TechMagic Podcast: Murderbot Diaries and the Adobe-Figma Merger Failure

Plus, our guest is Nick Vinckier, director of corporate innovation at Chalhoub Group

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On this week’s episode of TechMagic, host Cathy Hackl and guest host Lee Kebler discuss Hackl’s finished manuscript for her fifth book written with a previous guest, Irena Cronin, called Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution. Kebler thinks spatial computing will be a tech pillar over the next few years, and the duo discuss what to look forward to in 2024.

They also discuss Murderbot Diaries, a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series that Apple is adapting into a television series, the Figma-Adobe merger failure, and Epic, Meta and Unity joining the Alliance for OpenUSD.

Later in the episode, Hackl interviews Nick Vinckier, director of corporate innovation at Chalhoub Group.

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