Digital Disruption Episodes

Learn how this is a story about institutions that define culture, and don’t stand still. The Oscars’ pivot to YouTube shows that legacy alone doesn’t guarantee relevance — adaptation does. To remain meaningful, even icons must loosen their grip on the past and follow their audience into the future. Supporting links 1. YouTube Statistics 2025 [GMI] 2. YouTube [Wikipedia] 3. Why The Academy Awards Is Losing It's Audience [YouTube] 4. OSCARS [ Oscars org] 5. OSCARS [Social] 6. Str...

Send us Fan Mail Learn why Everyone's Using WhatsApp Now: Group Chat Features iPhone Users Love Supporting links 1. WhatsApp New Features 2025-The Ultimate Guide to Practical Functions [Omnichat] 2. WhatsApp Communities vs Groups: Understanding the Key Differences [Periskope] 3. New WhatsApp Features That Make Life SO Much Easier!-2025 [YouTube] 4. WhatsApp History [Wikipedia] 5. Jan Koum ...

Send us Fan Mail Learn how Wikipedia spent 24 years building trust through consistent application of principles: verifiability, transparency, and neutrality. Supporting links 1. Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia’s Real Genesis Story, The Questioning Mind, and More [YouYube] 2. Wikipedians [Wikipedia] 3. The Depths of Wikipedians [AsteriskMag] History of Wikipedia [Wikipedia] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://w...

Learn how FoundHer House, an all-female hacker home in San Francisco, where women in A.I. are rewriting Silicon Valley's future, one startup at a time. Supporting links 1. FoundherHouse [Purple MA.I.'a] 2. FoundherHouse [Website] 3. FoundherHouse [Instagram] 4. FoundherHouse [Twitter] 5. FoundherHouse [USA Today] 6. FoundherHouse [VPN WebProNews] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Twitter at @RedPhantom Bluesky at @rickbarron.bsk...

Learn how Mechanizes bold mission to automate office work 'as fast as possible' is not a pipe dream. Their founders claim it's not about job loss—it's about liberation from drudgery. But is that the whole story? Supporting links 1. CEO of Fiverr Says A.I. Is Definitely Taking Your Job [Entrepreneur] 2. Will AI take your job? The answer could hinge on the 4 S's [The Conversation] 3. Bosses want you to know A.I. is coming for your job [MS...

Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen 1. How AI could save (not destroy) education [TED] 2. The A.I. Chatbots Have Arrived. Time to Talk to Your Kids. [New York Times] 3. Most Americans haven’t used ChatGPT; few think it will impact their job [Pew Research Center] 4. Khan Academy [website] 5. Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott [YouTube] 6. Sal Khan: How AI Will Revolut...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast When was the last time you Googled something? Now, ask yourself this: if you're under 30, did you Google it at all? Supporting links 1. Google Faces Real Competition: How AI is Challenging the Search Giant [WEPProNews] 2. The Search Engine Wars Are Back On [New York/Intelligencer] 3. OpenAI launches its search engine to compete with Google [QUARTZ] 4. Will the rise of AI search challenge Google's dominance? [Campaign] 5. Perplexity [website] ...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Good execution is about delivering well designed and non-buggy features or at least features with enough utility that people are willing to tolerate the bugs. The Humane AI Pin, wasn’t that product. 1. "Humane's Ai Pin Fail: Inside the Epic Flop of a Bold A.I. Device" [YouTube] 2. Humane [website] 3. Humane AI Pin review: not even close [The Verge] 4. Review: Humane Ai Pin [WIRED] 5. Humane AI Pin: Case Study in Poor Strategy and Poor Executio...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Can Perplexity's AI-powered search engine challenge, or for that matter, replace Google? supporting links 1. Perplexity AI Tutorial - How to use AI for Research [YouTube] 2. Why I use Perplexity AI MORE than Google and ChatGPT for Content Research [YouTube] 3. Perplexity AI Review: Features, Benefits, and Alternatives [ClickUp] 4. Perplexity AI: Exploring AI-powered search beyond Google [Search Engine Land] 5. The 8 AI Search Engines That You S...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast While privacy advocates had celebrated Google’s cookie-crushing plan, advertisers railed against it, saying it would only give the search giant even more of an ad-vantage. supporting links 1. First-party vs. third-party cookies: What's the difference? [TechTarget] 2. Google Chrome [Wikipedia] 3. If an app asks to track your activity [Apple Support] 4. The End of The Third-Party Cookie | All You Need to Know [Cookie Information] 5. What is digit...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Can Apple rescue the Vision Pro? As of late this $3,500 computing marvel has been gathering dust on many people's shelves. supporting links 1. Back To the Drawing Board? [Fast Company] 2. Want a cheaper Apple Vision Pro? [Tweak Town] 3. What Is Apple’s Vision Pro Really For? [Harvard Business Review] 4. The Vision Pro Review: I'm running out of reasons to wear it [Business Insider] 5. The commerce exec’s guide to the Apple Vision Pro [The New C...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast We're diving into a transformative wave sweeping through the tech industry: the AI boom. Generative AI is revolutionizing the way we work, but it's also creating an unbalanced labor market. supporting links 1. Experts Predict the Best and Worst AI Changes in Digital Life by 2035 [Pew Research] 2. Survey: generative AI programs should credit the sources they rely on [Pew Research] 3. AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part [Microsoft] 4. 2024 W...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Apple was caught flat-footed when ChatGPT and other AI tools took the technology industry by storm. supporting links 1. What is Apple GPT? [Lifewire] 2. A.I. Hallucination [Wikipedia] 3. OpenAI [website] 4. ANTHROP\C [website] 5. Machine Learning and AI/Careers at Apple [website] 6. Machine Learning Research at Apple [website] 7. AI on the iPhone: What to Expect From iOS 18, Siri and More [CNET] 8. Does Apple Have AI? [Bernard Marr & C...

