John Koetsier
Forbes
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Apple Had A Down Quarter. But 3 Things Were Up
If Apple can get services up to the 50% and higher range — perhaps via subscriptions on devices that get renewed annually or every two years — the company becomes much less vulnerable to changing economic and supply chain issues. → Read More
Tesla Owners Are Not Happy About Price Cuts: ‘Sobbing In The Fetal Position’
“$69k no-USS having MYP owner here,” says a recent Model Y Performance purchaser in a Reddit threat, who’s also bemoaning the fact that Tesla recently removed ultrasonic sensors (USS) in favor of vision-driven proximity alerts. “This is wack.” → Read More
10 Most Downloaded Apps Of 2022: Facebook Down, Spotify Up, TikTok Stable, CapCut Keeps Growing
For 2022, Facebook dropped by more than 25%, TikTok kept winning, and CapCut, a formerly obscure video editing software, cracked the top four most-downloaded apps in the world. → Read More
Apple’s New Coinbase NFT Shakedown Would Literally Tax Ethereum Trades And Transfers On iOS
Coinbase tweeted this morning that Apple blocked the release of its latest crypto wallet app, asking for a cut of gas fees when people transfer NFTs to each other. → Read More
Elon Musk Says Apple Has Threatened To ‘Withhold’ Twitter From The App Store
Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk said today on Twitter that Apple has threatened to “withhold” Twitter from its App Store, suggesting that Apple is less than happy with the state of content moderation on the social news platform. → Read More
Twitter Rolls Out New ‘Official’ Tag To Replace Old ‘Verified’ Tag
The tag will identify key organizations such as governments, companies, publishers, major media outlets, and some public figures. The tag is not available for purchase, and not every person or every organization that was verified before will get the tag. → Read More
Generative AI: The Future Is AI Writing Its Own Code
“In what was basically like six months, it went from kind of this novelty that you laugh at to something that’s actually generating really high quality content that humans can use ..." → Read More
Netflix With Ads Is Not Free. Here’s What It Includes And What It Excludes
There's a lot included in the new ad-supported service. But there's a lot excluded as well ... and it's not free. → Read More
Tesla Model Y Gets Highest Safety Score Ever In European Test
Tesla’s fast-selling Model Y crossover has received the highest safety score of any car analyzed under Euro NCAP’s newest and toughest test. The Model Y achieved a 92% score, while its nearest competitors top out at 89%. → Read More
Inside Google’s Plan To Deliver Almost Everything To Almost Everyone Via Drone
“If you go to an airport and you look out on the runway, all the airplanes look different,” Woodworth says. “You’ve got big airplanes, you got little airplanes, you got airplanes with four engines and two engines. And that’s because they’re all designed for very specific functions.” → Read More
Tesla Autopilot Chief: Preventing 40 Crashes Per Day For Just 1 Scenario
According to Tesla’s director of Autopilot software Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla is preventing about 40 crashes a day for just one reason ... → Read More
How MIT Helped A Blind Robot Teach Itself To Walk In 3 Hours
MIT’s Biomimetics Lab recently broke the speed record for a robotic Mini Cheetah: not quite Usain Bolt speed, but probably faster than you can run. → Read More
Apple Offers $2M To Hackers Who Can Break Its New Lockdown Mode
To ensure Lockdown Mode effectively locks down iPhones, Apple is offering up to $2,000,000 prizes for hackers who can find Lockdown Mode bypasses and break in. → Read More
Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens: Ready For Real-World Testing
“Basically, it’s all about giving you super powers. We’re building the world’s first, true augmented reality smart contact lens. So, something that you could put on your eye, see content when you want to see it, have it disappear when you’re not using it." → Read More
How David Beats Goliath In Apps: The Boring Story No-One Tells
“Lesser known retail apps outperformed 33% of leading retail brands. Lesser known news apps outperformed more than 66% of leading news brands. In the last six months across all categories, lesser known apps on average outperformed 46% of leading brands.” → Read More
Crypto Winter? NFTs Down 92%, OpenSea Installs Down 94%, Veve Down 99%, Crypto Apps Down 64%
Value in collectibles is driven by rarity, and true rarity is ... rare. This is by design. But when Beeple and groups like the Bored Ape Yacht Club started raking in multi-millions from JPEGs and GIFs, everyone and her dog piled into the NFT market. → Read More
Super-successful AI Investment Technologies Will Likely Never Be Publicly Available
If AI can solve text-to-speech or self-driving cars or landing rockets vertically, couldn’t an artificially intelligent investing engine with access to all stock market, economy, weather, and trends data vastly outpace human investors and guarantee massive returns? → Read More
Snap’s New Pixy Drone Does Very Little But Does Exactly What We Need
Most of us don’t need the 30-minute fly time $1,000 drone with a 4K camera that can fly five miles away. What we need is an instant, cheap paparazzi. → Read More
BMW vs Tesla: We’ll Sell 25% Of Cars Online In 3 Years
This new unified experience could even extend to the metaverse, Theimer says, with virtual test drives. But it also incorporates existing real-world dealerships as a valued asset, not as faded relics of a pre-digital era or an anchor slowing down the boat of change. → Read More
MIT Students Building Tiny Self-Assembling Robots For Space
Programmable matter? Recyclable 3D printing. Eventually perhaps, Transformers like Optimus Prime, if you will. → Read More