Marketplace Tech https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ en-US Copyright 2024 American Public Media Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that’s constantly changing.

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Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that’s constantly changing.

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Marketplace tech@marketplace.org https://www.marketplace.org/feed/podcast/marketplace-tech episodic Marketplace Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:10:51 -0800 no https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 156721413 Bytes: Week in Review — DOJ vs. Google, a bid to undercut internet safety, and X users flock to Bluesky Bytes: Week in Review — DOJ vs. Google, a bid to undercut internet safety, and X users flock to Bluesky https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/week-in-review-doj-vs-google-a-bid-to-undercut-internet-safety-and-x-users-flock-to-bluesky full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:13:19 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/week-in-review-doj-vs-google-a-bid-to-undercut-internet-safety-and-x-users-flock-to-bluesky The social media app Bluesky is flying high this week as users disenchanted with Elon Musk’s X flee that platform post-election. That’s just one of the topics for today’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” We’ll also get into Big Tech’s big-money lobbying effort to slow down a federal bill aimed at protecting kids online. But first, the latest in the potential Google breakup. This week, the Department of Justice proposed forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser. It’s one possible resolution to an antitrust case that has already ruled Google’s search business a monopoly. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.

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The social media app Bluesky is flying high this week as users disenchanted with Elon Musk’s X flee that platform post-election. That’s just one of the topics for today’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” We’ll also get into Big Tech’s big-money lobbying effort to slow down a federal bill aimed at protecting kids online. But first, the latest in the potential Google breakup. This week, the Department of Justice proposed forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser. It’s one possible resolution to an antitrust case that has already ruled Google’s search business a monopoly. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.

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The algorithm behind health insurance denials The algorithm behind health insurance denials https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-algorithm-behind-health-insurance-denials full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:47:21 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-algorithm-behind-health-insurance-denials Some of the biggest health insurers in the country are turning to an algorithm to help determine if a medical claim will be approved. That’s according to a recent investigation led by ProPublica into EviCore, a contractor used to outsource prior approval requests for much of the insurance industry. The investigation found that EviCore tweaks an algorithm to increase the likelihood those claims will be denied, which means lower costs for insurers but more patients losing access to potentially lifesaving care. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to ProPublica’s T. Christian Miller, who co-reported this story.

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Some of the biggest health insurers in the country are turning to an algorithm to help determine if a medical claim will be approved. That’s according to a recent investigation led by ProPublica into EviCore, a contractor used to outsource prior approval requests for much of the insurance industry. The investigation found that EviCore tweaks an algorithm to increase the likelihood those claims will be denied, which means lower costs for insurers but more patients losing access to potentially lifesaving care. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to ProPublica’s T. Christian Miller, who co-reported this story.

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In the era of AI, photos aren’t what they used to be In the era of AI, photos aren’t what they used to be https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/in-the-era-of-ai-photos-arent-what-they-used-to-be full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:36:27 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/in-the-era-of-ai-photos-arent-what-they-used-to-be Remember the old mantra from the early days of social media, “pics or it didn’t happen”? For more than a century, photographic evidence was about as close to a physical representation of the real world as we’ve had. But, thanks to new AI-powered photo editing tools – like the one now available on Google’s newest Pixel phones – anyone can create convincing pics of things that didn’t happen. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Sarah Jeong, a features editor at The Verge, who recently wrote about these cutting edge tools. Jeong says no one’s ready for the impact of this technology.

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Remember the old mantra from the early days of social media, “pics or it didn’t happen”? For more than a century, photographic evidence was about as close to a physical representation of the real world as we’ve had. But, thanks to new AI-powered photo editing tools – like the one now available on Google’s newest Pixel phones – anyone can create convincing pics of things that didn’t happen. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Sarah Jeong, a features editor at The Verge, who recently wrote about these cutting edge tools. Jeong says no one’s ready for the impact of this technology.

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SpaceX engineered cheaper space flight, but startups are entering the market SpaceX engineered cheaper space flight, but startups are entering the market https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/spacex-engineered-cheaper-space-flight-but-startups-are-entering-the-market full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:23:41 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/spacex-engineered-cheaper-space-flight-but-startups-are-entering-the-market President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. And the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who is also the owner of X, does have a record of wringing efficiencies out of his businesses. But the move raises many questions, like should someone whose companies benefit from federal dollars have a hand in making budget decisions? SpaceX alone has secured about $15.4 billion in federal contracts over the last decade, helping it become the dominant player in the industry. So, how has SpaceX rocketed ahead of the competition, and can anyone catch up? Ashlee Vance, the author of “When the Heavens Went on Sale” and a writer for Bloomberg, pointed to reusable rockets, an innovation that was on spectacular display when SpaceX tested its Starship system last month.

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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. And the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who is also the owner of X, does have a record of wringing efficiencies out of his businesses. But the move raises many questions, like should someone whose companies benefit from federal dollars have a hand in making budget decisions? SpaceX alone has secured about $15.4 billion in federal contracts over the last decade, helping it become the dominant player in the industry. So, how has SpaceX rocketed ahead of the competition, and can anyone catch up? Ashlee Vance, the author of “When the Heavens Went on Sale” and a writer for Bloomberg, pointed to reusable rockets, an innovation that was on spectacular display when SpaceX tested its Starship system last month.

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The dangers of designing AI chatbots to be human-like The dangers of designing AI chatbots to be human-like https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-dangers-of-designing-ai-chatbots-to-be-human-like full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:46:54 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-dangers-of-designing-ai-chatbots-to-be-human-like Advancements in artificial intelligence have made it possible for the technology to mimic humans in ever-more convincing ways. But even far less sophisticated tools than today’s chatbots have been shown in research to trick our brains, in a sense, into projecting human thought processes and emotions onto these systems. It’s a cognitive failure that can leave people open to deception and manipulation, which makes the increasingly human-like technologies proliferating in our daily lives particularly dangerous, Rick Claypool, research director at the nonprofit Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino.

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Advancements in artificial intelligence have made it possible for the technology to mimic humans in ever-more convincing ways. But even far less sophisticated tools than today’s chatbots have been shown in research to trick our brains, in a sense, into projecting human thought processes and emotions onto these systems. It’s a cognitive failure that can leave people open to deception and manipulation, which makes the increasingly human-like technologies proliferating in our daily lives particularly dangerous, Rick Claypool, research director at the nonprofit Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino.

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Bytes: Week in Review — SV takes DC, bitcoin’s historic rally and Reddit’s revenue rockets Bytes: Week in Review — SV takes DC, bitcoin’s historic rally and Reddit’s revenue rockets https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-sv-takes-dc-bitcoins-historic-rally-and-reddits-revenue-rockets full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:10:45 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-sv-takes-dc-bitcoins-historic-rally-and-reddits-revenue-rockets It’s been almost eight months since Reddit went public, and since then, the platform known as the front page of the internet has been going gangbusters. We’ll get into why on this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” Plus, crypto surges to new highs in the wake of the election. But first up, Silicon Valley is going to Washington. This week, President-elect Donald Trump tapped his favorite tech CEO, Elon Musk, as the co-lead of a new Department of Government Efficiency along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the former biotech entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.

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It’s been almost eight months since Reddit went public, and since then, the platform known as the front page of the internet has been going gangbusters. We’ll get into why on this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” Plus, crypto surges to new highs in the wake of the election. But first up, Silicon Valley is going to Washington. This week, President-elect Donald Trump tapped his favorite tech CEO, Elon Musk, as the co-lead of a new Department of Government Efficiency along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the former biotech entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.

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Apple will reportedly face EU fine under new competition law Apple will reportedly face EU fine under new competition law https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/apple-will-reportedly-face-eu-fine-under-new-competition-law full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:46:12 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/apple-will-reportedly-face-eu-fine-under-new-competition-law Apple is reportedly facing a fine from the European Union, and it could be a hefty one. It’s the first Big Tech company to be slapped with a financial penalty under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which went into effect last year. The law, aimed at spurring competition in digital markets, requires Big Tech companies designated as “gatekeepers” to change policies that lock consumers into their products. Like, say, the walled garden of the Apple App Store. EU regulators ruled that Apple violated the DMA by failing to fully support app developers “steering” consumers to alternative marketplaces. It’s a story Matt Binder, a senior tech reporter for Mashable, has been following.

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Apple is reportedly facing a fine from the European Union, and it could be a hefty one. It’s the first Big Tech company to be slapped with a financial penalty under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which went into effect last year. The law, aimed at spurring competition in digital markets, requires Big Tech companies designated as “gatekeepers” to change policies that lock consumers into their products. Like, say, the walled garden of the Apple App Store. EU regulators ruled that Apple violated the DMA by failing to fully support app developers “steering” consumers to alternative marketplaces. It’s a story Matt Binder, a senior tech reporter for Mashable, has been following.

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It’s not too late to change the future of AI It’s not too late to change the future of AI https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/its-not-too-late-to-change-the-future-of-ai full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:42:45 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/its-not-too-late-to-change-the-future-of-ai Gary Marcus is worried about AI. The professor emeritus at NYU doesn’t count himself a luddite or techno-pessimist. But Marcus has become one of the loudest voices of caution when it comes to AI. He’s chronicled some of the funniest and most disturbing errors made by current tools like ChatGPT, calling out the many costs – both human and environmental – of an industry that continues to accrete money and power. In his new book “Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us,” Marcus lays out his vision for a responsible path forward. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Marcus about that path and how it may be further out of reach, though not impossible, given the results of this year’s presidential election.

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Gary Marcus is worried about AI. The professor emeritus at NYU doesn’t count himself a luddite or techno-pessimist. But Marcus has become one of the loudest voices of caution when it comes to AI. He’s chronicled some of the funniest and most disturbing errors made by current tools like ChatGPT, calling out the many costs – both human and environmental – of an industry that continues to accrete money and power. In his new book “Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us,” Marcus lays out his vision for a responsible path forward. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Marcus about that path and how it may be further out of reach, though not impossible, given the results of this year’s presidential election.

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Understanding free speech in the online age Understanding free speech in the online age https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/understanding-free-speech-in-the-online-age full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:16:26 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/understanding-free-speech-in-the-online-age Do the free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment apply to online discourse? What if that online discourse spreads misinformation? Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about how we should understand the right to free speech in the internet era.

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Do the free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment apply to online discourse? What if that online discourse spreads misinformation? Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about how we should understand the right to free speech in the internet era.

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For parents, school phone bans connect to many issues For parents, school phone bans connect to many issues https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/for-parents-school-phone-bans-connect-to-many-issues full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:57:43 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/for-parents-school-phone-bans-connect-to-many-issues

This fall, California became the latest state to adopt a law banning cellphone use in schools. The Golden State joins more than a dozen that have imposed restrictions as alarm grows about the potentially harmful effects of smartphone use on students’ learning and mental health. Support for these policies spans the political spectrum. But one important constituency sometimes has a hard time adjusting: parents. Kathryn Jezer-Morton, a columnist for The Cut, wrote about the challenges of disconnecting.

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This fall, California became the latest state to adopt a law banning cellphone use in schools. The Golden State joins more than a dozen that have imposed restrictions as alarm grows about the potentially harmful effects of smartphone use on students’ learning and mental health. Support for these policies spans the political spectrum. But one important constituency sometimes has a hard time adjusting: parents. Kathryn Jezer-Morton, a columnist for The Cut, wrote about the challenges of disconnecting.

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Bytes: Week in Review — What a second Trump presidency could mean for the tech sector Bytes: Week in Review — What a second Trump presidency could mean for the tech sector https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-what-a-second-trump-presidency-could-mean-for-the-tech-sector full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:05:06 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-what-a-second-trump-presidency-could-mean-for-the-tech-sector The president-elect is also a former president who’s been a fixture in national politics for the last decade. But predicting what Donald Trump might have in mind for the tech industry in his second term based on that history, well, that’s a tough call. Trump has, at times, had strong words for some tech titans, cozied up to others, and pushed for — and then against — a TikTok ban. His first administration initiated several antitrust cases against tech companies, but Trump recently expressed skepticism about the potential breakup of Google after a federal judge ruled that its search business was a monopoly. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, a senior writer at Wired, about the future of tech antitrust policy and more in the second Trump term.

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The president-elect is also a former president who’s been a fixture in national politics for the last decade. But predicting what Donald Trump might have in mind for the tech industry in his second term based on that history, well, that’s a tough call. Trump has, at times, had strong words for some tech titans, cozied up to others, and pushed for — and then against — a TikTok ban. His first administration initiated several antitrust cases against tech companies, but Trump recently expressed skepticism about the potential breakup of Google after a federal judge ruled that its search business was a monopoly. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, a senior writer at Wired, about the future of tech antitrust policy and more in the second Trump term.

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Patience for learning wanes as students make AI a habit Patience for learning wanes as students make AI a habit https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/patience-for-learning-wanes-as-students-make-ai-a-habit full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:06:21 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/patience-for-learning-wanes-as-students-make-ai-a-habit

It has been almost two years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene and made teachers’ lives a whole lot harder. A report from Common Sense Media this fall showed that 70% of teenage students used artificial intelligence for school or fun. But a majority of those students’ parents and teachers were unaware. Leila Wheless, a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher in North Carolina, asked her students how they use the technology.

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It has been almost two years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene and made teachers’ lives a whole lot harder. A report from Common Sense Media this fall showed that 70% of teenage students used artificial intelligence for school or fun. But a majority of those students’ parents and teachers were unaware. Leila Wheless, a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher in North Carolina, asked her students how they use the technology.

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AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ais-appetite-for-electric-power-fuels-interest-in-nuclear-option full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:18:11 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ais-appetite-for-electric-power-fuels-interest-in-nuclear-option

The thing about the artificial intelligence boom is that the tech needs a lot of electricity. One estimate from Goldman Sachs suggests that largely because of AI, data centers will use 160% more electricity by 2030. It’s got Big Tech fired up about an option that’s never really been the cool kid of the clean energy class: nuclear power. Microsoft made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island plant, while Google and Amazon are investing in new types of reactors. It’s stirring something of a “nuclear revival” for the U.S. after decades of stagnation. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Anna Erickson, professor of nuclear and radiological engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about the push to revive the nuclear energy sector.

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The thing about the artificial intelligence boom is that the tech needs a lot of electricity. One estimate from Goldman Sachs suggests that largely because of AI, data centers will use 160% more electricity by 2030. It’s got Big Tech fired up about an option that’s never really been the cool kid of the clean energy class: nuclear power. Microsoft made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island plant, while Google and Amazon are investing in new types of reactors. It’s stirring something of a “nuclear revival” for the U.S. after decades of stagnation. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Anna Erickson, professor of nuclear and radiological engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about the push to revive the nuclear energy sector.

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Misinformation to guard against on Election Day Misinformation to guard against on Election Day https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/misinformation-to-guard-against-on-election-day full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:04:55 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/misinformation-to-guard-against-on-election-day It’s Election Day and even though the campaign may be over, the battle over misinformation is not. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Derek Tisler, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, about some of the misleading online narratives voters should expect to see and how to deal with them. This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.

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It’s Election Day and even though the campaign may be over, the battle over misinformation is not. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Derek Tisler, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, about some of the misleading online narratives voters should expect to see and how to deal with them. This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.

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Internet freedom takes a hit during global elections, report finds Internet freedom takes a hit during global elections, report finds https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/internet-freedom-takes-a-hit-during-global-elections-report-finds full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:03:05 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/internet-freedom-takes-a-hit-during-global-elections-report-finds In case you forgot, we’ve got Election Day tomorrow. But it was also a big year for elections in the rest of the world. About half of the global population is voting in national elections in 2024, and in many countries people have encountered shut down internet, blocked websites or manipulated content online, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Freedom House. Allie Funk leads Freedom House’s technology and democracy initiative, and she told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino this is the 14th consecutive year the report has documented a decline in human rights online.

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In case you forgot, we’ve got Election Day tomorrow. But it was also a big year for elections in the rest of the world. About half of the global population is voting in national elections in 2024, and in many countries people have encountered shut down internet, blocked websites or manipulated content online, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Freedom House. Allie Funk leads Freedom House’s technology and democracy initiative, and she told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino this is the 14th consecutive year the report has documented a decline in human rights online.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-apple-intelligence-arrives-ai-writes-googles-code-and-ai-medical-transcription-tool-hallucinates full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:04:09 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-apple-intelligence-arrives-ai-writes-googles-code-and-ai-medical-transcription-tool-hallucinates An AI transcription tool used in health care has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including making up medications. That’s just one of the topics for today’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, we’ll get into what we learned from this week’s Big Tech earnings, including Google saying that it’s using AI to generate about 25% of its code.

But first, it’s been a busy week for Apple. The company launched some of its new Apple Intelligence features and released its new lineup of Mac computers along with some souped-up chips.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to get her take on this week’s tech news.

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An AI transcription tool used in health care has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including making up medications. That’s just one of the topics for today’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, we’ll get into what we learned from this week’s Big Tech earnings, including Google saying that it’s using AI to generate about 25% of its code.

But first, it’s been a busy week for Apple. The company launched some of its new Apple Intelligence features and released its new lineup of Mac computers along with some souped-up chips.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to get her take on this week’s tech news.

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Why AI is Hollywood’s favorite monster Why AI is Hollywood’s favorite monster https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-ai-is-hollywoods-favorite-monster full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:06:45 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-ai-is-hollywoods-favorite-monster For almost a century, people have been going to the movies to get freaked out by fictional depictions of artificial intelligence. Back in 1968, there was Hal 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The 1980s gave us Skynet in “The Terminator.” And these days, movies about rogue bots are more popular than ever. Films like 2022’s “M3GAN” and this summer’s “AfrAId” seem to be channeling our worst fears about the intelligent technology increasingly embedded in our daily lives. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Shira Ovide, a tech reporter and author of The Washington Post’s “Tech Friend” newsletter, about why AI is such a compelling horror villain.

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For almost a century, people have been going to the movies to get freaked out by fictional depictions of artificial intelligence. Back in 1968, there was Hal 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The 1980s gave us Skynet in “The Terminator.” And these days, movies about rogue bots are more popular than ever. Films like 2022’s “M3GAN” and this summer’s “AfrAId” seem to be channeling our worst fears about the intelligent technology increasingly embedded in our daily lives. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Shira Ovide, a tech reporter and author of The Washington Post’s “Tech Friend” newsletter, about why AI is such a compelling horror villain.

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AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-labels-on-digital-political-ads-might-backfire-on-candidates-research-shows full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:05:07 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-labels-on-digital-political-ads-might-backfire-on-candidates-research-shows We are in the midst of the first major U.S. election of the generative AI era. The people who want to win your vote have easy access to tools that can create images, video or audio of real people doing or saying things they never did — and slap on weird appendages or other make-believe effects along with targeted slogans. But the potential to deceive has led about two dozen states to enact some form of regulation requiring political ads that use artificial intelligence to include a label. So how do voters respond when they know a campaign has used AI? That’s what Scott Brennen and his team at New York University’s Center on Technology Policy set out to answer in a recent study.

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We are in the midst of the first major U.S. election of the generative AI era. The people who want to win your vote have easy access to tools that can create images, video or audio of real people doing or saying things they never did — and slap on weird appendages or other make-believe effects along with targeted slogans. But the potential to deceive has led about two dozen states to enact some form of regulation requiring political ads that use artificial intelligence to include a label. So how do voters respond when they know a campaign has used AI? That’s what Scott Brennen and his team at New York University’s Center on Technology Policy set out to answer in a recent study.

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Illicit, sexually explicit deepfakes are becoming a problem in schools Illicit, sexually explicit deepfakes are becoming a problem in schools https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/illicit-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-are-becoming-a-problem-in-schools full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:35 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/illicit-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-are-becoming-a-problem-in-schools

We know from various studies that young people are, unsurprisingly, using generative AI tools like chatbots and image generators, sometimes for homework, sometimes for fun and sometimes for malicious purposes. A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology found that artificial intelligence is being used among high school students to create nonconsensual, illicit imagery — in other words, sexually explicit deepfakes. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Elizabeth Laird, director of equity in civic technology at CDT, to learn more.

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We know from various studies that young people are, unsurprisingly, using generative AI tools like chatbots and image generators, sometimes for homework, sometimes for fun and sometimes for malicious purposes. A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology found that artificial intelligence is being used among high school students to create nonconsensual, illicit imagery — in other words, sexually explicit deepfakes. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Elizabeth Laird, director of equity in civic technology at CDT, to learn more.

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Voice-over artists allege an AI company cloned their voices in lawsuit Voice-over artists allege an AI company cloned their voices in lawsuit https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/voice-over-artists-allege-an-ai-company-cloned-their-voices-in-lawsuit full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:09:59 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/voice-over-artists-allege-an-ai-company-cloned-their-voices-in-lawsuit With tech now able to clone voices in minutes, many people in creative industries are worried about what this could mean for their livelihoods. The BBC’s Ben Derico looks at what this AI revolution has meant for voice actors who claim to have had their likeness copied by an AI voice-generating company.

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With tech now able to clone voices in minutes, many people in creative industries are worried about what this could mean for their livelihoods. The BBC’s Ben Derico looks at what this AI revolution has meant for voice actors who claim to have had their likeness copied by an AI voice-generating company.

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Bytes: Week in Review — A fraying tech “bromance,” Claude’s new skills and a robotics boom Bytes: Week in Review — A fraying tech “bromance,” Claude’s new skills and a robotics boom https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-a-fraying-tech-bromance-claudes-new-skills-and-a-robotics-boom full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:05:31 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-a-fraying-tech-bromance-claudes-new-skills-and-a-robotics-boom The next big thing in Silicon Valley might just be an old-fashioned concept: humanoid robots that can mimic our physical abilities. Developments in AI are triggering renewed interest in the robotics industry. And Anthropic’s latest Claude model can control a computer on its own, which could have implications for the future of work. But first, is the “best bromance in tech” starting to sour? That’s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once described his company’s partnership with Microsoft, but recently the alliance has shown signs of tension. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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The next big thing in Silicon Valley might just be an old-fashioned concept: humanoid robots that can mimic our physical abilities. Developments in AI are triggering renewed interest in the robotics industry. And Anthropic’s latest Claude model can control a computer on its own, which could have implications for the future of work. But first, is the “best bromance in tech” starting to sour? That’s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once described his company’s partnership with Microsoft, but recently the alliance has shown signs of tension. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/apple-answers-the-call-for-iphone-repairability full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:12:08 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/apple-answers-the-call-for-iphone-repairability

There’s a movement to make it possible to repair our gadgets ourselves instead of having to send them back to the company that makes them or, you know, just get a new one. The “right to repair” movement in consumer electronics has made real gains in recent years. Several states, like California, New York and Oregon, have passed legislation requiring it. And it looks like Apple’s newest iPhone — the 16 — has made strides in that department. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Kyle Wiens, CEO of the online repair guide iFixit, about the iPhone 16’s improved repairability.

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There’s a movement to make it possible to repair our gadgets ourselves instead of having to send them back to the company that makes them or, you know, just get a new one. The “right to repair” movement in consumer electronics has made real gains in recent years. Several states, like California, New York and Oregon, have passed legislation requiring it. And it looks like Apple’s newest iPhone — the 16 — has made strides in that department. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Kyle Wiens, CEO of the online repair guide iFixit, about the iPhone 16’s improved repairability.

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no 00:09:30 1287812
On Instagram, politics is the new taboo On Instagram, politics is the new taboo https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/on-instagram-politics-is-the-new-taboo-2 full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:05:44 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/on-instagram-politics-is-the-new-taboo-2 A content creator who goes by the username Mrs. Frazzled recently noticed something strange happening on her Instagram account. With more than 370,000 followers, her videos sometimes score millions of views. Except, it seems, when she talks about the election. Mrs. Frazzled sensed she was being shadowbanned by Instagram, so Geoffrey Fowler, a tech columnist at The Washington Post, investigated. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Fowler about what he found.

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A content creator who goes by the username Mrs. Frazzled recently noticed something strange happening on her Instagram account. With more than 370,000 followers, her videos sometimes score millions of views. Except, it seems, when she talks about the election. Mrs. Frazzled sensed she was being shadowbanned by Instagram, so Geoffrey Fowler, a tech columnist at The Washington Post, investigated. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Fowler about what he found.

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How tech is boosting the turnout of disabled voters How tech is boosting the turnout of disabled voters https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-tech-is-boosting-the-turnout-of-disabled-voters full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:06:26 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-tech-is-boosting-the-turnout-of-disabled-voters Trying to vote when your disabled can present a series of obstacles but technology can help, even if integrating technology into our election system has its risks. Back in 2020, several states changed their voting rules with more mail-in, early, and remote voting options which increased turnout among disabled voters. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Michelle Bishop, voter access and engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, about finding the right balance of tech integration into our elections in order to empower more disabled voters in the U.S.

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Trying to vote when your disabled can present a series of obstacles but technology can help, even if integrating technology into our election system has its risks. Back in 2020, several states changed their voting rules with more mail-in, early, and remote voting options which increased turnout among disabled voters. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Michelle Bishop, voter access and engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, about finding the right balance of tech integration into our elections in order to empower more disabled voters in the U.S.

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How Big Tech is courting Big Oil How Big Tech is courting Big Oil https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-big-tech-is-courting-big-oil full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:06:06 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-big-tech-is-courting-big-oil Artificial intelligence, according to its boosters, could help us unlock solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, like climate change. But in the meantime, it’s become a key tool for fossil fuel companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron to maximize the extraction of emissions-producing oil and gas. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to freelance reporter Karen Hao, who recently wrote in The Atlantic about how Microsoft has actively courted the fossil fuel industry.

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Artificial intelligence, according to its boosters, could help us unlock solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, like climate change. But in the meantime, it’s become a key tool for fossil fuel companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron to maximize the extraction of emissions-producing oil and gas. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to freelance reporter Karen Hao, who recently wrote in The Atlantic about how Microsoft has actively courted the fossil fuel industry.

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no 00:14:15 1286990
Bytes: Week in Review — SpaceX vs. California, and AI crawlers and VC dollars Bytes: Week in Review — SpaceX vs. California, and AI crawlers and VC dollars https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-spacex-vs-california-and-ai-crawlers-and-vc-dollars full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:08:45 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-spacex-vs-california-and-ai-crawlers-and-vc-dollars Web crawlers scan and catalog sites all over the internet and, in the AI era, use that data to train chatbots. We’ll talk about why The New York Times is trying to put a stop to crawlers from the AI company Perplexity. We’ll also discuss the record share of venture capital dollars flowing into the AI sector and the difficulty of attracting investment for startups without those two magic letters. Plus, the ups and downs of SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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Web crawlers scan and catalog sites all over the internet and, in the AI era, use that data to train chatbots. We’ll talk about why The New York Times is trying to put a stop to crawlers from the AI company Perplexity. We’ll also discuss the record share of venture capital dollars flowing into the AI sector and the difficulty of attracting investment for startups without those two magic letters. Plus, the ups and downs of SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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Why presidential candidates are embracing podcast interviews Why presidential candidates are embracing podcast interviews https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/trump-harris-presidential-candidates-podcast-interviews full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:08:09 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/trump-harris-presidential-candidates-podcast-interviews

Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first interview on Fox News Wednesday as the Democratic presidential candidate continued her media blitz ahead of the November election. And while it’s generating plenty of headlines, these kinds of big interviews just don’t hold the power they used to, according to Nick Quah, a podcast and culture critic at New York Magazine who’s been following the candidates’ interviews on the alternative media circuit. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Quah about how Kamala Harris’ appearance on more internet-native shows like the podcast “Call Her Daddy” or Donald Trump’s appearances on various “bro-centric” shows like Logan Paul ‘sYouTube channel represent a notable media shift compared to previous elections.

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Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first interview on Fox News Wednesday as the Democratic presidential candidate continued her media blitz ahead of the November election. And while it’s generating plenty of headlines, these kinds of big interviews just don’t hold the power they used to, according to Nick Quah, a podcast and culture critic at New York Magazine who’s been following the candidates’ interviews on the alternative media circuit. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Quah about how Kamala Harris’ appearance on more internet-native shows like the podcast “Call Her Daddy” or Donald Trump’s appearances on various “bro-centric” shows like Logan Paul ‘sYouTube channel represent a notable media shift compared to previous elections.

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After years of missed deadlines, Tesla enters the robotaxi race After years of missed deadlines, Tesla enters the robotaxi race https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/after-years-of-missed-deadlines-tesla-enters-the-robotaxi-race full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:08:42 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/after-years-of-missed-deadlines-tesla-enters-the-robotaxi-race After years of hype, Tesla finally debuted a robotaxi called the Cybercab last week. CEO Elon Musk has been making and breaking promises about Tesla’s autonomous vehicle for years. So, did the debut of the Cybercab finally deliver? Andrew Hawkins, transportation editor for The Verge, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino what the Cybercab unveiling means for Musk and for Tesla.

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After years of hype, Tesla finally debuted a robotaxi called the Cybercab last week. CEO Elon Musk has been making and breaking promises about Tesla’s autonomous vehicle for years. So, did the debut of the Cybercab finally deliver? Andrew Hawkins, transportation editor for The Verge, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino what the Cybercab unveiling means for Musk and for Tesla.

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A deluge of online misinformation obscures FEMA disaster relief efforts A deluge of online misinformation obscures FEMA disaster relief efforts https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/online-misinformation-obscures-fema-disaster-relief-efforts full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:07:04 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/online-misinformation-obscures-fema-disaster-relief-efforts Online misinformation about Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and about the relief response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have surged in recent weeks, including false narratives of aid being withheld from victims for their political beliefs and aid being stolen by undocumented immigrants. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Ethan Porter, professor of media, public affairs and political science at George Washington University, about why there’s been so much misinformation about these natural disasters and FEMA’s relief response.

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Online misinformation about Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and about the relief response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have surged in recent weeks, including false narratives of aid being withheld from victims for their political beliefs and aid being stolen by undocumented immigrants. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Ethan Porter, professor of media, public affairs and political science at George Washington University, about why there’s been so much misinformation about these natural disasters and FEMA’s relief response.

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TikTok creators don’t want a ban TikTok creators don’t want a ban https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tiktok-creators-dont-want-a-ban full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:07:11 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tiktok-creators-dont-want-a-ban TikTok has a lot going on legally these days. Last week, it saw a fresh round of lawsuits alleging the short-form video app harms children. And then there’s the federal law that could ban the app if ByteDance, its China-based owner, doesn’t divest by January. TikTok has sued to block that law. Oral arguments in TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland were heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in September. The company is joined by eight TikTok creators as plaintiffs in the case, and one of them is Talia Cadet. She has nearly 140,000 followers on TikTok, where she produces lifestyle videos focused on her love of books and travel. She talked with Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino about the case.

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TikTok has a lot going on legally these days. Last week, it saw a fresh round of lawsuits alleging the short-form video app harms children. And then there’s the federal law that could ban the app if ByteDance, its China-based owner, doesn’t divest by January. TikTok has sued to block that law. Oral arguments in TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland were heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in September. The company is joined by eight TikTok creators as plaintiffs in the case, and one of them is Talia Cadet. She has nearly 140,000 followers on TikTok, where she produces lifestyle videos focused on her love of books and travel. She talked with Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino about the case.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Breaking up Google, TikTok troubles and the “Godfather of AI” gets a Nobel Prize Bytes: Week in Review — Breaking up Google, TikTok troubles and the “Godfather of AI” gets a Nobel Prize https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-breaking-up-google-tiktok-troubles-and-the-godfather-of-ai-gets-a-nobel-prize full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:07:14 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-breaking-up-google-tiktok-troubles-and-the-godfather-of-ai-gets-a-nobel-prize TikTok is facing yet another legal challenge. This week, attorneys general from 13 states plus Washington, D.C., sued the short-form video app, alleging that it harms children. We’ll be digging into the latest lawsuits on today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” our roundup of the week’s top tech headlines. Like the so-called Godfather of AI who is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics. Plus, the U.S. government is weighing what to do about Google after its search business was ruled a monopoly earlier this year. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.

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TikTok is facing yet another legal challenge. This week, attorneys general from 13 states plus Washington, D.C., sued the short-form video app, alleging that it harms children. We’ll be digging into the latest lawsuits on today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” our roundup of the week’s top tech headlines. Like the so-called Godfather of AI who is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics. Plus, the U.S. government is weighing what to do about Google after its search business was ruled a monopoly earlier this year. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.

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Some of the walls around Meta’s Threads app are coming down Some of the walls around Meta’s Threads app are coming down https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/some-of-the-walls-around-metas-threads-app-are-coming-down full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:06:25 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/some-of-the-walls-around-metas-threads-app-are-coming-down

The new kid on the block of social media, Meta’s Threads, hit 200 million active users in August. When it launched in the summer of 2023 as a rival to the platform formerly known as Twitter, Meta said the app would eventually be integrated into the so-called fediverse. This “federated universe” is the most prominent example of a decentralized social network in which users can join any affiliated platform and interact with content from all the others. Recently, Meta took some steps to integrate Threads into this ecosystem, and Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, has been following the developments.

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The new kid on the block of social media, Meta’s Threads, hit 200 million active users in August. When it launched in the summer of 2023 as a rival to the platform formerly known as Twitter, Meta said the app would eventually be integrated into the so-called fediverse. This “federated universe” is the most prominent example of a decentralized social network in which users can join any affiliated platform and interact with content from all the others. Recently, Meta took some steps to integrate Threads into this ecosystem, and Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, has been following the developments.

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Do paid data-removal services pay off? Do paid data-removal services pay off? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/do-paid-data-removal-services-pay-off full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:06:06 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/do-paid-data-removal-services-pay-off A lot of personal data – stuff like your home address, phone number, marital status and more – is out there on the internet. Anyone can buy it from sites like Whitepages, PeopleFinders or Intelius, which aggregate data from public records and social media. You can contact each of these “people search” sites and request they take down your information, but it’s a bit of a game of whack-a-mole. Naturally, a whole industry of data-removal services has sprung up. For a price, they promise to do the dirty work for you. But do they deliver? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Yael Grauer, a researcher at Consumer Reports, who recently looked into the efficacy of the data-removal industry.

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A lot of personal data – stuff like your home address, phone number, marital status and more – is out there on the internet. Anyone can buy it from sites like Whitepages, PeopleFinders or Intelius, which aggregate data from public records and social media. You can contact each of these “people search” sites and request they take down your information, but it’s a bit of a game of whack-a-mole. Naturally, a whole industry of data-removal services has sprung up. For a price, they promise to do the dirty work for you. But do they deliver? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Yael Grauer, a researcher at Consumer Reports, who recently looked into the efficacy of the data-removal industry.

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A “village” of hackers is beefing up election security A “village” of hackers is beefing up election security https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-village-of-hackers-is-beefing-up-election-security full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-village-of-hackers-is-beefing-up-election-security

Until about a decade ago, independent cybersecurity researchers in the U.S. weren’t allowed to examine voting machines for potential vulnerabilities. But that ban was essentially lifted in 2015. Two years later, DEF CON — one of the largest hacker conventions — decided to invite hackers, cybersecurity researchers and election officials to find those flaws during its annual Voting Village event. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Catherine Terranova, executive director of Voting Village, about how they balance the well-intentioned work of finding vulnerabilities before bad actors do and the problem of misinformation around the security of voting machines.

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Until about a decade ago, independent cybersecurity researchers in the U.S. weren’t allowed to examine voting machines for potential vulnerabilities. But that ban was essentially lifted in 2015. Two years later, DEF CON — one of the largest hacker conventions — decided to invite hackers, cybersecurity researchers and election officials to find those flaws during its annual Voting Village event. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Catherine Terranova, executive director of Voting Village, about how they balance the well-intentioned work of finding vulnerabilities before bad actors do and the problem of misinformation around the security of voting machines.

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The quest to discover the creator of bitcoin The quest to discover the creator of bitcoin https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-quest-to-discover-the-creator-of-bitcoin full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:05:38 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-quest-to-discover-the-creator-of-bitcoin It’s been more than 15 years since the digital currency bitcoin was launched, going from a fringe phenomenon in the dark corners of the internet to an asset traded on Wall Street. But the identity of bitcoin’s creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained a mystery wrapped in a cryptographic enigma. Now, investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback may have cracked the case. His last HBO series “Into the Storm” uncovered the origins of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In his new documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” Hoback sets out to answer the elusive question: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? To prevent any spoilers, we’ll keep his conclusions secret.

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It’s been more than 15 years since the digital currency bitcoin was launched, going from a fringe phenomenon in the dark corners of the internet to an asset traded on Wall Street. But the identity of bitcoin’s creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained a mystery wrapped in a cryptographic enigma. Now, investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback may have cracked the case. His last HBO series “Into the Storm” uncovered the origins of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In his new documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” Hoback sets out to answer the elusive question: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? To prevent any spoilers, we’ll keep his conclusions secret.

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Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s valuation doubles, biotech investment grows and a prescription giant is acquired Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s valuation doubles, biotech investment grows and a prescription giant is acquired https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-openais-valuation-doubles-biotech-investment-grows-and-a-prescription-giant-is-acquired full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:55:22 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-openais-valuation-doubles-biotech-investment-grows-and-a-prescription-giant-is-acquired Investors are once again pouring money into biotechnology startups. But this time, it feels different from the heyday of 2021. We’ll be digging into the latest data for today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” our roundup of the week’s top headlines, including some you might have missed.

We’ll also talk about a private equity deal with the country’s biggest digital pharmacy platform. But first, OpenAI closes a historic funding round. The maker of ChatGPT raised another $6.6 billion — valuing the company at $157 billion, double its worth earlier this year.

Our regular contributor Christina Farr, managing director with Manatt Health, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to discuss the news.

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Investors are once again pouring money into biotechnology startups. But this time, it feels different from the heyday of 2021. We’ll be digging into the latest data for today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” our roundup of the week’s top headlines, including some you might have missed.

We’ll also talk about a private equity deal with the country’s biggest digital pharmacy platform. But first, OpenAI closes a historic funding round. The maker of ChatGPT raised another $6.6 billion — valuing the company at $157 billion, double its worth earlier this year.

Our regular contributor Christina Farr, managing director with Manatt Health, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to discuss the news.

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The AI-crypto power struggle The AI-crypto power struggle https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ai-crypto-power-struggle full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:43:38 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ai-crypto-power-struggle

All those fancy artificial intelligence systems need a lot of data centers to run, and those data centers need a lot of energy. One estimate from the Electric Power Research Institute suggests that current data center electricity consumption in the U.S. will more than double by 2030, making up about 9% of all energy use. But the AI sector is coming up against the big energy-hungry tech innovation of yesteryear: crypto mining. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Reuters reporter Laila Kearney about the scramble to power up in both industries.

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All those fancy artificial intelligence systems need a lot of data centers to run, and those data centers need a lot of energy. One estimate from the Electric Power Research Institute suggests that current data center electricity consumption in the U.S. will more than double by 2030, making up about 9% of all energy use. But the AI sector is coming up against the big energy-hungry tech innovation of yesteryear: crypto mining. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Reuters reporter Laila Kearney about the scramble to power up in both industries.

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In most voting precincts, no-tech ballot counting is a nonstarter In most voting precincts, no-tech ballot counting is a nonstarter https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/in-most-voting-precincts-no-tech-ballot-counting-is-a-nonstarter full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:45:16 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/in-most-voting-precincts-no-tech-ballot-counting-is-a-nonstarter

Today we’re talking about voting tech and the push in some areas to move away from machines and go back to hand counting ballots. A legal battle is brewing in Georgia over a new rule requiring ballots be hand counted on election night to ensure the tally matches electronic records. Arizona has added a similar requirement. The issue has become particularly mired in misinformation in recent years, with some election deniers questioning the security of the tech used in our elections. While some may believe hand counts are more accurate, the number of jurisdictions across the country relying on them on election night has been steadily dropping. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Pam Smith, president and CEO of the nonpartisan organization Verified Voting, about why the practice of counting ballots by hand is waning.

