Car companies are spying on unsuspecting drivers, secretly selling their personal information to data brokers and insurance companies. In this episode, we're taking a look at how they do it.
Car companies are spying on unsuspecting drivers, secretly selling their personal information to data brokers and insurance companies. In this episode, we're taking a look at how they do it.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo Altraide Animator: Mathijs LuijtenHow the US Debt Crisis Affects Us AllColdFusion2024-10-15 | Go to aura.com/coldfusion to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
The US debt crisis will become one of the biggest issues of our time, affecting not only those in the US but everyone around the world. In this episode we explore the mechanisms of a default, the causes and solutions.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tomás de Castro Editors: Brayden Laffrey Animation: Tawsif Akkas Motion Graphics: Mathijs LuijtenThe Scammer Who Sold A Fake CountryColdFusion2024-09-30 | Go to brilliant.org/coldfusion for 30-day free trial + 20% off!
Just when you think you know the depths of the human ingenuity to commit fraud, another guy comes along and takes the cake. But in the case of Gregor MacGregor, this will never happen as he will forever be the greatest scammer to ever live. He sold a fake country, but at a time where nobody could confidently and quickly verify his claims. Due to his social status, everyone believed him - some sold everything to live there only for disaster to await them.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey Animator: Mathijs LuijtenAre we all wrong about AI?ColdFusion2024-09-19 | Go to 80000hours.org/coldfusion, to learn about fulfilling, high-impact careers.
It's no secret that AI is controversial today. Judging by some of the chaos it's caused, there's good reason to think AI seems to ruin everything it touches. But what about the flipside? What good is AI actually doing in the world? It's a question I don't hear asked much so today we'll find out. Note: Reinforcement learning etc are all included in this conversation.
ColdFusion Created by Dagogo Altraide Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Editor: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo Altraide Writers: Meehan Kathan, Dagogo AltraideGoogle Could Change ForeverColdFusion2024-09-09 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/coldfusion
There seems to be having an onslaught of legal trouble from the US Government. More than any other tech company in the last 25 years. First the anti-trust loss and now a court case over their online ad dominance. What does this all mean for us and what happens next? Today we find out.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo Altraide Animator: Mathijs LuijtenBoeing Embarrassed as ‘Stuck’ Astronauts to Return with SpaceXColdFusion2024-08-25 | Go to brilliant.org/coldfusion for 30-day free trial + 20% off!
Boeing hasn't been having the best of luck this year. Two Astronauts stuck in space because of mechanical failures on a Boeing spacecraft, only adds to the pile of blunders. But how did this happen? and what are the astronauts going to do now? In this episode, we find out.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo Altraide Animator: Mathijs LuijtenGovernments Can Suddenly Shut Down Your Internet - Heres WhyColdFusion2024-08-15 | Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my sponsor aura.com/coldfusion to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
The internet is something that we all take for granted. But there's a worrying trend that's coming into view. Governments around the world are shutting down the internet as a form of control. This recently happened in Bangladesh but the mechanisms for such actions exist in Western nations. In this episode we explore the topic of when governments shut down the internet.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo Altraide Animator: Mathijs LuijtenHow One Woman Stole 3% of Vietnam’s GDPColdFusion2024-07-31 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/coldfusion
What happens when one person owns a bank and is free to do whatever they want with customer deposits. Well.. they steal as much as they can before they get caught. The case of Truong My Lan was one of the largest fraud cases in history. She stole $44 billion and in the end was served the ultimate sentence.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Laura Woods, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Tanzim Uddin, Dagogo AltraidePlanned Obsolescence (ft. Louis Rossmann)ColdFusion2024-07-16 | Go to brilliant.org/coldfusion for 30-day free trial AND 20% off!
Have you noticed? The devices and software we buy is no longer our own. From hostile software updates to purposefully obstructing our ability to repair our devices, consumer rights are taking a beating. In this episode we discuss the problem and Right to Repair advocate Louis Rossmann gives us his insights.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Laura Woods, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo AltraideWhy This New CD Could Change StorageColdFusion2024-06-30 | Head to brilliant.org/coldfusion/ for a 30-day free trail and 20% off the premium annual subscription!
The compact disk was a popular storage medium for the late 20th century, then it disappeared seemingly left only for the history books. But not so fast. Researchers have figured out a way to fit a whopping 200,000 GB onto a new type of disk. In this episode we'll take a look.
In the world of scams, it's rare to have so many large established companies fall for it. DC solar and their CEO, Jeff Carpoff created the ultimate scam. In this episode we explore the unbelievable story of how an ex-drug dealer conned some of the most prestigious firms in the world.
