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A news show that is focused on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, the software, and people involved with Hacking Reality.

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August 16, 202526 min

Political AI Clone, AI Sucks at Sudoku, Snail Regrows Eyes, and more.

Show Notes: A Political AI Clone https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-politician-made-an-ai-clone-of-himself-the-outrage-was-real/ AI Sucks at Sudoku https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/ai-sucks-at-sudoku-much-more-troubling-is-that-it-cant-explain-why/ A snail regrows its eyes https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/this-snail-can-regrow-its-eyes-and-it-may-hold-key-to-curing-blindness-in-humans/ Are we experience Her now https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/are-we-living-in-the-movie-her-yet/ Predicing Decisions through AI https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/beast-gb-model-combines-machine-learning-and-behavioral-science-to-predict-peoples-decisions/

August 9, 202517 min

Robots Cleaning, Simulated Humans, Cyborg Bees, and much more.

Show Notes: Robots will clean house alright. https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/wild-video-shows-humanoid-robot-loading-a-washing-machine-pretty-well/ Simulated Human Subjects, sounds creepy. https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/ai-models-simulate-human-subjects-to-aid-social-science-research-but-limits-remain/ Neovision's Edge AI Vision https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/seeing-without-the-cloud-neovisions-ambitious-edge-ai-vision/ Cyborg Bees https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/new-cyborg-bees-operate-like-rc-cars-thanks-to-tiny-brain-controllers/ Synthetic Cells https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/scientists-build-synthetic-cells-that-tell-time/

August 2, 202514 min

Cartwheeling Robots, Utility Bots, Cheating at Sudoku, and more news.

Show Notes: A Cartwheeling Humanoid Robot https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/you-can-buy-this-cartwheeling-humanoid-robot-for-less-than-two-apple-vision-pros/ Robots pick up Garbage, Mow, Snowplow, and more https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/detroits-using-robots-to-pick-up-garbage-mow-grass-clear-snow-and-much-more/ A robot changes its own battery. https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/four-wheel-tech/f/d/watch-this-chinese-humanoid-robot-change-its-own-battery-and-try-not-to-get-creeped-out/ Robo Bunnies https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/robo-bunnies-are-the-latest-weapon-against-floridas-invasive-pythons/ Does AI Cheat at Sudoku: Trustworthiness https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/researchers-test-the-trustworthiness-of-ai-by-teaching-it-to-play-sudoku/

July 26, 202520 min

AI Warps Live Video, HoloPlastic, Cyborg Bees, and more news!

Show Notes: AI Warps Live Video https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/this-ai-warps-live-video-in-real-time/ Holographic Message in Plastic https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/holographic-message-encoded-in-simple-plastic-2/ Cyborg Bees https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/new-cyborg-bees-operate-like-rc-cars-thanks-to-tiny-brain-controllers/ AIPasta reforges disinformation https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/aipasta-uses-ai-to-paraphrase-and-repeat-disinformation/ What is Predictive Service https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/why-predictive-service-is-the-next-big-thing-for-your-customer-service/ Catch the Pods: Non Sequitur News https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohmtown-daily-news-show/id1609446592 RealityHacker https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reality-hacker/id1730569174 WANTED! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wanted/id1736804331 The Continuity Report https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-continuity-report/id1730555984 WarCrafters https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warcrafters/id1747332089 TechnologyToday https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technologytoday/id1736803981 FourWheelTech https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fourwheeltech/id1747338365

July 19, 202517 min

An AI Refugee, Alien Lighthouses, Calmm your Brain, and more.

