e479 — Listen Up, Outlaws!

Andy and Michael dive into advertising, AI, and gaming. They talk about CMG’s creepy ad tactics, disabling smart TV tracking, Midjourney’s new hardware, and the misuse of AI in music. They wrap up with the latest on Star Wars games, D&D, and VR gaming. Continue reading

Episode 359 – Speak Friend & Enter

doorway with open door leading to another door

Manifest your reality into the #metaverse via voice with @Meta ’s Builder Bot, stroll down the fashion district in @decentraland ‘s #MVFW, buy @colbertlateshow ’s #NFT, earn in-game money that can be exported in @playhyperspace  Words are powerful, and with Meta’s new “Builder Bot”, you can speak what you want to manifest into your personal virtual world.  This strikes Andy as a starting point that could eventually lead to something like the Star Trek Holodeck.  The co-hosts then also discuss how the artificial intelligence behind the Builder Bot can become more tuned to the user, so that it gets to … Continue reading

Episode 329 — Future Dead Startups

sign: The Future is Unwritten

Space travel contests, startup toy models, intellectual property rights, portable computing, cloud-based Windows, Clippy, and a LEGO flux capacitor. Continue reading

Episode 323 — Bots & Bricks

Netflix as the Netflix of gaming services, robots for logistics & loneliness, AI image creation, all-online WWDC21 & LEGO Con Continue reading