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Today we’re talking about voting tech and the push in some areas to move away from machines and go back to hand counting ballots. A legal battle is brewing in Georgia over a new rule requiring ballots be hand counted on election night to ensure the tally matches electronic records. Arizona has added a similar requirement. The issue has become particularly mired in misinformation in recent years, with some election deniers questioning the security of the tech used in our elections. While some may believe hand counts are more accurate, the number of jurisdictions across the country relying on them on election night has been steadily dropping. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Pam Smith, president and CEO of the nonpartisan organization Verified Voting, about why the practice of counting ballots by hand is waning.

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What do generative AI and social media have in common? A lack of regulation. What do generative AI and social media have in common? A lack of regulation. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-do-generative-ai-and-social-media-have-in-common-a-lack-of-regulation full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:06:12 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-do-generative-ai-and-social-media-have-in-common-a-lack-of-regulation

This week, we’re talking about how teenagers are using artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators, often without the knowledge of their parents and teachers, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Common Sense Media. Monday we heard about that research from Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of the group. And now we want to home in on a specific piece of what he said: “If you look back at the advent of social media, about 20 years ago, we pretty much blew the regulatory side of that, but also the educating teachers and parents part of that. And we left kids on their own.” So we called up Nathan Sanders, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, who has written about the overlapping risks of AI and social media.

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This week, we’re talking about how teenagers are using artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators, often without the knowledge of their parents and teachers, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Common Sense Media. Monday we heard about that research from Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of the group. And now we want to home in on a specific piece of what he said: “If you look back at the advent of social media, about 20 years ago, we pretty much blew the regulatory side of that, but also the educating teachers and parents part of that. And we left kids on their own.” So we called up Nathan Sanders, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, who has written about the overlapping risks of AI and social media.

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Parents, educators are unaware how their students use generative AI, report finds Parents, educators are unaware how their students use generative AI, report finds https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/parents-educators-are-unaware-how-their-students-use-generative-ai-report-finds full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:13:14 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/parents-educators-are-unaware-how-their-students-use-generative-ai-report-finds As soon as ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it became clear that artificial intelligence was going to send massive shockwaves through education. And, as with any new technology, young people were likely to adopt it more quickly. Well, now we have some data about that phenomenon. A new report from the non-profit Common Sense Media shows seven in 10 teenagers from ages 13-18 are using generative AI in some way. And Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino it’s not all about cheating.

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As soon as ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it became clear that artificial intelligence was going to send massive shockwaves through education. And, as with any new technology, young people were likely to adopt it more quickly. Well, now we have some data about that phenomenon. A new report from the non-profit Common Sense Media shows seven in 10 teenagers from ages 13-18 are using generative AI in some way. And Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino it’s not all about cheating.

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Bytes: Week in Review — X’s transparency report, Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” and Meta’s celebrity chatbots Bytes: Week in Review — X’s transparency report, Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” and Meta’s celebrity chatbots https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-xs-transparency-report-sam-altmans-intelligence-age-and-metas-celebrity-chatbots full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:10:33 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-xs-transparency-report-sam-altmans-intelligence-age-and-metas-celebrity-chatbots It’s perhaps not a big surprise, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a very optimistic take on what his company’s technology could mean for the world. He shared his vision of a near future transformed by ever-advancing artificial intelligence systems in a much-discussed blog post earlier this week. Plus, Meta revealed more of its AI plans at its big developer conference including another go at celebrity chatbots. But first, X, formerly Twitter, finally released a new transparency report. It’s the first one since 2022, when Elon Musk bought the platform. And it’s full of data on reported abuse, harassment, how many accounts were suspended and more. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed these topics and more with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, on this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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It’s perhaps not a big surprise, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a very optimistic take on what his company’s technology could mean for the world. He shared his vision of a near future transformed by ever-advancing artificial intelligence systems in a much-discussed blog post earlier this week. Plus, Meta revealed more of its AI plans at its big developer conference including another go at celebrity chatbots. But first, X, formerly Twitter, finally released a new transparency report. It’s the first one since 2022, when Elon Musk bought the platform. And it’s full of data on reported abuse, harassment, how many accounts were suspended and more. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed these topics and more with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, on this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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Commercial space travel is risky business Commercial space travel is risky business https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/commercial-space-travel-is-risky-business full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:08:51 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/commercial-space-travel-is-risky-business SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history this month with the first-ever commercial spacewalk. It seems space travel is no longer reserved for highly trained government astronauts, but increasingly open to anyone with the funds (and the courage) to try it. But before we all go strapping on our spacesuits, Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, says we need to be clear-eyed about the risks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Impey about those risks and the rewards that might make them worth it.

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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history this month with the first-ever commercial spacewalk. It seems space travel is no longer reserved for highly trained government astronauts, but increasingly open to anyone with the funds (and the courage) to try it. But before we all go strapping on our spacesuits, Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, says we need to be clear-eyed about the risks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Impey about those risks and the rewards that might make them worth it.

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Inside the data center capital of the world Inside the data center capital of the world https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/inside-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:06:09 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/inside-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world The infrastructure that enabled Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom is not located in California, but rather in northern Virginia. How did the region become the data center capital of the world? And what does it mean for tech companies, the local economy and residents? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has the story.

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The infrastructure that enabled Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom is not located in California, but rather in northern Virginia. How did the region become the data center capital of the world? And what does it mean for tech companies, the local economy and residents? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has the story.

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VoteFlare’s mission to upgrade voter communication VoteFlare’s mission to upgrade voter communication https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/voteflares-mission-to-upgrade-voter-communication full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:11:39 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/voteflares-mission-to-upgrade-voter-communication

There have been a lot of rumors and misinformation recently about voter registration and voter list maintenance, adding confusion to what experts say are secure processes. And while election officials regularly update voter lists, it’s become increasingly important that individuals also keep their voter registration information up to date. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Josh Visnaw,  project manager at a Harvard University initiative called VoteFlare, about the challenges of maintaining accurate voter lists and how VoteFlare is trying to help.

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There have been a lot of rumors and misinformation recently about voter registration and voter list maintenance, adding confusion to what experts say are secure processes. And while election officials regularly update voter lists, it’s become increasingly important that individuals also keep their voter registration information up to date. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Josh Visnaw,  project manager at a Harvard University initiative called VoteFlare, about the challenges of maintaining accurate voter lists and how VoteFlare is trying to help.

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How teenagers can get hooked on sports betting How teenagers can get hooked on sports betting https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-teenagers-can-get-hooked-on-sports-betting full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:03:53 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-teenagers-can-get-hooked-on-sports-betting You might say online gambling has been on a winning streak since a Supreme Court decision in 2018 cleared the way for states to allow sports betting. It’s now legal in 30 states and its influence is hard to miss: online sportsbook companies like DraftKings and FanDuel are on billboards, commercials even college campuses, many of which have made deals with sports betting companies. Yanely Espinal, host of Marketplace’s “Financially Inclined” podcast, recently covered this topic on her show and she explained to Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino how these online betting companies are reeling in younger users.

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You might say online gambling has been on a winning streak since a Supreme Court decision in 2018 cleared the way for states to allow sports betting. It’s now legal in 30 states and its influence is hard to miss: online sportsbook companies like DraftKings and FanDuel are on billboards, commercials even college campuses, many of which have made deals with sports betting companies. Yanely Espinal, host of Marketplace’s “Financially Inclined” podcast, recently covered this topic on her show and she explained to Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino how these online betting companies are reeling in younger users.

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Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Senate weighs AI regulation, Instagram launches teen accounts and AirPods aid the hard of hearing Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Senate weighs AI regulation, Instagram launches teen accounts and AirPods aid the hard of hearing https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-senate-weighs-ai-regulation-instagram-launches-teen-accounts-and-airpods-aid-the-heard-of-hearing full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:04:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-senate-weighs-ai-regulation-instagram-launches-teen-accounts-and-airpods-aid-the-heard-of-hearing This week, Meta announced teen accounts with a slew of new safety features. We’ve also got Apple news to talk about — no, not the latest iPhones or watches, but new functionality for AirPods that basically turns them into hearing aids. First, though, are we ready for artificial general intelligence, or AGI, that could match or exceed human capabilities? It could be a mere one to three years away, according to testimony at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday. A number of AI insiders spoke, including former Google and OpenAI researchers and Georgetown’s Helen Toner, who explained the stakes. “That technology will be at a minimum extraordinarily disruptive and at a maximum could lead to literal human extinction,” she said. “So I would argue that a wait-and-see approach to policy is not an option.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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This week, Meta announced teen accounts with a slew of new safety features. We’ve also got Apple news to talk about — no, not the latest iPhones or watches, but new functionality for AirPods that basically turns them into hearing aids. First, though, are we ready for artificial general intelligence, or AGI, that could match or exceed human capabilities? It could be a mere one to three years away, according to testimony at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday. A number of AI insiders spoke, including former Google and OpenAI researchers and Georgetown’s Helen Toner, who explained the stakes. “That technology will be at a minimum extraordinarily disruptive and at a maximum could lead to literal human extinction,” she said. “So I would argue that a wait-and-see approach to policy is not an option.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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Polling response rates are dropping. AI chatbots could be the solution. Polling response rates are dropping. AI chatbots could be the solution. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/polling-response-rates-are-dropping-ai-chatbots-could-be-the-solution full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:07:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/polling-response-rates-are-dropping-ai-chatbots-could-be-the-solution In this tense election year, polling is top of mind. But collecting polling data has become harder. It often relies on people actually answering the phone and then speaking frankly to a pollster, both of which are becoming less common. The result has been data that is less predictive, and repeated misses in recent elections have made the public much more skeptical. Polling, it seems, needs an update for the digital age. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Bruce Schneier, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, who says AI can help.

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In this tense election year, polling is top of mind. But collecting polling data has become harder. It often relies on people actually answering the phone and then speaking frankly to a pollster, both of which are becoming less common. The result has been data that is less predictive, and repeated misses in recent elections have made the public much more skeptical. Polling, it seems, needs an update for the digital age. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Bruce Schneier, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, who says AI can help.

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An appeals court heard arguments on TikTok’s ban-or-sale case. What’s next? An appeals court heard arguments on TikTok’s ban-or-sale case. What’s next? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/an-appeals-court-heard-arguments-on-tiktoks-ban-or-sale-case-whats-next full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:27:14 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/an-appeals-court-heard-arguments-on-tiktoks-ban-or-sale-case-whats-next

A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in a case that pits the First Amendment against national security. TikTok sued to block a bipartisan-backed law that will ban the Chinese-owned app in the U.S. by January 19 — unless it finds a U.S. buyer. This week, the government argued the app gives China access to Americans’ sensitive data, as well as the ability to spread propaganda. While TikTok argued it’s been unfairly singled out and that a sale isn’t the only way to address security concerns. TikTok touts 170 million users in the U.S., and that includes both candidates for president. A group of U.S.-based creators have also joined as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Anupam Chander, professor of law and technology at Georgetown University, walked Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino through the arguments in the case.

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A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in a case that pits the First Amendment against national security. TikTok sued to block a bipartisan-backed law that will ban the Chinese-owned app in the U.S. by January 19 — unless it finds a U.S. buyer. This week, the government argued the app gives China access to Americans’ sensitive data, as well as the ability to spread propaganda. While TikTok argued it’s been unfairly singled out and that a sale isn’t the only way to address security concerns. TikTok touts 170 million users in the U.S., and that includes both candidates for president. A group of U.S.-based creators have also joined as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Anupam Chander, professor of law and technology at Georgetown University, walked Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino through the arguments in the case.

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States step in to regulate digital replicas States step in to regulate digital replicas https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/states-step-in-to-regulate-digital-replicas full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:05:32 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/states-step-in-to-regulate-digital-replicas

The bipartisan NO FAKES Act, aimed at regulating deepfakes created with the aid of artificial intelligence, moved forward in the House of Representatives last week after it was introduced in the Senate in July. But in the absence of federal rules, several states have already stepped in. Last month, California became the third to back legislation regulating digital replicas. The home of Hollywood follows Tennessee, which earlier this year passed a ban on unauthorized deepfakes known as the ELVIS Act, and Illinois, which enacted a similar law last month. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Steve Brachmann, a freelance journalist specializing in intellectual property law, to learn about how these bans work.

 

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The bipartisan NO FAKES Act, aimed at regulating deepfakes created with the aid of artificial intelligence, moved forward in the House of Representatives last week after it was introduced in the Senate in July. But in the absence of federal rules, several states have already stepped in. Last month, California became the third to back legislation regulating digital replicas. The home of Hollywood follows Tennessee, which earlier this year passed a ban on unauthorized deepfakes known as the ELVIS Act, and Illinois, which enacted a similar law last month. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Steve Brachmann, a freelance journalist specializing in intellectual property law, to learn about how these bans work.

 

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Telegram-linked ads on Meta platforms may promote illegal activity, report finds Telegram-linked ads on Meta platforms may promote illegal activity, report finds https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/telegram-linked-ads-on-meta-platforms-may-promote-illegal-activity-report-finds full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:13:44 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/telegram-linked-ads-on-meta-platforms-may-promote-illegal-activity-report-finds Late last month, the CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram was arrested in France. Authorities there have charged Pavel Durov with being complicit in illegal activities conducted on the platform due to a lack of content moderation. A recent report from the research group Cybersecurity for Democracy shows some of that activity is finding its way onto other platforms. Senior Fellow Yaël Eisenstat looked at advertisements on Meta platforms that linked back to Telegram, and found that a majority were promoting channels with potentially illegal activities.

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Late last month, the CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram was arrested in France. Authorities there have charged Pavel Durov with being complicit in illegal activities conducted on the platform due to a lack of content moderation. A recent report from the research group Cybersecurity for Democracy shows some of that activity is finding its way onto other platforms. Senior Fellow Yaël Eisenstat looked at advertisements on Meta platforms that linked back to Telegram, and found that a majority were promoting channels with potentially illegal activities.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Google on trial, underwater data centers and how AI spurred a celebrity endorsement Bytes: Week in Review — Google on trial, underwater data centers and how AI spurred a celebrity endorsement https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-google-on-trial-underwater-data-centers-and-how-ai-spurred-a-celebrity-endorsement full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:06:34 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-google-on-trial-underwater-data-centers-and-how-ai-spurred-a-celebrity-endorsement It’s Friday, which means it’s time for our weekly review of some of the big stories making headlines in tech. First: No, you’re not having déjà vu all over again. Google really is back in court this week for its second antitrust trial of the year. Plus, a startup in Silicon Valley wants to make AI data centers more sustainable by putting them underwater in the San Francisco Bay, but regulators have questions. And Taylor Swift announced she is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election. She took to Instagram on Tuesday night to publish her stance, citing artificial intelligence-enabled misinformation as a driving force. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, for his take on this week’s tech news.

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It’s Friday, which means it’s time for our weekly review of some of the big stories making headlines in tech. First: No, you’re not having déjà vu all over again. Google really is back in court this week for its second antitrust trial of the year. Plus, a startup in Silicon Valley wants to make AI data centers more sustainable by putting them underwater in the San Francisco Bay, but regulators have questions. And Taylor Swift announced she is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election. She took to Instagram on Tuesday night to publish her stance, citing artificial intelligence-enabled misinformation as a driving force. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, for his take on this week’s tech news.

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Crypto emerges as a funding powerhouse in the election Crypto emerges as a funding powerhouse in the election https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/crypto-emerges-as-a-funding-powerhouse-in-the-election full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:09:38 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/crypto-emerges-as-a-funding-powerhouse-in-the-election

The cryptocurrency industry has been fairly quiet recently, with the scandals around the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and its former chief executive, Sam Bankman-Fried, fading from the headlines. But behind the scenes, the industry has become a bit of a power player in the 2024 elections — funding political ads, endorsing House and Senate candidates and raising millions of dollars, according to a recent report from the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Axios reporter Brady Dale, author of the Axios Crypto newsletter, to learn more.

 

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The cryptocurrency industry has been fairly quiet recently, with the scandals around the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and its former chief executive, Sam Bankman-Fried, fading from the headlines. But behind the scenes, the industry has become a bit of a power player in the 2024 elections — funding political ads, endorsing House and Senate candidates and raising millions of dollars, according to a recent report from the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Axios reporter Brady Dale, author of the Axios Crypto newsletter, to learn more.

 

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Big Tech’s pivot away from diversity efforts Big Tech’s pivot away from diversity efforts https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/big-techs-pivot-away-from-diversity-efforts full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:14:48 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/big-techs-pivot-away-from-diversity-efforts

Over the last couple of years, the tech industry has slashed hundreds of thousands of jobs, many of them in recruiting and other departments working to improve diversity. Companies like Meta and Google, which earlier set ambitious hiring and investment goals, have pulled resources from those efforts. As a result, many nonprofit groups set up to train and recruit underrepresented workers are struggling to stay afloat. One prominent person in the field is Lisa Mae Brunson, founder of the nonprofit Wonder Women Tech. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked her how things have changed.

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Over the last couple of years, the tech industry has slashed hundreds of thousands of jobs, many of them in recruiting and other departments working to improve diversity. Companies like Meta and Google, which earlier set ambitious hiring and investment goals, have pulled resources from those efforts. As a result, many nonprofit groups set up to train and recruit underrepresented workers are struggling to stay afloat. One prominent person in the field is Lisa Mae Brunson, founder of the nonprofit Wonder Women Tech. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked her how things have changed.

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The threat posed by rumors of noncitizen voting The threat posed by rumors of noncitizen voting https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-threat-posed-by-rumors-of-noncitizen-voting full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:05:14 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-threat-posed-by-rumors-of-noncitizen-voting

Among the trends of mis- and disinformation spreading ahead of the 2024 election is the narrative that large groups of noncitizens are illegally voting. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Danielle Lee Tomson, a research manager with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, about how this narrative is affecting the November election.

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Among the trends of mis- and disinformation spreading ahead of the 2024 election is the narrative that large groups of noncitizens are illegally voting. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Danielle Lee Tomson, a research manager with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, about how this narrative is affecting the November election.

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SpaceX comes to NASA’s rescue SpaceX comes to NASA’s rescue https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/spacex-comes-to-nasas-rescue full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:04:22 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/spacex-comes-to-nasas-rescue On Friday, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to return to Earth without its crew. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stayed behind due to uncertainty about the safety of the Boeing craft. The duo will instead hitch a ride back on a SpaceX mission set to arrive at the ISS in February. It’s another win for the Elon Musk-owned company, which has come to dominate rocket launches in the U.S. But NASA’s reliance on SpaceX now is a bit of a reversal, according to Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program.

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On Friday, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to return to Earth without its crew. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stayed behind due to uncertainty about the safety of the Boeing craft. The duo will instead hitch a ride back on a SpaceX mission set to arrive at the ISS in February. It’s another win for the Elon Musk-owned company, which has come to dominate rocket launches in the U.S. But NASA’s reliance on SpaceX now is a bit of a reversal, according to Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program.

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Bytes: Week in Review —  the X ban, Apple’s AI and airplane Wi-Fi gets upgraded Bytes: Week in Review —  the X ban, Apple’s AI and airplane Wi-Fi gets upgraded https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-the-x-ban-apples-ai-and-airplane-wi-fi-gets-upgraded full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:07:28 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-the-x-ban-apples-ai-and-airplane-wi-fi-gets-upgraded If you’re an Apple fan, you probably didn’t miss the speculation surrounding the upcoming iPhone 16 launch event next week. Many expect the tech giant to reveal more about how its artificial intelligence will be integrated into its new hardware. We’ll be digging into that on this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, airlines are upgrading their Wi-Fi, so you might be able to take a Zoom meeting on your six-hour flight. But first, Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider has agreed to block Elon Musk’s social media platform in Brazil. X has been banned in the country since last weekend, and now Starlink has agreed to enforce that ban for its roughly quarter-million internet subscribers in the country. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Wall Street Journal senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern or her take on this week’s tech news.

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If you’re an Apple fan, you probably didn’t miss the speculation surrounding the upcoming iPhone 16 launch event next week. Many expect the tech giant to reveal more about how its artificial intelligence will be integrated into its new hardware. We’ll be digging into that on this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, airlines are upgrading their Wi-Fi, so you might be able to take a Zoom meeting on your six-hour flight. But first, Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider has agreed to block Elon Musk’s social media platform in Brazil. X has been banned in the country since last weekend, and now Starlink has agreed to enforce that ban for its roughly quarter-million internet subscribers in the country. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Wall Street Journal senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern or her take on this week’s tech news.

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A mother’s quest for social media reform A mother’s quest for social media reform https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-mothers-quest-for-social-media-reform full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:10:24 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-mothers-quest-for-social-media-reform Warning: This episode mentions suicide. If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

There seems to be growing momentum for efforts to protect kids from online harm. In June, the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for a warning label on social media for children, and more recently the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act with bipartisan support. On the show we’ve heard from lobbyists and advocates on different sides of the issue. Today we speak with Kristin Bride, for whom the debate is personal. In 2020, Bride’s 16-year-old son, Carson, died by suicide after being cyberbullied on the social media platform Snapchat. Since then, Bride has become a vocal advocate for social media reform because, she says, even the most vigilant parents can’t always protect their kids.

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Warning: This episode mentions suicide. If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

There seems to be growing momentum for efforts to protect kids from online harm. In June, the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for a warning label on social media for children, and more recently the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act with bipartisan support. On the show we’ve heard from lobbyists and advocates on different sides of the issue. Today we speak with Kristin Bride, for whom the debate is personal. In 2020, Bride’s 16-year-old son, Carson, died by suicide after being cyberbullied on the social media platform Snapchat. Since then, Bride has become a vocal advocate for social media reform because, she says, even the most vigilant parents can’t always protect their kids.

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The AI safety bill dividing Silicon Valley The AI safety bill dividing Silicon Valley https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ai-safety-bill-dividing-silicon-valley full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:06:51 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ai-safety-bill-dividing-silicon-valley Depending on whom you ask, a bill passed by California lawmakers last week could either save us from imminent AI doom or strangle innovation in Silicon Valley. The bill, SB 1047, is one of the first significant attempts to regulate artificial intelligence in the U.S. It’s supported by some high-profile voices in tech like Elon Musk. But critics say the regulation could stifle growth in Silicon Valley. On the show today, Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is taking a closer look at the arguments for and against SB 1047 with Chase DiFeliciantonio, a reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle, who has been following the bill’s journey through the Legislature.

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Depending on whom you ask, a bill passed by California lawmakers last week could either save us from imminent AI doom or strangle innovation in Silicon Valley. The bill, SB 1047, is one of the first significant attempts to regulate artificial intelligence in the U.S. It’s supported by some high-profile voices in tech like Elon Musk. But critics say the regulation could stifle growth in Silicon Valley. On the show today, Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is taking a closer look at the arguments for and against SB 1047 with Chase DiFeliciantonio, a reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle, who has been following the bill’s journey through the Legislature.

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Teenagers could be more susceptible to online “dark patterns” Teenagers could be more susceptible to online “dark patterns” https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/teenagers-could-be-more-susceptible-to-online-dark-patterns full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:06:47 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/teenagers-could-be-more-susceptible-to-online-dark-patterns

Dark patterns are everywhere on the web. These are design tricks that manipulate users in some way and prompt them to give up information, money or just more of their time. A recent study from the Federal Trade Commission found three-quarters of all subscription apps and websites use at least one dark pattern, and a majority use multiple such tricks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Yanely Espinal, who covered the topic in this week’s episode of “Financially Inclined.” She said some common dark patterns include advertising that doesn’t look like advertising, online forms that come with check boxes pre-selected and something called confirm shaming.

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Dark patterns are everywhere on the web. These are design tricks that manipulate users in some way and prompt them to give up information, money or just more of their time. A recent study from the Federal Trade Commission found three-quarters of all subscription apps and websites use at least one dark pattern, and a majority use multiple such tricks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Yanely Espinal, who covered the topic in this week’s episode of “Financially Inclined.” She said some common dark patterns include advertising that doesn’t look like advertising, online forms that come with check boxes pre-selected and something called confirm shaming.

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Have you heard the one about the AI-written comedy routine? Have you heard the one about the AI-written comedy routine? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-ai-written-comedy-routine full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:45:00 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-ai-written-comedy-routine Generative artificial intelligence can write essays and solve complicated math problems, but can it tell a decent joke? The BBC’s Megan Lawton says comedians who performed at this year’s fringe festival in Scotland are putting AI to the test.

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Generative artificial intelligence can write essays and solve complicated math problems, but can it tell a decent joke? The BBC’s Megan Lawton says comedians who performed at this year’s fringe festival in Scotland are putting AI to the test.

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no 00:04:33 1166683
Bytes: Week in Review — Telegram’s CEO arrested, SF startups boom and Meta pivots Bytes: Week in Review — Telegram’s CEO arrested, SF startups boom and Meta pivots https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-telegrams-ceo-arrested-sf-startups-boom-and-meta-pivots full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:40:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-telegrams-ceo-arrested-sf-startups-boom-and-meta-pivots

This week: a report from venture capital firm SignalFire seems to show that despite all its problems, San Francisco is still the place to be for tech startups in the artificial intelligence space. Plus, why Meta is scrapping plans for a superpremium mixed-reality headset and aiming for a lite version instead. But first, the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France has sent shock waves through the tech world. Durov is facing a number of criminal charges. French authorities allege he is liable for illicit activities conducted on the encrypted messaging platform, including child sex abuse and drug trafficking, essentially because of a failure to moderate content. The case highlights longstanding tensions in the tech world between public safety and free speech. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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This week: a report from venture capital firm SignalFire seems to show that despite all its problems, San Francisco is still the place to be for tech startups in the artificial intelligence space. Plus, why Meta is scrapping plans for a superpremium mixed-reality headset and aiming for a lite version instead. But first, the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France has sent shock waves through the tech world. Durov is facing a number of criminal charges. French authorities allege he is liable for illicit activities conducted on the encrypted messaging platform, including child sex abuse and drug trafficking, essentially because of a failure to moderate content. The case highlights longstanding tensions in the tech world between public safety and free speech. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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no 00:12:44 1166768
With campaign hacks, Iran takes a page from Russia’s playbook With campaign hacks, Iran takes a page from Russia’s playbook https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/with-campaign-hacks-iran-takes-a-page-from-russias-playbook full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:18:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/with-campaign-hacks-iran-takes-a-page-from-russias-playbook U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Iran was behind the recent cyberattack on former President Donald Trump’s election campaign. Using an approach called spear phishing, hackers sent personalized emails to campaign staff containing malware that allowed them to access private information and then leak it. Déjà vu, right? Javed Ali, a former senior counterterrorism official and a professor of practice at the University of Michigan, says Russia created the blueprint for this kind of attack. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked him for his reaction to Iran adopting the strategy.

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U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Iran was behind the recent cyberattack on former President Donald Trump’s election campaign. Using an approach called spear phishing, hackers sent personalized emails to campaign staff containing malware that allowed them to access private information and then leak it. Déjà vu, right? Javed Ali, a former senior counterterrorism official and a professor of practice at the University of Michigan, says Russia created the blueprint for this kind of attack. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked him for his reaction to Iran adopting the strategy.

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yes 00:13:41 1166456
AI in the election: misinformation machine or meme generator? AI in the election: misinformation machine or meme generator? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-in-the-election-misinformation-machine-or-meme-generator full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:06:45 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-in-the-election-misinformation-machine-or-meme-generator By now you’ve probably heard that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to supercharge the spread of disinformation in this election year. But with 68 days until Election Day, we haven’t seen the kind of widespread AI misinformation campaigns that experts warned about. Instead, as Will Oremus pointed out in a recent analysis for The Washington Post, we’ve seen a whole lot of silly AI-generated memes. He told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that the most recent examples are coming from one particular presidential candidate.

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By now you’ve probably heard that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to supercharge the spread of disinformation in this election year. But with 68 days until Election Day, we haven’t seen the kind of widespread AI misinformation campaigns that experts warned about. Instead, as Will Oremus pointed out in a recent analysis for The Washington Post, we’ve seen a whole lot of silly AI-generated memes. He told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that the most recent examples are coming from one particular presidential candidate.

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no 00:12:22 1166189
Court upholds block of California law aimed at protecting kids online Court upholds block of California law aimed at protecting kids online https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/court-upholds-block-of-california-law-aimed-at-protecting-kids-online full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:05:41 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/court-upholds-block-of-california-law-aimed-at-protecting-kids-online

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, passed in 2022, would be among the most sweeping pieces of legislation to protect kids from online harms — if it hadn’t become tangled up in court. The law has two basic requirements: first, that tech companies analyze and report on whether their products are harmful for children; second, that they minimize how much data they collect from those under 18. Earlier this month a federal appeals court found that first part likely violates the First Amendment, and upheld a lower-court decision blocking that part of the law. But it vacated an injunction on the second component, the part dealing with data privacy. The decision could point a way forward for similar laws, many of which have also run into legal challenges, Aaron Mackey, free speech and transparency litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino.

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The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, passed in 2022, would be among the most sweeping pieces of legislation to protect kids from online harms — if it hadn’t become tangled up in court. The law has two basic requirements: first, that tech companies analyze and report on whether their products are harmful for children; second, that they minimize how much data they collect from those under 18. Earlier this month a federal appeals court found that first part likely violates the First Amendment, and upheld a lower-court decision blocking that part of the law. But it vacated an injunction on the second component, the part dealing with data privacy. The decision could point a way forward for similar laws, many of which have also run into legal challenges, Aaron Mackey, free speech and transparency litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino.

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The loose, undefined guardrails of X’s AI image generator The loose, undefined guardrails of X’s AI image generator https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/grok-2-x-ai-image-generator full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:05:43 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/grok-2-x-ai-image-generator

The social media platform X recently launched a new artificial intelligence feature for premium users: Grok-2, an AI model that can also generate images. And the outputs are a bit less censored than you might see with other similar tools. Experimenters online have been able to generate images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris brandishing guns, Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette and some far more disturbing tableaus. Grok claims to avoid images that are pornographic, excessively violent or intended to deceive and added it’s cautious about representing content that might infringe on existing copyright. But the guardrails certainly seem to be on the looser side, in keeping with owner Elon Musk’s hands-off approach to content moderation. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Adi Robertson, senior tech and policy editor at the Verge, about Grok-2 and what she found while she tested the AI’s limits.

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The social media platform X recently launched a new artificial intelligence feature for premium users: Grok-2, an AI model that can also generate images. And the outputs are a bit less censored than you might see with other similar tools. Experimenters online have been able to generate images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris brandishing guns, Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette and some far more disturbing tableaus. Grok claims to avoid images that are pornographic, excessively violent or intended to deceive and added it’s cautious about representing content that might infringe on existing copyright. But the guardrails certainly seem to be on the looser side, in keeping with owner Elon Musk’s hands-off approach to content moderation. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Adi Robertson, senior tech and policy editor at the Verge, about Grok-2 and what she found while she tested the AI’s limits.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Dems’ tech platform, Google’s legal troubles and OpenAI’s newest partnership Bytes: Week in Review — Dems’ tech platform, Google’s legal troubles and OpenAI’s newest partnership https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-dems-tech-platform-googles-legal-troubles-and-openais-newest-partnership full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:05:47 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-dems-tech-platform-googles-legal-troubles-and-openais-newest-partnership

On today’s show: Google deals with another legal headache. A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit that had been dismissed concerning privacy violations by its Chrome browser. Plus, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has partnered up with another media brand, Condé Nast. But first, we can’t ignore the biggest happening of the week — the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the party formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for president with the help of big names in entertainment. Rapper Lil Jon revving up the presentation of the Georgia delegation’s votes was just one viral moment that came out of the convention. What didn’t come out of the gathering, though, were clear indications of the Harris campaign’s tech policy platform. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, about what that platform might look like.

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On today’s show: Google deals with another legal headache. A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit that had been dismissed concerning privacy violations by its Chrome browser. Plus, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has partnered up with another media brand, Condé Nast. But first, we can’t ignore the biggest happening of the week — the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the party formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for president with the help of big names in entertainment. Rapper Lil Jon revving up the presentation of the Georgia delegation’s votes was just one viral moment that came out of the convention. What didn’t come out of the gathering, though, were clear indications of the Harris campaign’s tech policy platform. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, about what that platform might look like.

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What it’s like to be a content creator at the DNC What it’s like to be a content creator at the DNC https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-its-like-to-be-a-content-creator-at-the-dnc full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:04:59 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-its-like-to-be-a-content-creator-at-the-dnc

New faces are mingling among the party faithful and the swarm of journalists at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. In a bid to reach younger, more online voters, the DNC invited 200 content creators to cover the convention. One of them is Malynda Hale, who’s been sharing her experience with her more than 50,000 followers on Instagram. Creators like her, she said, have their own part to play at the event. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Hale how it’s been going at the convention.

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New faces are mingling among the party faithful and the swarm of journalists at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. In a bid to reach younger, more online voters, the DNC invited 200 content creators to cover the convention. One of them is Malynda Hale, who’s been sharing her experience with her more than 50,000 followers on Instagram. Creators like her, she said, have their own part to play at the event. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Hale how it’s been going at the convention.

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New online age-verification tools could exclude lots of adults New online age-verification tools could exclude lots of adults https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/new-online-age-verification-tools-could-exclude-lots-of-adults full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:04:11 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/new-online-age-verification-tools-could-exclude-lots-of-adults Earlier this year, the U.S. surgeon general called for a warning label minors on social media, and a growing number of states are requiring online age verification for certain sites. Now, many platforms are adding a safeguard that comes with its own set of trade-offs: facial scanning. These systems use artificial intelligence to analyze visual clues, sometimes in conjunction with a government-issued ID, to keep those it deems too young from accessing a site. In the process, they collect all kinds of identifying data, and like any tool, these are susceptible to errors. In this case, errors could potentially bar adults from parts of the internet. Tech reporter Drew Harwell recently wrote about the proliferation of these systems and the risks that come with them for The Washington Post. He told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that they’re getting hard to avoid for internet users.

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Earlier this year, the U.S. surgeon general called for a warning label minors on social media, and a growing number of states are requiring online age verification for certain sites. Now, many platforms are adding a safeguard that comes with its own set of trade-offs: facial scanning. These systems use artificial intelligence to analyze visual clues, sometimes in conjunction with a government-issued ID, to keep those it deems too young from accessing a site. In the process, they collect all kinds of identifying data, and like any tool, these are susceptible to errors. In this case, errors could potentially bar adults from parts of the internet. Tech reporter Drew Harwell recently wrote about the proliferation of these systems and the risks that come with them for The Washington Post. He told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that they’re getting hard to avoid for internet users.

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The Chandra X-ray telescope, now 25, offers a more “complete story of what the universe is doing” The Chandra X-ray telescope, now 25, offers a more “complete story of what the universe is doing” https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-chandra-x-ray-telescope-now-25-offers-a-more-complete-story-of-what-the-universe-is-doing full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:04:37 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-chandra-x-ray-telescope-now-25-offers-a-more-complete-story-of-what-the-universe-is-doing On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Telescope was launched into space aboard the shuttle Columbia, the first such mission to be commanded by a woman astronaut. The Chandra telescope differs from the Hubble telescope, which observes visible light. Or, the James Webb telescope, which captures frequencies in the infrared range. Chandra detects high energy X-rays. But NASA budget constraints could leave the mission going dark in coming years. To learn more about the Chandra Observatory, Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino called its program manager Megan Lin.

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On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Telescope was launched into space aboard the shuttle Columbia, the first such mission to be commanded by a woman astronaut. The Chandra telescope differs from the Hubble telescope, which observes visible light. Or, the James Webb telescope, which captures frequencies in the infrared range. Chandra detects high energy X-rays. But NASA budget constraints could leave the mission going dark in coming years. To learn more about the Chandra Observatory, Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino called its program manager Megan Lin.

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Not all screen time is created equal Not all screen time is created equal https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/not-all-screen-time-is-created-equal full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:08:03 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/not-all-screen-time-is-created-equal When Apple introduced its Screen Time report, it promised the feature would  empower users to manage their device time and balance the things that are really important. But is it actually doing that? Caroline Mimbs Nyce, a staff writer at The Atlantic, recently wrote about why she thinks Screen Time is the worst feature Apple has ever made. She told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that it sometimes feels like Screen Time is doing more guilt-tripping than empowering these days.

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When Apple introduced its Screen Time report, it promised the feature would  empower users to manage their device time and balance the things that are really important. But is it actually doing that? Caroline Mimbs Nyce, a staff writer at The Atlantic, recently wrote about why she thinks Screen Time is the worst feature Apple has ever made. She told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that it sometimes feels like Screen Time is doing more guilt-tripping than empowering these days.

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Bytes: Week in Review — X vs. advertisers, Instagram’s harassment problem, and the food delivery race continues Bytes: Week in Review — X vs. advertisers, Instagram’s harassment problem, and the food delivery race continues https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-x-vs-advertisers-instagrams-harassment-problem-and-the-food-delivery-race-continues full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:04:24 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-x-vs-advertisers-instagrams-harassment-problem-and-the-food-delivery-race-continues It’s Friday which means it’s time for Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. On today’s show, Instagram is known for pretty pictures but a new report shows it lets a lot of ugly and abusive comments remain on the platform. Plus, Door Dash has dominated the food delivery race. Now it looks like Uber may be catching up. But first, the social media platform X relies on advertisers, so why is it going to war with them? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this week’s biggest tech stories with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information.

 

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It’s Friday which means it’s time for Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. On today’s show, Instagram is known for pretty pictures but a new report shows it lets a lot of ugly and abusive comments remain on the platform. Plus, Door Dash has dominated the food delivery race. Now it looks like Uber may be catching up. But first, the social media platform X relies on advertisers, so why is it going to war with them? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this week’s biggest tech stories with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information.

 

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Senators advance bipartisan effort to regulate deepfakes Senators advance bipartisan effort to regulate deepfakes https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/senators-advance-bipartisan-effort-to-regulate-deepfakes full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:05:56 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/senators-advance-bipartisan-effort-to-regulate-deepfakes Last month, senators from both sides of the aisle formally introduced what could become the first U.S. federal law regulating deepfakes. It’s called the No Fakes Act — short for the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act. It comes on the heels of controversies like the one involving the OpenAI voice assistant, which may or may not have sounded a little too much like actress Scarlett Johansson. GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee helped draft the bill, saying: “The No Fakes Act is vital for these entertainers. It protects their name, image, likeness, their vocal recordings.” The legislation has been applauded by many in creative industries, said Moiya McTier, senior adviser at the Human Artistry Campaign, a group advocating for stronger guardrails on artificial intelligence.

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Last month, senators from both sides of the aisle formally introduced what could become the first U.S. federal law regulating deepfakes. It’s called the No Fakes Act — short for the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act. It comes on the heels of controversies like the one involving the OpenAI voice assistant, which may or may not have sounded a little too much like actress Scarlett Johansson. GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee helped draft the bill, saying: “The No Fakes Act is vital for these entertainers. It protects their name, image, likeness, their vocal recordings.” The legislation has been applauded by many in creative industries, said Moiya McTier, senior adviser at the Human Artistry Campaign, a group advocating for stronger guardrails on artificial intelligence.