Show Notes: An AI Refugee Avatar https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/late-nite-geeks/f/d/a-united-nations-research-institute-created-an-ai-refugee-avatar/ Lighthouses for Aliens https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/earths-airports-are-basically-lighthouses-for-aliens/ Training for Robotic Hands https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/new-simulation-system-generates-thousands-of-training-examples-for-robotic-hands-and-arms/ Quantum Simulator https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/quantum-simulator-could-help-uncover-materials-for-high-performance-electronics-2/ Virtual Forest to Calm your Brain https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/this-virtual-forest-calms-your-brain-no-hiking-required/

July 12, 202534 min

AI Construct Youtuber, OR Robots, AI Fusion, and more news for 7/12/2025

Show Notes: AI Construct Youtuber https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/a-fast-rising-gaming-youtuber-is-an-ai-construct-not-a-human/ Operating Room Robots https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/humanoid-robots-in-the-operating-room-could-address-surgery-delays-and-staff-shortages/ Sense of Taste Robot https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/greenagram/f/d/sweet-or-sour-ai-powered-device-achieves-human-like-sense-of-taste-2/ AI Fusion https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/engineers-use-ai-to-wrangle-fusion-power-for-the-grid-2/ The F1 Fictional Racing Team https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/why-ea-sharkninja-msc-cruises-and-expensify-backed-f1-the-movies-fictional-racing-team/

July 5, 202544 min

3D Streaming, Holograms, AI Rock Band, and more for 6/5/2025

Show Notes: 3D Streaming https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/3d-streaming-gets-leaner-by-seeing-only-what-matters/ Angle Dependent Holograms https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/angle-dependent-holograms-made-possible-by-metasurfaces-2/ Real and VR Sensors https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/bringing-together-real-world-sensors-and-vr-to-improve-building-maintenance-2/ AI Generated Rock Band https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/an-indie-rock-band-that-appears-to-be-entirely-ai-generated-is-making-alarming-amounts-of-money-on-spotify/ Fake Lottery Winners https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/roundersgear/f/d/purportedly-fake-lottery-winners-planted-across-uk-media/

June 28, 202520 min

AI Changes Speech, Brains over Bots, Seeing through Blood, AI Agents Get Better, The Methaphone

Show Notes: AI and Human Speech https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/ai-is-changing-the-way-humans-speak-to-each-other/ Brains over Bots for now https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/brains-over-bots-why-toddlers-still-beat-ai-at-learning-language/ See through Blood https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/this-experimental-tech-allows-surgeons-to-see-through-blood/ AI Agents are getting better... at everything. https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/ai-agents-are-getting-better-at-writing-code-and-hacking-it-as-well/ The Methaphone https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/the-methaphone-is-a-phone-thats-not-a-phone-to-help-you-stop-using-your-phone/

June 21, 202525 min

Face Tech Tattoo, Biomedical Gaming, Bacteria Capture CO2, 3D Avatars, Ruling AI Chatbots

Show Notes: Wearable Tech Face Tattoo https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/the-next-wearable-tech-could-be-a-face-tattoo-that-measures-mental-stress/ Gamers advance biomedical research https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/millions-of-gamers-advance-biomedical-research/ Bacteria captures CO2 https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/photosynthetic-living-material-uses-bacteria-to-capture-co₂-in-two-different-ways/ Avatars from a single Photo https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/hyper-realistic-ai-technology-creates-avatars-from-a-single-photo/ 17 AI Chatbots to Rule them All https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/who-needs-a-human-government-when-you-have-17-ai-chatbots-welcome-to-sensay-island/

June 14, 202521 min

5 Interesting Articles from RealityHacker for 5/14/2025

Show Notes: Smart Dental Implants https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/smart-dental-implants-could-feel-more-like-the-real-thing/ Haptic Feedback Trailer for F1 https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/apple-made-a-haptic-trailer-for-the-f1-movie-that-only-works-on-iphones/ Shape Changing for Visually Impaired https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/shape-changing-device-helps-visually-impaired-people-perform-location-task-as-well-as-sighted-people-2/ Wearable Multisensory Haptics https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/revolutionizing-touch-researchers-explore-the-future-of-wearable-multi-sensory-haptic-technology-2/ AI Agents Gameplay the Real World https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/a-deep-learning-alternative-can-help-ai-agents-gameplay-the-real-world/