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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: Will Microsoft Miss the AI Wearables Opportunity?

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HP’s search for a new CEO is about much more than succession.

Mark Vena, CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research, examines whether HP’s next leader can move the company beyond mature PC and print markets, challenge its conservative culture, and make a bold bet on AI and ambient computing.

In this SmartTechCheck EduSeries, you’ll hear:

✅ Why HP needs strategic reinvention

✅ How corporate caution can stall innovation

✅ Where AI and ambient computing create new opportunities

✅ What HP’s next CEO must do to restore momentum

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: HP Needs More Than a New CEO

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Samsung is doubling down on foldable phones with its newest Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8. Mark Vena of SmartTech Research talks with Samsung’s Peter Park about the new form factors, AI features, camera strategy and why foldables are becoming increasingly compelling for productivity, entertainment and travel.

✓ What’s new with the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Fold 8 and Flip 8

✓ How Samsung is using AI and larger displays to improve multitasking

✓ Why the new Fold 8 form factor targets entertainment and content consumption

✓ How Samsung is making it easier for iPhone users to switch to Galaxy

Watch for an inside look at Samsung’s latest foldable strategy from Galaxy Unpacked in Brooklyn, New York.

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SmartTech Podcast and Audio Newsletter: Interview with Samsung's Peter Park at Samsung Unpacked 2026 (7-21-26)

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How far can gamers push memory and storage beyond factory settings? In this Future of Memory and Storage presentation, Mark Vena, CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research, explores memory overclocking, storage optimization, and the performance demands shaping next-generation gaming PCs.

Viewers will hear about:

✅ Why gaming enthusiasts push beyond standard memory settings

✅ How faster memory and storage improve frame rates, load times, and responsiveness

✅ The heat, power, stability, and data risks that come with tuning

✅ How AI gaming and richer game worlds will drive future memory and storage needs

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: Push Beyond Defaults!

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Red Hat is putting its own AI strategy to the test!

In this SmartTechCheck EduSeries episode, Mark Vena, CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research, examines Red Hat’s “Business as Code” strategy, its internal AI deployment, and the early results behind its infrastructure investments.

What you’ll hear:

✅ How Red Hat is using AI across its 20,000-person workforce

✅ Why 540 AI projects and Connected Intelligence matter

✅ The reported $90M+ productivity value and 3.4× preliminary ROI

✅ What Red Hat’s “eat your own dog food” approach means for enterprise AI buyers

Watch for a practical look at Red Hat AI, agentic operations, enterprise AI ROI, workforce enablement, and the future of AI infrastructure.

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: AI ROI Proven

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: Samsung Unveils Its Strongest Foldable Lineup Yet. It's Your Move, Apple

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Over 4.6 million robots already work worldwide — and with AI, they’re finally leaving the factory floor. This is the real state of AI robots and physical AI in 2026: the five kinds of real work pulling autonomous robots into hospitals, onto sidewalks, into factories, and toward our homes.

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In this SmartTechCheck EduSeries video, we break down why AI robots matter NOW — not someday — and some of the leading companies making them real: Agility Robotics (Digit), Serve Robotics, Boston Dynamics (Spot + Atlas), Figure AI, Diligent Robotics (Moxi), 1X (NEO), and Physical Intelligence.

The big idea: the first wave of AI robots isn’t arriving as futuristic companions. It’s arriving as workers — doing the jobs people can’t, won’t, or shouldn’t. The future didn’t arrive as a keynote presentation. It arrived as a shift worker.

The 5 kinds of work pulling AI robots into the real world:

1️⃣ Jobs nobody can fill — delivery, warehousing, farming, hospitality, healthcare support 2️⃣ Jobs too dangerous for people — inspection, utilities, mining, disaster sites

3️⃣ Jobs that break the body — lifting, hauling, sorting, repetitive labor

4️⃣ Jobs where precision beats strength — surgery, labs, advanced manufacturing

5️⃣ Jobs an aging population will force us to solve — hospitals, caregiving, aging at home

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Agility Robotics — Digit | Serve Robotics | Boston Dynamics — Spot & Atlas | Figure AI

Diligent Robotics — Moxi | 1X — NEO | Physical Intelligence | Tesla — Optimus

SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: AI Robots Are Here Already

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Samsung just unveiled its biggest foldable lineup ever at Galaxy Unpacked 2026, and there's a lot more to the story than new hardware. In this SmartTechCheck analysis,

I break down the #Galaxy #ZFold8Ultra, the all-new #Galaxy #ZFold8, the #GalaxyZ #Flip8, Samsung's latest AI innovations, and why Qualcomm's Snapdragon partnership remains critical to Samsung's long-term strategy. I also share why Apple's rumored foldable iPhone could dramatically reshape the category in just a few months.

In this episode, you'll hear:

✅ My hands-on analysis of the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, and Flip8

✅ Why Samsung's new Fold8 may be the most interesting product announced

✅ Whether Samsung made a strategic mistake by limiting flagship cameras to the Ultra model

✅ How Qualcomm and Galaxy AI are shaping the future of foldable smartphones

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: Samsung Unpacked26: Worth It?

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NVIDIA Vera could reshape the economics of agentic AI infrastructure. In this SmartTechCheck EduSeries episode, Mark Vena of SmartTech Research examines NVIDIA’s purpose-built CPU for AI agents—and how it could strengthen NVIDIA’s leadership across the AI data center.

What you’ll hear:

☑ Why agentic AI needs a new class of data-center CPU

☑ How Vera combines fast Olympus cores, high-bandwidth memory and NVLink

☑ How Vera compares with AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon and hyperscaler CPUs

☑ Why NVIDIA’s CPU-to-GPU-to-network strategy could expand its AI infrastructure advantage

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter: Keep GPUs Humming

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AI infrastructure is reshaping the tech industry—from smarter data center cooling and Nokia’s commercial AI-RAN strategy to soaring memory prices affecting PCs, smartphones, and cloud infrastructure.

In this episode of the Smart Tech Check podcast, Mark Vena and Will Townsend discuss:

✅ How precision cooling could make AI data centers more efficient

✅ Why Nokia’s AI-RAN push could transform mobile networks

✅ What the global memory shortage means for technology prices

✅ How AI demand is affecting smartphones, PCs, and cloud infrastructure

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SmartTechCheck Podcast and Audio Newsletter (7-16-26)

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