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Can AI accurately simulate a human? Can AI accurately simulate a human? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-ai-accurately-simulate-a-human full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:04:19 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-ai-accurately-simulate-a-human

Generative artificial intelligence has made it possible to mimic someone’s voice and generate a script for that voice in real time. The tech, of course, is already used to scam and defraud people, but what if you just had it make a bunch of calls on your behalf? That’s what journalist Evan Ratliff did for his new podcast, “Shell Game.” He trained AI audio clones, gave them phone numbers and sat back as they took on customer service agents, family members, therapists and even a few scammers. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Ratliff — and briefly with one of his AI agents — about his takeaways from producing the show and whether the clones succeeded in tricking people into thinking they were who they said they were.

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Generative artificial intelligence has made it possible to mimic someone’s voice and generate a script for that voice in real time. The tech, of course, is already used to scam and defraud people, but what if you just had it make a bunch of calls on your behalf? That’s what journalist Evan Ratliff did for his new podcast, “Shell Game.” He trained AI audio clones, gave them phone numbers and sat back as they took on customer service agents, family members, therapists and even a few scammers. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Ratliff — and briefly with one of his AI agents — about his takeaways from producing the show and whether the clones succeeded in tricking people into thinking they were who they said they were.

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Remembering a Silicon Valley giant Remembering a Silicon Valley giant https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/remembering-a-silicon-valley-giant full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:47:02 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/remembering-a-silicon-valley-giant Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died last week at the age of 56. As a kid, she wanted to be an artist. As an adult, she discovered the “art of technology.”

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Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died last week at the age of 56. As a kid, she wanted to be an artist. As an adult, she discovered the “art of technology.”

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Can AI solve fans’ concert ticket woes? Can AI solve fans’ concert ticket woes? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-ai-solve-fans-concert-ticket-woes full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:58:41 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-ai-solve-fans-concert-ticket-woes Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” has shattered records, crashed websites and broken the hearts of fans vying for tickets. The BBC’s Sam Gruet says AI could help fans purchase tickets for a fair price and without the risk of fraud.

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Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” has shattered records, crashed websites and broken the hearts of fans vying for tickets. The BBC’s Sam Gruet says AI could help fans purchase tickets for a fair price and without the risk of fraud.

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Bytes: Week in Review — An AI bubble, Olympians’ mental health and controversial ads Bytes: Week in Review — An AI bubble, Olympians’ mental health and controversial ads https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-an-ai-bubble-olympians-mental-health-and-controversial-ads full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:14:31 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-an-ai-bubble-olympians-mental-health-and-controversial-ads On today’s show: Olympians have taken to social media to celebrate, sometimes to trash talk, but also to discuss their mental health. And Google pulled a controversial Olympics ad featuring its Gemini artificial intelligence tool.

But first, what the stock market sell-off could be saying about the AI boom. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this with Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter “Second Opinion,” who says there’s growing chatter that AI has gotten a bit overinflated.

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On today’s show: Olympians have taken to social media to celebrate, sometimes to trash talk, but also to discuss their mental health. And Google pulled a controversial Olympics ad featuring its Gemini artificial intelligence tool.

But first, what the stock market sell-off could be saying about the AI boom. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this with Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter “Second Opinion,” who says there’s growing chatter that AI has gotten a bit overinflated.

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Yes, you can place bets on the election (for now) Yes, you can place bets on the election (for now) https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/yes-you-can-place-bets-on-the-election-for-now full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:25:10 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/yes-you-can-place-bets-on-the-election-for-now Who will win the election? What will the vote margin be? Will Donald Trump post on X before November? People can place bets on all these real-world questions — and more — on prediction markets. And these online platforms like PredictIt and Polymarket are increasingly being looked to as crystal balls in this chaotic election, promising real-time political insights and the chance to make a few bucks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chris Cohen, the deputy site editor of GQ, who recently wrote about his experience getting in on the action of what appears to be a prediction market “gold rush.”

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Who will win the election? What will the vote margin be? Will Donald Trump post on X before November? People can place bets on all these real-world questions — and more — on prediction markets. And these online platforms like PredictIt and Polymarket are increasingly being looked to as crystal balls in this chaotic election, promising real-time political insights and the chance to make a few bucks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chris Cohen, the deputy site editor of GQ, who recently wrote about his experience getting in on the action of what appears to be a prediction market “gold rush.”

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Can an algorithm break antitrust law? Can an algorithm break antitrust law? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-an-algorithm-break-antitrust-law full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:05:03 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-an-algorithm-break-antitrust-law More than 20 years ago, executives at rival auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s were found guilty of coordinating a massive price-fixing scheme. Leaders from the companies held covert meetings, where they set identical commission fees. Today, active antitrust cases show that the ways in which companies might conspire are changing. Algorithms can replace secret meetings, but U.S. regulators say it’s still collusion, whether it’s a human or a bot pulling the strings. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Joe Harrington at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School about how antitrust law holds up against new technology.

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More than 20 years ago, executives at rival auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s were found guilty of coordinating a massive price-fixing scheme. Leaders from the companies held covert meetings, where they set identical commission fees. Today, active antitrust cases show that the ways in which companies might conspire are changing. Algorithms can replace secret meetings, but U.S. regulators say it’s still collusion, whether it’s a human or a bot pulling the strings. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Joe Harrington at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School about how antitrust law holds up against new technology.

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With the internet now a necessity, the digital underclass is still in need With the internet now a necessity, the digital underclass is still in need https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/digital-underclass full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:45:04 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/digital-underclass

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a photo of two little girls in the parking lot of a California Taco Bell went viral. They were doing their schoolwork on laptops in that inconvenient location because the restaurant provided free Wi-Fi, which they didn’t have at home. The girls came to symbolize the digital underclass that’s emerged since the rise of the internet. There are millions of American kids like them, says Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her analysis of the digital divide is contained in her new book, “Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass.”

 

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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a photo of two little girls in the parking lot of a California Taco Bell went viral. They were doing their schoolwork on laptops in that inconvenient location because the restaurant provided free Wi-Fi, which they didn’t have at home. The girls came to symbolize the digital underclass that’s emerged since the rise of the internet. There are millions of American kids like them, says Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her analysis of the digital divide is contained in her new book, “Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass.”

 

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AI is learning how to lie AI is learning how to lie https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-is-learning-how-to-lie full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:04:55 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-is-learning-how-to-lie Large language models go through a lot of vetting before they’re released to the public. That includes safety tests, bias checks, ethical reviews and more. But what if, hypothetically, a model could dodge a safety question by lying to developers, hiding its real response to a safety test and instead giving the exact response its human handlers are looking for? A recent study shows that advanced LLMs are developing the capacity for deception, and that could bring that hypothetical situation closer to reality. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Thilo Hagendorff, a researcher at the University of Stuttgart and the author of the study, about his findings.

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Large language models go through a lot of vetting before they’re released to the public. That includes safety tests, bias checks, ethical reviews and more. But what if, hypothetically, a model could dodge a safety question by lying to developers, hiding its real response to a safety test and instead giving the exact response its human handlers are looking for? A recent study shows that advanced LLMs are developing the capacity for deception, and that could bring that hypothetical situation closer to reality. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Thilo Hagendorff, a researcher at the University of Stuttgart and the author of the study, about his findings.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Kids’ online safety legislation, Meta’s AI and EV regrets Bytes: Week in Review — Kids’ online safety legislation, Meta’s AI and EV regrets https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-kids-online-safety-legislation-metas-ai-and-ev-regrets full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:08:42 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-kids-online-safety-legislation-metas-ai-and-ev-regrets

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is expanding AI offerings across its products, even as the company gets rid of AI features that haven’t quite landed with consumers. The bottom line? CEO Mark Zuckerberg says “Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.”Then, the Wall Street Journal’s senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern shares surprises and regrets on her journey as an electric vehicle owner. But first, this week in Congress, the Senate passed the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA 2.0, and the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, in a rare bipartisan vote — 91 senators voted in favor, with just three opposing these measures, which aim to reduce harm to kids on the internet.

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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is expanding AI offerings across its products, even as the company gets rid of AI features that haven’t quite landed with consumers. The bottom line? CEO Mark Zuckerberg says “Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.”Then, the Wall Street Journal’s senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern shares surprises and regrets on her journey as an electric vehicle owner. But first, this week in Congress, the Senate passed the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA 2.0, and the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, in a rare bipartisan vote — 91 senators voted in favor, with just three opposing these measures, which aim to reduce harm to kids on the internet.

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The hidden cost of smart home technology The hidden cost of smart home technology https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-hidden-cost-of-smart-home-technology full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:51:19 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-hidden-cost-of-smart-home-technology There’s always been something aspirational about the term “smart home.” It was coined by a residential builder association here in the U.S. back in the mid-’80s, long before the inventions we now think of as hallmarks of the smart home. Today, 42% of American households with internet own at least one smart home device, according to the market research firm Parks Associates. In her new book, “Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out,” Heather Suzanne Woods of Kansas State University asks whether that’s a good thing.

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There’s always been something aspirational about the term “smart home.” It was coined by a residential builder association here in the U.S. back in the mid-’80s, long before the inventions we now think of as hallmarks of the smart home. Today, 42% of American households with internet own at least one smart home device, according to the market research firm Parks Associates. In her new book, “Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out,” Heather Suzanne Woods of Kansas State University asks whether that’s a good thing.

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A lifesaving medical technology puts some patients on a “bridge to nowhere” A lifesaving medical technology puts some patients on a “bridge to nowhere” https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-lifesaving-medical-technology-puts-some-patients-on-a-bridge-to-nowhere full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:39:53 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-lifesaving-medical-technology-puts-some-patients-on-a-bridge-to-nowhere Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and heart would normally do. While using the machine, many recipients of ECMO treatment can walk, talk, even ride a stationary bike, but they can’t leave the hospital with the machine, nor can they survive without it. In a recent article in The New Yorker, emergency physician and writer Clayton Dalton described these patients as “caught on a bridge to nowhere.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Dalton about the complicated ethics of this technology.

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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and heart would normally do. While using the machine, many recipients of ECMO treatment can walk, talk, even ride a stationary bike, but they can’t leave the hospital with the machine, nor can they survive without it. In a recent article in The New Yorker, emergency physician and writer Clayton Dalton described these patients as “caught on a bridge to nowhere.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Dalton about the complicated ethics of this technology.

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For data-hungry tech companies, YouTube is a gold mine For data-hungry tech companies, YouTube is a gold mine https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/for-data-hungry-tech-companies-youtube-is-a-gold-mine full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:06:48 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/for-data-hungry-tech-companies-youtube-is-a-gold-mine Companies competing in the chatbot wars are using something known in the industry as “the Pile” to train their large language models. It’s a trove of open-source data made up of text scraped from all around the internet, including Wikipedia and the European Parliament. Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter for Proof News, recently took a deep dive into the Pile and discovered something else: a dataset called “YouTube Subtitles.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Gilbertson about her investigation and how YouTube creators feel about their content being used without their consent.

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Companies competing in the chatbot wars are using something known in the industry as “the Pile” to train their large language models. It’s a trove of open-source data made up of text scraped from all around the internet, including Wikipedia and the European Parliament. Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter for Proof News, recently took a deep dive into the Pile and discovered something else: a dataset called “YouTube Subtitles.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Gilbertson about her investigation and how YouTube creators feel about their content being used without their consent.

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Does the tech sector need its own regulatory agency? Does the tech sector need its own regulatory agency? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/does-the-tech-sector-need-its-own-regulatory-agency full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:09:09 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/does-the-tech-sector-need-its-own-regulatory-agency

It’s a rare issue that can bring the political parties together in Congress, and the need to regulate social media companies ranks high on that very short list. Two industry veterans want Congress to create an agency that sets safety and privacy rules for platforms — and enforces them. The status quo, they argue, is like letting airlines fly without Federal Aviation Administration oversight. The idea comes from Anika Collier Navaroli and Ellen Pao. Pao, an attorney and now CEO of Project Include, pushed to ban revenge porn on Reddit during her tenure as interim CEO. Navaroli, an attorney and senior fellow at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, was involved in Twitter’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform in 2021, when she was a senior policy expert there. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Navaroli and Pao about their proposal.

 

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It’s a rare issue that can bring the political parties together in Congress, and the need to regulate social media companies ranks high on that very short list. Two industry veterans want Congress to create an agency that sets safety and privacy rules for platforms — and enforces them. The status quo, they argue, is like letting airlines fly without Federal Aviation Administration oversight. The idea comes from Anika Collier Navaroli and Ellen Pao. Pao, an attorney and now CEO of Project Include, pushed to ban revenge porn on Reddit during her tenure as interim CEO. Navaroli, an attorney and senior fellow at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, was involved in Twitter’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform in 2021, when she was a senior policy expert there. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Navaroli and Pao about their proposal.

 

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Bytes: Week in Review — Google cookies, Waymo vandalism and Kamala Harris memes Bytes: Week in Review — Google cookies, Waymo vandalism and Kamala Harris memes https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-google-cookies-waymo-vandalism-and-kamala-harris-memes full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:15:38 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-google-cookies-waymo-vandalism-and-kamala-harris-memes On the show today: The ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party ticket has stirred the KHive. We’ll look at what the Harris memes mean, in case you just fell out of a coconut tree. Plus, why Waymo is suing alleged vandals of its vehicles in San Francisco. We ask, why now? But first, cookies are here to stay — for a while, anyway. Google is backtracking on its plan, announced in 2020, to do away with the files that advertisers use to track us online. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, about why.

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On the show today: The ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party ticket has stirred the KHive. We’ll look at what the Harris memes mean, in case you just fell out of a coconut tree. Plus, why Waymo is suing alleged vandals of its vehicles in San Francisco. We ask, why now? But first, cookies are here to stay — for a while, anyway. Google is backtracking on its plan, announced in 2020, to do away with the files that advertisers use to track us online. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, about why.

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Landmark disability law now applies to life online Landmark disability law now applies to life online https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/landmark-disability-law-now-applies-to-life-online full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:07:42 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/landmark-disability-law-now-applies-to-life-online

Back in 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the world’s first comprehensive law for people with disabilities. It was seen as making up for an area in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 fell short. “The stark fact remains that people with disabilities were still victims of segregation and discrimination, and this was intolerable,” Bush said. Now, the legislation passed at the dawn of the internet age is being adapted to ensure digital access for everyone. That means ensuring access to captions on web videos to support deaf Americans and the ability to resize text so people with low vision can read it. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with consultant Nicolas Steenhout, who explained how the Department of Justice is updating the rules.

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Back in 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the world’s first comprehensive law for people with disabilities. It was seen as making up for an area in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 fell short. “The stark fact remains that people with disabilities were still victims of segregation and discrimination, and this was intolerable,” Bush said. Now, the legislation passed at the dawn of the internet age is being adapted to ensure digital access for everyone. That means ensuring access to captions on web videos to support deaf Americans and the ability to resize text so people with low vision can read it. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with consultant Nicolas Steenhout, who explained how the Department of Justice is updating the rules.

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How DIY medical testing is changing health care How DIY medical testing is changing health care https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-diy-medical-testing-is-changing-health-care full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:06:13 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-diy-medical-testing-is-changing-health-care What if receiving a medical diagnosis was as simple as shopping online? The growing home diagnostics industry says it can be. At-home testing was widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic, but more health tech companies also offer DIY kits that test for food allergies, fertility and thyroid function, among other things. Some medical experts are wary of this on-demand model, but health tech investors say it can make health care more accessible. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Chrissy Farr, author of the Second Opinion newsletter, and Anarghya Vardhana, a partner at the Maveron venture firm, about the prospects of the industry and how it affects relationships between patients and doctors.

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What if receiving a medical diagnosis was as simple as shopping online? The growing home diagnostics industry says it can be. At-home testing was widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic, but more health tech companies also offer DIY kits that test for food allergies, fertility and thyroid function, among other things. Some medical experts are wary of this on-demand model, but health tech investors say it can make health care more accessible. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Chrissy Farr, author of the Second Opinion newsletter, and Anarghya Vardhana, a partner at the Maveron venture firm, about the prospects of the industry and how it affects relationships between patients and doctors.

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Lessons to learn from the massive CrowdStrike outage Lessons to learn from the massive CrowdStrike outage https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/lessons-to-learn-from-the-massive-crowdstrike-outage full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:06:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/lessons-to-learn-from-the-massive-crowdstrike-outage Last Friday felt like something out of a Y2K nightmare after the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, pushed a software update to all its clients — including health care systems, banks and the federal government — that ended up crashing computer systems worldwide. The fallout is still being felt, particularly in the travel sector, as airliners try to reschedule canceled flights while trying to get everything back to normal. It’s also become something of a reminder that the internet and a lot of the online services we rely on are delicate. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Kate Conger, a reporter at The New York Times who recently wrote about this with her colleague David Streitfeld.

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Last Friday felt like something out of a Y2K nightmare after the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, pushed a software update to all its clients — including health care systems, banks and the federal government — that ended up crashing computer systems worldwide. The fallout is still being felt, particularly in the travel sector, as airliners try to reschedule canceled flights while trying to get everything back to normal. It’s also become something of a reminder that the internet and a lot of the online services we rely on are delicate. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Kate Conger, a reporter at The New York Times who recently wrote about this with her colleague David Streitfeld.

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EU regulators request information on Amazon’s algorithms EU regulators request information on Amazon’s algorithms https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/eu-regulators-request-information-on-amazons-algorithms full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:40:05 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/eu-regulators-request-information-on-amazons-algorithms

Online sales in the U.S. surpassed $14 billion during Amazon Prime Day last week, according to Adobe Analytics. Amazon’s heft and promotional power continue to drive sales, even for rivals, during the shopping jamboree. But in Europe, an important market for the e-commerce giant, lawmakers have become increasingly sensitive to Amazon’s relations with its rivals, as well as its partners and customers. They’ve requested that Amazon hand over information about its product recommendation algorithms, along with data on ads, by Friday. It’s part of compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act, a sweeping set of tech regulations that took effect in recent years. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed it with Theo Wayt, who covers Amazon for The Information.

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Online sales in the U.S. surpassed $14 billion during Amazon Prime Day last week, according to Adobe Analytics. Amazon’s heft and promotional power continue to drive sales, even for rivals, during the shopping jamboree. But in Europe, an important market for the e-commerce giant, lawmakers have become increasingly sensitive to Amazon’s relations with its rivals, as well as its partners and customers. They’ve requested that Amazon hand over information about its product recommendation algorithms, along with data on ads, by Friday. It’s part of compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act, a sweeping set of tech regulations that took effect in recent years. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed it with Theo Wayt, who covers Amazon for The Information.

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Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Vance’s Silicon Valley ties, Prime Day injuries and Starbucks bets on EVs Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Vance’s Silicon Valley ties, Prime Day injuries and Starbucks bets on EVs https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-vances-silicon-valley-ties-prime-day-injuries-and-starbucks-bets-on-evs full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:49:46 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-vances-silicon-valley-ties-prime-day-injuries-and-starbucks-bets-on-evs A new Senate report finds Amazon Prime Day is prime time for warehouse injuries. Plus, Starbucks is teaming up with Mercedes-Benz to supercharge electric vehicle infrastructure. But first, several Silicon Valley billionaires have thrown their support behind former President Donald Trump in his quest to reclaim the White House, thanks in part to his pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, a managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on these stories in Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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A new Senate report finds Amazon Prime Day is prime time for warehouse injuries. Plus, Starbucks is teaming up with Mercedes-Benz to supercharge electric vehicle infrastructure. But first, several Silicon Valley billionaires have thrown their support behind former President Donald Trump in his quest to reclaim the White House, thanks in part to his pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, a managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on these stories in Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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How to deal with misinformation about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump How to deal with misinformation about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-misinformation full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:09:29 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-misinformation

FBI officials are still looking into what motivated the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday. As of this episode, investigators have yet to publicly share any conclusions about his reasons for the attack, which killed a rally attendee and injured the former president and two others. But the lack of information didn’t stop misinformation from flooding online channels. Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, speaks with Molly Dwyer, director of insights at PeakMetrics, and Lisa Fazio, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, about the false narratives surrounding the shooting and how to separate fact from fiction in the aftermath of a violent event.

This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel.

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FBI officials are still looking into what motivated the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday. As of this episode, investigators have yet to publicly share any conclusions about his reasons for the attack, which killed a rally attendee and injured the former president and two others. But the lack of information didn’t stop misinformation from flooding online channels. Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, speaks with Molly Dwyer, director of insights at PeakMetrics, and Lisa Fazio, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, about the false narratives surrounding the shooting and how to separate fact from fiction in the aftermath of a violent event.

This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel.

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The complicated reality of school cellphone bans The complicated reality of school cellphone bans https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-complicated-reality-of-school-cellphone-bans full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:07:47 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-complicated-reality-of-school-cellphone-bans

Pop quiz: What’s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino it’s not that simple.

Pop quiz: What’s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino it’s not that simple.

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Pop quiz: What’s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino it’s not that simple.

Pop quiz: What’s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino it’s not that simple.

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The digital surveillance of transgender people The digital surveillance of transgender people https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-digital-surveillance-of-transgender-people full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:07:44 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-digital-surveillance-of-transgender-people

In recent years, we’ve seen a surge of state laws and policies affecting trans people. Half of states have banned or restricted gender affirming care for minors, with some adding restrictions for adults. The ACLU is tracking more than 500 bills that have been introduced across the country. The enforcement of such laws, as with recent bans on abortion and related reproductive care, have raised concerns about tracking people’s digital footprints. So much of daily life is conducted online, and there are currently no federal data privacy protections. KB Brookins, a writer based in Austin, Texas, wrote about a personal experience that drove home concerns about their trail of digital data.

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In recent years, we’ve seen a surge of state laws and policies affecting trans people. Half of states have banned or restricted gender affirming care for minors, with some adding restrictions for adults. The ACLU is tracking more than 500 bills that have been introduced across the country. The enforcement of such laws, as with recent bans on abortion and related reproductive care, have raised concerns about tracking people’s digital footprints. So much of daily life is conducted online, and there are currently no federal data privacy protections. KB Brookins, a writer based in Austin, Texas, wrote about a personal experience that drove home concerns about their trail of digital data.

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Online speech cases sent back to the lower courts Online speech cases sent back to the lower courts https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/online-speech-cases-sent-back-to-the-lower-courts full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:54:02 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/online-speech-cases-sent-back-to-the-lower-courts

Sandwiched between some blockbuster Supreme Court rulings last month came a decision — or more so, a non-decision — that is reverberating through the tech world. NetChoice, big tech’s lobbying arm, challenged a pair of laws in Florida and Texas that sought to restrict how social media platforms moderate content. The high court kicked both cases back to lower courts with some added commentary. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter with the Verge, who wrote about what this means for future attempts to regulate tech.

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Sandwiched between some blockbuster Supreme Court rulings last month came a decision — or more so, a non-decision — that is reverberating through the tech world. NetChoice, big tech’s lobbying arm, challenged a pair of laws in Florida and Texas that sought to restrict how social media platforms moderate content. The high court kicked both cases back to lower courts with some added commentary. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter with the Verge, who wrote about what this means for future attempts to regulate tech.

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Bytes: Week in Review — FTC’s latest tech crackdown, Trump’s pro-crypto campaign and Threads turns a year old Bytes: Week in Review — FTC’s latest tech crackdown, Trump’s pro-crypto campaign and Threads turns a year old https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-ftcs-latest-tech-crackdown-trumps-pro-crypto-campaign-and-threads-turns-a-year-old full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:04:29 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-ftcs-latest-tech-crackdown-trumps-pro-crypto-campaign-and-threads-turns-a-year-old The Republican Party officially adopted former President Donald Trump’s 2024 platform this week. The GOP is now taking a friendly approach to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, with plans to roll back regulation of both. Plus, Meta’s Threads platform celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. But first, the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the popular messaging app NGL. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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The Republican Party officially adopted former President Donald Trump’s 2024 platform this week. The GOP is now taking a friendly approach to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, with plans to roll back regulation of both. Plus, Meta’s Threads platform celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. But first, the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the popular messaging app NGL. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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More website links are expiring. Is it a bug or a feature of the internet? More website links are expiring. Is it a bug or a feature of the internet? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/more-website-links-are-expiring-is-it-a-bug-or-a-feature-of-the-internet full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:05:17 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/more-website-links-are-expiring-is-it-a-bug-or-a-feature-of-the-internet

The internet is full of all manner of unsavoriness that is surely corroding our minds and societies. But the kind of rot we’re talking about here is link rot — the disappearance of online content when links turn into “404 Page Not Found.” A recent study from Pew Research suggests almost 40% of all webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible. That includes important government links, citations on Wikipedia and hyperlinks in news articles. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently talked about this with Clare Stanton, product and research manager at Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, who also works on a webpage preservation project, perma.cc.

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The internet is full of all manner of unsavoriness that is surely corroding our minds and societies. But the kind of rot we’re talking about here is link rot — the disappearance of online content when links turn into “404 Page Not Found.” A recent study from Pew Research suggests almost 40% of all webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible. That includes important government links, citations on Wikipedia and hyperlinks in news articles. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently talked about this with Clare Stanton, product and research manager at Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, who also works on a webpage preservation project, perma.cc.

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Progressive TikTok creators turn against Biden Progressive TikTok creators turn against Biden https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/progressive-tiktok-creators-turn-against-biden full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:04:13 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/progressive-tiktok-creators-turn-against-biden

About a third of adults under 30 regularly get their news on TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. And in this election season, the messages from young, left-leaning creators on the short-form video app are pretty different from last time around. In 2020, a coalition of influencers united to back presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign, and historically high youth turnout helped propel him to a win. But after almost four years of the Biden presidency, the TikTok tide has turned, according to Taylor Lorenz, online culture columnist at The Washington Post, who recently wrote about this shift.

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About a third of adults under 30 regularly get their news on TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. And in this election season, the messages from young, left-leaning creators on the short-form video app are pretty different from last time around. In 2020, a coalition of influencers united to back presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign, and historically high youth turnout helped propel him to a win. But after almost four years of the Biden presidency, the TikTok tide has turned, according to Taylor Lorenz, online culture columnist at The Washington Post, who recently wrote about this shift.

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The making of Sam Altman The making of Sam Altman https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-making-of-sam-altman full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:46:52 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-making-of-sam-altman The overnight success of ChatGPT helped turn Sam Altman, CEO of its maker, OpenAI, into one of the most powerful people in tech. At a conference hosted by Bloomberg last summer, Altman was asked why we should trust him with so much power, and in response, Altman said, “You shouldn’t.” And yet, throughout his career, Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley’s kingmakers with ease. In the latest season of Bloomberg’s podcast “Foundering,” journalist Ellen Huet tries to understand Altman’s rise to power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Huet about what she learned.

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The overnight success of ChatGPT helped turn Sam Altman, CEO of its maker, OpenAI, into one of the most powerful people in tech. At a conference hosted by Bloomberg last summer, Altman was asked why we should trust him with so much power, and in response, Altman said, “You shouldn’t.” And yet, throughout his career, Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley’s kingmakers with ease. In the latest season of Bloomberg’s podcast “Foundering,” journalist Ellen Huet tries to understand Altman’s rise to power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Huet about what she learned.

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no 00:15:32 1122926
AI concerns stall contract negotiations between game companies and actors AI concerns stall contract negotiations between game companies and actors https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-concerns-stall-contract-negotiations-between-game-companies-and-actors full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:20:56 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-concerns-stall-contract-negotiations-between-game-companies-and-actors

Big-budget video game producers and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing voice-over actors and motion-capture stunt workers, have been negotiating a new labor contract since last September. And union leaders say those talks have stalled due to concerns over generative artificial intelligence. (Note: Several Marketplace employees are also represented by SAG-AFTRA under a different contract.) Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Associated Press reporter Sarah Parvini, who recently wrote about the negotiations. She explained how consent is a key concern.

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Big-budget video game producers and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing voice-over actors and motion-capture stunt workers, have been negotiating a new labor contract since last September. And union leaders say those talks have stalled due to concerns over generative artificial intelligence. (Note: Several Marketplace employees are also represented by SAG-AFTRA under a different contract.) Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Associated Press reporter Sarah Parvini, who recently wrote about the negotiations. She explained how consent is a key concern.

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Bytes: Week in Review — the most impactful moment, the biggest flub and the most underreported story in tech Bytes: Week in Review — the most impactful moment, the biggest flub and the most underreported story in tech https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-the-most-impactful-moment-the-biggest-flub-and-the-most-underreported-story-in-tech full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:06:42 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-the-most-impactful-moment-the-biggest-flub-and-the-most-underreported-story-in-tech We’ve reached the midyear mark for 2024, so for our weekly review show, “Tech Bytes,” we are breaking format and taking stock of the past six months in tech with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked her what she thought was the most underreported story of the last six months. And what was the biggest flub? We’ll get to those, but we’ll start Curi’s pick for the most impactful story of the first half of the year.

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We’ve reached the midyear mark for 2024, so for our weekly review show, “Tech Bytes,” we are breaking format and taking stock of the past six months in tech with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked her what she thought was the most underreported story of the last six months. And what was the biggest flub? We’ll get to those, but we’ll start Curi’s pick for the most impactful story of the first half of the year.

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no 00:15:00 1119355
The unstoppable rise of Swedish music tech The unstoppable rise of Swedish music tech https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-unstoppable-rise-of-swedish-music-tech full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:08:21 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-unstoppable-rise-of-swedish-music-tech Streaming giants Spotify and SoundCloud were both founded in Stockholm, and over the past two decades the Swedish capital has developed a reputation as a European hub for companies blending music and innovation. So why does this small Nordic city punch above its weight in music tech, and are start-ups still able to thrive there after a rocky few years for the global economy? The BBC’s Maddy Savage reports.

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Streaming giants Spotify and SoundCloud were both founded in Stockholm, and over the past two decades the Swedish capital has developed a reputation as a European hub for companies blending music and innovation. So why does this small Nordic city punch above its weight in music tech, and are start-ups still able to thrive there after a rocky few years for the global economy? The BBC’s Maddy Savage reports.

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no 00:07:46 1111862
What do billboards say about a city? What do billboards say about a city? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-do-billboards-say-about-a-city full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:06:56 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-do-billboards-say-about-a-city For the millions of residents and visitors who commute in and out of the areas daily, billboards in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area have long been a way to see where the state of tech is at the moment — and where it’s headed next.

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For the millions of residents and visitors who commute in and out of the areas daily, billboards in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area have long been a way to see where the state of tech is at the moment — and where it’s headed next.

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no 00:12:36 1118291
Creating a “joy spiral” to revive San Francisco’s downtown Creating a “joy spiral” to revive San Francisco’s downtown https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/creating-a-joy-spiral-to-revive-san-franciscos-downtown full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:06:37 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/creating-a-joy-spiral-to-revive-san-franciscos-downtown Yesterday, we explained San Francisco’s fraught relationship with the tech industry. Tech workers weren’t always welcome in the eyes of many other residents, and when the COVID-19 pandemic began, a lot of them left, taking their dollars with them. But on a recent Thursday evening, organizers of a block party downtown were trying to bring people back. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Manny Yekutiel and Katy Birnbaum about their efforts to revive the city’s downtown.

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Yesterday, we explained San Francisco’s fraught relationship with the tech industry. Tech workers weren’t always welcome in the eyes of many other residents, and when the COVID-19 pandemic began, a lot of them left, taking their dollars with them. But on a recent Thursday evening, organizers of a block party downtown were trying to bring people back. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Manny Yekutiel and Katy Birnbaum about their efforts to revive the city’s downtown.

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no 00:12:39 1118729
Is San Francisco in a “doom loop” or a “boom loop”? Is San Francisco in a “doom loop” or a “boom loop”? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/is-san-francisco-in-a-doom-loop-or-a-boom-loop full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:10:15 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/is-san-francisco-in-a-doom-loop-or-a-boom-loop Cities across the country are still trying to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic changed how and where many of us work, leaving big holes in downtown office districts. San Francisco, once teeming with tech workers, is no exception. But few cities have suffered the sustained reputational damage that San Francisco has. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the city to meet with Heather Knight, The New York Times’ San Francisco bureau chief. Knight, who has been covering the city for more than two decades, offered her take on San Francisco’s image problem, economic situation and tech culture.

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Cities across the country are still trying to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic changed how and where many of us work, leaving big holes in downtown office districts. San Francisco, once teeming with tech workers, is no exception. But few cities have suffered the sustained reputational damage that San Francisco has. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the city to meet with Heather Knight, The New York Times’ San Francisco bureau chief. Knight, who has been covering the city for more than two decades, offered her take on San Francisco’s image problem, economic situation and tech culture.

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no 00:10:51 1118206
Bytes: Week in Review — music biz vs. AI, social media moderation and Nvidia stock woes Bytes: Week in Review — music biz vs. AI, social media moderation and Nvidia stock woes https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-music-biz-vs-ai-social-media-moderation-and-nvidia-stock-woes full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:09:52 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-music-biz-vs-ai-social-media-moderation-and-nvidia-stock-woes In the past week or so, Nvidia’s stock finally encountered the law of gravity — what goes up must eventually come down, at least a little bit. And we look under the hood of artificial intelligence companies that aren’t necessarily making headlines. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled against Republican-led states that accused the federal government of coercing social media companies into suppressing content. But first, major music labels, including Universal, Sony and Warner, are suing two startups that produce AI-generated music. The labels accuse Suno and Udio of using copyrighted works scraped from the internet to train their AI models. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, for her takes on these stories in this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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In the past week or so, Nvidia’s stock finally encountered the law of gravity — what goes up must eventually come down, at least a little bit. And we look under the hood of artificial intelligence companies that aren’t necessarily making headlines. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled against Republican-led states that accused the federal government of coercing social media companies into suppressing content. But first, major music labels, including Universal, Sony and Warner, are suing two startups that produce AI-generated music. The labels accuse Suno and Udio of using copyrighted works scraped from the internet to train their AI models. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, for her takes on these stories in this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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The evolution of political messaging into the digital age The evolution of political messaging into the digital age https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-evolution-of-political-messaging-into-the-digital-age full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:04:33 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-evolution-of-political-messaging-into-the-digital-age It feels like eons ago, but during a town hall on violence in America in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton took to MTV to reach the nation’s youth. Clinton’s openness to MTV and what The New York Times called “other unconventional media” had helped pave his path to the White House two years earlier. Fast-forward to today, and even reluctant politicians use TikTok to reach younger voters — President Joe Biden is no exception. His first post came just ahead of this year’s Super Bowl. We invited Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, and Joshua Scacco, professor of political communication and director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy at the University of South Florida, to discuss the evolution of political messaging with Marketplace’s Lily Jamali. Scacco said Clinton’s MTV moment informed how future presidents, including his successor, George W. Bush, have engaged with Americans.

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It feels like eons ago, but during a town hall on violence in America in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton took to MTV to reach the nation’s youth. Clinton’s openness to MTV and what The New York Times called “other unconventional media” had helped pave his path to the White House two years earlier. Fast-forward to today, and even reluctant politicians use TikTok to reach younger voters — President Joe Biden is no exception. His first post came just ahead of this year’s Super Bowl. We invited Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, and Joshua Scacco, professor of political communication and director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy at the University of South Florida, to discuss the evolution of political messaging with Marketplace’s Lily Jamali. Scacco said Clinton’s MTV moment informed how future presidents, including his successor, George W. Bush, have engaged with Americans.

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How data generated by everyday apps can incriminate abortion seekers How data generated by everyday apps can incriminate abortion seekers https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-data-generated-by-everyday-apps-can-incriminate-abortion-seekers full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:12:13 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-data-generated-by-everyday-apps-can-incriminate-abortion-seekers

This week, we’ve been taking stock of how tech has both helped and harmed Americans trying to get abortions in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. After the Dobbs decision, some experts warned consumers that menstrual tracking apps would provide a means of surveilling abortion seekers. There was even a social media campaign on what was then Twitter advising people to delete their period trackers. But it’s turned out that the threat to privacy isn’t limited to those apps. Other digital data can actually be more likely to reveal an illegal abortion. That’s according to Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. He told Marketplace’s Lily Jamali that everyday consumer apps generate sensitive data that can be used for abortion surveillance.

 

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This week, we’ve been taking stock of how tech has both helped and harmed Americans trying to get abortions in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. After the Dobbs decision, some experts warned consumers that menstrual tracking apps would provide a means of surveilling abortion seekers. There was even a social media campaign on what was then Twitter advising people to delete their period trackers. But it’s turned out that the threat to privacy isn’t limited to those apps. Other digital data can actually be more likely to reveal an illegal abortion. That’s according to Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. He told Marketplace’s Lily Jamali that everyday consumer apps generate sensitive data that can be used for abortion surveillance.

 

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Protecting abortion patients’ digital data in the post-Roe era Protecting abortion patients’ digital data in the post-Roe era https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/protecting-abortion-patients-digital-data-in-the-post-roe-era full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:08:12 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/protecting-abortion-patients-digital-data-in-the-post-roe-era

After the U.S. Supreme Court took away the federal right to abortion two years ago, telehealth has helped provide ongoing access, including to people in states where abortion is now banned. That was our subject Monday. Now we are looking into apps that link patients with abortion providers. Julie F. Kay, executive director at the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, told Marketplace’s Lily Jamali that digital privacy protections are far from equal across these services.

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After the U.S. Supreme Court took away the federal right to abortion two years ago, telehealth has helped provide ongoing access, including to people in states where abortion is now banned. That was our subject Monday. Now we are looking into apps that link patients with abortion providers. Julie F. Kay, executive director at the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, told Marketplace’s Lily Jamali that digital privacy protections are far from equal across these services.

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Telehealth widens access to abortion care as lawmakers restrict it Telehealth widens access to abortion care as lawmakers restrict it https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/telehealth-widens-access-to-abortion-care-as-lawmakers-restrict-it full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:06:36 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/telehealth-widens-access-to-abortion-care-as-lawmakers-restrict-it

Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court ruled that abortions are not constitutionally protected in the U.S., a decision that would draw protests across the country. Since then, 14 states have outlawed abortions. Still, some people in those states have been able to cut through barriers to get abortions via telehealth, according to a recent report from the research project #WeCount. Usually, this requires a virtual visit with a telehealth care provider. The provider assesses the patient and gets their information, then can mail them mifepristone and misoprostol, which aid in ending a pregnancy. The Supreme Court preserved access to mifepristone in a ruling this month, which means it can still be prescribed and mailed to patients. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali discussed the increase in telehealth abortions with Ushma Upadhyay, professor of OB-GYN and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a coauthor of the #WeCount report.

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Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court ruled that abortions are not constitutionally protected in the U.S., a decision that would draw protests across the country. Since then, 14 states have outlawed abortions. Still, some people in those states have been able to cut through barriers to get abortions via telehealth, according to a recent report from the research project #WeCount. Usually, this requires a virtual visit with a telehealth care provider. The provider assesses the patient and gets their information, then can mail them mifepristone and misoprostol, which aid in ending a pregnancy. The Supreme Court preserved access to mifepristone in a ruling this month, which means it can still be prescribed and mailed to patients. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali discussed the increase in telehealth abortions with Ushma Upadhyay, professor of OB-GYN and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a coauthor of the #WeCount report.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Warning labels for social media, Adobe’s hidden fees and a less open OpenAI Bytes: Week in Review — Warning labels for social media, Adobe’s hidden fees and a less open OpenAI https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-warning-labels-for-social-media-adobes-hidden-fees-and-a-less-open-openai full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:03:42 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-warning-labels-for-social-media-adobes-hidden-fees-and-a-less-open-openai Big Tech subscription services are once again in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, nonprofits with links to OpenAI are becoming less transparent, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to require warning labels on social media. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, for this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review

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Big Tech subscription services are once again in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, nonprofits with links to OpenAI are becoming less transparent, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to require warning labels on social media. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, for this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review

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2014: The year that shaped social media 2014: The year that shaped social media https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/2014-the-year-that-shaped-social-media full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:08:13 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/2014-the-year-that-shaped-social-media Picture this: The year is 2014. The song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams is playing on every top 100 station, and the Ellen DeGeneres star-studded Oscars selfie has just “broken Twitter.” As all of this is happening, a bunch of content creators in certain corners of social media are about to start making a whole lot of money. Culture reporter Steffi Cao recently wrote in The Ringer that 2014 was the year that shaped the internet we know today. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to her about what happened online 10 years ago.

