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Business & Finance
Inside Apple's Financial Empire: From Apple Pay to the Apple Card and Beyond
That's right, so let's talk about Apple, the tech giant that's not satisfied with just dominating the smartphone market. No, no, no. Apple decided to dive headfirst into the finance industry, and boy
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Business & Finance
How Microsoft for Startups Is Helping Companies Scale - with Lahini Arunachalam
Starting and scaling a successful startup has never been easy, but in today's climate, it's more challenging than ever. With recent events, such as the collapse of SVB and the slowdown in venture capi
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Politics & Policy
Powering the Future: How Governments are Supporting Battery Production for Electric Vehicles
Governments are going BIG on batteries! As the world transitions towards cleaner energy sources, Governments have recognized the importance of securing battery supply chains in the transition towards
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Science & Health
How About:Energy is Revolutionizing Battery Research & Development - with Gavin White
It seems like every electronic device these days involves some type of battery - your phone, your laptop, and even your CAR! We had another year of SuperBowls boasting new EV production cars from trad
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Business & Finance
How Technology Is Transforming the $2 Trillion Shipping Industry - With Martin Verhaegen
Transporting people and cargo across the globe is almost as old as time itself! With shipping accounting for 90% of World Trade, it was surprising for us to learn how outdated the industry is with reg
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Business & Finance
Why Using Credit Cards Is Getting More Expensive
In the past 2 years, inflation has been making headlines all over the world! To add to the higher grocery and utility bills, payments processing companies added on higher fees in 2022.
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Business & Finance
How Visa Became the Biggest Financial Company in the World
In 2021, transactions on these plastic cards hit $6.7 TRILLION USD. Like many other technology industries, COVID helped accelerate the shift from cash to cashless...
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Business & Finance
How UPI Revolutionized India's Economy
Technology is changing finance in developing countries. The Pandemic turbocharged it. With a staggering 650 million Internet users, India has been one of the biggest winners of digitization and by...
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Business & Finance
The End of U.S. Dollar Dominance?
The dollar tumbled to a nine-month low against the euro this past week, after data showed U.S. inflation was easing, prompting bets that the Federal Reserve will be less aggressive with rate hikes...
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Business & Finance
Why the Pound Fell to a Record Low and What That Means for the UK Economy
Two months ago, the British government released a “Growth Plan” that talked about tax cuts worth about $45B. That led to a series of events that...
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Business & Finance
How the U.S. Dollar has Become a 'Wrecking Ball' for the Global Economy
In early 2021 the dollar was near its lowest level in more than five years against a broad basket of currencies
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Business & Finance
How This Robot Will Make Your Dinner - with Rajagopal Natarajan
During the pandemic, the way you’ve eaten has likely changed. Either you ate out less, you cooked more, or you wholeheartedly embraced food delivery such as DoorDash, Deliveroo, Grab, Swiggy or Zomato
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Sustainability
How Sustainable Data Centers Can Help Us Achieve Our Climate Goals - with Dr. Bharath Ramakrishnan
One of the highest consumers of electric power are data centers. The data center industry is responsible for more greenhouse gases than commercial flights 🤯
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Business & Finance
How Data Centers Are Guzzling up the World’s Electricity - with Dr. Bharath Ramakrishnan
Whether you’re streaming "House of the Dragon" on HBO or just chatting with your friends on Whatsapp, both cause a chain reaction and use energy.
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Business & Finance
What Is Moore’s Law and Are We Coming to the End of It?
As of 2022, approximately 95% of organizations are using cloud computing for their work and nearly 85% of companies have deployed their workload on cloud in 2021.
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Business & Finance
How TikTok Is Eating up All of Social Media
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been one app that has taken over Social Media. Tiktok is the most downloaded app in the App store
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Business & Finance
From Feast to Famine: Why Tech Is Preparing For Hiring Freezes And Layoffs
With Inflation not slowing down and the economy showing signs of a possible recession, companies are preparing for the worst. Layoffs are sweeping across American businesses, specifically in growth co
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Business & Finance
Why Are Thousands of Flights Being Cancelled Right Now?
Airlines globally have cancelled hundreds of flights, citing labor shortages. They blame COVID-19, uncertainty, and the tight labor market for leading causes for flight cancellations and delays.
