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Nishit Pancholi and Felix Pustilnikof - Jointtech Labs

PoppingTheBubbl - April 20, 2018 17:22 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Stem cell therapy has the power to change lives, and in recent years we’ve heard a lot about its miraculous potential, but unfortunately today it is not a therapy that is accessible to anyone beyond the famous sports stars or the ultra wealthy. That’s because the therapy is not yet approved for...

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John Butler - QuantumCyte

PoppingTheBubbl - April 10, 2018 17:27 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
We sat down with John Butler, CEO of Quantumcyte who has a long history in the biotech world of Silicon Valley, specifically building tools and technology that can answer and solve complex problems effectively. Before founding Quantumcyte, John held a variety of roles in biotech companies rang...

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Prototyping Future Worlds with Architect/Filmmaker Liam Young

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - April 09, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
My guest today is Liam Young, an architect and visionary futurist filmmaker who uses his design background combined with experience in crafting environments to prototype new worlds — worlds that reveal unexpected aspects of how we live today and how we will live in the future.   Liam teaches...

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Matias Viel - Bee Flow

PoppingTheBubbl - April 04, 2018 16:37 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
We all know bees are vital to our survival. Matias Viel CEO of Bee Flow is on the job. He's bridging the gap between the smartest minds working to study bees and the farmers who are desperate for improved healthy, production and intelligence from bees.  Seems like a beautiful place to focus on...

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Micha Benoliel - Genius

PoppingTheBubbl - March 29, 2018 15:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Micha Benonial is a serial entrepreneur with a dream to connect the planet in the aim of making knowledge accessible to all humanity. He joins us in this week’s episode of Popping the Bubbl to discuss his entrepreneurial journey and how connecting humans to foster collaboration and knowledge sh...

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Tesla Rideshare Platform with Tesloop & The Carma Blockchain

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - March 28, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Tesla is changing the game for what an automobile can do, and can be. Not only are Tesla cars electric, but their data streams can function across a network with unprecedented interactivity. Add increasing autonomous driving capabilities, and the automotive equation changes massively.   My ...

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Nathan Hirsch - FreeeUp

PoppingTheBubbl - March 20, 2018 14:33 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Pete recently had the chance to catch up with Nathan Hirsch, CEO of FreeeUp, a business marketplace for freelance service providers that has managed to realize a pretty amazing trajectory in a short period of time. How does FreeeUp differ from other marketplaces that exist?   FreeeUp focuses...

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Roundup: Future Transportation – Autonomous Vehicles + Flying Cars + Smart Cities

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - March 17, 2018 01:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Exploring news about Autonomous Vehicles, Flying Cars and Smart Cities in this roundup analysis. More at www.mindandmachine.io

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Ming Zhao - Proven

PoppingTheBubbl - March 15, 2018 00:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In our latest episode of Popping the Bubbl, we sat down with Ming Zhao of Proven Beauty to discuss her personalized skin care line. Proven Beauty is building the Beauty Genome Project using AI and machine learning to comb through millions of product reviews that have been published by consu...

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Emiliano De Laurentiis

PoppingTheBubbl - March 07, 2018 21:14 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Emiliano De Laurantiis, Founder and CEO of Knowledge Avatars joined us in this episode of Popping the Bubbl to share his vision for a new type of learning, one that is personalized to the individual, adaptive, scalable through AI and infinitely more effective because the student becomes an acti...

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Bitcoin & Crypto: What Happens Next, with Tone Vays

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - March 05, 2018 23:17 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
As new crypto coins are issued through ICOs at a frenzied pace — Bitcoin, the original, shows the greatest market strength, with the most liquidity, the broadest installed wallet base, and many argue the strongest security. Today we check back in with Tone Vays, a thought-leader and advisor on...

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Roundup: Clean Meat – From the Lab rather than from Animals

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - March 03, 2018 02:33 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Clean Meat is coming — meat created in the Lab, instead of from animals but identical to animal meat in every way, down to the molecular level. We discuss what this is all about, how realistic it is, and what kind of time frame we're looking at (much sooner than you think). More at www.mind...

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Roundup: : What is CRISPR? Plus 3 Types of ICO + National Digital Currencies

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - February 23, 2018 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
An introductory look at CRISPR, how it works and why it matters. Plus a Cryptocurrency Headline Roundup: We look at Switzerland's categorization of ICOs into three types, and the first state-sponsored digital currency planned to be issued. More at: https://twitter.com/augustbradley www.min...

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Virgin Hyperloop One – The Future of Transportation with SVP of Software Matt Jones

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - February 13, 2018 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Five years ago Elon Musk wrote a white paper proposing an alternative to slow, expensive transportation between distant cities. The idea was to replace air travel and trains with a Hyperloop, a 1,000 km per hour (or 600+ mph) passenger pod shooting through a tube hundreds of mile long in a vacuu...

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Virtual Humans with the USC Director for Virtual Human Research, Jonathan Gratch

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - February 06, 2018 10:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
When you combine natural language interface, emotion modeling, CG animation, and various forms of Artificial Intelligence, you get lifelike computer characters with autonomous interaction.   This new kind of digital actor is called a Virtual Human, and can be deployed across a wide spectrum ...

