Allison interviews Doug McNeill from Magic Shields about their novel flooring which absorbs the impact of a fall to reduce injuries. The flooring can be applied to an entire facility (e.g., residential care) or used for specific areas within a room as locational mats. Magic Shields is a layered floor covering. The bottom layer is […]
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CCATP #807 — Adam Engst on Bootable Backups Bug in macOS Sequoia
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to talk about a bug in macOS Sequoia 15.2 that affected a low-level system tool called Apple System Restore or ASR. This tool is the path for developers of backup tools to create true bootable backups, and the bug makes it now impossible to create bootable backups. We talk […]
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CES 2025: 10minds AI Motion Pillow
Allison interviews Zenora Andrade from 10minds about their AI-based smart pillow system. The Motion Pillow detects the user’s snoring patterns and adaptively adjusts the pillow to reduce snoring and improve sleep patterns. The system is comprised of the Motion Pillow and Motion System sensor, which sits next to the user on a bedside table. After […]
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CES 2025 – How We Cover the Show
We’re back from CES and as always it was a whirlwind of activity. Unlike most people, I actually get fewer steps when I go to CES than I do when I’m at home. Tells you what a beast I am on the exercise front, right? When Steve and I go to CES it’s a bit […]
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CES 2025: Monar Canvas Speaker Blends Art, Music, and Technology
Allison interviews Ben Yu, founder and CEO of Monar, about their Canvas Speaker. The Monar Canvas Speaker is a smart device that merges the display of renowned artworks and music playback with live lyrics, creating an immersive audio-visual experience. Monar is made to be hung on a wall just like a piece of art. It […]
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CES 2025: Soliddd Vision Correction for Macular Degeneration
Allison interviews Motti Attia from Soliddd about their technology to improve vision for those suffering from macular degeneration. Soliddd has a new kind of electronic eyeglasses that beam light in parallel rays to the retina. The key here is that the rays illuminate a smaller version of the same image multiplied 64 times in a […]
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CES 2025: Tombot Robotic Puppies for Those Facing Health Adversities
Allison interviews Tom Stevens, CEO and Founder of Tombot, about their robotic puppies designed to comfort those with health adversities. The Tombot puppy, Jennie, is very lifelike with fur, eye motion, body movement, and tail wagging modeled after a 3-month-old Labrador puppy. Jennie stays in the owner’s lap and reacts to petting and stroking through […]
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Andrea Jones-Rooy is a data scientist, a standup comedian, and a circus performer. Andrea delves into the realms of data science, its significance, and how it is often misunderstood in mainstream narratives. Andrea begins by reflecting on their journey to becoming a data scientist. Andrea was a professor of data science at NYU Center for […]
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Tiny Mac Tips 4 Video Tutorial on ScreenCastsONLINE
If you’ve been following along with my Tiny Mac Tips series in text form or listening to them in the podcast, but you’d like to actually see some of them in video tutorial form, you’re in luck. My latest ScreenCastsONLINE video tutorial just dropped and it’s called Tiny Mac Tips 4. Remember my disclaimer, while […]
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Security Bits — 3 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The recently disclosed massive hack of western telecommunications firms that lead the US FBI & CISA to issue advice to switch to E2EE VoIP and messaging apps like Signal over SMS & phone […]
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