Blog Posts Archives - Podfeet Podcasts

Automation Gives Me All the Feels

March 20, 2025
by podfeet

When Bart and I hatched our plan for him to teach me and the audience how to program, he called it Programming By Stealth for a very specific reason. His plan was to sneak up on us by teaching us a single language first and then when we weren’t noticing, keep adding to our toolkit […]

Front view of a generic car made with a purple fading to orange (top to bottom) outlines of the car’s features. The car’s tires, front grill, headlights sideview mirrors, windshield, and front seats are traced with the outline. Several callouts pointing to various locations on the car are shown including Radar, Cloud Connectivity, Lidar, GPS, Cameras, Embedded Edge Computing Unit.

CES 2025: MOTER Next Gen Car Data for Auto Insurers

March 19, 2025
by Steve Sheridan

Allison interviews Awf Wiswasi from MOTER about their software that collects and processes car data to help drivers, fleet owners, and insurance companies. During a drive, MOTER software collects real-time data from the car using COVESA standards and sends the data to MOTER servers for processing using proprietary algorithms. From the driver’s perspective, MOTER data […]

CES 2025: PlugP2P Peer-to-Peer EV Charging

Allison interviews Anne Campbell, founder and CEO of PlugP2P, about their peer-to-peer EV charging marketplace. PlugP2P safely connects owners of EV chargers and electrical outlets to EV drivers needing a charge. As a PlugP2P host, you can list your EV charger and electrical outlets, set your calendar and price, and accept and decline reservations. The […]

Oblique underwater view of Komatsu’s remote-controlled dredge as it sits on a riverbed. It is yellow in color and looks like a standard bulldozer with treads and a large bucket but is different in the following ways. It has no cockpit to accommodate a driver and it has a tall mast protruding from its roof up to the water surface. The company name is printed in blue on the front of the dredge and the world Electric is on the side of the vehicle. Two additional underwater dredges can been seen in the background also sitting on the riverbed.

CES 2025: Komatsu Underwater Remote Controlled Dredge

Allison interviews Madeline Pearce from Komatsu about their prototype of an all-electric underwater dredge that is remote-controlled. Komatsu is a global manufacturer of heavy equipment, founded in 1921. Their electric dredge is designed to remove debris from the beds of rivers and the base of dams to repair ecosystems or prepare for natural disasters. The […]

Security Bits — 16 March 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The UK’s secret campaign to compel Apple to break its iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature is reportedly continuing apace (still without official confirmation), with a hearing having apparently taken place in a […]

Deskpad virtual desktop with Mona moving up into it coming up from below

Create a Virtual Display on Your Mac with DeskPad

I’ve got one of the weirdest and head-bendy tool reviews for you today. Let’s see if I can set up a problem to be solved to get you interested first. The Problem to be Solved Let’s say you’re doing a presentation and you need to share your screen. This causes a few challenges, especially if […]

End view of the Zoox autonomous Robotaxi showing a black rounded-rectangular vehicle with red taillights, wheel fenders highlighted in red, a blackened-out window, and a red light bar at the top of the vehicle. Also visible are radar/camera sensors at the top left and right corners of the vehicle and another sensor on the roof. The company name Zoox is visible in the lower left of the window and also on the license plate. The background is black as well.

CES 2025: Zoox Robotaxi Funded by Amazon

Allison discusses the Zoox Robotaxi, an operational vehicle built for riders, not drivers, and funded by Amazon. Zoox is a full Level-4 autonomous vehicle designed to hold four passengers and pick up, navigate, and drop off passengers in a city environment. The seating positions are symmetrical so each rider gets the same level of comfort […]

Photo of a city map generated by the HERE Maps and Navigation system as it appears on an automotive display. The city map shows a home location designated by a small graphic of a house from which a navigation route throughout the city is displayed as a blue path. The route connects 8 stops across the city starting and ending with the home location.

CES 2025: HERE Automotive Navigation Solutions

Allison interviews Sowmya Gopal from HERE about their unified navigation solutions for electric vehicles, including automated driving, EV routing/charging, and a digital cockpit for driver interface. Sowmya demonstrates the HERE’s Maps and Navigation system on a hyper-SUV, the Lotus Eletre Carbon, and explains how it integrates the navigation experience with range management. The HERE system […]

CES 2025: j5create Matter-Enabled Smart Plugs and Thunderbolt 5 Dock

Allison interviews Brandon Thweatt from j5create about their Matter-enabled Smart Plugs and new Thunderbolt 5 dock. Brandon starts by explaining that Matter allows smart devices made by different companies to interact with various home automation systems using a common standard. So Matter-enabled devices can be controlled through and work seamlessly across Apple, Android, and Alexa […]

CES 2025: Maono Podcasting and Lavelier Microphones

Allison interviews Tobias Helenstein from Maono about their collection of microphones designed for podcasting as well as their wireless lavalier mics. Tobias starts with their podcasting mics including the PD200X and PD400X, both of which are dynamic and have XLR and USB outputs. The more affordable PD100X has colored lights on the rear of the […]

1 2 3 4 … 208 209 210

Posts navigation