Ever wondered how thieves can silently snatch the secrets right off your iPhone? Brace yourself for an eye-opening journey into the underworld of digital theft. We'll unveil the cunning tactics and unseen dangers that could compromise your most personal information. Get ready to rethink the security of your beloved iPhone. supporting links 1. Keychain software [Wikipedia] 2. Set up iCloud Keychain [Apple Support] 3. 1Password [website] 4. Dashlane [website] 5. Cash App [website] ...

The challenges faced by EV owners in the United States regarding charging infrastructure are complex and multifaceted. supporting links Electric vehicle charging network [Wikipedia] Cost to Charge an EV on a Road Trip [Investopedia] Major sticking point to buying an electric vehicle [NPR/KQED] EV broken? Finding a technician to fix it may take a while [REUTERS] Tesla Super Chargers [Wikipedia] Contact That's Life, I Swear Tweet us at @RedPhantom Listen to audios: -Apple http...

Twitter Blue Checkmark once symbolized status. Unfortunately, as of late, it’s becoming embarrassing and just plain bullshit. Thank you, Elon. If you liked this episode, please leave a rating/review on my website or iTunes. I welcome your feedback on my episodes, and I would like to hear what topics you might be interested in future episodes. Feel free to leave me a voicemail on my website. Look for the black button microphone icon on the bottom right-hand side of the page. Just click ...

David Rozado is a researcher and data scientist. He experimented with A.I. to demonstrate the potential danger of A.I. The name of his experiment was RightWingGPT. It only cost him $300 to create, by the way. · If you liked this episode, please leave a rating/review on my website or iTunes. · I welcome your feedback on my episodes, and I would like to hear what topics you might be interested in future episodes. · Feel free to leave me a voicemail on my website. Look for the black button...

Elon Musk, is now planning to charge a monthly fee for Twitter's API tool to help generate revenue. What problems could arise from this decision? Would it even succeed? supporting links 1. Elon Musk suggests charging governments and corporations [The Verge] 2. Elon Musk and Twitter, One Quarter Later [SLATE] 3. Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — fires a top engineer over it [The Verge] 4. API [Wikipedia] 5. What Is an API (Application Programming Interface)? [Amazon/AWS] ...

We’ve heard that robots will soon take over our world. I think the jury is still out on that theory. However, a new robot entered on November 30, 2022, into the Artificial Intelligence arena and is getting a lot of attention. It’s a new chatbot that shows rapid advances in artificial intelligence. It’s name: ChatGPT. supporting links 1. What is ChatGPT and How is it Different from Jasper Chat? [Jasper] 2. The Complete Guide to AI Text Generators [Castros] 3. Artificial Intelligence can ...

About four weeks ago, John Carmack, who was the chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, called it quits and decided to leave. His reasoning for leaving? He said, [the project is working at] “half the effectiveness” and has “a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort.” supporting links 1. John Carmack [Wikipedia] 2. John’s Resignation letter [MP1ST] 3. Within Unlimited [Website] 4. Keen Embedded Technologies 5. Augme...

Elon Musk took over Twitter on Oct. 27, 2022. Time to pop the champagne corks and celebrate. What should’ve been a day of celebration has turned into anything but. Currently the state of Twitter is chaotic. Twitter users are jumping ship, various Twitter executives have left [like those who oversaw content moderation and security], and decision-making is shall we say indecisive. Is there another alternative to Twitter? Yes, and its name is Mastodon? supporting links 1. Eugen Rochko, founder of ...

Despite the ongoing breaking news covering the misuse of information and the public's relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, it's hard for people to put their mobile phones away, even for a minute. We find ourselves fixated on the content generated via algorithms, via our travels on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and the like. We accept bullying and blatant disinformation. We have this sense of FOMO, Fear of Missing Out. Why? supporting links 1. 5 ways to sp...

On January 3, 2022, biotechnology founder Elizabeth Holmes, was convicted of defrauding some of her blood-testing company’s biggest investors. At its peak, her startup, Theranos, was valued at more than $9 billion and, by 2018, had raised over $1 billion. So, what happened? supporting links 1. Where is Elizabeth Holmes now? [Good To Know] 2. Elizabeth Holmes found guilty [CNN Business] 3. Theranos founder awaiting sentencing [Town & Country] 4. Researchers share lessons for science [Nature] 5....