Daisy Palacios

Los Angeles

Senior Producer and Editor at Marketplace

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Cities take the lead in battling rent-setting algorithms

1 day ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

The use of algorithmic software in setting residential rents has come under scrutiny in recent years. In 2024, the Joe Biden administration sued real estate company RealPage, alleging that its algorithm, which aggregates and analyzes private data on the housing market, enables landlords to collude in pricing and stifles competition. There's no word yet on what the second Donald Trump administration's Justice Department will do with this case.
This company uses AI to make workers AI-savvy - and keep their jobs

2 days ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

We've sometimes wished we could have our own Wendy Rhodes, the performance coach at the hedge fund on the TV show “Billions.” Most workplaces, however, aren't bringing in billions and can't afford a Wendy. But an upskilling platform called Multiverse uses artificial intelligence to provide personalized, on-the-job guidance.
Mobile apps are failing users with disabilities

3 days ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Developers of mobile apps have "room for improvement" in making their platforms fully accessible for disabled users, according to a new report from the software company ArcTouch and the digital research platform Fable. It looked at 50 popular apps and assessed them for features that improve accessibility like screen reading, text size adjustability, voice controls and multiple screen orientations.
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta's antitrust trial, Nvidia's export restraint, and Jack Dorsey's hot take on IP law

6 days ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Nvidia gets caught up in the trade war, the titans of Twitter/X debate intellectual property law, and the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta kicks off in court. We're digging into all of it on today's Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, about what we learned in Week 1 of Meta's monopoly trial. More on everything we talked about“FTC v.
Can the U.S. get around China's restrictions on rare earth minerals?

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

This month, China placed new restrictions on exports of several rare earth minerals and metals, largely as a response to the Donald Trump administration's tariff increases on Chinese goods. These rare earth substances are used to create powerful magnets, among other things. The magnets are an important component in a wide array of sophisticated products, from consumer electronics and military aerospace technology to electric vehicles and wind turbines.
Internet freedom takes a hit during global elections, report finds

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes

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.
Bytes: Week in Review - A fraying tech “bromance,” Claude’s new skills and a robotics boom

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes

Oct 25, 2024Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for Tech Bytes: Week in Review. The next big thing in Silicon Valley might just be an old-fashioned concept: humanoid robots that can mimic our physical abilities, like Rosey the Robot from “The Jetsons.” New developments in artificial intelligence are triggering renewed interest in the robotics industry.
TikTok creators don’t want a ban

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes

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.
In most voting precincts, no-tech ballot counting is a nonstarter

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes

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 that ballots be hand counted on election night to ensure that the tally matches electronic records. The issue has become particularly mired in misinformation, with some election deniers questioning the security of the technology used in our elections.
Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes

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.