TechTime with Nathan Mumm | 137: TechTime’s “Best of The Best CES 2023” Oddities with Nick Espinosa | Airdate: 1-24-23

By Nathan Mumm | January 30, 2023

Episode 137: TechTime’s “Best of the Best from CES 2023” continues part two of our three-part review. Today we focus on gadgets and unique products with our TechTime guest Nick Espinosa. Next, who is making a $10 billion investment over several years in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT, and why? Years of thinking about what makes up asteroids and how to destroy them needs to be corrected. Then we explore why technology companies across the world are laying people off. In addition, we have our standard features, including “Mike’s Mesmerizing Moment,” “This Week in Technology,” and a possible “Nathan Nugget.”

Join us on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go “Hummmm” Technology news of the week for January 22nd – 28th, 2023.

Episode 137: Starts at 1:35
— [Now on Today’s Show]: Starts at 3:37
— [Top Stories in Technology]: Starts at 5:37

  • Microsoft Corp is making a $10 billion investment over several years in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT. – https://tinyurl.com/mzxs6m3s
  • Common Types of Asteroids could be very hard to destroy study finds. – https://tinyurl.com/y36w2ac2
  • Why all the Tech Layoffs? So far, in 2023, there have been 235 tech companies with layoffs. Seventy-six thousand, six hundred, and fifty-two people were impacted 3,194 people per day. – https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

— [Pick of the Day – Whiskey Tasting Reveal]: Starts at 23:32
Ellington Reserve Root Beer | 70 Proof | $19.99

— [TechTime’s Best of The Best from CES 2023 Oddities part two of our three-part review of CES 2023]: Starts at 26:13
Today we focus on Gadgets and Oddities with our TechTime expert Nick Espinosa

Best of The Best Items from CES 2023 in the Category of Oddities

  • 55-inch Displace OLED screen fastens to your wall or window entirely with big suction cups
  • Toymaker WowWee wants you to have a dog with an attitude with Dog-E.
  • LG’s Styler ShoeCase and ShoeCare
  • Samsung Unveils New Bespoke Lineup for Connected and Customized Kitchen Experiences at CES 2023

— [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 42:45
January 22, 1984, Apple Introduces the Macintosh
Apple Computer broadcasts their now-famous “1984” commercial introducing the Macintosh, during the third quarter of the 1984 Super Bowl. It was the first and last time the ad was truly broadcast.

— [Marc’s Whiskey Mumble]: Starts at 45:25

— [TechTimes “TechTime’s Best of The Best from CES 2023 Oddities part two of our three-part review of CES 2023” part 2]: Starts at 46:42
Today we focus on Gadgets and Oddities with our TechTime expert Nick Espinosa

Best of The Best Items from CES 2023 in the Category of Oddities

  • Ring’s Always Home Cam
  • Robosen Optimus Prime transformer that self-transforms
  • DoNotPay AI Lawyer

— [Pick of the Day Whiskey Review]: Starts at 53:37
Ellington Reserve Root Beer | 70 Proof | $19.99
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