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Robbie Finnigan, When Tech Wasn’t Cool

A storyteller and advertiser, Robbie talks working for Playgirl magazine, working with Apple and Steve Jobs to bring tech to the people, rampant sexual assault in the ad business, and getting a vial of cocaine as a bonus. Strap in, welcome to the 80s. Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, RSS,

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Reminiscing on the Release of Windows 7

Coming off the disaster that was the release of Windows Vista with its performance and compatibility issues, there was a palpable sense in the community that Windows 7 had to be our saving grace. Despite Windows having the vast majority of the market share, we fanboys felt under attack. Everyone

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By 2050 nations around the world, including the United States, will implement systems similar to China’s Great Firewall to increase national security, as our lives and warfare increasingly become digital. – Twitter

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By 2023 Amazon through Amazon Basics will release a TV. – Twitter

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By 2022 Amazon through Amazon Basics will release a computer monitor. – Twitter

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By 2021 Amazon through Amazon Basics will release a mobile phone. – Twitter

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By 2025 Coinbase will release public APIs for businesses to accept cryptocurrencies as payment online. – Twitter Resolved • True. Coinbase Commerce was announced 2 April 2018.

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By 2025 Coinbase will release a point of sale product allowing businesses to accept cryptocurrencies. – Twitter

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Tom Cruise will finally grow tired of printing out safe action movies (Knight and Day, Jack Reacher, etc.) and return to his days of Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Tropic Thunder, while also embracing his older age. I believe in you Cruise. – Twitter

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In Android P, the UI to indicate battery saver mode will be replaced with something less garish. – Twitter Resolved • True. Battery save mode has been updated with the release of Android P on 6 August 2018.

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When the minimum amount of Ether to put at stake in the PoS consensus mechanism is announced, the price of Ether will jump as people attempt to hit that minimum amount. – Twitter

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By 2025 there will be a large scale attack carried out on a cryptocurrency that compromises the consensus of that specific blockchain, stealing over 100 million dollars. – Twitter

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By 2030 wireless will usurp hard line (cables in the ground and on telephone poles) as the main way Americans receive internet in their home. Your modem will be connected to a wireless carrier rather than a cable coming into your house. – Twitter

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Only this time it’s Blockchain

In A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel writes: “It was called the tronics boom, because the stock offerings often included some garbled version of the word “electronics” in their title, even if the companies had nothing to do with the electronics industry. Buyers of these issues didn’

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Raven Lee on Harnessing Crisis

World traveler teaching Shamanic healing, energy healing, and meditation. Dr. Raven Lee shares how the suicide of her husband unlocked a new world for her. A world she shares with us, revealing how we can use it to live in the moment, have compassion, and never let a crisis go

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Hodlers, Consider This

Given the absolute stunning rise in the value of the cryptocurrency market, this is leaving many with the difficult decision of whether they should sell some of their position or not (remember, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing). So what should you do? There is no single

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Next global economic downturn there will be a boon in cryptocurrency market capitalization as people convert their fiat to crypto. – Twitter

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When level 5 autonomous vehicles are prevalent, a large portion of the value of high value real estate (downtown, great location, etc.) will be transferred to what is now considered low value real estate (suburbia, outskirts, etc.). – Twitter

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By 2050, grocers like Walmart and Amazon will differentiate by growing proprietary produce. Think special versions of an orange or even completely new species of plants. – Twitter

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Like Amazon Prime, other large tech companies will release all encompassing subscription plans for their products and services. E.g. Pay Apple $1k a year for a phone upgrade every year, a computer upgrade every two years, Apple Music included, etc. – Twitter

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Spotify will be acquired by 2028. – Twitter

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In the Pixel 3 phone, Google will release a Face ID equivalent that utilizes less specialized hardware than the iPhone X, but makes up for it in software. Similar to Portrait mode now. – Twitter Resolved • False. No Face ID equivalent feature was announced for the Pixel 3. It was announced

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By 2022 Google will release a product for managing users’ passwords, similar to Lastpass and 1Password. It will have 2FA and other advanced security measures built in. – Twitter Updates • Chrome 79 will continuously scan your passwords against public data breaches Chrome 79 will continuously scan your passwords against public data

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Jaqi Hansen Going the Distance

Two time world record holder in the marathon, Boston Marathon 1973 winner, and instrumental in bringing women’s distance events to the Olympics- Jaqi Hansen talks it all. That thing about the world you’ve been wanting to change, do what Jaqi did, throw years and will at it. Subscribe

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We don’t Need Super Intelligence for AI to be Super

In The Impossibility of Intelligence Explosion, François Chollet writes: “Arguably, the usefulness of software has been improving at a measurably linear pace, while we have invested exponential efforts into producing it. The number of software developers has been booming exponentially for decades, and the number of transistors on which we