Detecting cancer from a drop of blood sounds like science fiction, but it may just be around the corner. In this episode, we explore how multiple teams of scientists have used AI to detect cancer.
The world of robotics is advancing pretty quickly. There’s been a flurry of robotics companies popping up from nowhere with impressive offerings. But what are the best robots around today? And why is this happening all of a sudden? We've already covered Figure AI before so let's see what other robots are out there.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Editors: Tanzim Uddin, Dagogo AltraideHow Smartphones Shrink Our BrainsColdFusion2024-05-28 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/coldfusion.
Smartphones are so ubiquitous that they almost fade into the background. Everyone has one and nobody thinks twice about them. But what if they were affecting the way our brains function in a very tangible way? That would mean society has been collectively altered and we don't even know it. In this episode we take a look at the research of the tenuous relationship between smartphones and our brains.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Laura Woods, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo AltraideChatGPT Can Now Talk Like a Human [Latest Updates]ColdFusion2024-05-20 | Go to brilliant.org/coldfusion for 20% off!
ChatGPT took over the world in 2022, but since then things had settled down... Then came GPT-4o, a human-line voice assistant done in a way which we haven't seen before. In this episode we'll see what it means for education, productivity, the future and much more.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Editors: Tanzim Uddin, Dagogo AltraideJapans Lost Decade - An Economic Disaster [Documentary]ColdFusion2024-05-13 | Japan in the 1990's suffered one of the greatest financial blowouts in history. In this episode we take a look at the formation and bursting of the great Japanese bubble and the ripple effects that can still be seen today.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Meehan Kathan, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo AltraideDid AI Just End Human Made Music? Ft. Rick BeatoColdFusion2024-04-30 | Get learning today with Brilliant. Go to brilliant.com/coldfusion for 20% off and 30 days free.
Throughout history, creating a complete piece of music has always been a human process. There have been attempts to compose and render songs using computers before, but frankly they weren't great.
Today, that all changes with two AI music platforms. Udio and Suno. In this episode, we'll take a look at both and talk to experts like Rick Beato to see what this means for the future of the music industry.
Special thanks to Dave Wiskus Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden LaffreyThis Chip Could Change Computing ForeverColdFusion2024-04-22 | Visit incogni.com/coldfusion to get started on a 60% off an annual subscription plan.
Researchers have created the world's first graphene semiconductor. The joke goes that graphene can do everything but leave the lab, but in the last few years, this is no longer true. In this episode we'll see how scientists turned the best conductor known to man into a semiconductor, opening the door to faster, cooler and more efficient computing.
Note: the resulting graphene was doped with pure oxygen within the experiment. Apologies for not explaining that critical part.
Also another correction, I called "Georgia Institute of Technology" "Georgia Tech" , just wanted to clarify that.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey Animator: Tawsif AkkasAI Deception: How Tech Companies Are Fooling UsColdFusion2024-04-15 | Visit our sponsor aura.com/coldfusion to get started on a 2-week free trial and see where your personal information is being sold online.
AI is everywhere. Is it all it's cracked up to be or is it one big scam? Well, as it is for most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. In this episode we see how, despite some of AI's useful contributions, the hype has also impacted the tech industry negatively.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Editors: Tanzim Uddin, Brayden LaffreyThe Deadly Race to Supersonic FlightColdFusion2024-03-31 | Get a lifetime Nebula subscription by going to: go.nebula.tv/coldfusion
The race to supersonic flight was one of the most enthralling stories of the 20th century. In this episode, we take a look at how it all started, how the American's betrayed the British and the current state of supersonic flight.
http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbookThe Race For AI Robots Just Got Real (OpenAI, NVIDIA and more)ColdFusion2024-03-25 | In this episode we take a look at Figure AI, Nvidia and a bunch of other robotics companies that are looking to replace warehouse workers.
With $10 billion spent, Apple's secretive car project has been cancelled, but what went wrong, and why did they want to make a car? In this episode we find out the confusion and chaos behind the scenes.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden LaffreyBoeings Downfall [Greed Over Safety] feat. Mentour PilotColdFusion2024-02-29 | Start learning STEM today with Brilliant and get 30 days free + 20% off by going to brilliant.org/coldfusion
Boeing was once seen as one of the best engineering firms in the world. Today they're plagued with scandals and constantly put profits before the lives of people. What went wrong? In this episode, we find out.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writers: Laura Woods, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagogo AltraideSORA AI’s Problems [And Solutions]ColdFusion2024-02-20 | OpenAI's Sora has shown us that the future has arrived. But how did it come to be? What can it do? and what are the implications of such an AI system? In this episode we'll find out.