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Picture this: The year is 2014. The song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams is playing on every top 100 station, and the Ellen DeGeneres star-studded Oscars selfie has just “broken Twitter.” As all of this is happening, a bunch of content creators in certain corners of social media are about to start making a whole lot of money. Culture reporter Steffi Cao recently wrote in The Ringer that 2014 was the year that shaped the internet we know today. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to her about what happened online 10 years ago.

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Juneteenth’s viral moment and its future Juneteenth’s viral moment and its future https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/juneteenths-viral-moment-and-its-future full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:01:35 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/juneteenths-viral-moment-and-its-future

Shortly after the Union won the Civil War in 1865, a union major general issued an order: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” June 19, known as Juneteenth, has long been celebrated by African Americans. But in 2020, in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, Juneteenth took the internet by storm. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Brandon Ogbunu, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale, who wrote about that moment for WIRED back then. He revisited what was happening at that time a year before Juneteenth became a national holiday.

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Shortly after the Union won the Civil War in 1865, a union major general issued an order: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” June 19, known as Juneteenth, has long been celebrated by African Americans. But in 2020, in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, Juneteenth took the internet by storm. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Brandon Ogbunu, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale, who wrote about that moment for WIRED back then. He revisited what was happening at that time a year before Juneteenth became a national holiday.

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Meet the man who combines science, technology and magic to understand proteins Meet the man who combines science, technology and magic to understand proteins https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/meet-the-man-who-combines-science-technology-and-magic-to-understand-proteins full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:10:11 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/meet-the-man-who-combines-science-technology-and-magic-to-understand-proteins Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the headquarters of Nautilus Biotechnology to meet with Parag Mallick, the company’s founder and chief scientist, who is also a magician and an associate professor at Stanford University. Since 2016, Mallick and his team have been building a machine that they say will revolutionize biomedicine by unlocking the secrets of the “dark proteome.”

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Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the headquarters of Nautilus Biotechnology to meet with Parag Mallick, the company’s founder and chief scientist, who is also a magician and an associate professor at Stanford University. Since 2016, Mallick and his team have been building a machine that they say will revolutionize biomedicine by unlocking the secrets of the “dark proteome.”

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How to find a mailbox in Sao Paulo’s favelas How to find a mailbox in Sao Paulo’s favelas https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-to-find-a-mailbox-in-sao-paulos-favelas full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:21:06 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-to-find-a-mailbox-in-sao-paulos-favelas Brazil has densely populated low-income communities living on the outskirts of many cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Ordering online shopping just isn’t an option for residents as these towns don’t have an official address, but that may be changing. The BBC’s Ben Derico reports.

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Brazil has densely populated low-income communities living on the outskirts of many cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Ordering online shopping just isn’t an option for residents as these towns don’t have an official address, but that may be changing. The BBC’s Ben Derico reports.

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Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s AI flex, Uber’s legal loss and X’s hidden “likes” Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s AI flex, Uber’s legal loss and X’s hidden “likes” https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-apples-ai-flex-ubers-legal-loss-and-xs-hidden-likes full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:04:53 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-apples-ai-flex-ubers-legal-loss-and-xs-hidden-likes Ride-hailing company Uber has lost its challenge to the California law that requires gig companies to provide employment rights to workers. We’ll have more about the legal and political saga on this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Also, X — formerly Twitter — has made user “likes” private, marking another change to the platform’s identity and functionality since Elon Musk took over the social media company. But first, they’re calling it Apple Intelligence. That phrase was used about 60 times Monday during Apple’s annual developers confab. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal. She attended the Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, this week as Apple execs talked through the company’s entry into the AI race.

 

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Ride-hailing company Uber has lost its challenge to the California law that requires gig companies to provide employment rights to workers. We’ll have more about the legal and political saga on this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Also, X — formerly Twitter — has made user “likes” private, marking another change to the platform’s identity and functionality since Elon Musk took over the social media company. But first, they’re calling it Apple Intelligence. That phrase was used about 60 times Monday during Apple’s annual developers confab. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal. She attended the Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, this week as Apple execs talked through the company’s entry into the AI race.

 

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Greater, newer AI models come with environmental impacts Greater, newer AI models come with environmental impacts https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/greater-newer-ai-models-come-with-environmental-impacts full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:09:52 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/greater-newer-ai-models-come-with-environmental-impacts

Back in 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious pledge to go carbon negative by 2030. But that plan is encountering some headwinds, according to its latest sustainability report. It showed Microsoft’s carbon emissions have increased by 30% since it made that pledge four years ago and comes a reminder of the significant environmental cost of the AI boom. Just how significant? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked Emma Strubell, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who co-wrote a paper about the specific energy demands for common uses of this technology.

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Back in 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious pledge to go carbon negative by 2030. But that plan is encountering some headwinds, according to its latest sustainability report. It showed Microsoft’s carbon emissions have increased by 30% since it made that pledge four years ago and comes a reminder of the significant environmental cost of the AI boom. Just how significant? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked Emma Strubell, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who co-wrote a paper about the specific energy demands for common uses of this technology.

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Disinformation on elections, migration is spreading in Spanish too Disinformation on elections, migration is spreading in Spanish too https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/disinformation-on-elections-migration-is-spreading-in-spanish-too full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:05:52 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/disinformation-on-elections-migration-is-spreading-in-spanish-too

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season. Relatedly, perhaps, this voting bloc has emerged as a target for disinformation. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Marketplace senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams and Roberta Braga, founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, to learn more about Spanish-language disinformation in the 2024 campaign.

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season. Relatedly, perhaps, this voting bloc has emerged as a target for disinformation. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Marketplace senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams and Roberta Braga, founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, to learn more about Spanish-language disinformation in the 2024 campaign.

This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.

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California AG: Without federal law, kids’ online safety starts with the states California AG: Without federal law, kids’ online safety starts with the states https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/california-ag-without-federal-law-kids-online-safety-starts-with-the-states full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:04:38 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/california-ag-without-federal-law-kids-online-safety-starts-with-the-states Back in January, a U.S. Senate committee probed executives from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord about social media’s effect on kids. During a heated exchange with Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood, turned and apologized to families of victims who were sexually exploited on social media platforms. No federal legislation on the issue has become law, but some states are taking the lead. New York just passed two laws aimed at regulating social media, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing similar legislation in his state. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali sat down with Bonta to ask about what his state is doing to protect social media’s youngest users.

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Back in January, a U.S. Senate committee probed executives from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord about social media’s effect on kids. During a heated exchange with Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood, turned and apologized to families of victims who were sexually exploited on social media platforms. No federal legislation on the issue has become law, but some states are taking the lead. New York just passed two laws aimed at regulating social media, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing similar legislation in his state. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali sat down with Bonta to ask about what his state is doing to protect social media’s youngest users.

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Reddit’s CEO on why it’s partnering with OpenAI and Google Reddit’s CEO on why it’s partnering with OpenAI and Google https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/reddits-ceo-on-why-its-partnering-with-openai-and-google full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:10:08 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/reddits-ceo-on-why-its-partnering-with-openai-and-google

The network of online communities known as Reddit has millions of weekly active users. They post on “subreddit” forums like r/WhatShouldICook — a place where people just talk about their dinner plans — and r/ShowerThoughts, where participants share what they’re thinking during routine tasks. The co-founder and CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, is a fan of r/Daddit, being a father himself. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Huffman at Reddit headquarters in San Francisco, where they talked about the company selling stock and its recent licensing agreements with the likes of Google and Open AI, which use Reddit content to train their large language models.

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The network of online communities known as Reddit has millions of weekly active users. They post on “subreddit” forums like r/WhatShouldICook — a place where people just talk about their dinner plans — and r/ShowerThoughts, where participants share what they’re thinking during routine tasks. The co-founder and CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, is a fan of r/Daddit, being a father himself. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Huffman at Reddit headquarters in San Francisco, where they talked about the company selling stock and its recent licensing agreements with the likes of Google and Open AI, which use Reddit content to train their large language models.

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Bytes: Week in Review – AI whistleblowers, Facebook’s future, and meme stock backlash Bytes: Week in Review – AI whistleblowers, Facebook’s future, and meme stock backlash https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-ai-whistleblowers-facebooks-future-and-meme-stock-backlash full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:13:00 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-ai-whistleblowers-facebooks-future-and-meme-stock-backlash It’s cornered the market for boomers. Now, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta hopes to make Facebook once again a favorite social media app for young adults. Plus, the Wall Street Journal reports E*Trade is considering whether to give the boot to user Roaring Kitty, who helped ignite the 2021 meme stock craze. In case you missed it, yes, the craze is back. But first, there’s yet another open letter on AI. This whistleblower letter comes from more than a dozen current and former employees at major AI companies. They warn of the risks posed by the technology being developed. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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It’s cornered the market for boomers. Now, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta hopes to make Facebook once again a favorite social media app for young adults. Plus, the Wall Street Journal reports E*Trade is considering whether to give the boot to user Roaring Kitty, who helped ignite the 2021 meme stock craze. In case you missed it, yes, the craze is back. But first, there’s yet another open letter on AI. This whistleblower letter comes from more than a dozen current and former employees at major AI companies. They warn of the risks posed by the technology being developed. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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no 00:14:29 1110370
Deepfake detectors promise to tell truth from AI-generated fiction. Do they work? Deepfake detectors promise to tell truth from AI-generated fiction. Do they work? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/deepfake-detectors-ai-generated-fiction-do-they-work full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:05:46 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/deepfake-detectors-ai-generated-fiction-do-they-work Telling truth from fiction online has become a lot harder since the AI boom kicked off a year and a half ago. An estimated 40 deepfake detection startups say they have a solution, but so far none can deliver 100% reliable detection. One organization taking on the challenge is TrueMedia.org. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Oren Etzioni, its founder and longtime AI researcher, about what sets his organization’s system apart from the rest.

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Telling truth from fiction online has become a lot harder since the AI boom kicked off a year and a half ago. An estimated 40 deepfake detection startups say they have a solution, but so far none can deliver 100% reliable detection. One organization taking on the challenge is TrueMedia.org. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Oren Etzioni, its founder and longtime AI researcher, about what sets his organization’s system apart from the rest.

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no 00:13:56 1110084
The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Webb Space Telescope shows The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Webb Space Telescope shows https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-we-thought-webb-space-telescope-shows full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:05:16 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-we-thought-webb-space-telescope-shows

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for the past three decades, helping scientists understand how fast the universe is expanding and with that, its age. In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope to further that research. The bonus: All those stunning images from outer space. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. He said the Webb telescope has confirmed what Hubble first pieced together: Our universe is expanding faster than first predicted.

 

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for the past three decades, helping scientists understand how fast the universe is expanding and with that, its age. In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope to further that research. The bonus: All those stunning images from outer space. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. He said the Webb telescope has confirmed what Hubble first pieced together: Our universe is expanding faster than first predicted.

 

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Paris braces for a barrage of cyberattacks Paris braces for a barrage of cyberattacks https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/paris-braces-for-a-barrage-of-cyberattacks full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:05:45 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/paris-braces-for-a-barrage-of-cyberattacks The Summer Olympics, which kick off in Paris next month, are set to bring more than 10,000 athletes and an estimated 15 million spectators to the French capital. Officials hope to keep sports at center stage, but behind the scenes, they’re preparing to fend off cyberthreats in high volume. In recent years, several Olympic host cities have faced and managed cyberattacks, but as Antoaneta Roussi, cybersecurity reporter at Politico, tells Marketplace’s Lily Jamali, this year could be worse.

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The Summer Olympics, which kick off in Paris next month, are set to bring more than 10,000 athletes and an estimated 15 million spectators to the French capital. Officials hope to keep sports at center stage, but behind the scenes, they’re preparing to fend off cyberthreats in high volume. In recent years, several Olympic host cities have faced and managed cyberattacks, but as Antoaneta Roussi, cybersecurity reporter at Politico, tells Marketplace’s Lily Jamali, this year could be worse.

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no 00:13:01 1109181
The dark side of AI in India’s election The dark side of AI in India’s election https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-dark-side-of-ai-in-indias-election full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:09:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-dark-side-of-ai-in-indias-election Artificial intelligence has been used to help translate election candidates into hundreds of different languages — but also to create deepfakes of Bollywood stars and spread false news. The BBC’s Arunoday Mukharji reports.

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Artificial intelligence has been used to help translate election candidates into hundreds of different languages — but also to create deepfakes of Bollywood stars and spread false news. The BBC’s Arunoday Mukharji reports.

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Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s workplace expansion, data center power woes and the ’80s on TikTok Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s workplace expansion, data center power woes and the ’80s on TikTok https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-openais-workplace-expansion-data-center-power-woes-and-the-80s-on-tiktok full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 31 May 2024 10:06:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-openais-workplace-expansion-data-center-power-woes-and-the-80s-on-tiktok

In the early days of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot query required about 10 times the electricity of a typical Google search. And as people do more with generative artificial intelligence, we’re going to burn through even more power. Plus, the ’80s are back — on TikTok. A new dance trend is getting Gen X parents to show their Gen Z kids how they danced back in the day, to the tune of Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy.” Also this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that consulting and professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers is now OpenAI’s largest customer and the first reseller of ChatGPT’s enterprise tier, which is aimed at businesses. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, about these headlines for this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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In the early days of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot query required about 10 times the electricity of a typical Google search. And as people do more with generative artificial intelligence, we’re going to burn through even more power. Plus, the ’80s are back — on TikTok. A new dance trend is getting Gen X parents to show their Gen Z kids how they danced back in the day, to the tune of Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy.” Also this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that consulting and professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers is now OpenAI’s largest customer and the first reseller of ChatGPT’s enterprise tier, which is aimed at businesses. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, about these headlines for this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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Potential TikTok ban stirs anxieties in small-business owners Potential TikTok ban stirs anxieties in small-business owners https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/potential-tiktok-ban-stirs-anxieties-in-small-business-owners full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 30 May 2024 10:09:38 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/potential-tiktok-ban-stirs-anxieties-in-small-business-owners A law signed by President Joe Biden last month would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or be banned in the United States because of national security worries. And it’s making a lot of small-business owners anxious. We hear their stories.

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A law signed by President Joe Biden last month would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or be banned in the United States because of national security worries. And it’s making a lot of small-business owners anxious. We hear their stories.

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A scientist’s struggle to find the truth behind 3M’s “forever chemicals” problem A scientist’s struggle to find the truth behind 3M’s “forever chemicals” problem https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-scientists-struggle-to-find-the-truth-behind-3ms-forever-chemicals-problem full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 29 May 2024 10:04:36 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-scientists-struggle-to-find-the-truth-behind-3ms-forever-chemicals-problem

Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to break down in nature, and have been used widely in products like Scotchgard, Teflon and firefighting foam. Lerner has focused part of her work on understanding the flow of information inside manufacturers like 3M. By the 1970s, Lerner says, Minnesota-based 3M had established that they were toxic in animals and were accumulating in humans’ bodies. But who inside 3M knew? And what did they know? Reporting for ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news site, Lerner got a complicated answer after coming across a former 3M scientist named Kris Hansen. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Lerner about her recent investigation.

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Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to break down in nature, and have been used widely in products like Scotchgard, Teflon and firefighting foam. Lerner has focused part of her work on understanding the flow of information inside manufacturers like 3M. By the 1970s, Lerner says, Minnesota-based 3M had established that they were toxic in animals and were accumulating in humans’ bodies. But who inside 3M knew? And what did they know? Reporting for ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news site, Lerner got a complicated answer after coming across a former 3M scientist named Kris Hansen. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Lerner about her recent investigation.

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What to do when combating misinformation gets personal What to do when combating misinformation gets personal https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-to-do-when-combating-misinformation-gets-personal full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 28 May 2024 10:04:42 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-to-do-when-combating-misinformation-gets-personal When it comes to combating election-related misinformation online, sometimes the real world is the best place to start, but it isn’t always easy. On this week’s installment of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy,” Lily Jamali and senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams discuss the personal side of misinformation, take questions from colleagues and hear from experts about best practices for talking with loved ones about this sometimes sensitive topic.

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When it comes to combating election-related misinformation online, sometimes the real world is the best place to start, but it isn’t always easy. On this week’s installment of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy,” Lily Jamali and senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams discuss the personal side of misinformation, take questions from colleagues and hear from experts about best practices for talking with loved ones about this sometimes sensitive topic.

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A not-so-furry dog to help the visually impaired A not-so-furry dog to help the visually impaired https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-not-so-furry-dog-to-help-the-visually-impaired full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 27 May 2024 10:11:52 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-not-so-furry-dog-to-help-the-visually-impaired A team from the University of Glasgow in Scotland is developing a robot guide dog aimed at helping the visually impaired find their way around. They’re calling the AI-powered device the RoboGuide. The BBC’s Shiona McCallum brings us along on her visit with one of the robodogs and its handler, Dr. Wasim Ahmad.

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A team from the University of Glasgow in Scotland is developing a robot guide dog aimed at helping the visually impaired find their way around. They’re calling the AI-powered device the RoboGuide. The BBC’s Shiona McCallum brings us along on her visit with one of the robodogs and its handler, Dr. Wasim Ahmad.

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Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Online extremism, Section 230, and ScarJo vs. OpenAI Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Online extremism, Section 230, and ScarJo vs. OpenAI https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-online-extremism-section-230-and-scarjo-vs-openai full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 24 May 2024 10:09:53 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-online-extremism-section-230-and-scarjo-vs-openai Proceeding without permission is a time-tested practice in some corners of Silicon Valley. Well, it’s not working out so well for OpenAI. Actress Scarlett Johansson said this week the company approached her twice to voice a new AI assistant for ChatGPT-4o. She declined, only to find it had used a voice that sounds “eerily” like hers. Plus, on Capitol Hill, a House subcommittee held a hearing that could decide the future of Section 230, the provision that largely governs the internet today. We’ll explain why chatbots have entered the chat on Section 230’s future.

But first, a new report by former tech company officials and academic researchers finds far-right extremist militias are once again organizing on Facebook ahead of November’s presidential election. They recommend platforms ramp up content moderation to avoid fueling political violence. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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Proceeding without permission is a time-tested practice in some corners of Silicon Valley. Well, it’s not working out so well for OpenAI. Actress Scarlett Johansson said this week the company approached her twice to voice a new AI assistant for ChatGPT-4o. She declined, only to find it had used a voice that sounds “eerily” like hers. Plus, on Capitol Hill, a House subcommittee held a hearing that could decide the future of Section 230, the provision that largely governs the internet today. We’ll explain why chatbots have entered the chat on Section 230’s future.

But first, a new report by former tech company officials and academic researchers finds far-right extremist militias are once again organizing on Facebook ahead of November’s presidential election. They recommend platforms ramp up content moderation to avoid fueling political violence. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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NASA scrapped the next phase of its Mars mission. Now what? NASA scrapped the next phase of its Mars mission. Now what? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/nasa-scrapped-the-next-phase-of-its-mars-mission-now-what full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 23 May 2024 10:05:04 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/nasa-scrapped-the-next-phase-of-its-mars-mission-now-what Ever since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars three years ago, it’s been collecting rocks and soil from the red planet. The plan was for NASA to send a robotic spacecraft to Mars to bring those samples back to Earth, but the agency has now scrapped those plans thanks to a ballooning price tag and extensive delays. With no way of getting to Mars on its own, NASA is hoping to hitch a ride with private space companies to finish the mission. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Kenneth Chang, science reporter at The New York Times, about NASA’s difficulties on Mars and its partnerships with the private sector.

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Ever since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars three years ago, it’s been collecting rocks and soil from the red planet. The plan was for NASA to send a robotic spacecraft to Mars to bring those samples back to Earth, but the agency has now scrapped those plans thanks to a ballooning price tag and extensive delays. With no way of getting to Mars on its own, NASA is hoping to hitch a ride with private space companies to finish the mission. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Kenneth Chang, science reporter at The New York Times, about NASA’s difficulties on Mars and its partnerships with the private sector.

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A professor tries to turn the tables on Section 230’s web protections A professor tries to turn the tables on Section 230’s web protections https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/college-professor-challenges-section-230s-status-quo full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 22 May 2024 10:04:32 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/college-professor-challenges-section-230s-status-quo

The internet today is largely governed by 26 words in the Communications Decency Act, signed on Feb. 8, 1996, by then-President Bill Clinton. “Today, with the stroke of a pen, our laws will catch up with our future,” he proclaimed during the signing of the act. The web has changed a bit since then. But Section 230 of that law has not. Today, social media companies routinely use Section 230 to protect themselves from liability over what users post. Now, an internet scholar wants to change that. Will Oremus wrote about him for The Washington Post.

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The internet today is largely governed by 26 words in the Communications Decency Act, signed on Feb. 8, 1996, by then-President Bill Clinton. “Today, with the stroke of a pen, our laws will catch up with our future,” he proclaimed during the signing of the act. The web has changed a bit since then. But Section 230 of that law has not. Today, social media companies routinely use Section 230 to protect themselves from liability over what users post. Now, an internet scholar wants to change that. Will Oremus wrote about him for The Washington Post.

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Why cellphones — and trust — may be affecting polling data Why cellphones — and trust — may be affecting polling data https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-cellphones-and-trust-may-be-affecting-polling-data full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 21 May 2024 10:04:55 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-cellphones-and-trust-may-be-affecting-polling-data There was a time when pollsters went door to door to figure out what people were thinking. Gallup did that for almost 50 years, before switching mostly to telephones by the mid-’80s. Phone polling was cheaper but still reliable. That is, until the cellphone came along. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked Jon Clifton, CEO of Gallup, about the complexities of reaching people to get their views. His company stopped doing presidential horse-race polling in 2012, but still asks Americans for their views on the sitting president and topics ranging from immigration to inflation.

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There was a time when pollsters went door to door to figure out what people were thinking. Gallup did that for almost 50 years, before switching mostly to telephones by the mid-’80s. Phone polling was cheaper but still reliable. That is, until the cellphone came along. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked Jon Clifton, CEO of Gallup, about the complexities of reaching people to get their views. His company stopped doing presidential horse-race polling in 2012, but still asks Americans for their views on the sitting president and topics ranging from immigration to inflation.

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“Right-to-mine” crypto laws are making their way across the U.S. “Right-to-mine” crypto laws are making their way across the U.S. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/right-to-mine-crypto-laws-are-making-their-way-across-the-u-s full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 20 May 2024 10:36:25 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/right-to-mine-crypto-laws-are-making-their-way-across-the-u-s

If you drive 45 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas, you’ll come across a facility packed with thousands of computers trying to “mine” the next bitcoin. The popular cryptocurrency’s value recently shot past $60,000 per bitcoin. Mining those bitcoins is a lucrative operation, and several crypto mining outfits have moved to the state since the passage of the Arkansas Data Centers Act last year, also known as the “right-to-mine” bill. Similar bills giving crypto mining operations protections from local regulations have popped up a couple of states. But it turns out residents don’t particularly welcome many of these operations. And Arkansas recently changed course and restored to municipalities the ability to regulate crypto miners. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently spoke with Gabriel Dance, senior deputy investigations editor at The New York Times, about the crypto mining situation in Arkansas. He explained what the biggest complaints have been since these mining operations moved in.

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If you drive 45 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas, you’ll come across a facility packed with thousands of computers trying to “mine” the next bitcoin. The popular cryptocurrency’s value recently shot past $60,000 per bitcoin. Mining those bitcoins is a lucrative operation, and several crypto mining outfits have moved to the state since the passage of the Arkansas Data Centers Act last year, also known as the “right-to-mine” bill. Similar bills giving crypto mining operations protections from local regulations have popped up a couple of states. But it turns out residents don’t particularly welcome many of these operations. And Arkansas recently changed course and restored to municipalities the ability to regulate crypto miners. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently spoke with Gabriel Dance, senior deputy investigations editor at The New York Times, about the crypto mining situation in Arkansas. He explained what the biggest complaints have been since these mining operations moved in.

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Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Google doubles down on AI, ChatGPT gets chatty and Congress charts a path for AI regulation Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Google doubles down on AI, ChatGPT gets chatty and Congress charts a path for AI regulation https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-google-doubles-down-on-ai-chatgpt-gets-chatty-and-congress-charts-a-path-for-ai-regulation full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 17 May 2024 10:08:37 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-google-doubles-down-on-ai-chatgpt-gets-chatty-and-congress-charts-a-path-for-ai-regulation On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a heap of new spending on artificial intelligence research. We’ll look at where the proposed $32 billion annually is likely to go. And some of the biggest players in AI tried to outdo one another this week. OpenAI said it’s giving ChatGPT an upgrade and a personality while Google is trying to remake search with its AI model, Gemini. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.

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On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a heap of new spending on artificial intelligence research. We’ll look at where the proposed $32 billion annually is likely to go. And some of the biggest players in AI tried to outdo one another this week. OpenAI said it’s giving ChatGPT an upgrade and a personality while Google is trying to remake search with its AI model, Gemini. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.

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no 00:11:37 1099616
A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/labor-problems-facing-global-communication-infrastructure-repair-under-sea full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 16 May 2024 10:13:39 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/labor-problems-facing-global-communication-infrastructure-repair-under-sea

The whole digital economy runs through hundreds of thousands of miles of communication cables no bigger than a garden hose, deep on the ocean floor. So what happens when they break? And they do break, about once every other day, thanks to fishing trawlers or natural disasters. That’s when you call a repair crew of engineers, geologists, marine construction specialists and more who often spend months at sea repairing cables. This vital industry is largely invisible and facing some big challenges. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Josh Dzieza, feature writer and investigations editor at The Verge, who did a deep dive into the industry and those challenges.

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The whole digital economy runs through hundreds of thousands of miles of communication cables no bigger than a garden hose, deep on the ocean floor. So what happens when they break? And they do break, about once every other day, thanks to fishing trawlers or natural disasters. That’s when you call a repair crew of engineers, geologists, marine construction specialists and more who often spend months at sea repairing cables. This vital industry is largely invisible and facing some big challenges. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Josh Dzieza, feature writer and investigations editor at The Verge, who did a deep dive into the industry and those challenges.

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Digital ad spending streams past traditional TV Digital ad spending streams past traditional TV https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/digital-ad-spending-streams-past-traditional-tv full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 15 May 2024 10:10:37 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/digital-ad-spending-streams-past-traditional-tv

This week, media executives have been busy trying to impress advertisers at the annual “upfronts,” where major TV networks showcase their stars, new programs and the potential size of their audiences. It’s a show in its own right. “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon did his version of Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” at NBC’s upfront Monday. But this year, Big Tech is looking to cash in. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke about it with Reuters reporter Sheila Dang, who said ad spending on digital has surpassed that of traditional TV for the first time.

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This week, media executives have been busy trying to impress advertisers at the annual “upfronts,” where major TV networks showcase their stars, new programs and the potential size of their audiences. It’s a show in its own right. “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon did his version of Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” at NBC’s upfront Monday. But this year, Big Tech is looking to cash in. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke about it with Reuters reporter Sheila Dang, who said ad spending on digital has surpassed that of traditional TV for the first time.

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Why deepfakes of foreigners are selling goods on Chinese social media Why deepfakes of foreigners are selling goods on Chinese social media https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-deepfakes-of-foreigners-are-selling-goods-on-chinese-social-media full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 14 May 2024 10:06:28 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-deepfakes-of-foreigners-are-selling-goods-on-chinese-social-media

A couple of weeks ago, Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak noticed a video deepfake of the Hollywood actor Chris Evans on social media. The AI-generated Evans explains in Chinese how money is at the root of life’s problems. It’s part of a recent trend on mainland China, where deepfakes of foreigners give advice, discuss politics and sell goods online. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Pak about what’s behind the trend and later, the state of online misinformation in China.

This conversation was part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series, “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel.

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A couple of weeks ago, Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak noticed a video deepfake of the Hollywood actor Chris Evans on social media. The AI-generated Evans explains in Chinese how money is at the root of life’s problems. It’s part of a recent trend on mainland China, where deepfakes of foreigners give advice, discuss politics and sell goods online. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Pak about what’s behind the trend and later, the state of online misinformation in China.

This conversation was part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series, “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel.

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What happened to the “Texas miracle”? What happened to the “Texas miracle”? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-happened-to-the-texas-miracle full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 13 May 2024 10:07:21 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-happened-to-the-texas-miracle

Early in the pandemic, many big tech companies based in Silicon Valley exited California, fleeing the high overhead necessary to do business there. One city — Austin, Texas — was consistently tagged as the top destination. The Texas capital offered lower costs, especially in regard to housing and taxes. Another draw for companies: the state’s more lax approach to regulation. Well, after a massive influx, the “Texas miracle,” with Austin at its epicenter, is losing some of its luster. In recent weeks, Tesla, which moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin in 2020, announced it’s laying off 2,700 workers there. And software giant Oracle, which relocated to Austin at about the same time, is moving its headquarters again, this time to Nashville, Tennessee. Last week, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked Austin Mayor Kirk Watson about the state of tech in his city.

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Early in the pandemic, many big tech companies based in Silicon Valley exited California, fleeing the high overhead necessary to do business there. One city — Austin, Texas — was consistently tagged as the top destination. The Texas capital offered lower costs, especially in regard to housing and taxes. Another draw for companies: the state’s more lax approach to regulation. Well, after a massive influx, the “Texas miracle,” with Austin at its epicenter, is losing some of its luster. In recent weeks, Tesla, which moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin in 2020, announced it’s laying off 2,700 workers there. And software giant Oracle, which relocated to Austin at about the same time, is moving its headquarters again, this time to Nashville, Tennessee. Last week, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked Austin Mayor Kirk Watson about the state of tech in his city.

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Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Layoffs at Tesla, OpenAI’s deepfake detector and lots of new iPads Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Layoffs at Tesla, OpenAI’s deepfake detector and lots of new iPads https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-layoffs-at-tesla-openais-deepfake-detector-and-lots-of-new-ipads full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 10 May 2024 10:07:35 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-layoffs-at-tesla-openais-deepfake-detector-and-lots-of-new-ipads On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, OpenAI has unveiled its own deepfake detection software and is allowing a small group of disinformation researchers to use it. Speaking of artificial intelligence, Apple this week unveiled a new suite of iPads (just in case you forgot they still make those). The company announced its new iPad Pro will, among other features, run on an AI-powered processing chip. But first, a sales slowdown has hit electric car maker Tesla pretty hard of late. Now, the tech news site Electrek reports there’s been another wave of layoffs this week, directly affecting the company’s software, service and engineering departments. It also follows last week’s mass layoff of Tesla’s entire supercharger unit. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist with the Wall Street Journal, to unpack these stories.

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On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, OpenAI has unveiled its own deepfake detection software and is allowing a small group of disinformation researchers to use it. Speaking of artificial intelligence, Apple this week unveiled a new suite of iPads (just in case you forgot they still make those). The company announced its new iPad Pro will, among other features, run on an AI-powered processing chip. But first, a sales slowdown has hit electric car maker Tesla pretty hard of late. Now, the tech news site Electrek reports there’s been another wave of layoffs this week, directly affecting the company’s software, service and engineering departments. It also follows last week’s mass layoff of Tesla’s entire supercharger unit. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist with the Wall Street Journal, to unpack these stories.

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How scammers hijack their victims’ brains How scammers hijack their victims’ brains https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-scammers-hijack-their-victims-brains full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 09 May 2024 10:05:56 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-scammers-hijack-their-victims-brains Today’s episode of Marketplace Tech is all about financial scams: how they work, what kinds of technology scammers use, and how to spot a scam before you fall victim to one. We’re passing the microphone to victims of scams to tell their stories and then breaking down how the scammers pulled it off with Marketplace’s Lily Jamali and Selena Larson, staff threat researcher at Proofpoint.

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Today’s episode of Marketplace Tech is all about financial scams: how they work, what kinds of technology scammers use, and how to spot a scam before you fall victim to one. We’re passing the microphone to victims of scams to tell their stories and then breaking down how the scammers pulled it off with Marketplace’s Lily Jamali and Selena Larson, staff threat researcher at Proofpoint.

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Pinterest CEO wants to build a “more positive version of social media” Pinterest CEO wants to build a “more positive version of social media” https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/pinterest-ceo-wants-to-build-a-more-positive-version-of-social-media full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 08 May 2024 09:43:14 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/pinterest-ceo-wants-to-build-a-more-positive-version-of-social-media Pinterest. It’s the platform best known for its viral recipes, fashion forecasts, DIY crafts and ideas for just about any wedding or birthday party theme you could think of. In a sea of outrage and division on social media, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready wants you to think of the platform as a sanctuary of positivity in the online universe. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently sat down with Ready and asked him about how Pinterest has changed since its launch.

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Pinterest. It’s the platform best known for its viral recipes, fashion forecasts, DIY crafts and ideas for just about any wedding or birthday party theme you could think of. In a sea of outrage and division on social media, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready wants you to think of the platform as a sanctuary of positivity in the online universe. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently sat down with Ready and asked him about how Pinterest has changed since its launch.

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Millions of Americans could lose home internet access next month Millions of Americans could lose home internet access next month https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/millions-of-americans-could-lose-home-internet-access-next-month full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 07 May 2024 09:45:01 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/millions-of-americans-could-lose-home-internet-access-next-month

Back in the pandemic depths of December 2020, when so many Americans were working, learning and performing essential daily tasks online, the Federal Communications Commission launched an emergency program to help low-income people connect to high-speed internet with a $50-per-month subsidy. That was extended with the Affordable Connectivity Program, which has provided $30 a month for internet service. An estimated 23 million households currently get the subsidy. But they won’t for much longer. Efforts to renew funding for the ACP have stalled in Congress and are expected to run out by the end of the month. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Kelcee Griffis of Tech Brew about her reporting on the ACP and the people who rely on it.

 

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Back in the pandemic depths of December 2020, when so many Americans were working, learning and performing essential daily tasks online, the Federal Communications Commission launched an emergency program to help low-income people connect to high-speed internet with a $50-per-month subsidy. That was extended with the Affordable Connectivity Program, which has provided $30 a month for internet service. An estimated 23 million households currently get the subsidy. But they won’t for much longer. Efforts to renew funding for the ACP have stalled in Congress and are expected to run out by the end of the month. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Kelcee Griffis of Tech Brew about her reporting on the ACP and the people who rely on it.

 

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no 00:11:19 1090482
Rethinking the lifecycle of AI when it comes to deepfakes and kids Rethinking the lifecycle of AI when it comes to deepfakes and kids https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/rethinking-the-lifecycle-of-ai-when-it-comes-to-deepfakes-and-kids full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 06 May 2024 09:41:57 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/rethinking-the-lifecycle-of-ai-when-it-comes-to-deepfakes-and-kids The following content may be disturbing to some listeners.

For years, child sexual abuse material was mostly distributed by mail. Authorities used investigative techniques to stem its spread. That got a lot harder when the internet came along. And AI has supercharged the problem.

“Those 750,000 predators that are online at any given time looking to connect with minor[s] … they just need to find a picture of a child and use the AI to generate child sexual abuse materials and superimpose these faces on something that is inappropriate,” says child safety advocate and TikTokker Tiana Sharifi.

The nonprofit Thorn has created new design principles aimed at fighting child sexual abuse. Rebecca Portnoff, the organization’s vice president of data science, says tech companies need to develop better technology to detect AI-generated images and commit not to use this material to train AI models.

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The following content may be disturbing to some listeners.

For years, child sexual abuse material was mostly distributed by mail. Authorities used investigative techniques to stem its spread. That got a lot harder when the internet came along. And AI has supercharged the problem.

“Those 750,000 predators that are online at any given time looking to connect with minor[s] … they just need to find a picture of a child and use the AI to generate child sexual abuse materials and superimpose these faces on something that is inappropriate,” says child safety advocate and TikTokker Tiana Sharifi.

The nonprofit Thorn has created new design principles aimed at fighting child sexual abuse. Rebecca Portnoff, the organization’s vice president of data science, says tech companies need to develop better technology to detect AI-generated images and commit not to use this material to train AI models.

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Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Walmart health centers, VCs and Bumble Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Walmart health centers, VCs and Bumble https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-walmart-health-centers-vcs-and-bumble full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Fri, 03 May 2024 10:17:11 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-walmart-health-centers-vcs-and-bumble This week: Startups are taking longer to go public or sell to a buyer. What does that say about the state of tech? Also, the dating app Bumble once courted women by letting them make the first move. We’ll explain why Gen Z is prompting Bumble to change things up. But first, discount retail giant Walmart announced this week it is shutting down its telehealth business, as well as its network of low-cost health clinics. There were 51 of those clinics scattered across five states throughout the country. They were part of Walmart’s big push into health care, announced in 2019. So what happened?

Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter Second Opinion, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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This week: Startups are taking longer to go public or sell to a buyer. What does that say about the state of tech? Also, the dating app Bumble once courted women by letting them make the first move. We’ll explain why Gen Z is prompting Bumble to change things up. But first, discount retail giant Walmart announced this week it is shutting down its telehealth business, as well as its network of low-cost health clinics. There were 51 of those clinics scattered across five states throughout the country. They were part of Walmart’s big push into health care, announced in 2019. So what happened?

Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter Second Opinion, for her take on this week’s tech news.

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AI is surpassing humans in several areas, Stanford report says AI is surpassing humans in several areas, Stanford report says https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-is-surpassing-humans-in-several-areas-stanford-report-says full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Thu, 02 May 2024 10:06:00 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-is-surpassing-humans-in-several-areas-stanford-report-says

Just how capable is today’s artificial intelligence at beating humans at their own games? That’s one of the metrics tracked by an annual report put together by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, or HAI. And its latest AI Index report finds the tech is quickly gaining on humans. According to the report, AI now exceeds human capability not only in areas like simple reading comprehension and image classification, but also in domains that start to approach human logic, like natural language inference (the ability to draw inferences from text) or visual reasoning (the ability to deduce physical relationships between visual objects). Still, there are areas where the bots haven’t quite caught up. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Nestor Maslej, research manager at HAI and editor in chief of the index report, to learn more.

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Just how capable is today’s artificial intelligence at beating humans at their own games? That’s one of the metrics tracked by an annual report put together by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, or HAI. And its latest AI Index report finds the tech is quickly gaining on humans. According to the report, AI now exceeds human capability not only in areas like simple reading comprehension and image classification, but also in domains that start to approach human logic, like natural language inference (the ability to draw inferences from text) or visual reasoning (the ability to deduce physical relationships between visual objects). Still, there are areas where the bots haven’t quite caught up. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Nestor Maslej, research manager at HAI and editor in chief of the index report, to learn more.

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Can life exist on Europa, Jupiter’s moon? Can life exist on Europa, Jupiter’s moon? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-life-exist-on-europa-jupiters-moon full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Wed, 01 May 2024 10:04:07 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/can-life-exist-on-europa-jupiters-moon In October, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft, beginning a deep-space mission to one of Jupiter’s moons to determine if it’s capable of supporting life. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the Clipper was built, to learn more about the mission and see the spacecraft before its shipped off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this month.

