The biggest sports tournament is in town at the Bill Graham Civic Center this weekend. Wait. Did we say sports? We meant E-Sports, as in League of Legends 2016 World Championship. Just how many people are tuned into watch other people play video games? At… Read More »E-Sports with Ryan Garfat Part 2
The biggest sports tournament is in town at the Bill Graham Civic Center this weekend. Wait. Did we say sports? We meant E-Sports, as in League of Legends 2016 World Championship. Just how many people are tuned into watch other people play video games? At… Read More »E-Sports with Ryan Garfat Part 1
If you’re a regular user of OpenTable, you should listen to this segment about the upcoming update to the Yelp app. We talk with Vishwas Prahbakara, the General Manager at Yelp Reservations, about how they’re dealing with reservations, and how they’re helping more people get… Read More »Yelp is taking on OpenTable with Vishwas Prabhakara
Virtual Reality is moving from video games to the courtroom with new applications developed by Mehzeb Chowdhury. We chat with him about how he developed this technology, and why this is better than what our judicial system is currently doing. Mehzeb is a former English… Read More »VR in the Courtroom with Mehzeb Chowdry
If you’re router looks like a slick, small, lightweight disk that blends in with the rest of your decor and delivers lightning fast WiFi, you probably have an Eero system. If your router is a large, blue or black, clunky box that has a bunch… Read More »Routers and Startups with Nick Weaver
In this 3rd segment, we talk to Silicon Valley staple, Brian Solis. Brian is an author, a speaker, a change maker who coined the term “digital anthropology,” and a principle analyst studying disruptive technology at research firm Altimeter Group. His new book is “X: When… Read More »Silicon Valley with Brian Solis
Google Genomics and Stanford Medicine are teaming up to develop precision health. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, weighs in on exactly how doctors are going to be able to use big data to help advance medicine. “Being able to really map the entire… Read More »Genomics with Sanjay Gupta
One developer at Twilio taught his dog how to text him selfies. In this last segment, Jason finds out exactly how in his chat with Greg Baugues, a Twilio Developer Evangelist. But first, This Week in Elon Musk with an update on Tesla. Links: https://www.twilio.com/
New technology can help fuel cell cars go the distance. At the start of the show, Jason talks to Timothy Lipman, Ph.D., the Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley about the new technology in fuel cell range. Tim regularly studies alternative… Read More »New technology improving fuel cell cars with Tim Lipman
The last segment? Two words: Pokemon Go. The meteoric rise of Pokemon Go is touching every demographic category, every age group and just about anyone with a smartphone. One of our colleagues actually had a little girl try to get in her house to get… Read More »Pokemon Go with Various