Apple has bought the most AI startups of all but at the same time they're keeping quiet about it. In this episode we see what they're up to and the improvements that could be coming to Siri.
Producer: Dagogo AltraideThe Race to Create the iPhone of AI is Heating Up!ColdFusion2024-01-22 | Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/coldfusion
It seems that we're entering the age of AI hardware, will it flourish? or will this just be a short-lived footnote in technology history. Our main focus will be Rabbit's R1, but we'll look at all of the questions and implications surrounding it. In a special episode featuring Jabrils, we investigate.
2023 was a crazy year in scams. In this episode featuring Coffeezilla we take a look at some of the most notorious scams of the past 12 months. This is a bit of a fun video to start off the year so enjoy!
01:40 FTX + Coffeezilla Commentary 08:27 Safemoon Crypto Scam 10:52 Charlie Javis Scamming JP Morgan 12:30 Credit Suisse Disaster 14:52 TikTok Australian GST Scam 18:23 “The Day Before” Video Game Scam 22:13 The Billion Fraud Miles Guo and William Je 25:03 ConclusionThe Meteoric Rise of Nvidia [Fastest Growing Stock]ColdFusion2023-12-24 | Visit our sponsor aura.com/coldfusion to get started on a 2 week free trial.
Nvidia almost failed in 1995 but is now worth over $1 trillion. How does a company take such a trajectory. In this video we see how Jensen Huang has led Nvidia for over 30 years to become the company that the modern tech world can't live without.
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Last week featured one of the most bizarre shakeups in the tech landscape. OpenAI fired their CEO Sam Altman, before taking him back days later. What followed was a flurry of rumours as to what happened, the most interesting of which is a human level (AGI) project called Q*. What happened? In this episode we take a look.
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--- "New Thinking" written by Dagogo Altraide --- This book was rated the 9th best technology history book by book authority. In the book you’ll learn the stories of those who invented the things we use everyday and how it all fits together to form our modern world. Get the book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook Get the book on Google Play: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingGooglePlay newthinkingbook.squarespace.com/about
Imagine if our brains could be scanned and the contents of our thoughts could be read. A team of researchers and also Meta have just achieved this feat by using AI. In this episode, we take a look.
[**Neuroscience: Language decoder can reconstruct meaning from brain scans | Nature Neuroscience | Nature Portfolio (natureasia.com)**](https://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/14479)
[**nextsense.io/**](nextsense.io)Qualcomm Takes on Apple: The Battle For Chip SpeedColdFusion2023-11-07 | In this episode we dive into the how Qualcomm is looking to be a new challenger to both Apple and Intel. This was thanks in part to a purchase of the firm Nuvia in 2021 made from ex-Apple engineers.
--- About ColdFusion --- ColdFusion is an Australian based online media company independently run by Dagogo Altraide since 2009. Topics cover anything in science, technology, history and business in a calm and relaxed environment.
--- "New Thinking" written by Dagogo Altraide --- This book was rated the 9th best technology history book by book authority. In the book you’ll learn the stories of those who invented the things we use everyday and how it all fits together to form our modern world. Get the book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook Get the book on Google Play: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingGooglePlay newthinkingbook.squarespace.com/about
Producer: Dagogo Altraide--- About ColdFusion --- ColdFusion is an Australian based online media company independently run by Dagogo Altraide since 2009. Topics cover anything in science, technology, history and business in a calm and relaxed environment.
--- "New Thinking" written by Dagogo Altraide --- This book was rated the 9th best technology history book by book authority. In the book you’ll learn the stories of those who invented the things we use everyday and how it all fits together to form our modern world. Get the book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook Get the book on Google Play: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingGooglePlay newthinkingbook.squarespace.com/about
Producer: Dagogo AltraideFTX Founder Faces 115 Years in PrisonColdFusion2023-11-04 | Sam Bankman-Fried and his company FTX were once the stars of the crypto space but all was not as it seemed. After his fraud was uncovered, he was held up as everything wrong with the financial world. In this episode we cover the court case of SBF, where the money went and how his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison told all.
--- About ColdFusion --- ColdFusion is an Australian based online media company independently run by Dagogo Altraide since 2009. Topics cover anything in science, technology, history and business in a calm and relaxed environment.
--- "New Thinking" written by Dagogo Altraide --- This book was rated the 9th best technology history book by book authority. In the book you’ll learn the stories of those who invented the things we use everyday and how it all fits together to form our modern world. Get the book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook Get the book on Google Play: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingGooglePlay newthinkingbook.squarespace.com/about
Producer: Dagogo AltraideNothing Phones and Their Impossible MissionColdFusion2023-11-03 | Go to https://ground.news/coldfusion to cut through the noise of the modern news landscape and get 30% off.