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In October, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft, beginning a deep-space mission to one of Jupiter’s moons to determine if it’s capable of supporting life. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the Clipper was built, to learn more about the mission and see the spacecraft before its shipped off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this month.

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Deepfakes and online misinformation in India’s election Deepfakes and online misinformation in India’s election https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/deepfakes-and-online-misinformation-in-indias-election full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:05:08 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/deepfakes-and-online-misinformation-in-indias-election

A massive general election is currently underway in India. It’s been described as the “largest democratic exercise in history.” And tech platforms are a big part of it. Many Indian voters get their information online, where misinformation and disinformation can spread quickly. That includes deepfakes of prominent public figures, like Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, spreading false information about who or which political parties they are endorsing. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific policy director and senior international counsel with the international human rights group Access Now, about how deepfakes and online misinformation have become a problem for voters in India. They also discuss a recent report from Access Now and Global Witness, an environmental and human rights nonprofit, about YouTube’s advertisement moderation standards in India.

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A massive general election is currently underway in India. It’s been described as the “largest democratic exercise in history.” And tech platforms are a big part of it. Many Indian voters get their information online, where misinformation and disinformation can spread quickly. That includes deepfakes of prominent public figures, like Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, spreading false information about who or which political parties they are endorsing. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific policy director and senior international counsel with the international human rights group Access Now, about how deepfakes and online misinformation have become a problem for voters in India. They also discuss a recent report from Access Now and Global Witness, an environmental and human rights nonprofit, about YouTube’s advertisement moderation standards in India.

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Atlas, forefather of humanoid robots, gives way to next generation Atlas, forefather of humanoid robots, gives way to next generation https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/atlas-forefather-of-humanoid-robots-gives-way-to-next-generation full Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:03:22 +0000 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/atlas-forefather-of-humanoid-robots-gives-way-to-next-generation

Robotics company Boston Dynamics announced this month it is retiring its humanoid robot known as “Atlas.” The 6′, 2,330 lb robot was considered a quantum leap in robotics and was famous for parkour stunts and awkward dance moves. Debuting more than a decade ago in 2013, the Atlas robot was a part of a partnership with the Defense Department. It relied on hydraulic power, using pressurized fluid to generate movement. It could do tasks that can be challenging for humans like lifting heavy boxes and parkour. As the older Atlas lives out its golden years, Boston Dynamics has announced its successor – a smaller version of the Atlas bot that runs on electric power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Brian Heater, hardware editor at TechCrunch, for his take on what’s next and a look back on the original Atlas.

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Robotics company Boston Dynamics announced this month it is retiring its humanoid robot known as “Atlas.” The 6′, 2,330 lb robot was considered a quantum leap in robotics and was famous for parkour stunts and awkward dance moves. Debuting more than a decade ago in 2013, the Atlas robot was a part of a partnership with the Defense Department. It relied on hydraulic power, using pressurized fluid to generate movement. It could do tasks that can be challenging for humans like lifting heavy boxes and parkour. As the older Atlas lives out its golden years, Boston Dynamics has announced its successor – a smaller version of the Atlas bot that runs on electric power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Brian Heater, hardware editor at TechCrunch, for his take on what’s next and a look back on the original Atlas.

