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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.
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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.
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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.
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3 days ago | 
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Daniel Shin
Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. The company started as a small software startup co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, garage. It went on to revolutionize personal computing, business productivity and now — it hopes — artificial intelligence with its big investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. Microsoft has set about integrating the technology across its products, and it recently unveiled a slew of upgrades to its Copilot AI assistant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes
Oct 11, 2024Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”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.
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marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes
Sep 20, 2024Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for Tech Bytes: Week in Review. 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?
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Rosie Hughes
Nov 15, 2024Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” It’s been almost eight months since Reddit went public. 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 goes to Washington.