Carl Pei and his company Nothing are trying to do the impossible. Creating a new and successful smartphone brand in 2023. In this episode we interview Carl, cover his story and see how personality, branding and marketing come together to his advantage.
Nothing Phone, Nothing 2A, Carl PeiCould Your Phones Radiation Harm You?ColdFusion2023-10-10 | Visit brilliant.org/coldfusion and get 30-day free trial + 20% off to start learning STEM today.
In this episode we take a look at why the iPhone 12 was banned from sale in France. Why did it happen? and how much radiation do phones give off anyway?
Producer: Dagogo AltraideCountries Are Racing To The Moon AgainColdFusion2023-09-30 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/coldfusion
Producer: Dagogo AltraideHow This Man Exposed Japans Biggest Corporate FraudColdFusion2023-09-14 | Michael Woodford was working at the Olympus corporation when he became suspicious of some shady transactions. Little did he know that his discovery was about to snowball into an almost $5 billion fraud, the largest in Japan's history. In this episode we take out the twisting story of the Olympus fraud.
twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV instagram.com/coldfusiontv discord.gg/coldfusion facebook.com/ColdFusionTV36 Year Old Man Accused of Scamming $1.5 BillionColdFusion2023-09-04 | In the world of startups the phrase "fake it till you make it" is well known. But what happens when you take this concept too far. Abraham Shafi was the founder of the social media site IRL. Him and his company is accused of faking 95% of their users after raking in $1.5 billion in investments. In this episode, we take a look.
Research: @ThenWhatHappensHow the iPod Made Apple Relevant AgainColdFusion2023-08-26 | The iPod marked a change for Apple. It was the product that transformed it from the floundering tech company into the trendy giant it is today. But this story behind it's creation is filled with a mix of pressure, personal loss, luck and talent.
twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV instagram.com/coldfusiontv discord.gg/coldfusion facebook.com/ColdFusionTV3 Interesting Solar Car ProjectsColdFusion2023-08-02 | In this episode we take a look at the company Lightyear. Their car, the Lightyear Zero was set to be the world's first solar production car. It could drive for months without needing to be re-charged. It seemed like a dream come true but the journey was fraught with financial trouble. We also take a look at 2 other solar car projects, Aptera and Sonos.
- On black holes. While others such as Scharszchild were first to describe the theory of blackholes, Oppenheimer's work was the first full description of how blackholes formed. "Oppenheimer proposed the very first collapse model to describe how a star could collapse into a black hole." - Xavier Calmet, a professor of physics at the University of Sussex in England
- On the photoelectric effect. His work wasn't so much a discovery of the effect but more an observation using the effect that revealed some truths about the Hydrogen atom, so apologies for that error on my part.
twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV instagram.com/coldfusiontv discord.gg/coldfusion facebook.com/ColdFusionTVStarbucks is Secretly a Massive BankColdFusion2023-07-17 | Starbucks is known for their coffee but many don't know about their secretive finance operations. In a clever scheme, the company uses the deposits of customer rewards card as a massive interest free loan to fund business operations. Is this simply a smart business move? or are customers getting ripped off? In this episode we take a look.
twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV instagram.com/coldfusiontv discord.gg/coldfusion facebook.com/ColdFusionTVTwitter vs Threads is More Interesting Than You ThinkColdFusion2023-07-12 | Threads, a Twitter clone is officially the most rapidly downloaded app in history, gaining 100 million users in 5 days. Yes, using instagram to populate the app played a large part in it's growth, but what's more interesting in the protocol Meta plans to use. Who will come out on top? What about privacy issues? In this episode, we look at the boiling feud between two billionaires.
discord.gg/coldfusion facebook.com/ColdFusionTV twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV instagram.com/coldfusiontvThe Internet is Fake (Dead Internet Theory)ColdFusion2023-06-27 | The internet is ever changing, but over the past couple of years things have started to change. The proportion of bots in increasing. A theory dubbed “The Dead Internet Theory” that states that most of the internet is in fact AI bots. These bots have been unleashed to control the populous and rake in profits. But is it true? And if so, how much of it is true? In this episode we’ll find out.
Producer: Dagogo Altraide Writer: Kate Rostance / @ThenWhatHappensHow Corruption Led to Lebanons Brutal CollapseColdFusion2023-06-20 | Lebanon is currently going through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 150 years according to the World Bank. Citizens are locked out of their own bank accounts, the currency is collapsing, inflation is soaring and fuel an electricity is hard to come by. But how did this all start? and what is the possible solution to this disaster? In this episode we take a deep dive into the story of the fall of Lebanon.