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<![CDATA[ <p>The social media app Bluesky is flying high this week as users disenchanted with Elon Musk&#8217;s X flee that platform post-election. That&#8217;s just one of the topics for today&#8217;s &#8220;Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.&#8221; We&#8217;ll also get into Big Tech&#8217;s big-money lobbying effort to slow down a federal bill aimed at protecting kids online. But first, the latest in the potential Google breakup. This week, the Department of Justice proposed forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser. It&#8217;s one possible resolution to an antitrust case that has already ruled Google&#8217;s search business a monopoly. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The social media app Bluesky is flying high this week as users disenchanted with Elon Musk&#8217;s X flee that platform post-election. That&#8217;s just one of the topics for today&#8217;s &#8220;Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.&#8221; We&#8217;ll also get into Big Tech&#8217;s big-money lobbying effort to slow down a federal bill aimed at protecting kids online. But first, the latest in the potential Google breakup. This week, the Department of Justice proposed forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser. It&#8217;s one possible resolution to an antitrust case that has already ruled Google&#8217;s search business a monopoly. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Some of the biggest health insurers in the country are turning to an algorithm to help determine if a medical claim will be approved. That’s according to a recent investigation led by ProPublica into EviCore, a contractor used to outsource prior approval requests for much of the insurance industry. The investigation found that EviCore tweaks an algorithm to increase the likelihood those claims will be denied, which means lower costs for insurers but more patients losing access to potentially lifesaving care. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to ProPublica&#8217;s T. Christian Miller, who co-reported this story.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Some of the biggest health insurers in the country are turning to an algorithm to help determine if a medical claim will be approved. That’s according to a recent investigation led by ProPublica into EviCore, a contractor used to outsource prior approval requests for much of the insurance industry. The investigation found that EviCore tweaks an algorithm to increase the likelihood those claims will be denied, which means lower costs for insurers but more patients losing access to potentially lifesaving care. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to ProPublica&#8217;s T. Christian Miller, who co-reported this story.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Remember the old mantra from the early days of social media, &#8220;pics or it didn&#8217;t happen”? For more than a century, photographic evidence was about as close to a physical representation of the real world as we’ve had. But, thanks to new AI-powered photo editing tools – like the one now available on Google’s newest Pixel phones – anyone can create convincing pics of things that didn’t happen. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Sarah Jeong, a features editor at The Verge, who recently wrote about these cutting edge tools. Jeong says no one’s ready for the impact of this technology.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Remember the old mantra from the early days of social media, &#8220;pics or it didn&#8217;t happen”? For more than a century, photographic evidence was about as close to a physical representation of the real world as we’ve had. But, thanks to new AI-powered photo editing tools – like the one now available on Google’s newest Pixel phones – anyone can create convincing pics of things that didn’t happen. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Sarah Jeong, a features editor at The Verge, who recently wrote about these cutting edge tools. Jeong says no one’s ready for the impact of this technology.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. And the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who is also the owner of X, does have a record of wringing efficiencies out of his businesses. But the move raises many questions, like should someone whose companies benefit from federal dollars have a hand in making budget decisions? SpaceX alone has secured about $15.4 billion in federal contracts over the last decade, helping it become the dominant player in the industry. So, how has SpaceX rocketed ahead of the competition, and can anyone catch up? Ashlee Vance, the author of &#8220;When the Heavens Went on Sale&#8221; and a writer for Bloomberg, pointed to reusable rockets, an innovation that was on spectacular display when SpaceX tested its Starship system last month.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. And the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who is also the owner of X, does have a record of wringing efficiencies out of his businesses. But the move raises many questions, like should someone whose companies benefit from federal dollars have a hand in making budget decisions? SpaceX alone has secured about $15.4 billion in federal contracts over the last decade, helping it become the dominant player in the industry. So, how has SpaceX rocketed ahead of the competition, and can anyone catch up? Ashlee Vance, the author of &#8220;When the Heavens Went on Sale&#8221; and a writer for Bloomberg, pointed to reusable rockets, an innovation that was on spectacular display when SpaceX tested its Starship system last month.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Advancements in artificial intelligence have made it possible for the technology to mimic humans in ever-more convincing ways. But even far less sophisticated tools than today&#8217;s chatbots have been shown in research to trick our brains, in a sense, into projecting human thought processes and emotions onto these systems. It&#8217;s a cognitive failure that can leave people open to deception and manipulation, which makes the increasingly human-like technologies proliferating in our daily lives particularly dangerous, Rick Claypool, research director at the nonprofit Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Advancements in artificial intelligence have made it possible for the technology to mimic humans in ever-more convincing ways. But even far less sophisticated tools than today&#8217;s chatbots have been shown in research to trick our brains, in a sense, into projecting human thought processes and emotions onto these systems. It&#8217;s a cognitive failure that can leave people open to deception and manipulation, which makes the increasingly human-like technologies proliferating in our daily lives particularly dangerous, Rick Claypool, research director at the nonprofit Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s been almost eight months since Reddit went public, and since then, the platform known as the front page of the internet has been going gangbusters. We&#8217;ll get into why on this week&#8217;s &#8220;Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.&#8221; Plus, crypto surges to new highs in the wake of the election. But first up, Silicon Valley is going to Washington. This week, President-elect Donald Trump tapped his favorite tech CEO, Elon Musk, as the co-lead of a new Department of Government Efficiency along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the former biotech entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate.</p> <p>Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s been almost eight months since Reddit went public, and since then, the platform known as the front page of the internet has been going gangbusters. We&#8217;ll get into why on this week&#8217;s &#8220;Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.&#8221; Plus, crypto surges to new highs in the wake of the election. But first up, Silicon Valley is going to Washington. This week, President-elect Donald Trump tapped his favorite tech CEO, Elon Musk, as the co-lead of a new Department of Government Efficiency along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the former biotech entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate.</p> <p>Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Apple is reportedly facing a fine from the European Union, and it could be a hefty one. It&#8217;s the first Big Tech company to be slapped with a financial penalty under the EU&#8217;s Digital Markets Act, which went into effect last year. The law, aimed at spurring competition in digital markets, requires Big Tech companies designated as &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; to change policies that lock consumers into their products. Like, say, the walled garden of the Apple App Store. EU regulators ruled that Apple violated the DMA by failing to fully support app developers &#8220;steering&#8221; consumers to alternative marketplaces. It&#8217;s a story Matt Binder, a senior tech reporter for Mashable, has been following.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Apple is reportedly facing a fine from the European Union, and it could be a hefty one. It&#8217;s the first Big Tech company to be slapped with a financial penalty under the EU&#8217;s Digital Markets Act, which went into effect last year. The law, aimed at spurring competition in digital markets, requires Big Tech companies designated as &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; to change policies that lock consumers into their products. Like, say, the walled garden of the Apple App Store. EU regulators ruled that Apple violated the DMA by failing to fully support app developers &#8220;steering&#8221; consumers to alternative marketplaces. It&#8217;s a story Matt Binder, a senior tech reporter for Mashable, has been following.</p> ]]>
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<title>It’s not too late to change the future of AI</title>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Gary Marcus is worried about AI. The professor emeritus at NYU doesn&#8217;t count himself a luddite or techno-pessimist. But Marcus has become one of the loudest voices of caution when it comes to AI. He’s chronicled some of the funniest and most disturbing errors made by current tools like ChatGPT, calling out the many costs – both human and environmental – of an industry that continues to accrete money and power. In his new book &#8220;Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us,” Marcus lays out his vision for a responsible path forward. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Marcus about that path and how it may be further out of reach, though not impossible, given the results of this year’s presidential election.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Gary Marcus is worried about AI. The professor emeritus at NYU doesn&#8217;t count himself a luddite or techno-pessimist. But Marcus has become one of the loudest voices of caution when it comes to AI. He’s chronicled some of the funniest and most disturbing errors made by current tools like ChatGPT, calling out the many costs – both human and environmental – of an industry that continues to accrete money and power. In his new book &#8220;Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us,” Marcus lays out his vision for a responsible path forward. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Marcus about that path and how it may be further out of reach, though not impossible, given the results of this year’s presidential election.</p> ]]>
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<title>Understanding free speech in the online age</title>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Do the free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment apply to online discourse? What if that online discourse spreads misinformation? Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about how we should understand the right to free speech in the internet era.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Do the free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment apply to online discourse? What if that online discourse spreads misinformation? Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about how we should understand the right to free speech in the internet era.</p> ]]>
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<title>For parents, school phone bans connect to many issues</title>
<itunes:title>For parents, school phone bans connect to many issues</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This fall, California became the latest state to adopt a law banning cellphone use in schools. The Golden State joins more than a dozen that have imposed restrictions as alarm grows about the potentially harmful effects of smartphone use on students&#8217; learning and mental health. Support for these policies spans the political spectrum. But one important constituency sometimes has a hard time adjusting: parents. Kathryn Jezer-Morton, a columnist for The Cut, wrote about the challenges of disconnecting.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This fall, California became the latest state to adopt a law banning cellphone use in schools. The Golden State joins more than a dozen that have imposed restrictions as alarm grows about the potentially harmful effects of smartphone use on students&#8217; learning and mental health. Support for these policies spans the political spectrum. But one important constituency sometimes has a hard time adjusting: parents. Kathryn Jezer-Morton, a columnist for The Cut, wrote about the challenges of disconnecting.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — What a second Trump presidency could mean for the tech sector</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — What a second Trump presidency could mean for the tech sector</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-what-a-second-trump-presidency-could-mean-for-the-tech-sector</link>
<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The president-elect is also a former president who&#8217;s been a fixture in national politics for the last decade. But predicting what Donald Trump might have in mind for the tech industry in his second term based on that history, well, that&#8217;s a tough call. Trump has, at times, had strong words for some tech titans, cozied up to others, and pushed for — and then against — a TikTok ban. His first administration initiated several antitrust cases against tech companies, but Trump recently expressed skepticism about the potential breakup of Google after a federal judge ruled that its search business was a monopoly. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, a senior writer at Wired, about the future of tech antitrust policy and more in the second Trump term.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The president-elect is also a former president who&#8217;s been a fixture in national politics for the last decade. But predicting what Donald Trump might have in mind for the tech industry in his second term based on that history, well, that&#8217;s a tough call. Trump has, at times, had strong words for some tech titans, cozied up to others, and pushed for — and then against — a TikTok ban. His first administration initiated several antitrust cases against tech companies, but Trump recently expressed skepticism about the potential breakup of Google after a federal judge ruled that its search business was a monopoly. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, a senior writer at Wired, about the future of tech antitrust policy and more in the second Trump term.</p> ]]>
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<title>Patience for learning wanes as students make AI a habit</title>
<itunes:title>Patience for learning wanes as students make AI a habit</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/patience-for-learning-wanes-as-students-make-ai-a-habit</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>It has been almost two years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene and made teachers&#8217; lives a whole lot harder. A report from Common Sense Media this fall showed that 70% of teenage students used artificial intelligence for school or fun. But a majority of those students’ parents and teachers were unaware. Leila Wheless, a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher in North Carolina, asked her students how they use the technology.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>It has been almost two years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene and made teachers&#8217; lives a whole lot harder. A report from Common Sense Media this fall showed that 70% of teenage students used artificial intelligence for school or fun. But a majority of those students’ parents and teachers were unaware. Leila Wheless, a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher in North Carolina, asked her students how they use the technology.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option</title>
<itunes:title>AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ais-appetite-for-electric-power-fuels-interest-in-nuclear-option</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The thing about the artificial intelligence boom is that the tech needs a lot of electricity. <a href="https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/AI-poised-to-drive-160-increase-in-power-demand">One estimate from Goldman Sachs </a>suggests that largely because of AI, data centers will use 160% more electricity by 2030. It&#8217;s got Big Tech fired up about an option that&#8217;s never really been the cool kid of the clean energy class: nuclear power. Microsoft made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island plant, while Google and Amazon are investing in new types of reactors. It&#8217;s stirring something of a <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2024/10/18/big-tech-goes-nuclear/">&#8220;nuclear revival&#8221;</a> for the U.S. after decades of stagnation. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Anna Erickson, professor of nuclear and radiological engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about the push to revive the nuclear energy sector.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The thing about the artificial intelligence boom is that the tech needs a lot of electricity. <a href="https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/AI-poised-to-drive-160-increase-in-power-demand">One estimate from Goldman Sachs </a>suggests that largely because of AI, data centers will use 160% more electricity by 2030. It&#8217;s got Big Tech fired up about an option that&#8217;s never really been the cool kid of the clean energy class: nuclear power. Microsoft made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island plant, while Google and Amazon are investing in new types of reactors. It&#8217;s stirring something of a <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2024/10/18/big-tech-goes-nuclear/">&#8220;nuclear revival&#8221;</a> for the U.S. after decades of stagnation. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Anna Erickson, professor of nuclear and radiological engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about the push to revive the nuclear energy sector.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Misinformation to guard against on Election Day</title>
<itunes:title>Misinformation to guard against on Election Day</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/misinformation-to-guard-against-on-election-day</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s Election Day and even though the campaign may be over, the battle over misinformation is not. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams spoke with Derek Tisler, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, about some of the misleading online narratives voters should expect to see and how to deal with them. This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode <a href="https://youtu.be/2crQvdYgWG4?si=yaO94ML6UKrvdxQk">on our YouTube channel</a>.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s Election Day and even though the campaign may be over, the battle over misinformation is not. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams spoke with Derek Tisler, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, about some of the misleading online narratives voters should expect to see and how to deal with them. This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode <a href="https://youtu.be/2crQvdYgWG4?si=yaO94ML6UKrvdxQk">on our YouTube channel</a>.</p> ]]>
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<title>Internet freedom takes a hit during global elections, report finds</title>
<itunes:title>Internet freedom takes a hit during global elections, report finds</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/internet-freedom-takes-a-hit-during-global-elections-report-finds</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In case you forgot, we&#8217;ve got Election Day tomorrow. But it was also a big year for elections in the rest of the world. About half of the global population is voting in national elections in 2024, and in many countries people have encountered shut down internet, blocked websites or manipulated content online, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Freedom House. Allie Funk leads Freedom House’s technology and democracy initiative, and she told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino this is the 14th consecutive year the report has documented a decline in human rights online.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In case you forgot, we&#8217;ve got Election Day tomorrow. But it was also a big year for elections in the rest of the world. About half of the global population is voting in national elections in 2024, and in many countries people have encountered shut down internet, blocked websites or manipulated content online, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Freedom House. Allie Funk leads Freedom House’s technology and democracy initiative, and she told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino this is the 14th consecutive year the report has documented a decline in human rights online.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-apple-intelligence-arrives-ai-writes-googles-code-and-ai-medical-transcription-tool-hallucinates</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>An AI transcription tool used in health care has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including making up medications. That&#8217;s just one of the topics for today&#8217;s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, we&#8217;ll get into what we learned from this week&#8217;s Big Tech earnings, including Google saying that it&#8217;s using AI to generate about 25% of its code.</p> <p>But first, it&#8217;s been a busy week for Apple. The company launched some of its new Apple Intelligence features and released its new lineup of Mac computers along with some souped-up chips.</p> <p>Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to get her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>An AI transcription tool used in health care has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including making up medications. That&#8217;s just one of the topics for today&#8217;s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, we&#8217;ll get into what we learned from this week&#8217;s Big Tech earnings, including Google saying that it&#8217;s using AI to generate about 25% of its code.</p> <p>But first, it&#8217;s been a busy week for Apple. The company launched some of its new Apple Intelligence features and released its new lineup of Mac computers along with some souped-up chips.</p> <p>Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to get her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<title>Why AI is Hollywood’s favorite monster</title>
<itunes:title>Why AI is Hollywood’s favorite monster</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-ai-is-hollywoods-favorite-monster</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>For almost a century, people have been going to the movies to get freaked out by fictional depictions of artificial intelligence. Back in 1968, there was Hal 9000 in &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey.&#8221; The 1980s gave us Skynet in &#8220;The Terminator.&#8221; And these days, movies about rogue bots are more popular than ever. Films like 2022’s “M3GAN” and this summer&#8217;s “AfrAId” seem to be channeling our worst fears about the intelligent technology increasingly embedded in our daily lives. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Shira Ovide, a tech reporter and author of The Washington Post’s “Tech Friend” newsletter, about why AI is such a compelling horror villain.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>For almost a century, people have been going to the movies to get freaked out by fictional depictions of artificial intelligence. Back in 1968, there was Hal 9000 in &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey.&#8221; The 1980s gave us Skynet in &#8220;The Terminator.&#8221; And these days, movies about rogue bots are more popular than ever. Films like 2022’s “M3GAN” and this summer&#8217;s “AfrAId” seem to be channeling our worst fears about the intelligent technology increasingly embedded in our daily lives. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Shira Ovide, a tech reporter and author of The Washington Post’s “Tech Friend” newsletter, about why AI is such a compelling horror villain.</p> ]]>
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<title>AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows</title>
<itunes:title>AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-labels-on-digital-political-ads-might-backfire-on-candidates-research-shows</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>We are in the midst of the first major U.S. election of the generative AI era. The people who want to win your vote have easy access to tools that can create images, video or audio of real people doing or saying things they never did — and slap on weird appendages or other make-believe effects along with targeted slogans. But the potential to deceive has led about two dozen states to enact some form of regulation requiring political ads that use artificial intelligence to include a label. So how do voters respond when they know a campaign has used AI? That&#8217;s what Scott Brennen and his team at New York University&#8217;s Center on Technology Policy set out to answer in a recent study.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>We are in the midst of the first major U.S. election of the generative AI era. The people who want to win your vote have easy access to tools that can create images, video or audio of real people doing or saying things they never did — and slap on weird appendages or other make-believe effects along with targeted slogans. But the potential to deceive has led about two dozen states to enact some form of regulation requiring political ads that use artificial intelligence to include a label. So how do voters respond when they know a campaign has used AI? That&#8217;s what Scott Brennen and his team at New York University&#8217;s Center on Technology Policy set out to answer in a recent study.</p> ]]>
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<title>Illicit, sexually explicit deepfakes are becoming a problem in schools</title>
<itunes:title>Illicit, sexually explicit deepfakes are becoming a problem in schools</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/illicit-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-are-becoming-a-problem-in-schools</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>We know from various studies that young people are, unsurprisingly, using generative AI tools like chatbots and image generators, sometimes for homework, sometimes for fun and sometimes for malicious purposes. A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology found that artificial intelligence is being used among high school students to create nonconsensual, illicit imagery — in other words, sexually explicit deepfakes. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Elizabeth Laird, director of equity in civic technology at CDT, to learn more.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>We know from various studies that young people are, unsurprisingly, using generative AI tools like chatbots and image generators, sometimes for homework, sometimes for fun and sometimes for malicious purposes. A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology found that artificial intelligence is being used among high school students to create nonconsensual, illicit imagery — in other words, sexually explicit deepfakes. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Elizabeth Laird, director of equity in civic technology at CDT, to learn more.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Voice-over artists allege an AI company cloned their voices in lawsuit</title>
<itunes:title>Voice-over artists allege an AI company cloned their voices in lawsuit</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/voice-over-artists-allege-an-ai-company-cloned-their-voices-in-lawsuit</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>With tech now able to clone voices in minutes, many people in creative industries are worried about what this could mean for their livelihoods. The BBC&#8217;s Ben Derico looks at what this AI revolution has meant for voice actors who claim to have had their likeness copied by an AI voice-generating company.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>With tech now able to clone voices in minutes, many people in creative industries are worried about what this could mean for their livelihoods. The BBC&#8217;s Ben Derico looks at what this AI revolution has meant for voice actors who claim to have had their likeness copied by an AI voice-generating company.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — A fraying tech “bromance,” Claude’s new skills and a robotics boom</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — A fraying tech “bromance,” Claude’s new skills and a robotics boom</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-a-fraying-tech-bromance-claudes-new-skills-and-a-robotics-boom</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The next big thing in Silicon Valley might just be an old-fashioned concept: humanoid robots that can mimic our physical abilities. Developments in AI are triggering renewed interest in the robotics industry. And Anthropic’s latest Claude model can control a computer on its own, which could have implications for the future of work. But first, is the “best bromance in tech” starting to sour? That&#8217;s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once described his company&#8217;s partnership with Microsoft, but recently the alliance has shown signs of tension. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The next big thing in Silicon Valley might just be an old-fashioned concept: humanoid robots that can mimic our physical abilities. Developments in AI are triggering renewed interest in the robotics industry. And Anthropic’s latest Claude model can control a computer on its own, which could have implications for the future of work. But first, is the “best bromance in tech” starting to sour? That&#8217;s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once described his company&#8217;s partnership with Microsoft, but recently the alliance has shown signs of tension. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”</p> ]]>
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<title>Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability</title>
<itunes:title>Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/apple-answers-the-call-for-iphone-repairability</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>There&#8217;s a movement to make it possible to repair our gadgets ourselves instead of having to send them back to the company that makes them or, you know, just get a new one. The &#8220;right to repair&#8221; movement in consumer electronics has made real gains in recent years. Several states, like California, New York and Oregon, have passed legislation requiring it. And it looks like Apple&#8217;s newest iPhone — the 16 — has made strides in that department. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Kyle Wiens, CEO of the online repair guide iFixit, about the iPhone 16&#8217;s improved repairability.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>There&#8217;s a movement to make it possible to repair our gadgets ourselves instead of having to send them back to the company that makes them or, you know, just get a new one. The &#8220;right to repair&#8221; movement in consumer electronics has made real gains in recent years. Several states, like California, New York and Oregon, have passed legislation requiring it. And it looks like Apple&#8217;s newest iPhone — the 16 — has made strides in that department. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Kyle Wiens, CEO of the online repair guide iFixit, about the iPhone 16&#8217;s improved repairability.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>On Instagram, politics is the new taboo</title>
<itunes:title>On Instagram, politics is the new taboo</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/on-instagram-politics-is-the-new-taboo-2</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A content creator who goes by the username Mrs. Frazzled recently noticed something strange happening on her Instagram account. With more than 370,000 followers, her videos sometimes score millions of views. Except, it seems, when she talks about the election. Mrs. Frazzled sensed she was being shadowbanned by Instagram, so Geoffrey Fowler, a tech columnist at The Washington Post, investigated. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Fowler about what he found.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A content creator who goes by the username Mrs. Frazzled recently noticed something strange happening on her Instagram account. With more than 370,000 followers, her videos sometimes score millions of views. Except, it seems, when she talks about the election. Mrs. Frazzled sensed she was being shadowbanned by Instagram, so Geoffrey Fowler, a tech columnist at The Washington Post, investigated. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Fowler about what he found.</p> ]]>
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<title>How tech is boosting the turnout of disabled voters</title>
<itunes:title>How tech is boosting the turnout of disabled voters</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-tech-is-boosting-the-turnout-of-disabled-voters</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Trying to vote when your disabled can present a series of obstacles but technology can help, even if integrating technology into our election system has its risks. Back in 2020, several states changed their voting rules with more mail-in, early, and remote voting options which increased turnout among disabled voters. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Michelle Bishop, voter access and engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, about finding the right balance of tech integration into our elections in order to empower more disabled voters in the U.S.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Trying to vote when your disabled can present a series of obstacles but technology can help, even if integrating technology into our election system has its risks. Back in 2020, several states changed their voting rules with more mail-in, early, and remote voting options which increased turnout among disabled voters. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Michelle Bishop, voter access and engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, about finding the right balance of tech integration into our elections in order to empower more disabled voters in the U.S.</p> ]]>
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<title>How Big Tech is courting Big Oil</title>
<itunes:title>How Big Tech is courting Big Oil</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-big-tech-is-courting-big-oil</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Artificial intelligence, according to its boosters, could help us unlock solutions to some of the world&#8217;s toughest problems, like climate change. But in the meantime, it&#8217;s become a key tool for fossil fuel companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron to maximize the extraction of emissions-producing oil and gas. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to freelance reporter Karen Hao, who recently wrote in The Atlantic about how Microsoft has actively courted the fossil fuel industry.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Artificial intelligence, according to its boosters, could help us unlock solutions to some of the world&#8217;s toughest problems, like climate change. But in the meantime, it&#8217;s become a key tool for fossil fuel companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron to maximize the extraction of emissions-producing oil and gas. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to freelance reporter Karen Hao, who recently wrote in The Atlantic about how Microsoft has actively courted the fossil fuel industry.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — SpaceX vs. California, and AI crawlers and VC dollars</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — SpaceX vs. California, and AI crawlers and VC dollars</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-spacex-vs-california-and-ai-crawlers-and-vc-dollars</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Web crawlers scan and catalog sites all over the internet and, in the AI era, use that data to train chatbots. We&#8217;ll talk about why The New York Times is trying to put a stop to crawlers from the AI company Perplexity. We&#8217;ll also discuss the record share of venture capital dollars flowing into the AI sector and the difficulty of attracting investment for startups without those two magic letters. Plus, the ups and downs of SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Web crawlers scan and catalog sites all over the internet and, in the AI era, use that data to train chatbots. We&#8217;ll talk about why The New York Times is trying to put a stop to crawlers from the AI company Perplexity. We&#8217;ll also discuss the record share of venture capital dollars flowing into the AI sector and the difficulty of attracting investment for startups without those two magic letters. Plus, the ups and downs of SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”</p> ]]>
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<title>Why presidential candidates are embracing podcast interviews</title>
<itunes:title>Why presidential candidates are embracing podcast interviews</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/trump-harris-presidential-candidates-podcast-interviews</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first interview on Fox News Wednesday as the Democratic presidential candidate continued her media blitz ahead of the November election. And while it&#8217;s generating plenty of headlines, these kinds of big interviews just don&#8217;t hold the power they used to, according to Nick Quah, a podcast and culture critic at New York Magazine who&#8217;s been following the candidates&#8217; interviews on the alternative media circuit. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Quah about how Kamala Harris&#8217; appearance on more internet-native shows like the podcast &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; or Donald Trump&#8217;s appearances on various &#8220;bro-centric&#8221; shows like Logan Paul &#8216;sYouTube channel represent a notable media shift compared to previous elections.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first interview on Fox News Wednesday as the Democratic presidential candidate continued her media blitz ahead of the November election. And while it&#8217;s generating plenty of headlines, these kinds of big interviews just don&#8217;t hold the power they used to, according to Nick Quah, a podcast and culture critic at New York Magazine who&#8217;s been following the candidates&#8217; interviews on the alternative media circuit. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Quah about how Kamala Harris&#8217; appearance on more internet-native shows like the podcast &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; or Donald Trump&#8217;s appearances on various &#8220;bro-centric&#8221; shows like Logan Paul &#8216;sYouTube channel represent a notable media shift compared to previous elections.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>After years of missed deadlines, Tesla enters the robotaxi race</title>
<itunes:title>After years of missed deadlines, Tesla enters the robotaxi race</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/after-years-of-missed-deadlines-tesla-enters-the-robotaxi-race</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>After years of hype, Tesla finally debuted a robotaxi called the Cybercab last week. CEO Elon Musk has been making and breaking promises about Tesla&#8217;s autonomous vehicle for years. So, did the debut of the Cybercab finally deliver? Andrew Hawkins, transportation editor for The Verge, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino what the Cybercab unveiling means for Musk and for Tesla.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>After years of hype, Tesla finally debuted a robotaxi called the Cybercab last week. CEO Elon Musk has been making and breaking promises about Tesla&#8217;s autonomous vehicle for years. So, did the debut of the Cybercab finally deliver? Andrew Hawkins, transportation editor for The Verge, tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino what the Cybercab unveiling means for Musk and for Tesla.</p> ]]>
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<title>A deluge of online misinformation obscures FEMA disaster relief efforts</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Online misinformation about Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and about the relief response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have surged in recent weeks, including false narratives of aid being withheld from victims for their political beliefs and aid being stolen by undocumented immigrants. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams spoke with Ethan Porter, professor of media, public affairs and political science at George Washington University, about why there&#8217;s been so much misinformation about these natural disasters and FEMA&#8217;s relief response.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Online misinformation about Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and about the relief response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have surged in recent weeks, including false narratives of aid being withheld from victims for their political beliefs and aid being stolen by undocumented immigrants. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams spoke with Ethan Porter, professor of media, public affairs and political science at George Washington University, about why there&#8217;s been so much misinformation about these natural disasters and FEMA&#8217;s relief response.</p> ]]>
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<title>TikTok creators don’t want a ban</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>TikTok has a lot going on legally these days. Last week, it saw a fresh round of lawsuits alleging the short-form video app harms children. And then there&#8217;s the federal law that could ban the app if ByteDance, its China-based owner, doesn&#8217;t divest by January. TikTok has sued to block that law. Oral arguments in TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland were heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in September. The company is joined by eight TikTok creators as plaintiffs in the case, and one of them is Talia Cadet. She has nearly 140,000 followers on TikTok, where she produces lifestyle videos focused on her love of books and travel. She talked with Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino about the case.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>TikTok has a lot going on legally these days. Last week, it saw a fresh round of lawsuits alleging the short-form video app harms children. And then there&#8217;s the federal law that could ban the app if ByteDance, its China-based owner, doesn&#8217;t divest by January. TikTok has sued to block that law. Oral arguments in TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland were heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in September. The company is joined by eight TikTok creators as plaintiffs in the case, and one of them is Talia Cadet. She has nearly 140,000 followers on TikTok, where she produces lifestyle videos focused on her love of books and travel. She talked with Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino about the case.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Breaking up Google, TikTok troubles and the “Godfather of AI” gets a Nobel Prize</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-breaking-up-google-tiktok-troubles-and-the-godfather-of-ai-gets-a-nobel-prize</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>TikTok is facing yet another legal challenge. This week, attorneys general from 13 states plus Washington, D.C., sued the short-form video app, alleging that it harms children. We’ll be digging into the latest lawsuits on today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” our roundup of the week’s top tech headlines. Like the so-called Godfather of AI who is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics. Plus, the U.S. government is weighing what to do about Google after its search business was ruled a monopoly earlier this year. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>TikTok is facing yet another legal challenge. This week, attorneys general from 13 states plus Washington, D.C., sued the short-form video app, alleging that it harms children. We’ll be digging into the latest lawsuits on today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” our roundup of the week’s top tech headlines. Like the so-called Godfather of AI who is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics. Plus, the U.S. government is weighing what to do about Google after its search business was ruled a monopoly earlier this year. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to break down these stories.</p> ]]>
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<title>Some of the walls around Meta’s Threads app are coming down</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The new kid on the block of social media, Meta&#8217;s Threads, hit 200 million active users in August. When it launched in the summer of 2023 as a rival to the platform formerly known as Twitter, Meta said the app would eventually be integrated into the so-called fediverse. This &#8220;federated universe&#8221; is the most prominent example of a decentralized social network in which users can join any affiliated platform and interact with content from all the others. Recently, Meta took some steps to integrate Threads into this ecosystem, and Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, has been following the developments.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The new kid on the block of social media, Meta&#8217;s Threads, hit 200 million active users in August. When it launched in the summer of 2023 as a rival to the platform formerly known as Twitter, Meta said the app would eventually be integrated into the so-called fediverse. This &#8220;federated universe&#8221; is the most prominent example of a decentralized social network in which users can join any affiliated platform and interact with content from all the others. Recently, Meta took some steps to integrate Threads into this ecosystem, and Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, has been following the developments.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Do paid data-removal services pay off?</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/do-paid-data-removal-services-pay-off</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A lot of personal data – stuff like your home address, phone number, marital status and more – is out there on the internet. Anyone can buy it from sites like Whitepages, PeopleFinders or Intelius, which aggregate data from public records and social media. You can contact each of these “people search” sites and request they take down your information, but it&#8217;s a bit of a game of whack-a-mole. Naturally, a whole industry of data-removal services has sprung up. For a price, they promise to do the dirty work for you. But do they deliver? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Yael Grauer, a researcher at Consumer Reports, who recently looked into the efficacy of the data-removal industry.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A lot of personal data – stuff like your home address, phone number, marital status and more – is out there on the internet. Anyone can buy it from sites like Whitepages, PeopleFinders or Intelius, which aggregate data from public records and social media. You can contact each of these “people search” sites and request they take down your information, but it&#8217;s a bit of a game of whack-a-mole. Naturally, a whole industry of data-removal services has sprung up. For a price, they promise to do the dirty work for you. But do they deliver? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Yael Grauer, a researcher at Consumer Reports, who recently looked into the efficacy of the data-removal industry.</p> ]]>
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<title>A “village” of hackers is beefing up election security</title>
<itunes:title>A “village” of hackers is beefing up election security</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-village-of-hackers-is-beefing-up-election-security</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Until about a decade ago, independent cybersecurity researchers in the U.S. weren&#8217;t allowed to examine voting machines for potential vulnerabilities. But that ban was essentially lifted in 2015. Two years later, DEF CON — one of the largest hacker conventions — decided to invite hackers, cybersecurity researchers and election officials to find those flaws during its annual Voting Village event. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams spoke with Catherine Terranova, executive director of Voting Village, about how they balance the well-intentioned work of finding vulnerabilities before bad actors do and the problem of misinformation around the security of voting machines.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Until about a decade ago, independent cybersecurity researchers in the U.S. weren&#8217;t allowed to examine voting machines for potential vulnerabilities. But that ban was essentially lifted in 2015. Two years later, DEF CON — one of the largest hacker conventions — decided to invite hackers, cybersecurity researchers and election officials to find those flaws during its annual Voting Village event. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams spoke with Catherine Terranova, executive director of Voting Village, about how they balance the well-intentioned work of finding vulnerabilities before bad actors do and the problem of misinformation around the security of voting machines.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>The quest to discover the creator of bitcoin</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It’s been more than 15 years since the digital currency bitcoin was launched, going from a fringe phenomenon in the dark corners of the internet to an asset traded on Wall Street. But the identity of bitcoin&#8217;s creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained a mystery wrapped in a cryptographic enigma. Now, investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback may have cracked the case. His last HBO series &#8220;Into the Storm&#8221; uncovered the origins of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In his new documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,&#8221; Hoback sets out to answer the elusive question: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? To prevent any spoilers, we&#8217;ll keep his conclusions secret.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It’s been more than 15 years since the digital currency bitcoin was launched, going from a fringe phenomenon in the dark corners of the internet to an asset traded on Wall Street. But the identity of bitcoin&#8217;s creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained a mystery wrapped in a cryptographic enigma. Now, investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback may have cracked the case. His last HBO series &#8220;Into the Storm&#8221; uncovered the origins of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In his new documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,&#8221; Hoback sets out to answer the elusive question: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? To prevent any spoilers, we&#8217;ll keep his conclusions secret.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s valuation doubles, biotech investment grows and a prescription giant is acquired</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s valuation doubles, biotech investment grows and a prescription giant is acquired</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-openais-valuation-doubles-biotech-investment-grows-and-a-prescription-giant-is-acquired</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Investors are once again pouring money into biotechnology startups. But this time, it feels different from the heyday of 2021. We&#8217;ll be digging into the latest data for today&#8217;s Marketplace &#8220;Tech Bytes: Week in Review,&#8221; our roundup of the week&#8217;s top headlines, including some you might have missed.</p> <p>We&#8217;ll also talk about a private equity deal with the country&#8217;s biggest digital pharmacy platform. But first, OpenAI closes a historic funding round. The maker of ChatGPT raised another $6.6 billion — valuing the company at $157 billion, double its worth earlier this year.</p> <p>Our regular contributor Christina Farr, managing director with Manatt Health, joins Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino to discuss the news.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>Investors are once again pouring money into biotechnology startups. But this time, it feels different from the heyday of 2021. We&#8217;ll be digging into the latest data for today&#8217;s Marketplace &#8220;Tech Bytes: Week in Review,&#8221; our roundup of the week&#8217;s top headlines, including some you might have missed.</p> <p>We&#8217;ll also talk about a private equity deal with the country&#8217;s biggest digital pharmacy platform. But first, OpenAI closes a historic funding round. The maker of ChatGPT raised another $6.6 billion — valuing the company at $157 billion, double its worth earlier this year.</p> <p>Our regular contributor Christina Farr, managing director with Manatt Health, joins Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino to discuss the news.</p> ]]>
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<title>The AI-crypto power struggle</title>
<itunes:title>The AI-crypto power struggle</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ai-crypto-power-struggle</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>All those fancy artificial intelligence systems need <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/inside-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world/">a lot of data centers</a> to run, and those data centers need a lot of energy. One estimate from the Electric Power Research Institute suggests that current data center electricity consumption in the U.S. <a href="http://Currently, data centers account for over 4% of the total US electricity load but could rise to 9% by 2030. This growth is due to increasing computing power needed by artificial intelligence (AI).">will more than double by 2030</a>, making up about 9% of all energy use. But the AI sector is coming up against the big energy-hungry tech innovation of yesteryear: crypto mining. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Reuters reporter Laila Kearney about <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ais-race-us-energy-butts-up-against-bitcoin-mining-2024-08-28/">the scramble to power up in both industries.</a></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>All those fancy artificial intelligence systems need <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/inside-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world/">a lot of data centers</a> to run, and those data centers need a lot of energy. One estimate from the Electric Power Research Institute suggests that current data center electricity consumption in the U.S. <a href="http://Currently, data centers account for over 4% of the total US electricity load but could rise to 9% by 2030. This growth is due to increasing computing power needed by artificial intelligence (AI).">will more than double by 2030</a>, making up about 9% of all energy use. But the AI sector is coming up against the big energy-hungry tech innovation of yesteryear: crypto mining. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Reuters reporter Laila Kearney about <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ais-race-us-energy-butts-up-against-bitcoin-mining-2024-08-28/">the scramble to power up in both industries.</a></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>In most voting precincts, no-tech ballot counting is a nonstarter</title>
<itunes:title>In most voting precincts, no-tech ballot counting is a nonstarter</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Today we’re talking about voting tech and the push in some areas to move away from machines and go back to hand counting ballots. A legal battle is brewing in Georgia over a new rule requiring ballots be hand counted on election night to ensure the tally matches electronic records. Arizona has added a similar requirement. The issue has become particularly mired in misinformation in recent years, with some election deniers questioning the security of the tech used in our elections. While some may believe hand counts are more accurate, the number of jurisdictions across the country relying on them on election night has been steadily dropping. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Pam Smith, president and CEO of the nonpartisan organization Verified Voting, about why the practice of counting ballots by hand is waning.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Today we’re talking about voting tech and the push in some areas to move away from machines and go back to hand counting ballots. A legal battle is brewing in Georgia over a new rule requiring ballots be hand counted on election night to ensure the tally matches electronic records. Arizona has added a similar requirement. The issue has become particularly mired in misinformation in recent years, with some election deniers questioning the security of the tech used in our elections. While some may believe hand counts are more accurate, the number of jurisdictions across the country relying on them on election night has been steadily dropping. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Pam Smith, president and CEO of the nonpartisan organization Verified Voting, about why the practice of counting ballots by hand is waning.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>What do generative AI and social media have in common? A lack of regulation.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week, we&#8217;re talking about how teenagers are using artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators, often without the knowledge of their parents and teachers, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Common Sense Media. Monday we heard about that research from Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of the group. And now we want to home in on a specific piece of what he said: &#8220;If you look back at the advent of social media, about 20 years ago, we pretty much blew the regulatory side of that, but also the educating teachers and parents part of that. And we left kids on their own.&#8221; So we called up Nathan Sanders, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, who has written about the overlapping risks of AI and social media.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week, we&#8217;re talking about how teenagers are using artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators, often without the knowledge of their parents and teachers, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Common Sense Media. Monday we heard about that research from Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of the group. And now we want to home in on a specific piece of what he said: &#8220;If you look back at the advent of social media, about 20 years ago, we pretty much blew the regulatory side of that, but also the educating teachers and parents part of that. And we left kids on their own.&#8221; So we called up Nathan Sanders, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, who has written about the overlapping risks of AI and social media.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/parents-educators-are-unaware-how-their-students-use-generative-ai-report-finds</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>As soon as ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it became clear that artificial intelligence was going to send massive shockwaves through education. And, as with any new technology, young people were likely to adopt it more quickly. Well, now we have some data about that phenomenon. A new report from the non-profit Common Sense Media shows seven in 10 teenagers from ages 13-18 are using generative AI in some way. And Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino it&#8217;s not all about cheating.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>As soon as ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it became clear that artificial intelligence was going to send massive shockwaves through education. And, as with any new technology, young people were likely to adopt it more quickly. Well, now we have some data about that phenomenon. A new report from the non-profit Common Sense Media shows seven in 10 teenagers from ages 13-18 are using generative AI in some way. And Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino it&#8217;s not all about cheating.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — X’s transparency report, Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” and Meta’s celebrity chatbots</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — X’s transparency report, Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” and Meta’s celebrity chatbots</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-xs-transparency-report-sam-altmans-intelligence-age-and-metas-celebrity-chatbots</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s perhaps not a big surprise, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a very optimistic take on what his company&#8217;s technology could mean for the world. He shared his vision of a near future transformed by ever-advancing artificial intelligence systems in a much-discussed blog post earlier this week. Plus, Meta revealed more of its AI plans at its big developer conference including another go at celebrity chatbots. But first, X, formerly Twitter, finally released a new transparency report. It&#8217;s the first one since 2022, when Elon Musk bought the platform. And it&#8217;s full of data on reported abuse, harassment, how many accounts were suspended and more. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed these topics and more with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, on this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s perhaps not a big surprise, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a very optimistic take on what his company&#8217;s technology could mean for the world. He shared his vision of a near future transformed by ever-advancing artificial intelligence systems in a much-discussed blog post earlier this week. Plus, Meta revealed more of its AI plans at its big developer conference including another go at celebrity chatbots. But first, X, formerly Twitter, finally released a new transparency report. It&#8217;s the first one since 2022, when Elon Musk bought the platform. And it&#8217;s full of data on reported abuse, harassment, how many accounts were suspended and more. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed these topics and more with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, on this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> ]]>
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<title>Commercial space travel is risky business</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history this month with the first-ever commercial spacewalk. It seems space travel is no longer reserved for highly trained government astronauts, but increasingly open to anyone with the funds (and the courage) to try it. But before we all go strapping on our spacesuits, Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, says we need to be clear-eyed about the risks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Impey about those risks and the rewards that might make them worth it.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history this month with the first-ever commercial spacewalk. It seems space travel is no longer reserved for highly trained government astronauts, but increasingly open to anyone with the funds (and the courage) to try it. But before we all go strapping on our spacesuits, Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, says we need to be clear-eyed about the risks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Impey about those risks and the rewards that might make them worth it.</p> ]]>
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<title>Inside the data center capital of the world</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The infrastructure that enabled Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom is not located in California, but rather in northern Virginia. How did the region become the data center capital of the world? And what does it mean for tech companies, the local economy and residents? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has the story.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The infrastructure that enabled Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom is not located in California, but rather in northern Virginia. How did the region become the data center capital of the world? And what does it mean for tech companies, the local economy and residents? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has the story.</p> ]]>
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<title>VoteFlare’s mission to upgrade voter communication</title>
<itunes:title>VoteFlare’s mission to upgrade voter communication</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/voteflares-mission-to-upgrade-voter-communication</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>There have been a lot of rumors and misinformation recently about voter registration and voter list maintenance, adding confusion to what experts say are secure processes. And while election officials regularly update voter lists, it&#8217;s become increasingly important that individuals also keep their voter registration information up to date. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Josh Visnaw,  project manager at a Harvard University initiative called VoteFlare, about the challenges of maintaining accurate voter lists and how VoteFlare is trying to help.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>There have been a lot of rumors and misinformation recently about voter registration and voter list maintenance, adding confusion to what experts say are secure processes. And while election officials regularly update voter lists, it&#8217;s become increasingly important that individuals also keep their voter registration information up to date. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Josh Visnaw,  project manager at a Harvard University initiative called VoteFlare, about the challenges of maintaining accurate voter lists and how VoteFlare is trying to help.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>How teenagers can get hooked on sports betting</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>You might say online gambling has been on a winning streak since a Supreme Court decision in 2018 cleared the way for states to allow sports betting. It&#8217;s now legal in 30 states and its influence is hard to miss: online sportsbook companies like DraftKings and FanDuel are on billboards, commercials even college campuses, many of which have made deals with sports betting companies. Yanely Espinal, host of Marketplace’s “Financially Inclined” podcast, recently covered this topic on her show and she explained to Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino how these online betting companies are reeling in younger users.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>You might say online gambling has been on a winning streak since a Supreme Court decision in 2018 cleared the way for states to allow sports betting. It&#8217;s now legal in 30 states and its influence is hard to miss: online sportsbook companies like DraftKings and FanDuel are on billboards, commercials even college campuses, many of which have made deals with sports betting companies. Yanely Espinal, host of Marketplace’s “Financially Inclined” podcast, recently covered this topic on her show and she explained to Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino how these online betting companies are reeling in younger users.</p> ]]>
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<title>Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Senate weighs AI regulation, Instagram launches teen accounts and AirPods aid the hard of hearing</title>
<itunes:title>Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Senate weighs AI regulation, Instagram launches teen accounts and AirPods aid the hard of hearing</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-senate-weighs-ai-regulation-instagram-launches-teen-accounts-and-airpods-aid-the-heard-of-hearing</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>This week, Meta announced teen accounts with a slew of new safety features. We&#8217;ve also got Apple news to talk about — no, not the latest iPhones or watches, but new functionality for AirPods that basically turns them into hearing aids. First, though, are we ready for artificial general intelligence, or AGI, that could match or exceed human capabilities? It could be a mere one to three years away, according to testimony at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday. A number of AI insiders spoke, including former Google and OpenAI researchers and Georgetown&#8217;s Helen Toner, who explained the stakes. &#8220;That technology will be at a minimum extraordinarily disruptive and at a maximum could lead to literal human extinction,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So I would argue that a wait-and-see approach to policy is not an option.&#8221; Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment &#8220;Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.&#8221;</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>This week, Meta announced teen accounts with a slew of new safety features. We&#8217;ve also got Apple news to talk about — no, not the latest iPhones or watches, but new functionality for AirPods that basically turns them into hearing aids. First, though, are we ready for artificial general intelligence, or AGI, that could match or exceed human capabilities? It could be a mere one to three years away, according to testimony at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday. A number of AI insiders spoke, including former Google and OpenAI researchers and Georgetown&#8217;s Helen Toner, who explained the stakes. &#8220;That technology will be at a minimum extraordinarily disruptive and at a maximum could lead to literal human extinction,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So I would argue that a wait-and-see approach to policy is not an option.&#8221; Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on all this for our weekly segment &#8220;Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.&#8221;</p> ]]>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/polling-response-rates-are-dropping-ai-chatbots-could-be-the-solution</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In this tense election year, polling is top of mind. But collecting polling data has become harder. It often relies on people actually answering the phone and then speaking frankly to a pollster, both of which are becoming less common. The result has been data that is less predictive, and repeated misses in recent elections have made the public much more skeptical. Polling, it seems, needs an update for the digital age. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Bruce Schneier, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, who says AI can help.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In this tense election year, polling is top of mind. But collecting polling data has become harder. It often relies on people actually answering the phone and then speaking frankly to a pollster, both of which are becoming less common. The result has been data that is less predictive, and repeated misses in recent elections have made the public much more skeptical. Polling, it seems, needs an update for the digital age. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Bruce Schneier, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, who says AI can help.</p> ]]>
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<title>An appeals court heard arguments on TikTok’s ban-or-sale case. What’s next?</title>
<itunes:title>An appeals court heard arguments on TikTok’s ban-or-sale case. What’s next?</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/an-appeals-court-heard-arguments-on-tiktoks-ban-or-sale-case-whats-next</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in a case that pits the First Amendment against national security. TikTok sued to block a bipartisan-backed law that will ban the Chinese-owned app in the U.S. by January 19 — unless it finds a U.S. buyer. This week, the government argued the app gives China access to Americans&#8217; sensitive data, as well as the ability to spread propaganda. While TikTok argued it&#8217;s been unfairly singled out and that a sale isn&#8217;t the only way to address security concerns. TikTok touts 170 million users in the U.S., and that includes both candidates for president. A group of U.S.-based creators have also joined as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Anupam Chander, professor of law and technology at Georgetown University, walked Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino through the arguments in the case.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in a case that pits the First Amendment against national security. TikTok sued to block a bipartisan-backed law that will ban the Chinese-owned app in the U.S. by January 19 — unless it finds a U.S. buyer. This week, the government argued the app gives China access to Americans&#8217; sensitive data, as well as the ability to spread propaganda. While TikTok argued it&#8217;s been unfairly singled out and that a sale isn&#8217;t the only way to address security concerns. TikTok touts 170 million users in the U.S., and that includes both candidates for president. A group of U.S.-based creators have also joined as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Anupam Chander, professor of law and technology at Georgetown University, walked Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino through the arguments in the case.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>States step in to regulate digital replicas</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/states-step-in-to-regulate-digital-replicas</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The bipartisan NO FAKES Act, aimed at regulating deepfakes created with the aid of artificial intelligence, moved forward in the House of Representatives last week after it was introduced in the Senate in July. But in the absence of federal rules, several states have already stepped in. Last month, California became the third to back legislation regulating digital replicas. The home of Hollywood follows Tennessee, which earlier this year passed a ban on unauthorized deepfakes known as the ELVIS Act, and Illinois, which enacted a similar law last month. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Steve Brachmann, a freelance journalist specializing in intellectual property law, to learn about how these bans work.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The bipartisan NO FAKES Act, aimed at regulating deepfakes created with the aid of artificial intelligence, moved forward in the House of Representatives last week after it was introduced in the Senate in July. But in the absence of federal rules, several states have already stepped in. Last month, California became the third to back legislation regulating digital replicas. The home of Hollywood follows Tennessee, which earlier this year passed a ban on unauthorized deepfakes known as the ELVIS Act, and Illinois, which enacted a similar law last month. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Steve Brachmann, a freelance journalist specializing in intellectual property law, to learn about how these bans work.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Telegram-linked ads on Meta platforms may promote illegal activity, report finds</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/telegram-linked-ads-on-meta-platforms-may-promote-illegal-activity-report-finds</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Late last month, the CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram was arrested in France. Authorities there have charged Pavel Durov with being complicit in illegal activities conducted on the platform due to a lack of content moderation. A recent report from the research group Cybersecurity for Democracy shows some of that activity is finding its way onto other platforms. Senior Fellow Yaël Eisenstat looked at advertisements on Meta platforms that linked back to Telegram, and found that a majority were promoting channels with potentially illegal activities.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Late last month, the CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram was arrested in France. Authorities there have charged Pavel Durov with being complicit in illegal activities conducted on the platform due to a lack of content moderation. A recent report from the research group Cybersecurity for Democracy shows some of that activity is finding its way onto other platforms. Senior Fellow Yaël Eisenstat looked at advertisements on Meta platforms that linked back to Telegram, and found that a majority were promoting channels with potentially illegal activities.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Google on trial, underwater data centers and how AI spurred a celebrity endorsement</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-google-on-trial-underwater-data-centers-and-how-ai-spurred-a-celebrity-endorsement</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s Friday, which means it&#8217;s time for our weekly review of some of the big stories making headlines in tech. First: No, you&#8217;re not having déjà vu all over again. Google really is back in court this week for its second antitrust trial of the year. Plus, a startup in Silicon Valley wants to make AI data centers more sustainable by putting them underwater in the San Francisco Bay, but regulators have questions. And Taylor Swift announced she is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in this year&#8217;s presidential election. She took to Instagram on Tuesday night to publish her stance, citing artificial intelligence-enabled misinformation as a driving force. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, for his take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s Friday, which means it&#8217;s time for our weekly review of some of the big stories making headlines in tech. First: No, you&#8217;re not having déjà vu all over again. Google really is back in court this week for its second antitrust trial of the year. Plus, a startup in Silicon Valley wants to make AI data centers more sustainable by putting them underwater in the San Francisco Bay, but regulators have questions. And Taylor Swift announced she is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in this year&#8217;s presidential election. She took to Instagram on Tuesday night to publish her stance, citing artificial intelligence-enabled misinformation as a driving force. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, for his take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<title>Crypto emerges as a funding powerhouse in the election</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The cryptocurrency industry has been fairly quiet recently, with the scandals around the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and its former chief executive, Sam Bankman-Fried, fading from the headlines. But behind the scenes, the industry has become a bit of a power player in the 2024 elections — funding political ads, endorsing House and Senate candidates and raising millions of dollars, according to a recent report from the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Axios reporter Brady Dale, author of the Axios Crypto newsletter, to learn more.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The cryptocurrency industry has been fairly quiet recently, with the scandals around the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and its former chief executive, Sam Bankman-Fried, fading from the headlines. But behind the scenes, the industry has become a bit of a power player in the 2024 elections — funding political ads, endorsing House and Senate candidates and raising millions of dollars, according to a recent report from the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Axios reporter Brady Dale, author of the Axios Crypto newsletter, to learn more.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Big Tech’s pivot away from diversity efforts</title>
