Futurum Tech Webcast

In this special edition episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Kristie Mann, Sr. Director of Product Management for Intel's Optane DC persistent memory products. Over the course of the last year, Futurum Research and Intel partnered to do some extensive research around memory in compute and the future of memory and the data center. Our society has come to depe...

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes IBM's Z Team Melissa Sassi, IBM Z Startup Program Manager, and Meredith Stowell, Vice President of the IBM Z Ecosystem, to discuss IBM Z Day and IBM's efforts to democratize skill-building throughout the world. Thank you to IBM for sponsoring this edition of Futurum Tech Podcast in partnership with Futurum...

In the main dive for today's episode of Futurum Tech Podcast, we take a look at our recently published research report, The State of Automation 2019: RPA, AI, and Intelligent Automation, developed in partnership with Automation Anywhere. Our research shows that more than half of U.S. companies have implemented some form of automation —either Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or AI-powered Intellige...

Earlier this week rumors started to circulate about an audacious move by Xerox to acquire its much larger competitor HP. What are the prospects for the acquisition to succeed? What are the downsides and will it be enough to revive the prospects of both companies? We talk about potential branding outcomes and key areas of potential breakthrough like 3-D printing, and other interesting things about...

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Rebecca Gott, IBM Distinguished Engineer. Rebecca has worked for IBM for 20 years and currently focuses on blockchain on the IMB Z and LinuxONE Team. Daniel and Rebecca take a deep dive into blockchain use cases in today's business environment. Thank you to IBM for sponsoring this edition of Futurum Tech P...

What is going on at Facebook and does it does it bode for its long-term business model? And can we put a value on news feeds curated by journalists? We talk about Zuck's testimony this week, and other interesting things about the technology giant's behavior. THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have just announced that they are joining forces to deliver RCS messaging in the...

We take a main dive into the topic of Amazon, and whether we are looking at a company that might be described as America's newest military giant. THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > Facebook playing favorites with news outlets in advance of news page launch > Google says it's going to fix that "oops" in its new Pixel 4 > U.S. Firms reportedly show initial interest in Huawei's 5G licensing proposal > On the Ap...

We take a look at what the internet is worth. Can we put a value on free? That's the question Jerome Powell recently discussed at a meeting of economists, and we think that working to figure out the value of free services to the economy is an interesting discussion. We also cover the partnership between Porsche and Boeing in an urban air mobility initiative, the US exploring funding for Huawei riv...

Deepfake videos are video forgeries that make people seem to be doing or saying things they didn't actually do or say. As you might imagine these manipulated videos can have a big impact on people who are "featured" in them. California's Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law a couple of laws aimed at affording some protection as it relates to deepfake videos used in both politics and porn...

With Amazon's 14 announcements on hardware ranging from various iterations of its Echo and Ring devices, to eyeglass frames, to even a smart oven, it's clear that Amazon aims to be everywhere, and collecting your data and analyzing your buying habits in the process. In this Main Dive, the Futurum team talks about the privacy implications of this move, Amazon's competitors in this arena, and what's...

In this special edition episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, Daniel Newman welcomes Daniel Krook, CTO of the Call for Code Global Initiative and Code and Response Team at IBM. IBM helped launch Call for Code in May 2018 in partnership with the United Nations and a wide range of other public and private partners to inspire developers to use code to solve the world's most pressing problems. In this...

In this special edition episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, Daniel Newman takes a look at the concept of the cognitive enterprise—the effort to bring new technologies and operational models into one's enterprise as part of digital transformation with interviewee Gene Chao, Vice President and General Manager of IBM Automation. In his work, Gene manages IBM's global automation business unit, coveri...

This episode covered many topics. We started with the Apple Event. It was a good launch, but it simply wasn't good enough for Apple. The Watch was the best in show and sadly over the past couple of years the Airpods and Watches have been more exciting than the iPhones, iPads and Macbooks. The company is clearly moving toward more recurring subscription revenue, and that will be good for the bottom...

