Chris Albrecht
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E-Fish Delivers Fresh Fish to Your Door 48 Hours After It’s Been Caught
When the pandemic hit, I shifted just about all of my grocery shopping online, including my proteins like chicken and fish. I still buy my fish online, getting frozen fillets delivered to my door e… → Read More
Chowly Offering “No-Cost” Starter Package to Help Restaurants Pivot to Delivery
Amid increasing city and state mandates for restaurants to stop any dine-in options, restaurant software company Chowly announced today that it is offering restaurants a “no-cost startup pack… → Read More
Between Cafe X, Zume and Creator, Are We in a Food Robo-pocalypse? Nah.
Last April, less than a year ago, The Spoon held its first food robotics summit. Not to toot our own horn, but by any measure it was a success. Sellout crowd. All the cool robot startups attended. … → Read More
Walmart’s Jet.com Shuttering Fresh Food Delivery in NYC
Jet’s importance to Walmart has waned since its acquisition. → Read More
Washington State to Allow Delivery Robots on Sidewalks
If you live in the state of Washington, you could soon be walking alongside delivery robots on the sidewalk, thanks to new legislation signed today by Washington governor Jay Inslee. House Bill 132… → Read More
Report: Microsoft Working on Amazon Go-like Cashierless Tech
Microsoft is reportedly working on its own cashierless checkout technology in a bid to take on cross-town rival, Amazon, according to a story in Reuters. The reported technology is similar to the A… → Read More
Netflix grows, Beats Music launch woes and disparity in the Bay Area shows
This week on The Gigaom Show digs into the good, the not-so good and increasingly ugly aspects of the tech world. → Read More
Net neutrality neutered, Nest now Google's and a crazy search for the Cray OS
Big money and big policy made headlines this week. On this podcast we talk Google buying Nest, the FCC and net neutrality and bringing back Cray. → Read More
What to expect when you're CES-ing: 4K TV, wearables and... phablets?
Here are some things to look out for at the Consumer Electronics Show: really sharp TV pictures, wireless music and not much on the phone front. → Read More
Four tech notions that need a fresh start in 2014
From privacy to smart things to Microsoft’s ongoing search for a new CEO, here are four ideas that could use a fresh start in the new year. → Read More
From Snowden to Sonos, and Chromecast to connected dogs, the tech year in review
Phew! That was a crazy year for technology. But before we leave it all behind, enjoy some of the highlights with us. → Read More
A lifelong cable hoarder cuts the cord and it's a relief... kinda
The guy who once wrote a vociferous defense of cable finally cut his. But is it the paradise he’d heard so much about? Yes, and no. → Read More
Bitcoin no longer bunk? AT&T wants to peek at your searches, and Verizon's LTE Kaiju!
Will the $25M in Coinbase shift thinking on Bitcoin? Would you let AT&T spy on you for cheap braodband? And Verizon lights up LTE networks. → Read More
Gift guide: Chromecast, robots, connected pepper spraying toys and so much more!
Stumped about what to get your tech lovin’ friends and family? Check out our Gigaom Show holiday gift guide for all the best gear recommendations. → Read More
Roadmap Rerun: Instagram design less "hunch driven," more data driven
Listen in to a conversation between Om Malik and Kevin Systrom about how Instagram uses data when making design decisions, taken from our Roadmap conference. → Read More
Roadmap Rerun: The industrial design language of Microsoft's Xbox One
Just in time for the release of the Xbox One, we talk with one of its industrial designers about the challenges of creating a modern media machine. → Read More
Google books a copyright win, printing gets metal, and the UP24
It’s a heavy duty podcast this week as we talk book scanning, printing metal and quantifying yourself with the new UP24. → Read More
Roadmap ReRun: Erik Spiekermann on Apple, modesty and typefaces
If you missed our mega-awesome Gigaom Roadmap design conference last week, fear not! We’re bringing you highlight from the general sessions, free-o-charge right here, every Monday. Let’s kick things off in style with a talk between Jeff Veen, VP of Products at Adobe and Erik Spiekermann, designer and typeface god at Edenspiekermann. In this discussion… → Read More
Twitter's IPO #pops, Microsoft's CEO search narrows and people love fonts
On the podcast this week: Twitter’s big piles of money, Microsoft’s small pile of potential CEOs, and the surprising popularity of typefaces. → Read More
Will There Be an Apple TV Set in Two Years?
Obviously Apple is not oblivious to the fact that television as we know it is undergoing a dramatic shift — but as the Apple TV set-top box just languishes with no apparent direction, we wonder what exactly is the company’s living room strategy is. Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Muster thinks he knows… → Read More