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Business & Finance
Why Are So Many Leaving Their Jobs Right Now?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 47 million Americans quit their jobs in 2021. So.. During the Pandemic, the definition of “work” drastically changed.
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Politics & Policy
How Effective are Western Sanctions with Professor Seth Benzell
As one of the worlds most televised conflict rages on in Ukraine, western countries, not directly involved, look to utilize a weapon that is forged by economists.. Sanctions...
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Business & Finance
Is the Global Housing Market Heading for a Downturn?
The economic shock of higher mortgage rates means borrowers are getting stretched thin to a degree unseen since 2006. And home shoppers in April and May are finally backing away from record home price
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Business & Finance
How Can We Solve the Nation’s Affordable Housing Crisis?
Nearly three-quarters of Americans say owning a home is a higher measure of achievement than having a successful career, raising a family or earning a college degree, according to a new survey.
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Business & Finance
Should I Buy a House in 2022?
It’s been long-understood that Owning a Home Is the American Dream. Well for us millennial it’s kind of becoming a distant dream.. Scratch that its actually become a nightmare!
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Business & Finance
How Rising Rent Prices Will Displace Millions of Americans
As cities come back to life with the influx of people returning from their COVID getaways, the rise of rent prices are hurting us all. Some cities are even seeing 60% rent increases year-over-year.
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Politics & Policy
Why Universal Basic Income Can Help Battle Inequality With Professor Seth Benzell
In our previous episode, we talked to Dr. Seth Benzell about How the Pandemic Changed Global Labor Markets and in this episode, we talk about the work he's done to find a solution...
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Business & Finance
How the Pandemic Has Changed Global Labor Markets with Professor Seth Benzell
Automation has been a reoccurring theme in corporations quest to improve their bottom line and stay competitive. So what has changed post the pandemic?
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Technology
How Would the Economy of the Metaverse Work?
In the past few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about gaming, the big trends shaping this massive and growing industry, and how Metaverse fits into all of this... We’ve learned why Facebook changed...
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Technology
Could Gaming Lead Us to the Metaverse?
In our last episode, we spoke about how big tech was looking at gaming as a growth strategy. And the way to own the future. The metaverse future! With big tech...
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Technology
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting Facebook’s Future on the Metaverse
6 months ago, Facebook did something that very few companies in the world of business has ever done. They changed their entire business philosophy and mission, pivoted a $700 billion dollar company...
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Technology
Why The Future of Gaming is Subscription
If you’ve ever played games on a console before like the xbox, playstation, nintendo, or even the game boy, you probably remember how expensive it was to have all the games you wanted to play...
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Politics & Policy
How Nations Are Driving Towards Newer Battery Energy Economies
In 2020, Out of 3.4 million electric cars sold in the world, only 328K was in the US... Compared to 1.39 million in Europe and 1.33M in China...
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Sustainability
The Dirty Truth about the EV Revolution - Battery Pollution and Recycling
The growth of EV’s have gotten a lot of people excited... but has gotten environmentalists torn. Think about it... the more important materials for the batteries in your phones, laptops...
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Technology
Why Is It So Hard To Make Batteries?
As the world leans more into electrification, people learn the importance of energy storage. In our previous episode with battery people, Yen Yeh and Nicholas Yiu, we spoke about...
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Sustainability
How Batteries Will Power the Next Technology Era - with Nicholas Yiu and Yen Yeh
A global transition to clean energy is underway. What technologies will be essential to this zero emission future? Governments and Companies across the world, have set...
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Politics & Policy
Inflation Is at 40 Year Highs. Why Should It Matter to You?
For over 13 years, borrowing has been relatively easy. Rates haven’t reached more than 2.5%, compared to the highs of nearly 19% in the 80’s. This means if you’re a Millennial...
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Business & Finance
The Gaming Industry Is Now Bigger Than Movies And Music.. Combined
In the last decade, the gaming industry has been smashing Hollywood’s earnings out of the park! Just in 2021, the Global “Games Market” had a whopping $180BN in revenue...
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Technology
How Data Analysis Is Changing The Sport of Badminton
There's been a data revolution in sports in the past few years.From the Oakland A’s & Houston Rockets in American sports to European football heavyweights like Liverpool...
