Cognixia Podcast

The Cognixia Podcast explores emerging digital technologies, focusing this episode on AI advancements, particularly ChatGPT. Since its launch in 2022, ChatGPT has revolutionized tech interactions, offering features like personalized memory, coding assistance with Canvas, and advanced models like GPT-4 and OpenAI o1. These tools empower developers, enabling even beginners to tackle complex tasks. W...

This Cognixia podcast episode explores platform engineering as a rapidly evolving discipline in modern digital transformation. Highlighting insights from the 3rd State of Platform Engineering Report, it notes that most platform teams are under two years old, driven by needs like automation, infrastructure standardization, and developer self-service. Platform engineering complements DevOps, address...

The Cognixia podcast explores emerging digital technologies, offering insights to inspire skill development and career growth. This episode focuses on convincing senior management to adopt IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions. It emphasizes understanding key decision-makers' interests, addressing their concerns, and framing ITSM as an investment that boosts efficiency, customer satisfaction, and...

The Cognixia Podcast explores emerging technologies, discussing advancements like AI’s surprising applications. This episode delves into “digital olfaction” and “scent teleportation,” innovative technologies enabling AI to detect, analyze, and recreate scents. By capturing chemical signatures of aromas, AI can digitally transmit and replicate scents, revolutionizing industries such as online shopp...

This episode of the Cognixia Podcast dives into the concept of passkeys, an emerging method of passwordless authentication that’s becoming more secure and popular than traditional passwords. Passkeys use cryptographic keys (public and private) to authenticate users, making them resistant to phishing and other attacks that commonly compromise passwords. Unlike passwords, passkeys are often tied to...

In this episode of the Cognixia podcast , the discussion centers on a recent lawsuit filed by Dow Jones and the New York Post against Perplexity AI. The publishers accuse Perplexity of using their copyrighted content without authorization for its AI-generated summaries, a practice they argue undercuts content discoverability and revenue. Unlike Google, which supports content discovery through its...

The cognixia podcast discusses the significance of networks, particularly 5G and the upcoming 6G, which is expected to roll out by 2030. While 6G will offer faster speeds and minimal latency, India faces challenges, particularly a lack of skilled professionals and underdeveloped infrastructure. Although India has ambitious goals for 6G patents and standards, significant gaps remain, especially in...

The Cognixia Podcast discusses the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. Their work in artificial neural networks, foundational to modern AI, stems from principles in physics. Hopfield created a network mimicking atomic spin to save and reconstruct data patterns, while Hinton advanced this with the Boltzmann Machine, which autonomously recognizes pa...

This episode of the Cognixia Podcast covers the new Windows 11 24H2 update, highlighting its AI-powered features, enhanced security, and improved user experience. Key upgrades include support for Wi-Fi 7, a redesigned File Explorer, and features like customizable energy-saving modes, advanced assistive hearing aids, and better privacy settings. Developers and IT professionals benefit from the new...

This episode from the Cognixia Podcast explores how to monetize an API using AWS services, particularly the Amazon API Gateway. It covers key challenges like managing subscriptions, handling payments globally, and controlling API access. The episode suggests using the AWS Marketplace to sell APIs but notes that it limits potential customers to AWS users. Alternatives include broader API marketplac...

This episode from the Cognixia Podcast discusses the increasing incidents of email-based security breaches in Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) companies, which include utilities, transport, telecom, data centers, and more. It highlights how cyberattackers are using emails as a primary method to infiltrate CNI organizations, with ransomware attacks on the rise. A report by OPSWAT shows that 8...

This episode of the Cognixia podcast discusses the global semiconductor chip shortage, which started in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The shortage is driven by supply chain disruptions, high demand across industries, and challenges in chip production, which can take up to six months. Factors like trade wars, natural disasters, and export restrictions from China have worsened the issue. Despit...

The Cognixia podcast discusses the latest update from Microsoft in Power BI, enabling users to write DAX queries via the web interface. Previously only available in Power BI Desktop, this feature allows users to create calculations, build models, and perform advanced data analysis. DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is highlighted as a powerful tool for extracting insights from data through custom me...

The cognixia podcast discusses the rise of the Mojo programming language, which raised $100 million in funding in 2024. Mojo combines Python's ease of use with the performance of C, making it a potential game-changer, especially in AI development. While some wonder if Mojo will replace Python, the podcast suggests that Mojo complements Python by improving performance without sacrificing user-f...

In this Cognixia podcast episode, the focus is on ErLang, a programming language with high median salaries, surpassing even popular languages like Python and Rust, as per the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Despite ErLang's low adoption rate, it is highly valuable, particularly in industries like telecom and banking, due to its strength in handling concurrent processes and mission-critic...

The Cognixia podcast discusses the environmental challenge of e-waste and introduces a new flexible material developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Utah, and Meta. This material could revolutionize electronics by allowing for complex, multi-layered circuits while being recyclable. Unlike the commonly used polyimide, which is energy-intensive to produce and difficult to recycle, the new...

The Cognixia podcast episode highlights the significant role of AI at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Intel, Google, and Alibaba have partnered to enhance the event's technological capabilities, from AI-powered chatbots and digital twins to advanced sports analytics and sustainability efforts. AI tools have been crucial in ensuring fairness, transparency, and improved athlete performance through data...

In this week's episode of the Cognixia podcast , the focus is on SearchGPT, OpenAI's upcoming search engine that combines AI-generated content with human-written articles, offering a conversational interface that allows users to ask follow-up questions. Unlike traditional search engines, SearchGPT provides real-time, up-to-date information and prominently credits original content creators,...

In this week's Cognixia podcast , we discuss the importance of lifelong learning, drawing inspiration from Theodore Roosevelt's dedication to knowledge. In today’s fast-changing world, continuous skill acquisition is crucial for staying relevant professionally. Set realistic learning goals, leverage tools like Generative AI, and track your progress with apps. Engage with your curiosity to...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast ! Endpoint protection has been a buzzword in the world of cybersecurity for quite a bit now. Endpoint protection involves software running on local machines so they wouldn’t run malicious software or any unintended code. It is like a more modern name for the good old anti-virus and firewalls, sounds like it, no? It has two key components – a...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast ! we talk about a major infrastructure innovation called the Hollow Core Fiber. As technology evolves, it requires the infrastructure supporting it to evolve as well, to keep up with the demands of the change. In this AI era, large scale computing is becoming an everyday thing and it is impossible to carry this out without strong, resilient,...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . These are the communication, people management, and personality traits that make you a project manager people want to work with. Imagine a project manager as an orchestra conductor. They gotta guide each musician (team member) to play their part in harmony. That takes serious people skills to keep everyone motivated and moving in the same d...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . Maybe you were trying to buy something from the latest sale on your favorite online shop, or you wanted to buy a gift for someone, or you were trying to track a parcel. Happens to all of us, doesn’t it? Most times we would drop trying and tell ourselves that we will do this later, right? But how many times do we really go back? Sometimes we...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. The theory of disruptive innovation was first introduced in 1995. Since then, it has proved to be a powerful way of thinking about innovation-driven growth. From Intel to Salesforce, disruptive innovations have been highly regarded and the theory is a guiding star for all individuals and organizations who want to do something cutting-edge. F...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast The US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Health & Human Services, and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center issued a joint cybersecurity advisory. This advisory aimed to share more information about the “Black Basta”. Black Basta affiliates have been attack...