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Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech world. But the smartphone’s dominance is so complete, says a16z’s Benedict Evans, that it’s useful to t...

Josh Zepps is the host of #WeThePeople LIVE, available on Spotify and at http://wtplive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But then what does make such innovation clusters work? In this segment of the pod a trio of expert guests -- Anna...

We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovation coding competition in San Francisco -- to hear about the mobile apps they created, the culture of c...

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans explain how we're "evolving ourselves."

Esther Ku is a stand up comedian, and is also known from the MTV shows "Girl Code" and "Wild 'N Out" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven company. In this world, access to data -- and how you manage it -- is what matters, says Ash Ashutosh, fo...

Kirik Jenness & Chris Palmquist run the premiere martial arts website on the internet. http://mixedmartialarts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due to the "peace dividends of the smartphone wars". So what happens when you combine those cheap sensor...

Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small -- and every group within that organization can get its hands on. So what happens now? The i...

David Krantz, the CEO of YP (formerly the Yellow Pages), explains how they've reinvented their business.

Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and Greg Walden -- of the Energy and Commerce Committee including the subcommittee on Communications and Technology that oversees almost every technology...

Nick DiPaolo is a writer and stand up comedian. His latest special “Another Senseless Killing” is available now at http://www.nickdipaolo.com. Adam Lowery is a master of mental health and life transition specialist. More information about his work is available at http://www.adamlowery.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Rhonda Patrick is a Ph.D in biomedical science and expert on nutritional health. Her podcasts and other videos can be found at FoundMyFitness.com http://www.youtube.com/user/FoundMyFitness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlene Li, author of "The Engaged Leader," on why and how senior executives are diving into online networks.

When most people think of big data they think of numbers, but it turns out that a lot of big data -- a lot of the output of our work and activity as humans in fact -- is in the form of words. So what can we learn when we apply machine learning and na...

Bitcoin has had more than its share of drama. There is, of course, the mystery surrounding its anonymous founder (or perhaps, founders) Satoshi Nakamoto. More recently, there's been a battle over whether the size of blocks need to grow to account for...

Just a few years ago if you were mayor of Washington D.C. –- or any other city -- you didn’t have to wrap your head around the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, and other companies in the fast-growing 'sharing economy'. They didn’t exist. Now, you have no choic...

There is a gap between the technology industry and the fastest growing portion of today’s workforce and the workforce of the future: Latinos -- argue U.S. Representatives Loretta Sanchez (California) and Ruben Gallego (Arizona), both members of Congr...

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of the HBR article "Ace the Assessment," explores the rising practice of using tests in hiring and promotion decisions.