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Business & Finance
How Companies Are Being Forced to Pay Millions in Ransoms to Hackers
Cyber Attacks were shockingly brazen in 2021, targeting everything from hospitals, schools, to critical infrastructure at an alarming rate. As more of the economy goes digital...
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Business & Finance
Why 2021 Was Crypto's Breakthrough Year
We’ve seen Bitcoin hit multiple new all-time high prices and more institutional buy-in from major companies. Coinbase went public. Even the U.S. government has increasingly...
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Business & Finance
Food, Fuel, Rent... Why is Everything Getting More Expensive?
Throughout 2021, a lot has changed. But one thing has been constant: Inflation. As COVID still continues to take a toll on global supply chains, we’re also seeing the most...
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Technology
2021 Was a Huge Year for Restaurants, Space Exploration, and the Cloud
A lot of our favorite stories from 2021 revolve around the fact that the continued public health crisis have pushed technology companies, consumers, and governments to innovate immensely...
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Technology
How to Break Into the Most In-Demand Job in Tech - with Diego Granados
These days nearly every company is, or is in the process of becoming, a tech company. Retailers have mobile apps and e-commerce platforms. Grocery stores no longer...
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Sustainability
Could Dutch Agricultural Technology Feed the World Sustainably?
In a world of extreme climate change, the traditional way of producing food is simply not enough to feed the world of the future. As less and less arable...
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Business & Finance
How Blockchain Technology Can Enable Global Financial Inclusion - with Hossein Azari
Close to a third of the world's adults are unbanked. Crypto aims to solve this disparity! The mission of the blockchain is not all about making money. It's about...
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Business & Finance
How Crypto-Based DeFi Will Disrupt the Financial Industry - with Hossein Azari
When was the last time you even went into a bank? Financial transactions such as accessing money, depositing checks or even buying stocks, can all...
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Sustainability
What Will Farms of the Future Look Like?
Food is the very nourishment of life. Climate change, population growth and population density have come to challenge the way we feed ourselves. Let's look...
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Technology
Will Software Engineers Be Replaced by AI in the Future?
A fascinating new technology known as GitHub Pilot has been making waves in tech. Copilot is an automatic coding tool, powered by OpenAI, one of...
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Politics & Policy
Should Tech Companies Be Paying Us for Our Data? - with Nicholas Vincent
Every minute, 990,000 Tinder profiles are swiped, 156 million emails are sent, and 16 million text messages are sent out. Moreover, Google processes...
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Technology
Designing an App for Billions of Users – with Jean-Marc Denis
Communication apps have become vital in our day to day lives with popular mobile messaging like Whatsapp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger connecting...
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Technology
A New Space Race Is Underway! How Did We Even Get Here?
Imagine if airplanes weren’t reusable. It costs a staggering $250-300M to buy a Boeing 747. A one way trip to fly anywhere on the planet would cost millions.
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Politics & Policy
There Are a Record Number of Jobs. Why Is Unemployment Still So High?
As we see rich countries slowly open up, there is an interesting economic phenomenon taking place. While Americans are coming out of lockdown, we are...
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Sustainability
Do You Feel Weird Throwing Away Your Tech? – with Charles Duffy
How many times have you had to throw away your electronics because they were out of date? Or not repairable? The result is a growing mountain of e-waste.
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Business & Finance
Retail Investors Are Smarter Than You Think – with Lorenzo Ampil
Since the start of the pandemic, retail investors have plowed billions into the market, making calls against institutional investors. With free trading at their...
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Technology
Reinventing Early Education Through Smart Toys – with Yuting Su
What kind of toys did you have as a child? Was it Snakes & Ladders? Uno? For the Millennials, did you have a Game Boy? Each year, toys are getting smarter.
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Technology
Cloud Wars: Amazon AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud
It’s happening. AWS is no longer the only cloud heavyweight doing business with the US Government. Azure has recently signed a $10 Billion deal with the DoD.
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Technology
Cloud Wars: How Cloud Computing Changed Business & Technology Forever
IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all taking the helm for the cloud renaissance. Gartner says that in 2021, spending on public cloud services could...
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Technology
Cybersecurity: How Nation States Are Hacking Corporations
Cyber-risk has more than quadrupled since 2002 and tripled since 2013. Cyber-attacks are now common across industries. Just recently, FireEye, one of the...
