EmilyCC has been streaming 24/7 for four years. Every meal, every road trip, every moment she’s awake, and even when she sleeps, strangers are watching. The kicker? She gets paid for it. I talk with her to find out why she streams and why she can’t stop.
My niece Danielle bought carbon monoxide detectors through online AI ads. One of them blared a fake 4 a.m. emergency warning her family’s air was combustible. Even though they were just fine. She shares her wild story with us, and what to check before you buy one for yourself.
Lori Schott lost her daughter Annalee to suicide in 2020 after social media consumed her life. She has spent every year since advocating to get platforms and parents to change. Her fight helped lead Meta to an historic $18 billion settlement, the largest of its kind.
Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs gave $100K to an AI agent named Luna to open a store. Not only did she write code. She signed a lease. Haggled with suppliers. And hired human employees. The result? Andon Market in San Francisco.
Just like the rest of us, Caleb got tired of picking up after his dog. So he built the Poopcopter. Scans, scoops, and dumps. Tech does ‘ruff’ work.
A listener’s sister spent five years and emptied out her entire IRA on her “boyfriend.” The kicker? She’s never met him in person. Classic romance scam.
Travis has a wife. Well, two. Sort of. He’s also married to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His real wife of 22 years? Cool with it. We talk to Travis about this unconventional setup.
Steve Brown’s doctors missed his cancer diagnosis. So he built an AI agent that caught what they didn’t. Saved his life.
Police ambushed Joel Feder and his wife in a Kohl’s parking lot. Guns drawn. The tipster? Flock cameras. Wrongly tracked him for days over stolen plates he never took.
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid spent his career detecting AI fakes. Now he can’t tell what’s real. Other experts are getting fooled too. What that means for the rest of us.
Long before GPS knew where your car was, Roy was the voice guiding drivers. He recorded over 5 million navigation phrases in the ’90s. Now he’s the calming voice at Disney parks. Roy shares hilarious retro tech stories, including weird street names.
Elliot and his fiancée go on a wild police pursuit in Waymo. Against their will. Rating? Zero stars.
Your Ring doorbell may be doing more than watching porch pirates. Dr. Matthew Guariglia breaks down how home cameras became part of a giant surveillance web. Plus, why so many people are getting rid of it.
30 years in tech. Christina got laid off. She didn’t sulk. She dusted off her entrepreneur cape and built her own AI consulting company.
Wall Street Journalist Danielle Crittenden suddenly lost her 32 year old daughter. Her devices are still connected. I talk with her about her late daughter and what happens to our digital lives after we’re gone.
A grandmother was arrested. Spent five months in jail. The culprit? AI facial recognition. It wrongly linked her to a fraud case in a state she’s never visited. She’s not the only one. University of Virginia researcher Maria Lungu shares how and why AI gets it wrong.
Chrichelle was born legally blind. She’s experiencing the world in a whole new way thanks to her Meta Ray-Ban glasses. Now she’s empowering the visually impaired community and teaching them how to use it.
Storm Duncan is selling his 14-acre California home. He won’t take cash. He wants Anthropic stock instead. I talk with him about why he’s ditching prime real estate and going all in on the future of AI.
Trapped upside down in a sinking car in freezing water. 19-year-old Andi Burns thought it was the end. Until her Apple Watch called 911. Listen here for her incredible story of survival.
Imagine your pet goes missing, and hours later you get a photo of them on an operating table with a demand for $2,700 to “save” them. It’s a terrifying new scam that happened to a Florida family. I spoke with them about how they were almost duped.