There are many exciting ways that AI and other emerging technologies will change the future of work in the next decade. In this Interview Series Futurum Tech Podcast, Daniel Newman sits down with and Greg Bowen, CTO and SVP of Digital Acceleration at Dell Digital and Edward Bagden, Associated Director of Flight Operations and Safety at LIFT Academy. They discuss trends and challenges with AI they...

This episode covered a variety of topics, including our Main Dive on the indictment of the Capital One hacker, Suzanne Thompson, some additional lawsuits that have been filed related to this case, one of which is against GitHub and Amazon and, most importantly, how the timing for any bad press related to Amazon's AWS is not ideal. Amazon and Microsoft are the two finalists for the $10B DoD JEDI cl...

We have to talk about privacy issues and invasion of privacy way too much these days, as it happens all the time now. Recently it came out that contractors working for Microsoft listened to audio of Xbox users in order to improve the consoles voice commands. Not only did they listen to audio, it was sometimes recorded. Talk about an invasion of privacy! THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > Facebook privacy "ch...

We dive into wearables and their past, present and what we can expect in the future. We also discuss fails vs successes and what we think will work in the next 2-3 years. THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > Data breaches on a daily basis > Do not install your Microsoft Surface's August firmware updates–for now > Good news for Chromebook users > Enterprise security software tops B2B sales > Bluetooth security...

Samsung introduced the Note 10. Some were disappointed in the $1000 price point considering there weren't that many improvements, other than the design and a really beautiful new screen. It's safe to say they will most likely be adding incremental improvements over the next 24 months or so. THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > Microsoft and Samsung partner up. Will they present a challenge to Apple? > Huawei i...

Elon Musk invested $100M in an organization called Neuralink. Neuralink is building tiny devices that are potentially going to be implanted in our brain. It's a little chip with thousands of wires measuring 1/10th the width of a human hair. Musk is outwardly outspoken about the fact that the size is important because we aren't going to want large chips implanted in our brains, only small chips. Fu...

If modems are a commodity why did Apple just pay $1B to acquire one? Apple's acquisition of Intel's modem business is not only a bargain cost-wise but a great deal for Apple AND Intel from a focus and control perspective. Apple gains 2,200 high-end engineers ready to take modems to the next level, control over a key component in its iPhone products, and over 17,000 wireless patents, while Intel sh...

The recent "Russia is stealing your photos" meme highlights both the fear of data privacy (or just Russians perhaps) and the truth around most app Terms of Service (which nobody ever really reads, do they?). The real issue here isn't Russia (as memes and certain fear-driven news networks might suggest) but the granting of "perpetual, royalty-free" rights to data that we share with *many* popular a...

We live in a world of 100% digital access, but what happens when the "online supply chain" fails and you experience downtime, as we witnessed when Twitter went down in the middle of a (so-called) Social Media Summit at the White House this past week. While this may have been a bit of an ironic inconvenience, the risks and downsides to businesses and enterprises can be significant if they continue...

One of Apple's core players, lead designer Jony Ive, is departing after a decades-long stint to start his own design firm. Yes, Apple will be his main client, but no, it's not clear just how much this move will impact the design-side of the venerable brand. Is it possible the firm is setting itself up for a reset? THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > North Korea is in the news, but this time it's not politics...

Amazon was just awarded a patent designed to allow for delivery drones to double as "surveillance-as-a-service" devices, allowing them to periodically scan your home for open doors, windows, etc. Pretty cool, but it brings up the issue of the vast amount of visual/physical data that autonomous devices (drones or automobiles) will soon be collecting. THIS WEEK's FAST FIVE > Google won't be deliveri...

What is the state of collaboration today? Is technology making it better or worse, and what is the impact on the #futureofwork? As collaboration-tool provider SLACK readies for what could be an impressive IPO on the heels of Zoom's recent IPO, it's worth understanding why collaboration tools are important and the real impact they are having on both users and the market. OUR "In Case You Missed It"...