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Origin of the Universe & Cosmic Inflation with NASA JPL & Caltech Scientist James Bock

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - January 30, 2018 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we’re going investigate the past — the most distant past imaginable: the Origin of the Universe. “How did the universe form” is such a profound question, that it informs everything we do today, and everything that will come next. My guest is James Bock. James is a Caltech Professor of Ph...

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Prellis BioLogics

PoppingTheBubbl - January 17, 2018 16:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Like something in a movie, Melanie Matheu peered into a microscope and saw the future. A time when lasers print organs. This week Sandra and I feature Prellis Biologics. Our guests are a powerhouse duo, Co-Founders CEO Melanie Matheu, Ph.D. and Noelle Mullin, Ph.D., CSO. Prellis Biologics ...

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Neuromorphic Computing, AI Chips Emulating the Brain with Kelsey Scharnhorst

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - January 15, 2018 10:34 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) through Neuromorphic Computing with computer chips that emulate the biological neurons and synapses in the brain. Neuro-biological chip architectures enable machines to solve very different kinds of problems than traditional computers, the kinds of p...

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Finless Foods

PoppingTheBubbl - January 11, 2018 23:03 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Today on Popping the Bubbl, Sandra and I feature Mike Seldon of Finless Foods. Mike and his co-founder Brian Wyrwas have a dream that I think we can all get behind. The business they are building allows them to make fish protein in a warehouse creating “Clean Fish.” Fish without contaminates, me...

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Building AI Minds & Artificial Intelligence Growth with Michael Miller

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - January 08, 2018 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we look at a fascinating approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in which a mind is created at an infant-like level, with no knowledge and limited ability. Then it learns and develops from scratch through its own experience within the body of a device -- be it a robot body or a toaster. ...

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Lou Kerner Flossing BitCoin

PoppingTheBubbl - January 05, 2018 09:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
On this episode of Popping the Bubbl, Sandra and I host Lou Kerner. Lou a Co-founder at Crypto Oracle. Sandra and I have been examining how innovations like crypto, blockchain and “the Tangle”… …are disrupting the world. Crypto is changing finance, contracts, funding, data…basically, every ind...

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Richard Titus Wealth of the Cryptosphere

PoppingTheBubbl - December 21, 2017 04:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Serial entrepreneur Richard Titus is our guest on this episode of Popping the Bubbl. His vision on the market is proven through his multiple success starting companies, FRSA establishes bona fides that are unique in the Silicon Valley.   Pete and Sandra braved the Parrots of Telegraph Hill to ...

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OpenBazaar: Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Marketplace with Brian Hoffman

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - December 18, 2017 10:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we look at OpenBazaar, the leading Bitcoin marketplace for goods and services. Can such emerging platforms challenge the likes of Amazon, Ebay and Etsy?   Our guest is Brian Hoffman, founder and project lead of OpenBazaar. Brian is backed by leading VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Uni...

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Pandia Health - Sophia Yen

PoppingTheBubbl - December 12, 2017 22:38 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Pandia Health is a company that, "dissolves healthcare barriers as fast as your bandwidth." By removing traditional (read outdated) means of prescribing and delivering birth control to women.   Dr. Sophia Yen, her partners Norma Waxman and Justin Diedrich provide the medical backbone for a co...

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Media Tech and A Look Into the Future with Joanna Popper

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - December 11, 2017 10:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we begin with a discussion surveying a wide range of future technologies, then we dive deeper into the changing media landscape.   Our guest today is Joanna Popper. Joanna has been the Executive Vice President of Media and Marketing at Singularity University, a pioneering institute tea...

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ICO + Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) turned “Organisms" with Ismail Malik

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - December 04, 2017 10:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we explore Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs -- blockchain algorithms with the potential to perform the entire functionality of corporations or government agencies... without a single employee. Our guest today is Ismail Malik, a pioneer in Decentralized Autonomous Organizat...

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Kenyatta Leal - Popping The Last Mile

PoppingTheBubbl - November 30, 2017 22:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Kenyatta Leal was sentenced to life in prison. With no expectation of getting out, he graduated from college, focused his life on being who he wanted to be, and started freeing himself.  Now he works at RocketSpace.com He's a paid speaker and he sits on the Board of Directors at The Last Mile....

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Discovery’s Experiential Storytelling in Virtual Reality (VR) with Jeff Abramson

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - November 27, 2017 10:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Discovery is pursuing bold new methods of storytelling across their media portfolio (Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, etc...). This week we talk with Jeff Abramson, the Head of Virtual Reality Content Development and Programming for Discovery Communications, and get his in...

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Beena Ammanath: AI for the Greater Good

PoppingTheBubbl - November 20, 2017 16:13 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The incredibly inspirational Beena Ammanath, Founder and CEO of Humans for AI joined us in the latest episode of Popping the Bubbl. Beena is an accomplished computer scientist and double patent holder that has been focused on data throughout her professional tech journey, leading to a variety of...

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Lytro “Light Field” Photography and Image Processing with Steven Swanson

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - November 20, 2017 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
We dive into the emerging arena of “computational photography” -- where cameras capture increasingly complex data that computers process to enable imagery never before possible.   One of the most mind blowing areas of “Computational Photography” is “Light Field” imagery, which redefines much...