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Technology
Cybersecurity: How Companies Are One Hack Away From Disaster
Even before the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world has been moving towards digitization. We spend almost all our lives on the internet and even the mundane...
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Sustainability
Can Doing Your Laundry Be Eco-Friendly? – with Ryan Mckenzie
Laundry routines aren't super fun for any one, but recent studies show how it's downright terrible for the environment. Washers use copious amounts of water.
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Politics & Policy
Infrastructure: How Do We Pay for It? Will It Even Work?
Sweeping infrastructure plans are in plans across the globe. Take Biden's nearly $4 trillion infrastructure package that is aimed at repairing roads...
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Politics & Policy
Infrastructure: An Opportunity to Rebuild Modern Society?
Infrastructure today cannot meet the needs of the digital economy tomorrow. 5G, driverless cars, sustainable cities, broadband access to all are some of...
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Business & Finance
Lumber Prices Have Been Surging. Could Other Commodities Follow Suit?
Online searches for inflation have multiplied over the past few months.. The surge in attention comes during a supply demand mismatch, resulting in...
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Technology
How Brands Are Using Tech to Stand Out in Supermarkets – with Erik Chelstad
Product placement is key to sales and profit in supermarkets and grocery stores.. Every aisle of a supermarket has 100s of different brands of products...
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Technology
Online Learning Is Here to Stay.. and Schools May Be On Board?
As zoom university comes to an end for the graduating class of 2021, we ask ourselves, is online learning here to stay? The trends say it is... sort of.
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Business & Finance
How Branding Can Make or Break a Company
Nike, Disney, Coca Cola, Apple, and Sony all have one thing in common. They have built iconic brands that have become recognizable world-wide.
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Technology
How to Build a Better AI For Your Business – with Hyun Kim
Is it possible to make artificial intelligence more accessible to companies, both large and small? Our latest episode is with Hyun Kim, Co-Founder and CEO of...
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Technology
How Cloud Kitchens are Making Your Food
How do you know where your UberEats, DoorDash or Caviar orders REALLY come from? The pandemic has pushed delivery applications to the lime light.
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Technology
Can E-Learning Translate to Job-Ready Skills? – with Chris Dutton
In a world that's increasingly becoming data-driven, we see the importance of business intelligence or "BI". With more data getting gathered, we have the...
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Technology
The Semiconductor Shortage: How It Will Cost Billions to Solve
Why can’t we just scale up production and meet demand? Well, we think it might be a supply chain problem. There are only a few players in the manufacturing...
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Technology
The Semiconductor Shortage: How It Affects the Auto Industry
We live in a digital economy that is largely powered by semiconductor chips! They are the brains of nearly every electronic device we buy and use, from...
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Technology
How Corporations Are Using Deepfake Tech – with Victor Riparbelli
What is synthetic media you ask? Well it’s been in the headlines as deepfakes, videos of famous influential figures that appear to be saying controversial...
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Business & Finance
Should We Brace for Upcoming Inflation?
Let’s flashback to the 1970’s, a really interesting use-case for economists to explain what the central bank deals with today, the fear of inflation!
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Business & Finance
How Big Tech Is Buying Out the Commercial Real Estate Market
Since the beginning of 2020 Big Tech has purchased 1.6 million square feet of office space in NYC alone. It’s a move to control their operations, park hoards of...
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Business & Finance
Think Twice Before Buying a New Home This Year
At the current state it would take only 2.5 months to run out of available houses for new homebuyers to purchase. This is a new low from 40 years back and...
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Science & Health
How Holistic Health and Wellness Is Going Digital – with Dylan Terrill
As technology disrupts different parts of the economy, healthcare is one that is burdened with huge regulation risk but also provides a direct and measurable...
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Business & Finance
Yes, Your Grocery Bill Is Getting Higher. Here's Why
Recent reports indicate that global food prices are at a 7 year high due to COVID related supply chain disruptions has resulted in price hikes in staples like...
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Technology
Are Holographic Displays Possible? – with Aleksandra Pedraszewska
The World isn’t Flat, Why is your Display? In our latest, we host Aleksandra Pedraszewska, COO and co-founder of VividQ a deep tech company that enables...
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Technology
The Evolution of Food Delivery and Takeout – with Shawn Tsao
It wasn't too long ago that we would have to dial to order delivery food without seeing menus, customizing orders, and seeing updates on delivery statuses.
