Markus Skagbrant

Markus is a Swede who is passionate about travel, sports, and all things tech.

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Facebook acquires govt ID authentication startup

Markus Skagbrant3 years ago

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Confirm, the Boston-based government ID authentication startup, has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed fee. Confirm will now terminate...

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Arrivedo launches neighborhood guides to help hotels compete with Airbnb

Markus Skagbrant3 years ago

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The hotel industry worldwide hasn't been experiencing the best of times in recent years since the introduction of the massive...

Technology

QUBED enabling Millennials to fulfill their passions

Markus Skagbrant3 years ago

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It is a very common occurrence for Millennials to make a huge capital and time investment to complete their university...

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netTALK launches ezLINQ enabling users to connect landlines, TVs to the internet

Markus Skagbrant3 years ago

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netTALK users will now be able to make free local and long distance calls from anywhere in the world using...

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DADA to host first digital art marketplace using blockchain

Markus Skagbrant3 years ago

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Collaborative platform for artists, DADA.nyc, announces today the launch of the first digital art marketplace using blockchain technology. This Halloween will...

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Is Facebook planning to change the News Feed as we know it?

Markus Skagbrant3 years ago

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Facebook is considering changing its News Feed by separating social posts from public posts by introducing a new Explore Feed...

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

In July 2020, speaking via video at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Elon Musk stated that “I’m extremely confident that level five – or essentially complete autonomy – will happen and I think will happen very quickly.”

While this is exciting, we still don’t have a clear idea of how or when AI vehicles will become a normal part of our everyday lives.

In this episode, we look to explore how far away a future of fully autonomous vehicles really is, where we will see this transition first, and what it will take for us to arrive there. We also debate whether we could live in a future where humans will no longer be allowed to drive and AI-operated vehicles become legally mandatory.

To do this we invited a number of experts on the show to share their thoughts on this topic.

In this episode, we are joined by Jason Torchinsky, the Senior Editor for the automotive technology site Jalopnik, and the author of Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving. Torchinsky breaks down the five different levels of autonomous vehicles, Elon Musk’s comments at last year’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and he explains how far he really thinks Tesla, and other companies, are from full autonomy.

We are also joined by Carl Anthony, the Detroit-based managing editor of Automoblog and AutoVision News. Anthony joins us to highlight what countries are leading the way for autonomous vehicle technology, and how consumer psychology stands to influence the production of autonomous vehicles.

And lastly, we are joined by Melanie Musson, an autonomous vehicle and insurance specialist that produces written content for the auto insurance comparison site AutoInsurance.org.

She explains how autonomous vehicles might make certain personal details irrelevant for car insurance companies, why manual driving could become unaffordable for the majority of drivers, and how car insurance companies stand to influence the psychology of consumers.