<itunes:title>Big Tech’s pivot away from diversity efforts</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/big-techs-pivot-away-from-diversity-efforts</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Over the last couple of years, the tech industry has slashed <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/#:~:text=How%20many%20recent%20tech%20layoffs,were%20laid%20off%20in%202022">hundreds of thousands of jobs</a>, many of them in recruiting and other departments working to improve diversity. Companies like Meta and Google, which earlier set ambitious hiring and investment goals, have pulled resources from those efforts. As a result, many nonprofit groups set up to train and recruit underrepresented workers are struggling to stay afloat. One prominent person in the field is Lisa Mae Brunson, founder of the nonprofit Wonder Women Tech. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino asked her how things have changed.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Over the last couple of years, the tech industry has slashed <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/#:~:text=How%20many%20recent%20tech%20layoffs,were%20laid%20off%20in%202022">hundreds of thousands of jobs</a>, many of them in recruiting and other departments working to improve diversity. Companies like Meta and Google, which earlier set ambitious hiring and investment goals, have pulled resources from those efforts. As a result, many nonprofit groups set up to train and recruit underrepresented workers are struggling to stay afloat. One prominent person in the field is Lisa Mae Brunson, founder of the nonprofit Wonder Women Tech. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino asked her how things have changed.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>The threat posed by rumors of noncitizen voting</title>
<itunes:title>The threat posed by rumors of noncitizen voting</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-threat-posed-by-rumors-of-noncitizen-voting</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Among the trends of mis- and disinformation spreading ahead of the 2024 election is the narrative that large groups of noncitizens are illegally voting. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Danielle Lee Tomson, a research manager with the University of Washington&#8217;s Center for an Informed Public, about how this narrative is affecting the November election.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@marketplaceAPM/videos">YouTube channel</a></em>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Among the trends of mis- and disinformation spreading ahead of the 2024 election is the narrative that large groups of noncitizens are illegally voting. Marketplace&#8217;s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Danielle Lee Tomson, a research manager with the University of Washington&#8217;s Center for an Informed Public, about how this narrative is affecting the November election.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@marketplaceAPM/videos">YouTube channel</a></em>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>SpaceX comes to NASA’s rescue</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/spacex-comes-to-nasas-rescue</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On Friday, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to return to Earth without its crew. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stayed behind due to uncertainty about the safety of the Boeing craft. The duo will instead hitch a ride back on a SpaceX mission set to arrive at the ISS in February. It&#8217;s another win for the Elon Musk-owned company, which has come to dominate rocket launches in the U.S. But NASA&#8217;s reliance on SpaceX now is a bit of a reversal, according to Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment&#8217;s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On Friday, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to return to Earth without its crew. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stayed behind due to uncertainty about the safety of the Boeing craft. The duo will instead hitch a ride back on a SpaceX mission set to arrive at the ISS in February. It&#8217;s another win for the Elon Musk-owned company, which has come to dominate rocket launches in the U.S. But NASA&#8217;s reliance on SpaceX now is a bit of a reversal, according to Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment&#8217;s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review —  the X ban, Apple’s AI and airplane Wi-Fi gets upgraded</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review —  the X ban, Apple’s AI and airplane Wi-Fi gets upgraded</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-the-x-ban-apples-ai-and-airplane-wi-fi-gets-upgraded</link>
<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>If you&#8217;re an Apple fan, you probably didn&#8217;t miss the speculation surrounding the upcoming iPhone 16 launch event next week. Many expect the tech giant to reveal more about how its artificial intelligence will be integrated into its new hardware. We&#8217;ll be digging into that on this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, airlines are upgrading their Wi-Fi, so you might be able to take a Zoom meeting on your six-hour flight. But first, Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet provider has agreed to block Elon Musk&#8217;s social media platform in Brazil. X has been banned in the country since last weekend, and now Starlink has agreed to enforce that ban for its roughly quarter-million internet subscribers in the country. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Wall Street Journal senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern or her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>If you&#8217;re an Apple fan, you probably didn&#8217;t miss the speculation surrounding the upcoming iPhone 16 launch event next week. Many expect the tech giant to reveal more about how its artificial intelligence will be integrated into its new hardware. We&#8217;ll be digging into that on this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, airlines are upgrading their Wi-Fi, so you might be able to take a Zoom meeting on your six-hour flight. But first, Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet provider has agreed to block Elon Musk&#8217;s social media platform in Brazil. X has been banned in the country since last weekend, and now Starlink has agreed to enforce that ban for its roughly quarter-million internet subscribers in the country. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Wall Street Journal senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern or her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<title>A mother’s quest for social media reform</title>
<itunes:title>A mother’s quest for social media reform</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/a-mothers-quest-for-social-media-reform</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><em>Warning: This episode mentions suicide. If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).</em></p> <p>There seems to be growing momentum for efforts to protect kids from online harm. In June, the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for a warning label on social media for children, and more recently the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act with bipartisan support. On the show we&#8217;ve heard from lobbyists and advocates on different sides of the issue. Today we speak with Kristin Bride, for whom the debate is personal. In 2020, Bride&#8217;s 16-year-old son, Carson, died by suicide after being cyberbullied on the social media platform Snapchat. Since then, Bride has become a vocal advocate for social media reform because, she says, even the most vigilant parents can&#8217;t always protect their kids.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p><em>Warning: This episode mentions suicide. If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).</em></p> <p>There seems to be growing momentum for efforts to protect kids from online harm. In June, the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for a warning label on social media for children, and more recently the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act with bipartisan support. On the show we&#8217;ve heard from lobbyists and advocates on different sides of the issue. Today we speak with Kristin Bride, for whom the debate is personal. In 2020, Bride&#8217;s 16-year-old son, Carson, died by suicide after being cyberbullied on the social media platform Snapchat. Since then, Bride has become a vocal advocate for social media reform because, she says, even the most vigilant parents can&#8217;t always protect their kids.</p> ]]>
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<title>The AI safety bill dividing Silicon Valley</title>
<itunes:title>The AI safety bill dividing Silicon Valley</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ai-safety-bill-dividing-silicon-valley</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Depending on whom you ask, a bill passed by California lawmakers last week could either save us from imminent AI doom or strangle innovation in Silicon Valley. The bill, SB 1047, is one of the first significant attempts to regulate artificial intelligence in the U.S. It&#8217;s supported by some high-profile voices in tech like Elon Musk. But critics say the regulation could stifle growth in Silicon Valley. On the show today, Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is taking a closer look at the arguments for and against SB 1047 with Chase DiFeliciantonio, a reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle, who has been following the bill’s journey through the Legislature.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>Depending on whom you ask, a bill passed by California lawmakers last week could either save us from imminent AI doom or strangle innovation in Silicon Valley. The bill, SB 1047, is one of the first significant attempts to regulate artificial intelligence in the U.S. It&#8217;s supported by some high-profile voices in tech like Elon Musk. But critics say the regulation could stifle growth in Silicon Valley. On the show today, Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is taking a closer look at the arguments for and against SB 1047 with Chase DiFeliciantonio, a reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle, who has been following the bill’s journey through the Legislature.</p> ]]>
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<title>Teenagers could be more susceptible to online “dark patterns”</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/teenagers-could-be-more-susceptible-to-online-dark-patterns</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Dark patterns are everywhere on the web. These are design tricks that manipulate users in some way and prompt them to give up information, money or just more of their time. A recent study from the Federal Trade Commission found three-quarters of all subscription apps and websites use at least one dark pattern, and a majority use multiple such tricks. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Yanely Espinal, who covered the topic in this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/financially-inclined/">Financially Inclined.</a>&#8221; She said some common dark patterns include advertising that doesn&#8217;t look like advertising, online forms that come with check boxes pre-selected and something called confirm shaming.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Dark patterns are everywhere on the web. These are design tricks that manipulate users in some way and prompt them to give up information, money or just more of their time. A recent study from the Federal Trade Commission found three-quarters of all subscription apps and websites use at least one dark pattern, and a majority use multiple such tricks. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Yanely Espinal, who covered the topic in this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/financially-inclined/">Financially Inclined.</a>&#8221; She said some common dark patterns include advertising that doesn&#8217;t look like advertising, online forms that come with check boxes pre-selected and something called confirm shaming.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Have you heard the one about the AI-written comedy routine?</title>
<itunes:title>Have you heard the one about the AI-written comedy routine?</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-ai-written-comedy-routine</link>
<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Generative artificial intelligence can write essays and solve complicated math problems, but can it tell a decent joke? The BBC’s Megan Lawton says comedians who performed at this year’s fringe festival in Scotland are putting AI to the test.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Generative artificial intelligence can write essays and solve complicated math problems, but can it tell a decent joke? The BBC’s Megan Lawton says comedians who performed at this year’s fringe festival in Scotland are putting AI to the test.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Telegram’s CEO arrested, SF startups boom and Meta pivots</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — Telegram’s CEO arrested, SF startups boom and Meta pivots</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-telegrams-ceo-arrested-sf-startups-boom-and-meta-pivots</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week: a report from venture capital firm SignalFire seems to show that despite all its problems, San Francisco is still <em>the </em>place to be for tech startups in the artificial intelligence space. Plus, why Meta is scrapping plans for a superpremium mixed-reality headset and aiming for a lite version instead. But first, the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France has sent shock waves through the tech world. Durov is facing a number of criminal charges. French authorities allege he is liable for illicit activities conducted on the encrypted messaging platform, including child sex abuse and drug trafficking, essentially because of a failure to moderate content. The case highlights longstanding tensions in the tech world between public safety and free speech. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week: a report from venture capital firm SignalFire seems to show that despite all its problems, San Francisco is still <em>the </em>place to be for tech startups in the artificial intelligence space. Plus, why Meta is scrapping plans for a superpremium mixed-reality headset and aiming for a lite version instead. But first, the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France has sent shock waves through the tech world. Durov is facing a number of criminal charges. French authorities allege he is liable for illicit activities conducted on the encrypted messaging platform, including child sex abuse and drug trafficking, essentially because of a failure to moderate content. The case highlights longstanding tensions in the tech world between public safety and free speech. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>With campaign hacks, Iran takes a page from Russia’s playbook</title>
<itunes:title>With campaign hacks, Iran takes a page from Russia’s playbook</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/with-campaign-hacks-iran-takes-a-page-from-russias-playbook</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Iran was behind the recent cyberattack on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s election campaign. Using an approach called spear phishing, hackers sent personalized emails to campaign staff containing malware that allowed them to access private information and then leak it. Déjà vu, right? Javed Ali, a former senior counterterrorism official and a professor of practice at the University of Michigan, says Russia created the blueprint for this kind of attack. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked him for his reaction to Iran adopting the strategy.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Iran was behind the recent cyberattack on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s election campaign. Using an approach called spear phishing, hackers sent personalized emails to campaign staff containing malware that allowed them to access private information and then leak it. Déjà vu, right? Javed Ali, a former senior counterterrorism official and a professor of practice at the University of Michigan, says Russia created the blueprint for this kind of attack. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked him for his reaction to Iran adopting the strategy.</p> ]]>
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<title>AI in the election: misinformation machine or meme generator?</title>
<itunes:title>AI in the election: misinformation machine or meme generator?</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/ai-in-the-election-misinformation-machine-or-meme-generator</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>By now you’ve probably heard that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to supercharge the spread of disinformation in this election year. But with 68 days until Election Day, we haven&#8217;t seen the kind of widespread AI misinformation campaigns that experts warned about. Instead, as Will Oremus pointed out in a recent analysis for The Washington Post, we&#8217;ve seen a whole lot of silly AI-generated memes. He told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that the most recent examples are coming from one particular presidential candidate.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>By now you’ve probably heard that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to supercharge the spread of disinformation in this election year. But with 68 days until Election Day, we haven&#8217;t seen the kind of widespread AI misinformation campaigns that experts warned about. Instead, as Will Oremus pointed out in a recent analysis for The Washington Post, we&#8217;ve seen a whole lot of silly AI-generated memes. He told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that the most recent examples are coming from one particular presidential candidate.</p> ]]>
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<title>Court upholds block of California law aimed at protecting kids online</title>
<itunes:title>Court upholds block of California law aimed at protecting kids online</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/court-upholds-block-of-california-law-aimed-at-protecting-kids-online</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, passed in 2022, would be among the most sweeping pieces of legislation to protect kids from online harms — if it hadn&#8217;t become tangled up in court. The law has two basic requirements: first, that tech companies analyze and report on whether their products are harmful for children; second, that they minimize how much data they collect from those under 18. Earlier this month a federal appeals court found that first part likely violates the First Amendment, and upheld a lower-court decision blocking that part of the law. But it vacated an injunction on the second component, the part dealing with data privacy. The decision could point a way forward for similar laws, many of which have also run into legal challenges, Aaron Mackey, free speech and transparency litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, passed in 2022, would be among the most sweeping pieces of legislation to protect kids from online harms — if it hadn&#8217;t become tangled up in court. The law has two basic requirements: first, that tech companies analyze and report on whether their products are harmful for children; second, that they minimize how much data they collect from those under 18. Earlier this month a federal appeals court found that first part likely violates the First Amendment, and upheld a lower-court decision blocking that part of the law. But it vacated an injunction on the second component, the part dealing with data privacy. The decision could point a way forward for similar laws, many of which have also run into legal challenges, Aaron Mackey, free speech and transparency litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The social media platform X recently launched a new artificial intelligence feature for premium users: Grok-2, an AI model that can also generate images. And the outputs are a bit less censored than you might see with other similar tools. Experimenters online have been able to generate images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris brandishing guns, Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette and some far more disturbing tableaus. Grok claims to avoid images that are pornographic, excessively violent or intended to deceive and added it&#8217;s cautious about representing content that might infringe on existing copyright. But the guardrails certainly seem to be on the looser side, in keeping with owner Elon Musk&#8217;s hands-off approach to content moderation. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Adi Robertson, senior tech and policy editor at the Verge, about Grok-2 and what she found while she tested the AI&#8217;s limits.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The social media platform X recently launched a new artificial intelligence feature for premium users: Grok-2, an AI model that can also generate images. And the outputs are a bit less censored than you might see with other similar tools. Experimenters online have been able to generate images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris brandishing guns, Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette and some far more disturbing tableaus. Grok claims to avoid images that are pornographic, excessively violent or intended to deceive and added it&#8217;s cautious about representing content that might infringe on existing copyright. But the guardrails certainly seem to be on the looser side, in keeping with owner Elon Musk&#8217;s hands-off approach to content moderation. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Adi Robertson, senior tech and policy editor at the Verge, about Grok-2 and what she found while she tested the AI&#8217;s limits.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Dems’ tech platform, Google’s legal troubles and OpenAI’s newest partnership</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — Dems’ tech platform, Google’s legal troubles and OpenAI’s newest partnership</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-dems-tech-platform-googles-legal-troubles-and-openais-newest-partnership</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>On today&#8217;s show: Google deals with another legal headache. A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit that had been dismissed concerning privacy violations by its Chrome browser. Plus, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has partnered up with another media brand, Condé Nast. But first, we can&#8217;t ignore the biggest happening of the week — the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the party formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for president with the help of big names in entertainment. Rapper Lil Jon revving up the presentation of the Georgia delegation&#8217;s votes was just one viral moment that came out of the convention. What didn&#8217;t come out of the gathering, though, were clear indications of the Harris campaign&#8217;s tech policy platform. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, about what that platform might look like.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>On today&#8217;s show: Google deals with another legal headache. A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit that had been dismissed concerning privacy violations by its Chrome browser. Plus, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has partnered up with another media brand, Condé Nast. But first, we can&#8217;t ignore the biggest happening of the week — the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the party formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for president with the help of big names in entertainment. Rapper Lil Jon revving up the presentation of the Georgia delegation&#8217;s votes was just one viral moment that came out of the convention. What didn&#8217;t come out of the gathering, though, were clear indications of the Harris campaign&#8217;s tech policy platform. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, about what that platform might look like.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>What it’s like to be a content creator at the DNC</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>New faces are mingling among the party faithful and the swarm of journalists at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. In a bid to reach younger, more online voters, the DNC invited 200 content creators to cover the convention. One of them is Malynda Hale, who&#8217;s been sharing her experience with her more than 50,000 followers on Instagram. Creators like her, she said, have their own part to play at the event. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Hale how it’s been going at the convention.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>New faces are mingling among the party faithful and the swarm of journalists at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. In a bid to reach younger, more online voters, the DNC invited 200 content creators to cover the convention. One of them is Malynda Hale, who&#8217;s been sharing her experience with her more than 50,000 followers on Instagram. Creators like her, she said, have their own part to play at the event. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Hale how it’s been going at the convention.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>New online age-verification tools could exclude lots of adults</title>
<itunes:title>New online age-verification tools could exclude lots of adults</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/new-online-age-verification-tools-could-exclude-lots-of-adults</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Earlier this year, the U.S. surgeon general called for a warning label minors on social media, and a growing number of states are requiring online age verification for certain sites. Now, many platforms are adding a safeguard that comes with its own set of trade-offs: facial scanning. These systems use artificial intelligence to analyze visual clues, sometimes in conjunction with a government-issued ID, to keep those it deems too young from accessing a site. In the process, they collect all kinds of identifying data, and like any tool, these are susceptible to errors. In this case, errors could potentially bar adults from parts of the internet. Tech reporter Drew Harwell recently wrote about the proliferation of these systems and the risks that come with them for The Washington Post. He told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino that they&#8217;re getting hard to avoid for internet users.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Earlier this year, the U.S. surgeon general called for a warning label minors on social media, and a growing number of states are requiring online age verification for certain sites. Now, many platforms are adding a safeguard that comes with its own set of trade-offs: facial scanning. These systems use artificial intelligence to analyze visual clues, sometimes in conjunction with a government-issued ID, to keep those it deems too young from accessing a site. In the process, they collect all kinds of identifying data, and like any tool, these are susceptible to errors. In this case, errors could potentially bar adults from parts of the internet. Tech reporter Drew Harwell recently wrote about the proliferation of these systems and the risks that come with them for The Washington Post. He told Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino that they&#8217;re getting hard to avoid for internet users.</p> ]]>
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<title>The Chandra X-ray telescope, now 25, offers a more “complete story of what the universe is doing”</title>
<itunes:title>The Chandra X-ray telescope, now 25, offers a more “complete story of what the universe is doing”</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-chandra-x-ray-telescope-now-25-offers-a-more-complete-story-of-what-the-universe-is-doing</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Telescope was launched into space aboard the shuttle Columbia, the first such mission to be commanded by a woman astronaut. The Chandra telescope differs from the Hubble telescope, which observes visible light. Or, the James Webb telescope, which captures frequencies in the infrared range. Chandra detects high energy X-rays. But NASA budget constraints could leave the mission going dark in coming years. To learn more about the Chandra Observatory, Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino called its program manager Megan Lin.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Telescope was launched into space aboard the shuttle Columbia, the first such mission to be commanded by a woman astronaut. The Chandra telescope differs from the Hubble telescope, which observes visible light. Or, the James Webb telescope, which captures frequencies in the infrared range. Chandra detects high energy X-rays. But NASA budget constraints could leave the mission going dark in coming years. To learn more about the Chandra Observatory, Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino called its program manager Megan Lin.</p> ]]>
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<title>Not all screen time is created equal</title>
<itunes:title>Not all screen time is created equal</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/not-all-screen-time-is-created-equal</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>When Apple introduced its Screen Time report, it promised the feature would  empower users to manage their device time and balance the things that are really important. But is it actually doing that? Caroline Mimbs Nyce, a staff writer at The Atlantic, recently wrote about why she thinks Screen Time is the worst feature Apple has ever made. She told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that it sometimes feels like Screen Time is doing more guilt-tripping than empowering these days.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>When Apple introduced its Screen Time report, it promised the feature would  empower users to manage their device time and balance the things that are really important. But is it actually doing that? Caroline Mimbs Nyce, a staff writer at The Atlantic, recently wrote about why she thinks Screen Time is the worst feature Apple has ever made. She told Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino that it sometimes feels like Screen Time is doing more guilt-tripping than empowering these days.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — X vs. advertisers, Instagram’s harassment problem, and the food delivery race continues</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — X vs. advertisers, Instagram’s harassment problem, and the food delivery race continues</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s Friday which means it&#8217;s time for Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. On today&#8217;s show, Instagram is known for pretty pictures but a new report shows it lets a lot of ugly and abusive comments remain on the platform. Plus, Door Dash has dominated the food delivery race. Now it looks like Uber may be catching up. But first, the social media platform X relies on advertisers, so why is it going to war with them? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this week’s biggest tech stories with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s Friday which means it&#8217;s time for Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. On today&#8217;s show, Instagram is known for pretty pictures but a new report shows it lets a lot of ugly and abusive comments remain on the platform. Plus, Door Dash has dominated the food delivery race. Now it looks like Uber may be catching up. But first, the social media platform X relies on advertisers, so why is it going to war with them? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this week’s biggest tech stories with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> ]]>
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<title>Senators advance bipartisan effort to regulate deepfakes</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/senators-advance-bipartisan-effort-to-regulate-deepfakes</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Last month, senators from both sides of the aisle formally introduced what could become the first U.S. federal law regulating deepfakes. It&#8217;s called the No Fakes Act — short for the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act. It comes on the heels of controversies like the one involving the OpenAI voice assistant, which may or may not have sounded a little too much like actress Scarlett Johansson. GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee helped draft the bill, saying: &#8220;The No Fakes Act is vital for these entertainers. It protects their name, image, likeness, their vocal recordings.&#8221; The legislation has been applauded by many in creative industries, said Moiya McTier, senior adviser at the Human Artistry Campaign, a group advocating for stronger guardrails on artificial intelligence.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Last month, senators from both sides of the aisle formally introduced what could become the first U.S. federal law regulating deepfakes. It&#8217;s called the No Fakes Act — short for the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act. It comes on the heels of controversies like the one involving the OpenAI voice assistant, which may or may not have sounded a little too much like actress Scarlett Johansson. GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee helped draft the bill, saying: &#8220;The No Fakes Act is vital for these entertainers. It protects their name, image, likeness, their vocal recordings.&#8221; The legislation has been applauded by many in creative industries, said Moiya McTier, senior adviser at the Human Artistry Campaign, a group advocating for stronger guardrails on artificial intelligence.</p> ]]>
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<title>Can AI accurately simulate a human?</title>
<itunes:title>Can AI accurately simulate a human?</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Generative artificial intelligence has made it possible to mimic someone&#8217;s voice and generate a script for that voice in real time. The tech, of course, is already used to scam and defraud people, but what if you just had it make a bunch of calls on your behalf? That&#8217;s what journalist Evan Ratliff did for his new podcast, &#8220;Shell Game.&#8221; He trained AI audio clones, gave them phone numbers and sat back as they took on customer service agents, family members, therapists and even a few scammers. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Ratliff — and briefly with one of his AI agents — about his takeaways from producing the show and whether the clones succeeded in tricking people into thinking they were who they said they were.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Generative artificial intelligence has made it possible to mimic someone&#8217;s voice and generate a script for that voice in real time. The tech, of course, is already used to scam and defraud people, but what if you just had it make a bunch of calls on your behalf? That&#8217;s what journalist Evan Ratliff did for his new podcast, &#8220;Shell Game.&#8221; He trained AI audio clones, gave them phone numbers and sat back as they took on customer service agents, family members, therapists and even a few scammers. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Ratliff — and briefly with one of his AI agents — about his takeaways from producing the show and whether the clones succeeded in tricking people into thinking they were who they said they were.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Remembering a Silicon Valley giant</title>
<itunes:title>Remembering a Silicon Valley giant</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died last week at the age of 56. As a kid, she wanted to be an artist. As an adult, she discovered the “art of technology.”</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died last week at the age of 56. As a kid, she wanted to be an artist. As an adult, she discovered the “art of technology.”</p> ]]>
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<title>Can AI solve fans’ concert ticket woes?</title>
<itunes:title>Can AI solve fans’ concert ticket woes?</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Taylor Swift’s &#8220;Eras Tour&#8221; has shattered records, crashed websites and broken the hearts of fans vying for tickets. The BBC’s Sam Gruet says AI could help fans purchase tickets for a fair price and without the risk of fraud.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Taylor Swift’s &#8220;Eras Tour&#8221; has shattered records, crashed websites and broken the hearts of fans vying for tickets. The BBC’s Sam Gruet says AI could help fans purchase tickets for a fair price and without the risk of fraud.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — An AI bubble, Olympians’ mental health and controversial ads</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — An AI bubble, Olympians’ mental health and controversial ads</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-an-ai-bubble-olympians-mental-health-and-controversial-ads</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On today&#8217;s show: Olympians have taken to social media to celebrate, sometimes to trash talk, but also to discuss their mental health. And Google pulled a controversial Olympics ad featuring its Gemini artificial intelligence tool.</p> <p>But first, what the stock market sell-off could be saying about the AI boom. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this with Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter &#8220;Second Opinion,&#8221; who says there&#8217;s growing chatter that AI has gotten a bit overinflated.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>On today&#8217;s show: Olympians have taken to social media to celebrate, sometimes to trash talk, but also to discuss their mental health. And Google pulled a controversial Olympics ad featuring its Gemini artificial intelligence tool.</p> <p>But first, what the stock market sell-off could be saying about the AI boom. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this with Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter &#8220;Second Opinion,&#8221; who says there&#8217;s growing chatter that AI has gotten a bit overinflated.</p> ]]>
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<title>Yes, you can place bets on the election (for now)</title>
<itunes:title>Yes, you can place bets on the election (for now)</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Who will win the election? What will the vote margin be? Will Donald Trump post on X before November? People can place bets on all these real-world questions — and more — on prediction markets. And these online platforms like PredictIt and Polymarket are increasingly being looked to as crystal balls in this chaotic election, promising real-time political insights and the chance to make a few bucks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chris Cohen, the deputy site editor of GQ, who recently wrote about his experience getting in on the action of what appears to be a prediction market &#8220;gold rush.&#8221;</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>Who will win the election? What will the vote margin be? Will Donald Trump post on X before November? People can place bets on all these real-world questions — and more — on prediction markets. And these online platforms like PredictIt and Polymarket are increasingly being looked to as crystal balls in this chaotic election, promising real-time political insights and the chance to make a few bucks. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chris Cohen, the deputy site editor of GQ, who recently wrote about his experience getting in on the action of what appears to be a prediction market &#8220;gold rush.&#8221;</p> ]]>
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<title>Can an algorithm break antitrust law?</title>
<itunes:title>Can an algorithm break antitrust law?</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>More than 20 years ago, executives at rival auction houses Sotheby&#8217;s and Christie’s were found guilty of coordinating a massive price-fixing scheme. Leaders from the companies held covert meetings, where they set identical commission fees. Today, active antitrust cases show that the ways in which companies might conspire are changing. Algorithms can replace secret meetings, but U.S. regulators say it’s still collusion, whether it&#8217;s a human or a bot pulling the strings. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Joe Harrington at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School about how antitrust law holds up against new technology.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>More than 20 years ago, executives at rival auction houses Sotheby&#8217;s and Christie’s were found guilty of coordinating a massive price-fixing scheme. Leaders from the companies held covert meetings, where they set identical commission fees. Today, active antitrust cases show that the ways in which companies might conspire are changing. Algorithms can replace secret meetings, but U.S. regulators say it’s still collusion, whether it&#8217;s a human or a bot pulling the strings. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Joe Harrington at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School about how antitrust law holds up against new technology.</p> ]]>
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<title>With the internet now a necessity, the digital underclass is still in need</title>
<itunes:title>With the internet now a necessity, the digital underclass is still in need</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/digital-underclass</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a photo of two little girls in the parking lot of a California Taco Bell went viral. They were doing their schoolwork on laptops in that inconvenient location because the restaurant provided free Wi-Fi, which they didn&#8217;t have at home. The girls came to symbolize the digital underclass that&#8217;s emerged since the rise of the internet. There are millions of American kids like them, says Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her analysis of the digital divide is contained in her new book, &#8220;Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass.&#8221;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a photo of two little girls in the parking lot of a California Taco Bell went viral. They were doing their schoolwork on laptops in that inconvenient location because the restaurant provided free Wi-Fi, which they didn&#8217;t have at home. The girls came to symbolize the digital underclass that&#8217;s emerged since the rise of the internet. There are millions of American kids like them, says Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her analysis of the digital divide is contained in her new book, &#8220;Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass.&#8221;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>AI is learning how to lie</title>
<itunes:title>AI is learning how to lie</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Large language models go through a lot of vetting before they&#8217;re released to the public. That includes safety tests, bias checks, ethical reviews and more. But what if, hypothetically, a model could dodge a safety question by lying to developers, hiding its real response to a safety test and instead giving the exact response its human handlers are looking for? A recent study shows that advanced LLMs are developing the capacity for deception, and that could bring that hypothetical situation closer to reality. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Thilo Hagendorff, a researcher at the University of Stuttgart and the author of the study, about his findings.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Large language models go through a lot of vetting before they&#8217;re released to the public. That includes safety tests, bias checks, ethical reviews and more. But what if, hypothetically, a model could dodge a safety question by lying to developers, hiding its real response to a safety test and instead giving the exact response its human handlers are looking for? A recent study shows that advanced LLMs are developing the capacity for deception, and that could bring that hypothetical situation closer to reality. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Thilo Hagendorff, a researcher at the University of Stuttgart and the author of the study, about his findings.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:duration>00:11:40</itunes:duration>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Kids’ online safety legislation, Meta’s AI and EV regrets</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — Kids’ online safety legislation, Meta’s AI and EV regrets</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-kids-online-safety-legislation-metas-ai-and-ev-regrets</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is expanding AI offerings across its products, even as the company gets rid of AI features that haven&#8217;t quite landed with consumers. The bottom line? CEO <a href="https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-Second-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx">Mark Zuckerberg says</a> “Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.”Then, the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern shares surprises and regrets on her journey as an electric vehicle owner. But first, this week in Congress, the Senate passed the Children and Teens&#8217; Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA 2.0, and the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, in a rare bipartisan vote — 91 senators voted in favor, with just three opposing these measures, which aim to reduce harm to kids on the internet.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is expanding AI offerings across its products, even as the company gets rid of AI features that haven&#8217;t quite landed with consumers. The bottom line? CEO <a href="https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-Second-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx">Mark Zuckerberg says</a> “Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.”Then, the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern shares surprises and regrets on her journey as an electric vehicle owner. But first, this week in Congress, the Senate passed the Children and Teens&#8217; Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA 2.0, and the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, in a rare bipartisan vote — 91 senators voted in favor, with just three opposing these measures, which aim to reduce harm to kids on the internet.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>The hidden cost of smart home technology</title>
<itunes:title>The hidden cost of smart home technology</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-hidden-cost-of-smart-home-technology</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>There&#8217;s always been something aspirational about the term &#8220;smart home.&#8221; It was coined by a residential builder association here in the U.S. back in the mid-&#8217;80s, long before the inventions we now think of as hallmarks of the smart home. Today, 42% of American households with internet own at least one smart home device, according to the market research firm Parks Associates. In <a href="https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361433/threshold/">her new book</a>, “Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out,” Heather Suzanne Woods of Kansas State University asks whether that’s a good thing.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>There&#8217;s always been something aspirational about the term &#8220;smart home.&#8221; It was coined by a residential builder association here in the U.S. back in the mid-&#8217;80s, long before the inventions we now think of as hallmarks of the smart home. Today, 42% of American households with internet own at least one smart home device, according to the market research firm Parks Associates. In <a href="https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361433/threshold/">her new book</a>, “Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out,” Heather Suzanne Woods of Kansas State University asks whether that’s a good thing.</p> ]]>
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<title>A lifesaving medical technology puts some patients on a “bridge to nowhere”</title>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and heart would normally do. While using the machine, many recipients of ECMO treatment can walk, talk, even ride a stationary bike, but they can’t leave the hospital with the machine, nor can they survive without it. In a recent article in The New Yorker, emergency physician and writer Clayton Dalton described these patients as “caught on a bridge to nowhere.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Dalton about the complicated ethics of this technology.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and heart would normally do. While using the machine, many recipients of ECMO treatment can walk, talk, even ride a stationary bike, but they can’t leave the hospital with the machine, nor can they survive without it. In a recent article in The New Yorker, emergency physician and writer Clayton Dalton described these patients as “caught on a bridge to nowhere.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Dalton about the complicated ethics of this technology.</p> ]]>
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<title>For data-hungry tech companies, YouTube is a gold mine</title>
<itunes:title>For data-hungry tech companies, YouTube is a gold mine</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Companies competing in the chatbot wars are using something known in the industry as “the Pile” to train their large language models. It’s a trove of open-source data made up of text scraped from all around the internet, including Wikipedia and the European Parliament. Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter for Proof News, recently took a deep dive into the Pile and discovered something else: a dataset called “YouTube Subtitles.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Gilbertson about her investigation and how YouTube creators feel about their content being used without their consent.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Companies competing in the chatbot wars are using something known in the industry as “the Pile” to train their large language models. It’s a trove of open-source data made up of text scraped from all around the internet, including Wikipedia and the European Parliament. Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter for Proof News, recently took a deep dive into the Pile and discovered something else: a dataset called “YouTube Subtitles.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Gilbertson about her investigation and how YouTube creators feel about their content being used without their consent.</p> ]]>
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<title>Does the tech sector need its own regulatory agency?</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>It&#8217;s a rare issue that can bring the political parties together in Congress, and the need to regulate social media companies ranks high on that very short list. Two industry veterans want Congress to create an agency that sets safety and privacy rules for platforms — and enforces them. The status quo, they argue, is like letting airlines fly without Federal Aviation Administration oversight. The idea comes from Anika Collier Navaroli and Ellen Pao. Pao, an attorney and now CEO of Project Include, pushed to ban revenge porn on Reddit during her tenure as interim CEO. Navaroli, an attorney and senior fellow at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, was involved in Twitter&#8217;s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform in 2021, when she was a senior policy expert there. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Navaroli and Pao about their proposal.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>It&#8217;s a rare issue that can bring the political parties together in Congress, and the need to regulate social media companies ranks high on that very short list. Two industry veterans want Congress to create an agency that sets safety and privacy rules for platforms — and enforces them. The status quo, they argue, is like letting airlines fly without Federal Aviation Administration oversight. The idea comes from Anika Collier Navaroli and Ellen Pao. Pao, an attorney and now CEO of Project Include, pushed to ban revenge porn on Reddit during her tenure as interim CEO. Navaroli, an attorney and senior fellow at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, was involved in Twitter&#8217;s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform in 2021, when she was a senior policy expert there. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Navaroli and Pao about their proposal.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Google cookies, Waymo vandalism and Kamala Harris memes</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — Google cookies, Waymo vandalism and Kamala Harris memes</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On the show today: The ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party ticket has stirred the KHive. We&#8217;ll look at what the Harris memes mean, in case you just fell out of a coconut tree. Plus, why Waymo is suing alleged vandals of its vehicles in San Francisco. We ask, why now? But first, cookies are here to stay — for a while, anyway. Google is backtracking on its plan, announced in 2020, to do away with the files that advertisers use to track us online. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, about why.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On the show today: The ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party ticket has stirred the KHive. We&#8217;ll look at what the Harris memes mean, in case you just fell out of a coconut tree. Plus, why Waymo is suing alleged vandals of its vehicles in San Francisco. We ask, why now? But first, cookies are here to stay — for a while, anyway. Google is backtracking on its plan, announced in 2020, to do away with the files that advertisers use to track us online. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, about why.</p> ]]>
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<title>Landmark disability law now applies to life online</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/landmark-disability-law-now-applies-to-life-online</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Back in 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the world&#8217;s first comprehensive law for people with disabilities. It was seen as making up for an area in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 fell short. &#8220;The stark fact remains that people with disabilities were still victims of segregation and discrimination, and this was intolerable,&#8221; Bush said. Now, the legislation passed at the dawn of the internet age is being adapted to ensure digital access for everyone. That means ensuring access to captions on web videos to support deaf Americans and the ability to resize text so people with low vision can read it. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with consultant Nicolas Steenhout, who explained how the Department of Justice is updating the rules.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Back in 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the world&#8217;s first comprehensive law for people with disabilities. It was seen as making up for an area in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 fell short. &#8220;The stark fact remains that people with disabilities were still victims of segregation and discrimination, and this was intolerable,&#8221; Bush said. Now, the legislation passed at the dawn of the internet age is being adapted to ensure digital access for everyone. That means ensuring access to captions on web videos to support deaf Americans and the ability to resize text so people with low vision can read it. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with consultant Nicolas Steenhout, who explained how the Department of Justice is updating the rules.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>How DIY medical testing is changing health care</title>
<itunes:title>How DIY medical testing is changing health care</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-diy-medical-testing-is-changing-health-care</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>What if receiving a medical diagnosis was as simple as shopping online? The growing home diagnostics industry says it can be. At-home testing was widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic, but more health tech companies also offer DIY kits that test for food allergies, fertility and thyroid function, among other things. Some medical experts are wary of this on-demand model, but health tech investors say it can make health care more accessible. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Chrissy Farr, author of the Second Opinion newsletter, and Anarghya Vardhana, a partner at the Maveron venture firm, about the prospects of the industry and how it affects relationships between patients and doctors.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>What if receiving a medical diagnosis was as simple as shopping online? The growing home diagnostics industry says it can be. At-home testing was widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic, but more health tech companies also offer DIY kits that test for food allergies, fertility and thyroid function, among other things. Some medical experts are wary of this on-demand model, but health tech investors say it can make health care more accessible. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Chrissy Farr, author of the Second Opinion newsletter, and Anarghya Vardhana, a partner at the Maveron venture firm, about the prospects of the industry and how it affects relationships between patients and doctors.</p> ]]>
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<title>Lessons to learn from the massive CrowdStrike outage</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Last Friday felt like something out of a Y2K nightmare after the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, pushed a software update to all its clients — including health care systems, banks and the federal government — that ended up crashing computer systems worldwide. <!-- wp:paragraph -->The fallout is still being felt, particularly in the travel sector, as airliners try to reschedule canceled flights while trying to get everything back to normal. It’s also become something of a reminder that the internet and a lot of the online services we rely on are delicate. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Kate Conger, a reporter at The New York Times who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/technology/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-software.html">recently wrote about this with her colleague David Streitfeld.</a></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Last Friday felt like something out of a Y2K nightmare after the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, pushed a software update to all its clients — including health care systems, banks and the federal government — that ended up crashing computer systems worldwide. <!-- wp:paragraph -->The fallout is still being felt, particularly in the travel sector, as airliners try to reschedule canceled flights while trying to get everything back to normal. It’s also become something of a reminder that the internet and a lot of the online services we rely on are delicate. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Kate Conger, a reporter at The New York Times who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/technology/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-software.html">recently wrote about this with her colleague David Streitfeld.</a></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>EU regulators request information on Amazon’s algorithms</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/eu-regulators-request-information-on-amazons-algorithms</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Online sales in the U.S. surpassed $14 billion during Amazon Prime Day last week, according to Adobe Analytics. Amazon&#8217;s heft and promotional power continue to drive sales, even for rivals, during the shopping jamboree. But in Europe, an important market for the e-commerce giant, lawmakers have become increasingly sensitive to Amazon&#8217;s relations with its rivals, as well as its partners and customers. They&#8217;ve requested that Amazon hand over information about its product recommendation algorithms, along with data on ads, by Friday. It&#8217;s part of compliance with the European Union&#8217;s Digital Services Act, a sweeping set of tech regulations that took effect in recent years. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed it with Theo Wayt, who covers Amazon for The Information.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Online sales in the U.S. surpassed $14 billion during Amazon Prime Day last week, according to Adobe Analytics. Amazon&#8217;s heft and promotional power continue to drive sales, even for rivals, during the shopping jamboree. But in Europe, an important market for the e-commerce giant, lawmakers have become increasingly sensitive to Amazon&#8217;s relations with its rivals, as well as its partners and customers. They&#8217;ve requested that Amazon hand over information about its product recommendation algorithms, along with data on ads, by Friday. It&#8217;s part of compliance with the European Union&#8217;s Digital Services Act, a sweeping set of tech regulations that took effect in recent years. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed it with Theo Wayt, who covers Amazon for The Information.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Vance’s Silicon Valley ties, Prime Day injuries and Starbucks bets on EVs</title>
<itunes:title>Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Vance’s Silicon Valley ties, Prime Day injuries and Starbucks bets on EVs</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-vances-silicon-valley-ties-prime-day-injuries-and-starbucks-bets-on-evs</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A new Senate report finds Amazon Prime Day is prime time for warehouse injuries. Plus, Starbucks is teaming up with Mercedes-Benz to supercharge electric vehicle infrastructure. But first, several Silicon Valley billionaires have thrown their support behind former President Donald Trump in his quest to reclaim the White House, thanks in part to his pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, a managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on these stories in Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A new Senate report finds Amazon Prime Day is prime time for warehouse injuries. Plus, Starbucks is teaming up with Mercedes-Benz to supercharge electric vehicle infrastructure. But first, several Silicon Valley billionaires have thrown their support behind former President Donald Trump in his quest to reclaim the White House, thanks in part to his pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, a managing partner at Collab Capital, for her take on these stories in Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>FBI officials are still looking into what motivated the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday. As of this episode, investigators have yet to publicly share any conclusions about his reasons for the attack, which killed a rally attendee and injured the former president and two others. But the lack of information didn&#8217;t stop misinformation from flooding online channels. Marketplace&#8217;s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, speaks with Molly Dwyer, director of insights at PeakMetrics, and Lisa Fazio, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, about the false narratives surrounding the shooting and how to separate fact from fiction in the aftermath of a violent event.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel</em>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>FBI officials are still looking into what motivated the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday. As of this episode, investigators have yet to publicly share any conclusions about his reasons for the attack, which killed a rally attendee and injured the former president and two others. But the lack of information didn&#8217;t stop misinformation from flooding online channels. Marketplace&#8217;s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, speaks with Molly Dwyer, director of insights at PeakMetrics, and Lisa Fazio, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, about the false narratives surrounding the shooting and how to separate fact from fiction in the aftermath of a violent event.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel</em>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>The complicated reality of school cellphone bans</title>
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<![CDATA[ </p> <p>Pop quiz: What&#8217;s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? <!-- wp:paragraph -->The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino it&#8217;s not that simple.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Pop quiz: What&#8217;s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? <!-- wp:paragraph -->The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino it&#8217;s not that simple.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ </p> <p>Pop quiz: What&#8217;s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? <!-- wp:paragraph -->The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino it&#8217;s not that simple.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Pop quiz: What&#8217;s a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida? <!-- wp:paragraph -->The answer is banning cellphones in school. Florida is among a handful of states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom. California has not, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed the Legislature to act. The policies are intended to reduce distraction and mitigate addiction and other mental health concerns attributed to phone use. But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan, tells Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino it&#8217;s not that simple.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>The digital surveillance of transgender people</title>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>In recent years, we&#8217;ve seen a surge of state laws and policies affecting trans people. Half of states have banned or restricted gender affirming care for minors, with some adding restrictions for adults. The ACLU is tracking <a href="https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024?impact=">more than 500 bills</a> that have been introduced across the country. The enforcement of such laws, as with recent bans on abortion and related reproductive care, have raised concerns about tracking people&#8217;s digital footprints. So much of daily life is conducted online, and there are currently no federal data privacy protections. KB Brookins, a writer based in Austin, Texas, <a href="https://www.autostraddle.com/trans-texans-are-being-surveilled-this-is-everyones-issue/">wrote about a personal experience that drove home concerns about their trail of digital data</a>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>In recent years, we&#8217;ve seen a surge of state laws and policies affecting trans people. Half of states have banned or restricted gender affirming care for minors, with some adding restrictions for adults. The ACLU is tracking <a href="https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024?impact=">more than 500 bills</a> that have been introduced across the country. The enforcement of such laws, as with recent bans on abortion and related reproductive care, have raised concerns about tracking people&#8217;s digital footprints. So much of daily life is conducted online, and there are currently no federal data privacy protections. KB Brookins, a writer based in Austin, Texas, <a href="https://www.autostraddle.com/trans-texans-are-being-surveilled-this-is-everyones-issue/">wrote about a personal experience that drove home concerns about their trail of digital data</a>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Online speech cases sent back to the lower courts</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Sandwiched between some blockbuster Supreme Court rulings last month came a decision — or more so, a non-decision — that is reverberating through the tech world. NetChoice, big tech&#8217;s lobbying arm, challenged a pair of laws in Florida and Texas that sought to restrict how social media platforms moderate content. The high court kicked both cases back to lower courts with some added commentary. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter with the Verge, who <a href="https://www.theverge.com/24195235/scotus-netchoice-kosa-kids-safety-age-verification-tiktok-ban">wrote about what this means for future attempts to regulate tech</a>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Sandwiched between some blockbuster Supreme Court rulings last month came a decision — or more so, a non-decision — that is reverberating through the tech world. NetChoice, big tech&#8217;s lobbying arm, challenged a pair of laws in Florida and Texas that sought to restrict how social media platforms moderate content. The high court kicked both cases back to lower courts with some added commentary. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter with the Verge, who <a href="https://www.theverge.com/24195235/scotus-netchoice-kosa-kids-safety-age-verification-tiktok-ban">wrote about what this means for future attempts to regulate tech</a>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — FTC’s latest tech crackdown, Trump’s pro-crypto campaign and Threads turns a year old</title>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The Republican Party officially adopted former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 platform this week. The GOP is now taking a friendly approach to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, with plans to roll back regulation of both. Plus, Meta&#8217;s Threads platform celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. But first, the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the popular messaging app NGL. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The Republican Party officially adopted former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 platform this week. The GOP is now taking a friendly approach to cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, with plans to roll back regulation of both. Plus, Meta&#8217;s Threads platform celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. But first, the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the popular messaging app NGL. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The internet is full of all manner of unsavoriness that is surely corroding our minds and societies. But the kind of rot we&#8217;re talking about here is link rot — the disappearance of online content when links turn into &#8220;404 Page Not Found.&#8221; A recent study from Pew Research suggests almost 40% of all webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible. That includes important government links, citations on Wikipedia and hyperlinks in news articles. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali recently talked about this with Clare Stanton, product and research manager at Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, who also works on a webpage preservation project, perma.cc.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The internet is full of all manner of unsavoriness that is surely corroding our minds and societies. But the kind of rot we&#8217;re talking about here is link rot — the disappearance of online content when links turn into &#8220;404 Page Not Found.&#8221; A recent study from Pew Research suggests almost 40% of all webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible. That includes important government links, citations on Wikipedia and hyperlinks in news articles. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali recently talked about this with Clare Stanton, product and research manager at Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, who also works on a webpage preservation project, perma.cc.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Progressive TikTok creators turn against Biden</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>About a third of adults under 30 regularly get their news on TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. And in this election season, the messages from young, left-leaning creators on the short-form video app are pretty different from last time around. In 2020, a coalition of influencers united to back presidential candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, and historically high youth turnout helped propel him to a win. But after almost four years of the Biden presidency, the TikTok tide has turned, according to Taylor Lorenz, online culture columnist at The Washington Post, who recently wrote about this shift.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>About a third of adults under 30 regularly get their news on TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. And in this election season, the messages from young, left-leaning creators on the short-form video app are pretty different from last time around. In 2020, a coalition of influencers united to back presidential candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, and historically high youth turnout helped propel him to a win. But after almost four years of the Biden presidency, the TikTok tide has turned, according to Taylor Lorenz, online culture columnist at The Washington Post, who recently wrote about this shift.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>The making of Sam Altman</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The overnight success of ChatGPT helped turn Sam Altman, CEO of its maker, OpenAI, into one of the most powerful people in tech. At a conference hosted by Bloomberg last summer, Altman was asked why we should trust him with so much power, and in response, Altman said, “You shouldn’t.” And yet, throughout his career, Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley&#8217;s kingmakers with ease. In the latest season of Bloomberg&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Foundering,&#8221; journalist Ellen Huet tries to understand Altman&#8217;s rise to power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Huet about what she learned.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The overnight success of ChatGPT helped turn Sam Altman, CEO of its maker, OpenAI, into one of the most powerful people in tech. At a conference hosted by Bloomberg last summer, Altman was asked why we should trust him with so much power, and in response, Altman said, “You shouldn’t.” And yet, throughout his career, Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley&#8217;s kingmakers with ease. In the latest season of Bloomberg&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Foundering,&#8221; journalist Ellen Huet tries to understand Altman&#8217;s rise to power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Huet about what she learned.</p> ]]>
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<title>AI concerns stall contract negotiations between game companies and actors</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Big-budget video game producers and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing voice-over actors and motion-capture stunt workers, have been negotiating a new labor contract since last September. And union leaders say those talks have stalled due to concerns over generative artificial intelligence. (Note: Several Marketplace employees are also represented by SAG-AFTRA under a different contract.) Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Associated Press reporter Sarah Parvini, who recently wrote about the negotiations. She explained how consent is a key concern.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Big-budget video game producers and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing voice-over actors and motion-capture stunt workers, have been negotiating a new labor contract since last September. And union leaders say those talks have stalled due to concerns over generative artificial intelligence. (Note: Several Marketplace employees are also represented by SAG-AFTRA under a different contract.) Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Associated Press reporter Sarah Parvini, who recently wrote about the negotiations. She explained how consent is a key concern.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — the most impactful moment, the biggest flub and the most underreported story in tech</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — the most impactful moment, the biggest flub and the most underreported story in tech</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>We&#8217;ve reached the midyear mark for 2024, so for our weekly review show, &#8220;Tech Bytes,&#8221; we are breaking format and taking stock of the past six months in tech with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali asked her what she thought was the most underreported story of the last six months. And what was the biggest flub? We&#8217;ll get to those, but we&#8217;ll start Curi&#8217;s pick for the most impactful story of the first half of the year.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>We&#8217;ve reached the midyear mark for 2024, so for our weekly review show, &#8220;Tech Bytes,&#8221; we are breaking format and taking stock of the past six months in tech with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali asked her what she thought was the most underreported story of the last six months. And what was the biggest flub? We&#8217;ll get to those, but we&#8217;ll start Curi&#8217;s pick for the most impactful story of the first half of the year.</p> ]]>
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<title>The unstoppable rise of Swedish music tech</title>
