Episode 235 — Bots on Batuu

stormtrooper & c3po

VR, AR, music and droids of all sorts: iRobot, Laundroid, and of course the Star Wars variety, as seen at the newly opened Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge land. Continue reading

Episode 230 – Dance this AR Around

Fashionable AI to allow for mass customization in the retail space, CourtTech with AI and geolocation to adjudicate judges’ rulings in real time, and implications of cloud supported companies shutting down. Continue reading

Episode 229 – 5G Coffee

Coffee at the Vienna airport

Fast robots and fast 5G networks = fast coffee powered by the cloud at MWC 2019. Continue reading

Episode 155 – Holiday Potluck

Gearing up for the festive season, Michael and Michael serve up a veritable smorgasbord of holiday potluck delights. Starting with well, um, leftovers from last week, Fitbit has indeed acquired the technology, software assets and intellectual property of Pebble and many of the people from Pebble will be joining Fitbit to continue their work on wearable technology. This brings up an interesting point on the nature of cloud services and the integration with physical devices — that one without the other does not work, as products and services are becoming more and more intertwined. Moving on to appetizers, Cortana now … Continue reading