. Here’s exactly what’s happening to you every week: • Lead finds you. • They call. • You’re with a client / driving / at dinner / finally off for the...

Malcolm Gladwell sits down with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna in a special live episode of Smart Talks with IBM. They discuss the groundbreaking potential of quantum computing, the transformative impact of AI on business, and how Krishna’s visionary predictions from the 90s continue to guide IBM’s innovations. This is a paid advertisement from IBM. The conversations on this podcast don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions. Visit us at

Welcome, innovators and future-makers, to The JMOR Tech Talk Show with your host, John C. Morley—Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer, Marketing Specialist, Video Producer, Podcast Host, Coach, Graduate Student, and lifelong learner. Today’s episode, “Control-Alt-Impact: 14 Breaks & Breakthroughs Rocking Tech,” is your front-row seat to the most earth-shaking stories defining our digital world. From global deals to cyber meltdowns, AI revolutions to tech at the edge, each headline is a story that

Welcome to Our Halloween Program 2025 Yes, it’s Halloween, when people dress up like someone or something else, and when the dead come back to visit the living. Which, in a way is kind of apropos of today’s podcast. ABB Sells to SoftBank The recent sale of ABB’s robotics division to Japan’s SoftBank. Was that a normal sale of one company to another, or was it something else? Was it part of a disguise? Was it part of an elaborate plan for Japan’s moribund AI and smart robotics industry to retu...

Meta's smart glasses have been a hit in part because they don't try to do too much. With the new Display glasses, though, Meta is trying to do... a lot more. The Verge's Victoria Song joins the show to tell us about her experience with the glasses, from the impressive but very first-gen hardware to the somewhat underwhelming set of things you can do. After that, podcaster and creator Stephen Robles explains to David why he's dead wrong about Apple Shortcuts. Stephen shares how he uses Shortcuts, why

In this episode, Boaz Sobrado joins the show to unpack Bitcoin’s toughest October in a decade, how institutional traders may be flipping traditional market narratives, and the exchange shifts reshaping crypto. We also discuss the rise of corporate Bitcoin adoption, strategic government reserves, Square’s renewed push for Bitcoin payments, and if this cycle is truly different. Enjoy!— Follow Boaz: https://x.com/sobradob Follow Rizzo: https://x.com/pete_rizzo_ Follow Supply Shock:

On this episode, host Kim Jones is joined by Ethan Cook, N2K’s lead analyst and editor, for a deeper, more reflective conversation on cybersecurity regulation, privacy, and the future of policy. This episode steps back from the news cycle to connect the dots and explore where the regulatory landscape is heading — and why it matters.Ethan, who will join the show regularly this season to provide big-picture analysis after major policy conversations, shares his perspective on the evolving balance

The Myth of “Low-Code for Everyone”Most people think Power Apps is about dragging buttons onto screens until something vaguely resembling an app appears. Click, drag, publish—done. Wrong. That’s the fairy tale version Microsoft marketed to “empower everyone,” and it worked—too well. Because now, there’s a new species loose in the ecosystem: Vibe Code. That’s the evolution where Power Apps meets serious development. Equal parts JavaScript, Git discipline, and AI-assisted chaos.See, Power Apps started

Get Matt's AI Tools Playbook (free): https://clickhubspot.com/dgbEpisode 82: What’s behind the latest wave of AI-powered browser upgrades—and how will it reshape the way we work, shop, and code? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Maria Gharib (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maria-gharib-091779b9), head writer of the Mindstream newsletter and AI news expert, dig into every major browser update you might have missed, from OpenAI Atlas and Microsoft Edge to Claude Code and even the newest open-source

A ‘claw machine’ for the home? I catch up with Arcade 1Up’s Cyrus Rosenberg about the company’s latest machine for the home – and it’s not an arcade machine or digital pinball tableTripp Grant, Senior Director of Partnerships at uBreakiFix by Asurion talks with us about the “right to repair,” following a NYC event co-hosted with Google and iFixitA baby stroller that can rock you little one to sleep? I interview Jon McGuire from CYBEX North America, the folks behind the e-Gazelle S electric

A global smishing campaign of unprecedented scale has been uncovered by Palo Alto Networks, revealing the vast operations of a Chinese-speaking threat actor known as the Smishing Triad. Since January 2024, the group has deployed more than 194,000 malicious domains, impersonating legitimate organizations ranging from toll and postal services to banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and delivery companies. This campaign, active across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, leverages

In this MadTech Podcast team episode, ExchangeWire head of marketing Grainne Reid is joined by head of content John Still and COO Lindsay Rowntree.They look at Apple Maps moving towards ad monetisation, Comcast making their linear TV inventory available programmatically for advertisers, and the launch of the new Ad Context Protocol (AdCP). They discuss Apple’s and Google’s relationships with long tail businesses, the state of the TV landscape for media buyers, and the adoption of ad tech industry

A newly uncovered cyber-espionage operation known as Operation ForumTroll has revealed the resurgence of commercial spyware in state-sponsored surveillance campaigns. According to new research from Kaspersky, the campaign exploited a Google Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-2783) and targeted Russian and Belarusian organizations in government, research, and media sectors. The attacks were traced to tools developed by Memento Labs, the Italian surveillance vendor formerly known as the