Dan Costa served as Editor-in-Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis from 2011 to 2021. In that time, he oversaw the editorial operations for PCMag.com, AskMen.com, ExtremeTech.com, and Geek.com. Dan has appeared on local, national, and international news programs, including CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, and NBC discussing new technologies and their impact. He was also the host of the Fast Forward podcast, where he interviewed CEOs, technologists, and artists about living in the future, available on Apple Podcasts and anywhere fine podcasts are given away for free. Find him on Substack, where he writes the Machined newsletter for insights on AI, the metaverse, and living in an automated world.
Mark Zuckerberg is looking forward to trying on hoodies in the metaverse, but journalist Maria Ressa says he needs to focus on the 'deadly game for power and money' he's created.
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Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher explains how small businesses can scale in an age of AI and automation.
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Delta CIO Rahul Samant talks about the evolution of entertainment, parallel realities, and the trickiness of free inflight Wi-Fi.
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Author Michael Kearns says AI systems will change the world for the better—if we design them the right way.
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Kimberly Bryant, the CEO and founder of Black Girls Code, wants to have one million black girls coding by 2040. At SXSW, we talked about that goal, the perils of AI, and more.
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Lyft's Chief Strategy Officer Raj Kapoor discusses the company's mobility strategy, from self-driving cars to scooters, and why it's more about getting people from point A to B than the vehicle in which they're transported.
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At CES 2019, we spoke with CEO Simon Segars about the company's unique approach, its role in the move to 5G, and how secure the Internet of Things really is.
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LG's President and CTO, Dr. I.P. Park, explains how LG is leveraging AI in everything from smartphones to washing machines.
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Moovit CEO Nir Erez says the company is adding 1 million new users every day and maps an entirely new city every 15 hours—all for free. He explains how that happened, how Moovit makes money, and whether it would entertain a Google acquisition.
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On this episode of Fast Forward, Techonomy Founder David Kirkpatrick wants you to know that Facebook failures are a lot worse than you think.
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For Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky, XD, the company's new interface design suite, is just the latest step in a career spent 'organizing the creative world.'
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Machine learning, big data, and consumer exhaustion with traditional ad formats are re-writing the rules of digital media—and there will be casualties, says Huge CEO Aaron Shapiro.
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Theo Blackwell, the Chief Digital Officer for the City of London, discusses building smart cities in the 5G era, digital citizenship, and the increasing scarcity of bootleg tapes in Camden Town.
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Rana el Kaliouby, CEO of Affectiva, wants to raise the Emotional Quotient (EQ) of your laptop, your voice assistant, even your car. We sat down with her at SXSW.
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Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill explains the price hikes, the potential of machine learning, and why Evernote is irreplaceable.
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Forget the AI hype. Entrepreneur William Hurley, known as whurley, is launching Strangeworks to help bring quantum computing to the masses.
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Dean Kamen talks about innovation, robotics competitions, and mass producing human organs.
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A conversation with the founder of O'Reilly Media on how we can take back control of our technology and our lives.
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