<itunes:title>The unstoppable rise of Swedish music tech</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Streaming giants Spotify and SoundCloud were both founded in Stockholm, and over the past two decades the Swedish capital has developed a reputation as a European hub for companies blending music and innovation. So why does this small Nordic city punch above its weight in music tech, and are start-ups still able to thrive there after a rocky few years for the global economy? The BBC&#8217;s Maddy Savage reports.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>Streaming giants Spotify and SoundCloud were both founded in Stockholm, and over the past two decades the Swedish capital has developed a reputation as a European hub for companies blending music and innovation. So why does this small Nordic city punch above its weight in music tech, and are start-ups still able to thrive there after a rocky few years for the global economy? The BBC&#8217;s Maddy Savage reports.</p> ]]>
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<title>What do billboards say about a city?</title>
<itunes:title>What do billboards say about a city?</itunes:title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>For the millions of residents and visitors who commute in and out of the areas daily, billboards in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area have long been a way to see where the state of tech is at the moment — and where it&#8217;s headed next.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>For the millions of residents and visitors who commute in and out of the areas daily, billboards in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area have long been a way to see where the state of tech is at the moment — and where it&#8217;s headed next.</p> ]]>
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<title>Creating a “joy spiral” to revive San Francisco’s downtown</title>
<itunes:title>Creating a “joy spiral” to revive San Francisco’s downtown</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/creating-a-joy-spiral-to-revive-san-franciscos-downtown</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Yesterday, we explained San Francisco&#8217;s fraught relationship with the tech industry. Tech workers weren&#8217;t always welcome in the eyes of many other residents, and when the COVID-19 pandemic began, a lot of them left, taking their dollars with them. But on a recent Thursday evening, organizers of a block party downtown were trying to bring people back. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Manny Yekutiel and Katy Birnbaum about their efforts to revive the city’s downtown.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Yesterday, we explained San Francisco&#8217;s fraught relationship with the tech industry. Tech workers weren&#8217;t always welcome in the eyes of many other residents, and when the COVID-19 pandemic began, a lot of them left, taking their dollars with them. But on a recent Thursday evening, organizers of a block party downtown were trying to bring people back. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Manny Yekutiel and Katy Birnbaum about their efforts to revive the city’s downtown.</p> ]]>
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<title>Is San Francisco in a “doom loop” or a “boom loop”?</title>
<itunes:title>Is San Francisco in a “doom loop” or a “boom loop”?</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/is-san-francisco-in-a-doom-loop-or-a-boom-loop</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Cities across the country are still trying to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic changed how and where many of us work, leaving big holes in downtown office districts. San Francisco, once teeming with tech workers, is no exception. But few cities have suffered the sustained reputational damage that San Francisco has. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the city to meet with Heather Knight, The New York Times&#8217; San Francisco bureau chief. Knight, who has been covering the city for more than two decades, offered her take on San Francisco’s image problem, economic situation and tech culture.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Cities across the country are still trying to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic changed how and where many of us work, leaving big holes in downtown office districts. San Francisco, once teeming with tech workers, is no exception. But few cities have suffered the sustained reputational damage that San Francisco has. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the city to meet with Heather Knight, The New York Times&#8217; San Francisco bureau chief. Knight, who has been covering the city for more than two decades, offered her take on San Francisco’s image problem, economic situation and tech culture.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — music biz vs. AI, social media moderation and Nvidia stock woes</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — music biz vs. AI, social media moderation and Nvidia stock woes</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-music-biz-vs-ai-social-media-moderation-and-nvidia-stock-woes</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In the past week or so, Nvidia&#8217;s stock finally encountered the law of gravity — what goes up must eventually come down, at least a little bit. And we look under the hood of artificial intelligence companies that aren&#8217;t necessarily making headlines. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled against Republican-led states that accused the federal government of coercing social media companies into suppressing content. But first, major music labels, including Universal, Sony and Warner, are suing two startups that produce AI-generated music. The labels accuse Suno and Udio of using copyrighted works scraped from the internet to train their AI models. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, for her takes on these stories in this week&#8217;s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In the past week or so, Nvidia&#8217;s stock finally encountered the law of gravity — what goes up must eventually come down, at least a little bit. And we look under the hood of artificial intelligence companies that aren&#8217;t necessarily making headlines. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled against Republican-led states that accused the federal government of coercing social media companies into suppressing content. But first, major music labels, including Universal, Sony and Warner, are suing two startups that produce AI-generated music. The labels accuse Suno and Udio of using copyrighted works scraped from the internet to train their AI models. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, for her takes on these stories in this week&#8217;s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> ]]>
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<title>The evolution of political messaging into the digital age</title>
<itunes:title>The evolution of political messaging into the digital age</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-evolution-of-political-messaging-into-the-digital-age</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It feels like eons ago, but during a town hall on violence in America in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton took to MTV to reach the nation&#8217;s youth. Clinton&#8217;s openness to MTV and what The New York Times called &#8220;other unconventional media&#8221; had helped pave his path to the White House two years earlier. Fast-forward to today, and even reluctant politicians use TikTok to reach younger voters — President Joe Biden is no exception. His first post came just ahead of this year&#8217;s Super Bowl. We invited Marketplace&#8217;s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, and Joshua Scacco, professor of political communication and director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy at the University of South Florida, to discuss the evolution of political messaging with Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali. Scacco said Clinton&#8217;s MTV moment informed how future presidents, including his successor, George W. Bush, have engaged with Americans.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It feels like eons ago, but during a town hall on violence in America in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton took to MTV to reach the nation&#8217;s youth. Clinton&#8217;s openness to MTV and what The New York Times called &#8220;other unconventional media&#8221; had helped pave his path to the White House two years earlier. Fast-forward to today, and even reluctant politicians use TikTok to reach younger voters — President Joe Biden is no exception. His first post came just ahead of this year&#8217;s Super Bowl. We invited Marketplace&#8217;s senior Washington correspondent, Kimberly Adams, and Joshua Scacco, professor of political communication and director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy at the University of South Florida, to discuss the evolution of political messaging with Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali. Scacco said Clinton&#8217;s MTV moment informed how future presidents, including his successor, George W. Bush, have engaged with Americans.</p> ]]>
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<title>How data generated by everyday apps can incriminate abortion seekers</title>
<itunes:title>How data generated by everyday apps can incriminate abortion seekers</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-data-generated-by-everyday-apps-can-incriminate-abortion-seekers</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week, we&#8217;ve been taking stock of how tech has both helped and harmed Americans trying to get abortions in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. After the Dobbs decision, some experts warned consumers that menstrual tracking apps would provide a means of surveilling abortion seekers. There was even a social media campaign on what was then Twitter advising people to delete their period trackers. But it&#8217;s turned out that the threat to privacy isn&#8217;t limited to those apps. Other digital data can actually be more likely to reveal an illegal abortion. That&#8217;s according to Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. He told Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali that everyday consumer apps generate sensitive data that can be used for abortion surveillance.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week, we&#8217;ve been taking stock of how tech has both helped and harmed Americans trying to get abortions in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. After the Dobbs decision, some experts warned consumers that menstrual tracking apps would provide a means of surveilling abortion seekers. There was even a social media campaign on what was then Twitter advising people to delete their period trackers. But it&#8217;s turned out that the threat to privacy isn&#8217;t limited to those apps. Other digital data can actually be more likely to reveal an illegal abortion. That&#8217;s according to Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. He told Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali that everyday consumer apps generate sensitive data that can be used for abortion surveillance.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Protecting abortion patients’ digital data in the post-Roe era</title>
<itunes:title>Protecting abortion patients’ digital data in the post-Roe era</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/protecting-abortion-patients-digital-data-in-the-post-roe-era</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>After the U.S. Supreme Court took away the federal right to abortion two years ago, telehealth has helped provide ongoing access, including to people in states where abortion is now banned. That was our subject Monday. Now we are looking into apps that link patients with abortion providers. Julie F. Kay, executive director at the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, told Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali that digital privacy protections are far from equal across these services.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>After the U.S. Supreme Court took away the federal right to abortion two years ago, telehealth has helped provide ongoing access, including to people in states where abortion is now banned. That was our subject Monday. Now we are looking into apps that link patients with abortion providers. Julie F. Kay, executive director at the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, told Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali that digital privacy protections are far from equal across these services.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court ruled that abortions are not constitutionally protected in the U.S., a decision that would draw protests across the country. Since then, 14 states have outlawed abortions. Still, some people in those states have been able to cut through barriers to get abortions via telehealth, according to a recent report from the research project #WeCount. Usually, this requires a virtual visit with a telehealth care provider. The provider assesses the patient and gets their information, then can mail them mifepristone and misoprostol, which aid in ending a pregnancy. The Supreme Court preserved access to mifepristone in a ruling this month, which means it can still be prescribed and mailed to patients. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali discussed the increase in telehealth abortions with Ushma Upadhyay, professor of OB-GYN and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a coauthor of the #WeCount report.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court ruled that abortions are not constitutionally protected in the U.S., a decision that would draw protests across the country. Since then, 14 states have outlawed abortions. Still, some people in those states have been able to cut through barriers to get abortions via telehealth, according to a recent report from the research project #WeCount. Usually, this requires a virtual visit with a telehealth care provider. The provider assesses the patient and gets their information, then can mail them mifepristone and misoprostol, which aid in ending a pregnancy. The Supreme Court preserved access to mifepristone in a ruling this month, which means it can still be prescribed and mailed to patients. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali discussed the increase in telehealth abortions with Ushma Upadhyay, professor of OB-GYN and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a coauthor of the #WeCount report.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Big Tech subscription services are once again in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, nonprofits with links to OpenAI are becoming less transparent, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to require warning labels on social media. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, for this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Big Tech subscription services are once again in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, nonprofits with links to OpenAI are becoming less transparent, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to require warning labels on social media. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, for this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review</p> ]]>
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<title>2014: The year that shaped social media</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Picture this: The year is 2014. The song &#8220;Happy&#8221; by Pharrell Williams is playing on every top 100 station, and the Ellen DeGeneres star-studded Oscars selfie has just &#8220;broken Twitter.&#8221; As all of this is happening, a bunch of content creators in certain corners of social media are about to start making a whole lot of money. Culture reporter Steffi Cao recently wrote in The Ringer that 2014 was the year that shaped the internet we know today. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke to her about what happened online 10 years ago.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Picture this: The year is 2014. The song &#8220;Happy&#8221; by Pharrell Williams is playing on every top 100 station, and the Ellen DeGeneres star-studded Oscars selfie has just &#8220;broken Twitter.&#8221; As all of this is happening, a bunch of content creators in certain corners of social media are about to start making a whole lot of money. Culture reporter Steffi Cao recently wrote in The Ringer that 2014 was the year that shaped the internet we know today. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke to her about what happened online 10 years ago.</p> ]]>
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<title>Juneteenth’s viral moment and its future</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Shortly after the Union won the Civil War in 1865, a union major general issued an order: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.&#8221; June 19, known as Juneteenth, has long been celebrated by African Americans. But in 2020, in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, Juneteenth took the internet by storm. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Brandon Ogbunu, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale, who wrote about that moment for WIRED back then. He revisited what was happening at that time a year before Juneteenth became a national holiday.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Shortly after the Union won the Civil War in 1865, a union major general issued an order: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.&#8221; June 19, known as Juneteenth, has long been celebrated by African Americans. But in 2020, in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, Juneteenth took the internet by storm. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Brandon Ogbunu, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale, who wrote about that moment for WIRED back then. He revisited what was happening at that time a year before Juneteenth became a national holiday.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/meet-the-man-who-combines-science-technology-and-magic-to-understand-proteins</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the headquarters of Nautilus Biotechnology to meet with Parag Mallick, the company&#8217;s founder and chief scientist, who is also a magician and an associate professor at Stanford University. Since 2016, Mallick and his team have been building a machine that they say will revolutionize biomedicine by unlocking the secrets of the “dark proteome.”</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the headquarters of Nautilus Biotechnology to meet with Parag Mallick, the company&#8217;s founder and chief scientist, who is also a magician and an associate professor at Stanford University. Since 2016, Mallick and his team have been building a machine that they say will revolutionize biomedicine by unlocking the secrets of the “dark proteome.”</p> ]]>
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<title>How to find a mailbox in Sao Paulo’s favelas</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-to-find-a-mailbox-in-sao-paulos-favelas</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Brazil has densely populated low-income communities living on the outskirts of many cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Ordering online shopping just isn’t an option for residents as these towns don’t have an official address, but that may be changing. The BBC&#8217;s Ben Derico reports.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Brazil has densely populated low-income communities living on the outskirts of many cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Ordering online shopping just isn’t an option for residents as these towns don’t have an official address, but that may be changing. The BBC&#8217;s Ben Derico reports.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s AI flex, Uber’s legal loss and X’s hidden “likes”</title>
<itunes:title>Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s AI flex, Uber’s legal loss and X’s hidden “likes”</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/bytes-week-in-review-apples-ai-flex-ubers-legal-loss-and-xs-hidden-likes</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Ride-hailing company Uber has lost its challenge to the California law that requires gig companies to provide employment rights to workers. We&#8217;ll have more about the legal and political saga on this week&#8217;s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Also, X — formerly Twitter — has made user &#8220;likes&#8221; private, marking another change to the platform&#8217;s identity and functionality since Elon Musk took over the social media company. But first, they&#8217;re calling it Apple Intelligence. That phrase was used about 60 times Monday during Apple&#8217;s annual developers confab. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal. She attended the Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, this week as Apple execs talked through the company&#8217;s entry into the AI race.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Ride-hailing company Uber has lost its challenge to the California law that requires gig companies to provide employment rights to workers. We&#8217;ll have more about the legal and political saga on this week&#8217;s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Also, X — formerly Twitter — has made user &#8220;likes&#8221; private, marking another change to the platform&#8217;s identity and functionality since Elon Musk took over the social media company. But first, they&#8217;re calling it Apple Intelligence. That phrase was used about 60 times Monday during Apple&#8217;s annual developers confab. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal. She attended the Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, this week as Apple execs talked through the company&#8217;s entry into the AI race.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> ]]>
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<title>Greater, newer AI models come with environmental impacts</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Back in 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious pledge to go carbon negative by 2030. But that plan is encountering some headwinds, according to its latest sustainability report. It showed Microsoft&#8217;s carbon emissions have increased by 30% since it made that pledge four years ago and comes a reminder of the significant environmental cost of the AI boom. Just how significant? Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino asked Emma Strubell, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who co-wrote a paper about the specific energy demands for common uses of this technology.<br /> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Back in 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious pledge to go carbon negative by 2030. But that plan is encountering some headwinds, according to its latest sustainability report. It showed Microsoft&#8217;s carbon emissions have increased by 30% since it made that pledge four years ago and comes a reminder of the significant environmental cost of the AI boom. Just how significant? Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino asked Emma Strubell, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who co-wrote a paper about the specific energy demands for common uses of this technology.<br /> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Disinformation on elections, migration is spreading in Spanish too</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/disinformation-on-elections-migration-is-spreading-in-spanish-too</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season. Relatedly, perhaps, this voting bloc has emerged as a target for disinformation. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Marketplace senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams and Roberta Braga, founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, to learn more about Spanish-language disinformation in the 2024 campaign.</p> <p>This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season. Relatedly, perhaps, this voting bloc has emerged as a target for disinformation. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Marketplace senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams and Roberta Braga, founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, to learn more about Spanish-language disinformation in the 2024 campaign.</p> <p>This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Back in January, a U.S. Senate committee probed executives from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord about social media&#8217;s effect on kids. <span style="font-weight: 400">During a heated exchange with Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood, turned and apologized to families of victims who were sexually exploited on social media platforms. </span> No federal legislation on the issue has become law, but some states are taking the lead. New York just passed two laws aimed at regulating social media, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing similar legislation in his state. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali sat down with Bonta to ask about what his state is doing to protect social media&#8217;s youngest users.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Back in January, a U.S. Senate committee probed executives from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord about social media&#8217;s effect on kids. <span style="font-weight: 400">During a heated exchange with Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood, turned and apologized to families of victims who were sexually exploited on social media platforms. </span> No federal legislation on the issue has become law, but some states are taking the lead. New York just passed two laws aimed at regulating social media, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing similar legislation in his state. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali sat down with Bonta to ask about what his state is doing to protect social media&#8217;s youngest users.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The network of online communities known as Reddit has millions of weekly active<a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000171344524000006/rddt-20240331.htm"> users.</a> They post on &#8220;subreddit&#8221; forums like r/WhatShouldICook — a place where people just talk about their dinner plans — and r/ShowerThoughts, where participants share what they&#8217;re thinking during routine tasks. The co-founder and CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, is a fan of r/Daddit, being a father himself. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Huffman at Reddit headquarters in San Francisco, where they talked about the company selling stock and its recent licensing agreements with the likes of Google and Open AI, which use Reddit content to train their large language models.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The network of online communities known as Reddit has millions of weekly active<a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000171344524000006/rddt-20240331.htm"> users.</a> They post on &#8220;subreddit&#8221; forums like r/WhatShouldICook — a place where people just talk about their dinner plans — and r/ShowerThoughts, where participants share what they&#8217;re thinking during routine tasks. The co-founder and CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, is a fan of r/Daddit, being a father himself. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Huffman at Reddit headquarters in San Francisco, where they talked about the company selling stock and its recent licensing agreements with the likes of Google and Open AI, which use Reddit content to train their large language models.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review – AI whistleblowers, Facebook’s future, and meme stock backlash</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s cornered the market for boomers. Now, Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta hopes to make Facebook once again a favorite social media app for young adults. Plus, the Wall Street Journal reports E*Trade is considering whether to give the boot to user Roaring Kitty, who helped ignite the 2021 meme stock craze. In case you missed it, yes, the craze is back. But first, there&#8217;s yet another open letter on AI. This whistleblower letter comes from more than a dozen current and former employees at major AI companies. They warn of the risks posed by the technology being developed. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It&#8217;s cornered the market for boomers. Now, Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta hopes to make Facebook once again a favorite social media app for young adults. Plus, the Wall Street Journal reports E*Trade is considering whether to give the boot to user Roaring Kitty, who helped ignite the 2021 meme stock craze. In case you missed it, yes, the craze is back. But first, there&#8217;s yet another open letter on AI. This whistleblower letter comes from more than a dozen current and former employees at major AI companies. They warn of the risks posed by the technology being developed. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<title>Deepfake detectors promise to tell truth from AI-generated fiction. Do they work?</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/deepfake-detectors-ai-generated-fiction-do-they-work</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Telling truth from fiction online has become a lot harder since the AI boom kicked off a year and a half ago. An estimated 40 deepfake detection startups say they have a solution, but so far none can deliver 100% reliable detection. One organization taking on the challenge is TrueMedia.org. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Oren Etzioni, its founder and longtime AI researcher, about what sets his organization’s system apart from the rest.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Telling truth from fiction online has become a lot harder since the AI boom kicked off a year and a half ago. An estimated 40 deepfake detection startups say they have a solution, but so far none can deliver 100% reliable detection. One organization taking on the challenge is TrueMedia.org. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Oren Etzioni, its founder and longtime AI researcher, about what sets his organization’s system apart from the rest.</p> ]]>
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<title>The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Webb Space Telescope shows</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-we-thought-webb-space-telescope-shows</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for the past three decades, helping scientists understand how fast the universe is expanding and with that, its age. In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope to further that research. The bonus: All those stunning images from outer space. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. He said the Webb telescope has confirmed what Hubble first pieced together: Our universe is expanding faster than first predicted.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for the past three decades, helping scientists understand how fast the universe is expanding and with that, its age. In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope to further that research. The bonus: All those stunning images from outer space. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. He said the Webb telescope has confirmed what Hubble first pieced together: Our universe is expanding faster than first predicted.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Paris braces for a barrage of cyberattacks</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The Summer Olympics, which kick off in Paris next month, are set to bring more than 10,000 athletes and an estimated 15 million spectators to the French capital. Officials hope to keep sports at center stage, but behind the scenes, they’re preparing to fend off cyberthreats in high volume. In recent years, several Olympic host cities have faced and managed cyberattacks, but as Antoaneta Roussi, cybersecurity reporter at Politico, tells Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali, this year could be worse.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The Summer Olympics, which kick off in Paris next month, are set to bring more than 10,000 athletes and an estimated 15 million spectators to the French capital. Officials hope to keep sports at center stage, but behind the scenes, they’re preparing to fend off cyberthreats in high volume. In recent years, several Olympic host cities have faced and managed cyberattacks, but as Antoaneta Roussi, cybersecurity reporter at Politico, tells Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali, this year could be worse.</p> ]]>
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<title>The dark side of AI in India’s election</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-dark-side-of-ai-in-indias-election</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Artificial intelligence has been used to help translate election candidates into hundreds of different languages — but also to create deepfakes of Bollywood stars and spread false news. The BBC&#8217;s Arunoday Mukharji reports.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Artificial intelligence has been used to help translate election candidates into hundreds of different languages — but also to create deepfakes of Bollywood stars and spread false news. The BBC&#8217;s Arunoday Mukharji reports.</p> ]]>
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<title>Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s workplace expansion, data center power woes and the ’80s on TikTok</title>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 10:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>In the early days of OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, a chatbot query required about 10 times the electricity of a typical Google search. And as people do more with generative artificial intelligence, we&#8217;re going to burn through even more power. Plus, the &#8217;80s are back — on TikTok. A new dance trend is getting Gen X parents to show their Gen Z kids how they danced back in the day, to the tune of Bronski Beat&#8217;s &#8220;Smalltown Boy.&#8221; Also this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that consulting and professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers is now OpenAI&#8217;s largest customer and the first reseller of ChatGPT&#8217;s enterprise tier, which is aimed at businesses. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, about these headlines for this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>In the early days of OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, a chatbot query required about 10 times the electricity of a typical Google search. And as people do more with generative artificial intelligence, we&#8217;re going to burn through even more power. Plus, the &#8217;80s are back — on TikTok. A new dance trend is getting Gen X parents to show their Gen Z kids how they danced back in the day, to the tune of Bronski Beat&#8217;s &#8220;Smalltown Boy.&#8221; Also this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that consulting and professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers is now OpenAI&#8217;s largest customer and the first reseller of ChatGPT&#8217;s enterprise tier, which is aimed at businesses. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, about these headlines for this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Potential TikTok ban stirs anxieties in small-business owners</title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/potential-tiktok-ban-stirs-anxieties-in-small-business-owners</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 10:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/tiktok-ban.html">law signed by President Joe Biden last month</a> would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or be banned in the United States because of national security worries. And it&#8217;s making a lot of small-business owners anxious. We hear their stories.</p> ]]>
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<itunes:summary>
<![CDATA[ <p>A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/tiktok-ban.html">law signed by President Joe Biden last month</a> would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or be banned in the United States because of national security worries. And it&#8217;s making a lot of small-business owners anxious. We hear their stories.</p> ]]>
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<title>A scientist’s struggle to find the truth behind 3M’s “forever chemicals” problem</title>
<itunes:title>A scientist’s struggle to find the truth behind 3M’s “forever chemicals” problem</itunes:title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 10:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to break down in nature, and have been used widely in products like Scotchgard, Teflon and firefighting foam. Lerner has focused part of her work on understanding the flow of information inside manufacturers like 3M. By the 1970s, Lerner says, Minnesota-based 3M had established that they were toxic in animals and were accumulating in humans’ bodies. But who inside 3M knew? And what did they know? Reporting for ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news site, Lerner got a complicated answer after coming across a former 3M scientist named Kris Hansen. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Lerner about her recent investigation.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to break down in nature, and have been used widely in products like Scotchgard, Teflon and firefighting foam. Lerner has focused part of her work on understanding the flow of information inside manufacturers like 3M. By the 1970s, Lerner says, Minnesota-based 3M had established that they were toxic in animals and were accumulating in humans’ bodies. But who inside 3M knew? And what did they know? Reporting for ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news site, Lerner got a complicated answer after coming across a former 3M scientist named Kris Hansen. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Lerner about her recent investigation.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 10:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>When it comes to combating election-related misinformation online, sometimes the real world is the best place to start, but it isn&#8217;t always easy. On this week&#8217;s installment of &#8220;Marketplace Tech&#8217;s&#8221; limited series &#8220;Decoding Democracy,&#8221; Lily Jamali and senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams discuss the personal side of misinformation, take questions from colleagues and hear from experts about best practices for talking with loved ones about this sometimes sensitive topic.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>When it comes to combating election-related misinformation online, sometimes the real world is the best place to start, but it isn&#8217;t always easy. On this week&#8217;s installment of &#8220;Marketplace Tech&#8217;s&#8221; limited series &#8220;Decoding Democracy,&#8221; Lily Jamali and senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams discuss the personal side of misinformation, take questions from colleagues and hear from experts about best practices for talking with loved ones about this sometimes sensitive topic.</p> ]]>
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<title>A not-so-furry dog to help the visually impaired</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 10:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A team from the University of Glasgow in Scotland is developing a robot guide dog aimed at helping the visually impaired find their way around. They&#8217;re calling the AI-powered device the RoboGuide. The BBC’s Shiona McCallum brings us along on her visit with one of the robodogs and its handler, Dr. Wasim Ahmad.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>A team from the University of Glasgow in Scotland is developing a robot guide dog aimed at helping the visually impaired find their way around. They&#8217;re calling the AI-powered device the RoboGuide. The BBC’s Shiona McCallum brings us along on her visit with one of the robodogs and its handler, Dr. Wasim Ahmad.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 10:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Proceeding without permission is a time-tested practice in some corners of Silicon Valley. Well, it&#8217;s not working out so well for OpenAI. Actress Scarlett Johansson said this week the company approached her twice to voice a new AI assistant for ChatGPT-4o. She declined, only to find it had used a voice that sounds &#8220;eerily&#8221; like hers. Plus, on Capitol Hill, a House subcommittee held a hearing that could decide the future of Section 230, the provision that largely governs the internet today. We&#8217;ll explain why chatbots have entered the chat on Section 230&#8217;s future.</p> <p>But first, a new report by former tech company officials and academic researchers finds far-right extremist militias are once again organizing on Facebook ahead of November&#8217;s presidential election. They recommend platforms ramp up content moderation to avoid fueling political violence. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</a></span></em></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Proceeding without permission is a time-tested practice in some corners of Silicon Valley. Well, it&#8217;s not working out so well for OpenAI. Actress Scarlett Johansson said this week the company approached her twice to voice a new AI assistant for ChatGPT-4o. She declined, only to find it had used a voice that sounds &#8220;eerily&#8221; like hers. Plus, on Capitol Hill, a House subcommittee held a hearing that could decide the future of Section 230, the provision that largely governs the internet today. We&#8217;ll explain why chatbots have entered the chat on Section 230&#8217;s future.</p> <p>But first, a new report by former tech company officials and academic researchers finds far-right extremist militias are once again organizing on Facebook ahead of November&#8217;s presidential election. They recommend platforms ramp up content moderation to avoid fueling political violence. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</a></span></em></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 10:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Ever since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars three years ago, it&#8217;s been collecting rocks and soil from the red planet. The plan was for NASA to send a robotic spacecraft to Mars to bring those samples back to Earth, but the agency has now scrapped those plans thanks to a ballooning price tag and extensive delays. With no way of getting to Mars on its own, NASA is hoping to hitch a ride with private space companies to finish the mission. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Kenneth Chang, science reporter at The New York Times, about NASA&#8217;s difficulties on Mars and its partnerships with the private sector.</p> <p><em>Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</a></em></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Ever since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars three years ago, it&#8217;s been collecting rocks and soil from the red planet. The plan was for NASA to send a robotic spacecraft to Mars to bring those samples back to Earth, but the agency has now scrapped those plans thanks to a ballooning price tag and extensive delays. With no way of getting to Mars on its own, NASA is hoping to hitch a ride with private space companies to finish the mission. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Kenneth Chang, science reporter at The New York Times, about NASA&#8217;s difficulties on Mars and its partnerships with the private sector.</p> <p><em>Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</a></em></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 10:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The internet today is largely governed by 26 words in the Communications Decency Act, signed on Feb. 8, 1996, by then-President Bill Clinton. &#8220;Today, with the stroke of a pen, our laws will catch up with our future,&#8221; he proclaimed during the signing of the act. The web has changed a bit since then. But Section 230 of that law has not. Today, social media companies routinely use Section 230 to protect themselves from liability over what users post. Now, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/08/college-professor-wants-use-section-230-against-big-tech/">an internet scholar wants to change that</a>. Will Oremus wrote about him for The Washington Post.</p> <p><em>Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</a></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The internet today is largely governed by 26 words in the Communications Decency Act, signed on Feb. 8, 1996, by then-President Bill Clinton. &#8220;Today, with the stroke of a pen, our laws will catch up with our future,&#8221; he proclaimed during the signing of the act. The web has changed a bit since then. But Section 230 of that law has not. Today, social media companies routinely use Section 230 to protect themselves from liability over what users post. Now, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/08/college-professor-wants-use-section-230-against-big-tech/">an internet scholar wants to change that</a>. Will Oremus wrote about him for The Washington Post.</p> <p><em>Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</a></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Why cellphones — and trust — may be affecting polling data</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 10:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>There was a time when pollsters went door to door to figure out what people were thinking. Gallup did that for almost 50 years, before switching mostly to telephones by the mid-&#8217;80s. Phone polling was cheaper but still reliable. That is, until the cellphone came along. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali asked Jon Clifton, CEO of Gallup, about the complexities of reaching people to get their views. His company stopped doing presidential horse-race polling in 2012, but still asks Americans for their views on the sitting president and topics ranging from immigration to inflation.</p> <p><em>Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. </em><a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn"><em>Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</em></a></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>There was a time when pollsters went door to door to figure out what people were thinking. Gallup did that for almost 50 years, before switching mostly to telephones by the mid-&#8217;80s. Phone polling was cheaper but still reliable. That is, until the cellphone came along. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali asked Jon Clifton, CEO of Gallup, about the complexities of reaching people to get their views. His company stopped doing presidential horse-race polling in 2012, but still asks Americans for their views on the sitting president and topics ranging from immigration to inflation.</p> <p><em>Our May fundraiser ends Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal. </em><a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn"><em>Give today and help fund public service journalism for all!</em></a></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 10:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>If you drive 45 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas, you&#8217;ll come across a facility packed with thousands of computers trying to &#8220;mine&#8221; the next bitcoin. The popular cryptocurrency&#8217;s value recently shot past $60,000 per bitcoin. Mining those bitcoins is a lucrative operation, and several crypto mining outfits have moved to the state since the passage of the Arkansas Data Centers Act last year, also known as the &#8220;right-to-mine&#8221; bill. Similar bills giving crypto mining operations protections from local regulations have popped up a couple of states. But it turns out residents don&#8217;t particularly welcome many of these operations. And Arkansas recently changed course and restored to municipalities the ability to regulate crypto miners. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali recently spoke with Gabriel Dance, senior deputy investigations editor at The New York Times, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/bitcoin-arkansas-noise-pollution.html">about the crypto mining situation in Arkansas</a>. He explained what the biggest complaints have been since these mining operations moved in.</p> <p><em>It’s your last chance to double your impact during our May fundraiser — the Investors Challenge Fund is matching donations up to $25,000 today! <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give right now!</a></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>If you drive 45 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas, you&#8217;ll come across a facility packed with thousands of computers trying to &#8220;mine&#8221; the next bitcoin. The popular cryptocurrency&#8217;s value recently shot past $60,000 per bitcoin. Mining those bitcoins is a lucrative operation, and several crypto mining outfits have moved to the state since the passage of the Arkansas Data Centers Act last year, also known as the &#8220;right-to-mine&#8221; bill. Similar bills giving crypto mining operations protections from local regulations have popped up a couple of states. But it turns out residents don&#8217;t particularly welcome many of these operations. And Arkansas recently changed course and restored to municipalities the ability to regulate crypto miners. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali recently spoke with Gabriel Dance, senior deputy investigations editor at The New York Times, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/bitcoin-arkansas-noise-pollution.html">about the crypto mining situation in Arkansas</a>. He explained what the biggest complaints have been since these mining operations moved in.</p> <p><em>It’s your last chance to double your impact during our May fundraiser — the Investors Challenge Fund is matching donations up to $25,000 today! <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give right now!</a></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Google doubles down on AI, ChatGPT gets chatty and Congress charts a path for AI regulation</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 10:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a heap of new spending on artificial intelligence research. We’ll look at where the proposed $32 billion annually is likely to go. And some of the biggest players in AI tried to outdo one another this week. OpenAI said it&#8217;s giving ChatGPT an upgrade and a personality while Google is trying to remake search with its AI model, Gemini. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">Marketplace is currently tracking behind target for this budget year — that means listeners like you can make a critical difference <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">by investing in our journalism today</a>.</span></em></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a heap of new spending on artificial intelligence research. We’ll look at where the proposed $32 billion annually is likely to go. And some of the biggest players in AI tried to outdo one another this week. OpenAI said it&#8217;s giving ChatGPT an upgrade and a personality while Google is trying to remake search with its AI model, Gemini. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">Marketplace is currently tracking behind target for this budget year — that means listeners like you can make a critical difference <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">by investing in our journalism today</a>.</span></em></p> ]]>
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<title>A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage</title>
<itunes:title>A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/labor-problems-facing-global-communication-infrastructure-repair-under-sea</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 10:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The whole digital economy runs through hundreds of thousands of miles of communication cables no bigger than a garden hose, deep on the ocean floor. So what happens when they break? And they do break, about once every other day, thanks to fishing trawlers or natural disasters. That&#8217;s when you call a repair crew of engineers, geologists, marine construction specialists and more who often spend months at sea repairing cables. This vital industry is largely invisible and facing some big challenges. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Josh Dzieza, feature writer and investigations editor at The Verge, who did a deep dive into the industry and those challenges.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">Marketplace is currently tracking behind target for this budget year — that means listeners like you can make a critical difference <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">by investing in our journalism today</a>.</span></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The whole digital economy runs through hundreds of thousands of miles of communication cables no bigger than a garden hose, deep on the ocean floor. So what happens when they break? And they do break, about once every other day, thanks to fishing trawlers or natural disasters. That&#8217;s when you call a repair crew of engineers, geologists, marine construction specialists and more who often spend months at sea repairing cables. This vital industry is largely invisible and facing some big challenges. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Josh Dzieza, feature writer and investigations editor at The Verge, who did a deep dive into the industry and those challenges.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">Marketplace is currently tracking behind target for this budget year — that means listeners like you can make a critical difference <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">by investing in our journalism today</a>.</span></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Digital ad spending streams past traditional TV</title>
<itunes:title>Digital ad spending streams past traditional TV</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/digital-ad-spending-streams-past-traditional-tv</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 10:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week, media executives have been busy trying to impress advertisers at the annual &#8220;upfronts,&#8221; where major TV networks showcase their stars, new programs and the potential size of their audiences. It&#8217;s a show in its own right. &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; host Jimmy Fallon did his version of Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Texas Hold &#8216;Em&#8221; at NBC’s upfront Monday. But this year, Big Tech is looking to cash in. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke about it with Reuters reporter Sheila Dang, who said ad spending on digital has surpassed that of traditional TV for the first time.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace will be matched, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Joe Rush of Florida. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give now and double your impact.</a></span></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week, media executives have been busy trying to impress advertisers at the annual &#8220;upfronts,&#8221; where major TV networks showcase their stars, new programs and the potential size of their audiences. It&#8217;s a show in its own right. &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; host Jimmy Fallon did his version of Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Texas Hold &#8216;Em&#8221; at NBC’s upfront Monday. But this year, Big Tech is looking to cash in. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke about it with Reuters reporter Sheila Dang, who said ad spending on digital has surpassed that of traditional TV for the first time.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace will be matched, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Joe Rush of Florida. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give now and double your impact.</a></span></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Why deepfakes of foreigners are selling goods on Chinese social media</title>
<itunes:title>Why deepfakes of foreigners are selling goods on Chinese social media</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/why-deepfakes-of-foreigners-are-selling-goods-on-chinese-social-media</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 10:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A couple of weeks ago, Marketplace&#8217;s China correspondent Jennifer Pak noticed a video deepfake of the Hollywood actor Chris Evans on social media. The AI-generated Evans explains in Chinese how money is at the root of life&#8217;s problems. It&#8217;s part of a recent trend on mainland China, where deepfakes of foreigners give advice, discuss politics and sell goods online. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Pak about what&#8217;s behind the trend and later, the state of online misinformation in China.</p> <p><em>This conversation was part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series, <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel</em>.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace will be matched, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Joe Rush of Florida. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give now and double your impact.</a></span></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A couple of weeks ago, Marketplace&#8217;s China correspondent Jennifer Pak noticed a video deepfake of the Hollywood actor Chris Evans on social media. The AI-generated Evans explains in Chinese how money is at the root of life&#8217;s problems. It&#8217;s part of a recent trend on mainland China, where deepfakes of foreigners give advice, discuss politics and sell goods online. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Pak about what&#8217;s behind the trend and later, the state of online misinformation in China.</p> <p><em>This conversation was part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series, <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/collection/decoding-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Decoding Democracy.”</a> Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel</em>.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace will be matched, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Joe Rush of Florida. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give now and double your impact.</a></span></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>What happened to the “Texas miracle”?</title>
<itunes:title>What happened to the “Texas miracle”?</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-happened-to-the-texas-miracle</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 10:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Early in the pandemic, many big tech companies based in Silicon Valley exited California, fleeing the high overhead necessary to do business there. One city — Austin, Texas — was consistently tagged as the top destination. The Texas capital offered lower costs, especially in regard to housing and taxes. Another draw for companies: the state&#8217;s more lax approach to regulation. Well, after a massive influx, the &#8220;Texas miracle,&#8221; with Austin at its epicenter, is losing some of its luster. In recent weeks, Tesla, which moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin in 2020, announced it’s laying off 2,700 workers there. And software giant Oracle, which relocated to Austin at about the same time, is moving its headquarters again, this time to Nashville, Tennessee. Last week, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali asked Austin Mayor Kirk Watson about the state of tech in his city.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace will be matched, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Joe Rush of Florida. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give now and double your impact.</a></span></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Early in the pandemic, many big tech companies based in Silicon Valley exited California, fleeing the high overhead necessary to do business there. One city — Austin, Texas — was consistently tagged as the top destination. The Texas capital offered lower costs, especially in regard to housing and taxes. Another draw for companies: the state&#8217;s more lax approach to regulation. Well, after a massive influx, the &#8220;Texas miracle,&#8221; with Austin at its epicenter, is losing some of its luster. In recent weeks, Tesla, which moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin in 2020, announced it’s laying off 2,700 workers there. And software giant Oracle, which relocated to Austin at about the same time, is moving its headquarters again, this time to Nashville, Tennessee. Last week, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali asked Austin Mayor Kirk Watson about the state of tech in his city.</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace will be matched, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Joe Rush of Florida. <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Give now and double your impact.</a></span></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<title>Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Layoffs at Tesla, OpenAI’s deepfake detector and lots of new iPads</title>
<itunes:title>Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Layoffs at Tesla, OpenAI’s deepfake detector and lots of new iPads</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/tech-bytes-week-in-review-layoffs-at-tesla-openais-deepfake-detector-and-lots-of-new-ipads</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 10:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, OpenAI has unveiled its own deepfake detection software and is allowing a small group of disinformation researchers to use it. Speaking of artificial intelligence, Apple this week unveiled a new suite of iPads (just in case you forgot they still make those). The company announced its new iPad Pro will, among other features, run on an AI-powered processing chip. But first, a sales slowdown has hit electric car maker Tesla pretty hard of late. Now, the tech news site Electrek reports there&#8217;s been another wave of layoffs this week, directly affecting the company&#8217;s software, service and engineering departments. It also follows last week&#8217;s mass layoff of Tesla&#8217;s entire supercharger unit. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist with the Wall Street Journal, to unpack these stories.</p> <p><em><span class="TextRun SCXW48405479 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48405479 BCX0"><a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Support our nonprofit newsroom today</a> and pick up a fun thank-you gift like our new Shrinkflation mini tote bag or the fan favorite KaiPA pint glass! </span></span></em></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>On this week&#8217;s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, OpenAI has unveiled its own deepfake detection software and is allowing a small group of disinformation researchers to use it. Speaking of artificial intelligence, Apple this week unveiled a new suite of iPads (just in case you forgot they still make those). The company announced its new iPad Pro will, among other features, run on an AI-powered processing chip. But first, a sales slowdown has hit electric car maker Tesla pretty hard of late. Now, the tech news site Electrek reports there&#8217;s been another wave of layoffs this week, directly affecting the company&#8217;s software, service and engineering departments. It also follows last week&#8217;s mass layoff of Tesla&#8217;s entire supercharger unit. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist with the Wall Street Journal, to unpack these stories.</p> <p><em><span class="TextRun SCXW48405479 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48405479 BCX0"><a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Support our nonprofit newsroom today</a> and pick up a fun thank-you gift like our new Shrinkflation mini tote bag or the fan favorite KaiPA pint glass! </span></span></em></p> ]]>
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<title>How scammers hijack their victims’ brains</title>
<itunes:title>How scammers hijack their victims’ brains</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/how-scammers-hijack-their-victims-brains</link>
<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 10:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Today’s episode of <em>Marketplace Tech</em> is all about financial scams: how they work, what kinds of technology scammers use, and how to spot a scam before you fall victim to one. We’re passing the microphone to victims of scams to tell their stories and then breaking down how the scammers pulled it off with Marketplace’s Lily Jamali and Selena Larson, staff threat researcher at Proofpoint.</p> <p><em><span class="TextRun SCXW9949483 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW9949483 BCX0"><a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Support our nonprofit newsroom today</a> and pick up a fun thank-you gift like our new Shrinkflation mini tote bag or the fan favorite KaiPA pint glass!</span></span></em></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Today’s episode of <em>Marketplace Tech</em> is all about financial scams: how they work, what kinds of technology scammers use, and how to spot a scam before you fall victim to one. We’re passing the microphone to victims of scams to tell their stories and then breaking down how the scammers pulled it off with Marketplace’s Lily Jamali and Selena Larson, staff threat researcher at Proofpoint.</p> <p><em><span class="TextRun SCXW9949483 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW9949483 BCX0"><a href="https://support.marketplace.org/tech-sn">Support our nonprofit newsroom today</a> and pick up a fun thank-you gift like our new Shrinkflation mini tote bag or the fan favorite KaiPA pint glass!</span></span></em></p> ]]>
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<title>Pinterest CEO wants to build a “more positive version of social media”</title>
<itunes:title>Pinterest CEO wants to build a “more positive version of social media”</itunes:title>
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<link>https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/pinterest-ceo-wants-to-build-a-more-positive-version-of-social-media</link>
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<itunes:author>Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff</itunes:author>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 09:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Pinterest. It’s the platform best known for its viral recipes, fashion forecasts, DIY crafts and ideas for just about any wedding or birthday party theme you could think of. In a sea of outrage and division on social media, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready wants you to think of the platform as a sanctuary of positivity in the online universe. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently sat down with Ready and asked him about how Pinterest has changed since its launch.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Pinterest. It’s the platform best known for its viral recipes, fashion forecasts, DIY crafts and ideas for just about any wedding or birthday party theme you could think of. In a sea of outrage and division on social media, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready wants you to think of the platform as a sanctuary of positivity in the online universe. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently sat down with Ready and asked him about how Pinterest has changed since its launch.</p> ]]>
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<title>Millions of Americans could lose home internet access next month</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 09:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Back in the pandemic depths of December 2020, when so many Americans were working, learning and performing essential daily tasks online, the Federal Communications Commission launched an emergency program to help low-income people connect to high-speed internet with a $50-per-month subsidy. That was extended with the Affordable Connectivity Program, which has provided $30 a month for internet service. An estimated 23 million households currently get the subsidy. But they won&#8217;t for much longer. Efforts to renew funding for the ACP have stalled in Congress and are expected to run out by the end of the month. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Kelcee Griffis of Tech Brew about her reporting on the ACP and the people who rely on it.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Back in the pandemic depths of December 2020, when so many Americans were working, learning and performing essential daily tasks online, the Federal Communications Commission launched an emergency program to help low-income people connect to high-speed internet with a $50-per-month subsidy. That was extended with the Affordable Connectivity Program, which has provided $30 a month for internet service. An estimated 23 million households currently get the subsidy. But they won&#8217;t for much longer. Efforts to renew funding for the ACP have stalled in Congress and are expected to run out by the end of the month. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Kelcee Griffis of Tech Brew about her reporting on the ACP and the people who rely on it.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><em><strong>The following content may be disturbing to some listeners.</strong></em></p> <p>For years, child sexual abuse material was mostly distributed by mail. Authorities used investigative techniques to stem its spread. That got a lot harder when the internet came along. And AI has supercharged the problem.</p> <p>“Those 750,000 predators that are online at any given time looking to connect with minor[s] &#8230; they just need to find a picture of a child and use the AI to generate child sexual abuse materials and superimpose these faces on something that is inappropriate,&#8221; says child safety advocate and TikTokker Tiana Sharifi.</p> <p>The nonprofit Thorn has created new design principles aimed at fighting child sexual abuse. Rebecca Portnoff, the organization&#8217;s vice president of data science, says tech companies need to develop better technology to detect AI-generated images and commit not to use this material to train AI models.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><em><strong>The following content may be disturbing to some listeners.</strong></em></p> <p>For years, child sexual abuse material was mostly distributed by mail. Authorities used investigative techniques to stem its spread. That got a lot harder when the internet came along. And AI has supercharged the problem.</p> <p>“Those 750,000 predators that are online at any given time looking to connect with minor[s] &#8230; they just need to find a picture of a child and use the AI to generate child sexual abuse materials and superimpose these faces on something that is inappropriate,&#8221; says child safety advocate and TikTokker Tiana Sharifi.</p> <p>The nonprofit Thorn has created new design principles aimed at fighting child sexual abuse. Rebecca Portnoff, the organization&#8217;s vice president of data science, says tech companies need to develop better technology to detect AI-generated images and commit not to use this material to train AI models.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>This week: Startups are taking longer to go public or sell to a buyer. What does that say about the state of tech? Also, the dating app Bumble once courted women by letting them make the first move. We&#8217;ll explain why <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@itsneetie/video/7362259061066288426">Gen Z is prompting Bumble to change things up</a>. But first, discount retail giant Walmart announced this week it is shutting down its telehealth business, as well as its network of low-cost health clinics. There were 51 of those clinics scattered across five states throughout the country. They were part of Walmart&#8217;s big push into health care, announced in 2019. So what happened?</p> <p>Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter Second Opinion, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>This week: Startups are taking longer to go public or sell to a buyer. What does that say about the state of tech? Also, the dating app Bumble once courted women by letting them make the first move. We&#8217;ll explain why <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@itsneetie/video/7362259061066288426">Gen Z is prompting Bumble to change things up</a>. But first, discount retail giant Walmart announced this week it is shutting down its telehealth business, as well as its network of low-cost health clinics. There were 51 of those clinics scattered across five states throughout the country. They were part of Walmart&#8217;s big push into health care, announced in 2019. So what happened?</p> <p>Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Christina Farr, author of the health tech newsletter Second Opinion, for her take on this week’s tech news.</p> ]]>
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<title>AI is surpassing humans in several areas, Stanford report says</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Just how capable is today&#8217;s artificial intelligence at beating humans at their own games? That&#8217;s one of the metrics tracked by an annual report put together by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, or HAI. And its latest AI Index report finds the tech is quickly gaining on humans. According to the report, AI now exceeds human capability not only in areas like simple reading comprehension and image classification, but also in domains that start to approach human logic, like natural language inference (the ability to draw inferences from text) or visual reasoning (the ability to deduce physical relationships between visual objects). Still, there are areas where the bots haven&#8217;t quite caught up. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Nestor Maslej, research manager at HAI and editor in chief of the index report, to learn more.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Just how capable is today&#8217;s artificial intelligence at beating humans at their own games? That&#8217;s one of the metrics tracked by an annual report put together by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, or HAI. And its latest AI Index report finds the tech is quickly gaining on humans. According to the report, AI now exceeds human capability not only in areas like simple reading comprehension and image classification, but also in domains that start to approach human logic, like natural language inference (the ability to draw inferences from text) or visual reasoning (the ability to deduce physical relationships between visual objects). Still, there are areas where the bots haven&#8217;t quite caught up. Marketplace&#8217;s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Nestor Maslej, research manager at HAI and editor in chief of the index report, to learn more.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<title>Can life exist on Europa, Jupiter’s moon?</title>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In October, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft, beginning a deep-space mission to one of Jupiter’s moons to determine if it&#8217;s capable of supporting life. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali recently visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the Clipper was built, to learn more about the mission and see the spacecraft before its shipped off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this month.</p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In October, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft, beginning a deep-space mission to one of Jupiter’s moons to determine if it&#8217;s capable of supporting life. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali recently visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the Clipper was built, to learn more about the mission and see the spacecraft before its shipped off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this month.</p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A massive general election is currently underway in India. It&#8217;s been described as the “largest democratic exercise in history.” And tech platforms are a big part of it. Many Indian voters get their information online, where misinformation and disinformation can spread quickly. That includes deepfakes of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/deepfakes-bollywood-stars-spark-worries-ai-meddling-india-election-2024-04-22/">prominent public figures, like Bollywood actor Aamir Khan</a>, spreading false information about who or which political parties they are endorsing. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific policy director and senior international counsel with the international human rights group Access Now, about how deepfakes and online misinformation have become a problem for voters in India. They also discuss a recent report from Access Now and Global Witness, an environmental and human rights nonprofit, about YouTube&#8217;s advertisement moderation standards in India.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A massive general election is currently underway in India. It&#8217;s been described as the “largest democratic exercise in history.” And tech platforms are a big part of it. Many Indian voters get their information online, where misinformation and disinformation can spread quickly. That includes deepfakes of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/deepfakes-bollywood-stars-spark-worries-ai-meddling-india-election-2024-04-22/">prominent public figures, like Bollywood actor Aamir Khan</a>, spreading false information about who or which political parties they are endorsing. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific policy director and senior international counsel with the international human rights group Access Now, about how deepfakes and online misinformation have become a problem for voters in India. They also discuss a recent report from Access Now and Global Witness, an environmental and human rights nonprofit, about YouTube&#8217;s advertisement moderation standards in India.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Robotics company Boston Dynamics announced this month it is retiring its humanoid robot known as &#8220;Atlas.&#8221; The 6&#8242;, 2,330 lb robot was considered a quantum leap in robotics and was famous for parkour stunts and awkward dance moves. Debuting more than a decade ago in 2013, the Atlas robot was a part of a partnership with the Defense Department. It relied on hydraulic power, using pressurized fluid to generate movement. It could do tasks that can be challenging for humans like lifting heavy boxes and parkour. As the older Atlas lives out its golden years, Boston Dynamics has announced its successor &#8211; a smaller version of the Atlas bot that runs on electric power. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Brian Heater, hardware editor at TechCrunch, for his take on what&#8217;s next and a look back on the original Atlas.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Robotics company Boston Dynamics announced this month it is retiring its humanoid robot known as &#8220;Atlas.&#8221; The 6&#8242;, 2,330 lb robot was considered a quantum leap in robotics and was famous for parkour stunts and awkward dance moves. Debuting more than a decade ago in 2013, the Atlas robot was a part of a partnership with the Defense Department. It relied on hydraulic power, using pressurized fluid to generate movement. It could do tasks that can be challenging for humans like lifting heavy boxes and parkour. As the older Atlas lives out its golden years, Boston Dynamics has announced its successor &#8211; a smaller version of the Atlas bot that runs on electric power. Marketplace&#8217;s Lily Jamali spoke with Brian Heater, hardware editor at TechCrunch, for his take on what&#8217;s next and a look back on the original Atlas.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> ]]>
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