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Politics & Policy
How Unemployment and Inequality Go Hand in Hand
In April of this year, at the peak of the pandemic, the unemployment rates hit a historic 14.7%, which was a post WWII high! Since then, the unemployment rate...
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Sustainability
These Climate Change Initiatives May Not Be Enough
2019 was the second warmest year on record and the end of the warmest decade (2010-2019) ever recorded. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and other...
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Technology
Ethical Artificial Intelligence? How AI Is Impacting Our Lives
It happened not too long ago, the most complex board game (GO) with as many possible moves as atoms in the Universe was won by an AI designed by...
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Business & Finance
The Stories That Shaped the Global Economy in 2020
There is no simple way to sum up this year. 2020 saw tremendous change and suffering as well as renewed hope and heroics. Join the conversation as we...
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Technology
How Technology Can Help Save Family Memories – with Amelia Lin
So many of our family stories are formative to our personal background, traditions, and even our identity, so why hasn't there been an app to save and share...
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Politics & Policy
How the Cannabis Industry Saw Big Change in 2020
The Cannabis Industry has been changing for a while. Years of activism and millions of dollars of investment have come and 2020 has been the year...
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Technology
Can Meditation Apps Be Used For Prayer? – with Alex Jones
In a time when stress levels are high and many people feel stuck there are many mindfulness apps that help you destress and stay centered. Today we...
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Sustainability
How Africa and China Are Powering Electric Vehicles
The world is turning towards renewable energy and we've noticed the growing interest in the Electric Vehicle (EV) market. From 2015 to 2019, annual EV sales...
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Technology
Can Google Help You Learn a New Language? – with Taylor Nieman
According to Kommando Tech, there are about 4.5 Billion users of the internet (more than half of the world population). About 64% of those users access...
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Business & Finance
Why Journalists Are Leaving Newsrooms for Newsletters
Journalist's are leaving media powerhouses for more personal platforms that allow them to build their own brand on. In a time when the Murdoch Family...
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Technology
How Design Has Become Accessible to Everyone – with Noah Levin
One of the coolest new companies in the space of design, Figma has quickly become the dominant player in its space, with its highly collaborative...
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Business & Finance
The Auto Industry's Future After COVID-19
The Auto Industry is in a position that it’s never been with global shutdowns, development of new technology, and changing consumer preferences. Global...
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Technology
How Software Is Powering the Cannabis Industry – with David Hua
Cannabis is a $52 Billion industry in the United States and Americans LOVE it (they consume 29.9 million pounts of cannabis). This is a massive industry and...
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Sustainability
Can Solar and Wind Energy Completely Replace Coal?
2020 has pushed the coal industry to once-unthinkable lows, and the consequences for climate change are big. But let's rewind a bit.. How did we get here?
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Business & Finance
How Big News Media is Using Podcasts – with Jason Palmer
How does one get into an elite media publishing house such as the Economist. What goes in to producing one of the most credible and listened...
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Politics & Policy
Americans Are Getting Fed up With Inflation
Have you finally gone back to get a drink with a friend in an open-air bar? Have you gotten that much needed haircut? Although the Pandemic isn't...
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Technology
Trying to Stay Employable During COVID-19
According to OECD estimates, technology will transform about 1/3 of the jobs worldwide (1 BILLION JOBS). Earlier in 2020 we had another Davos Conference...
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Sustainability
How the Agriculture Industry Is Going Electric – with Arun Seelam
We live in the data mining age, where tracking data has become a very valuable currency. Many industries are growing to adopt more technologies that can...
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Business & Finance
Is It Possible to Earn Higher Education for Free? – with Mehak Vohra
Higher education has been ripe for disruption for a long time as the skyrocketing costs have put college degrees out of reach for a significant portion of...
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Technology
What Are the Jobs of the Future?
There is no surprise that new technology displaces jobs. This very sentiment was the cornerstone of Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's campaign...
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Politics & Policy
Taming the Tech Beasts in 2020
The Big 4 Face Congress. The United States Congress has labelled Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook as monopolies officially for the record.
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Politics & Policy
How Tech Created a Winner-Take-All Economy – with Seth Benzell
In our most recent episode, Things Have Changed had the opportunity to speak and learn from Dr. Seth Benzell, Digital Economist, Assistant Professor at...
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