Jesús Alvarado

Los Angeles

Producer at Marketplace

Producer at Marketplace Tech Podcast

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Farm workers head back to school to upskill in agtech

2 weeks ago | kvpr.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

This story originally aired on “Marketplace Tech” on May 22. This is the third installment in a three part series. Listen to Marketplace each weekday at 3pm on KVPR. This week, we hit the road to check out California’s Central Valley, where the future of agricultural innovation is taking shape. We visited a farm that’s piloting next-gen tools and a university research center that’s helping develop that tech. Today, we’re at a graduation.
Universities help make the Central Valley a hub for agtech innovation

2 weeks ago | kvpr.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

This story originally aired on “Marketplace Tech” on May 21. Find part one of the series here. Listen to Marketplace each weekday at 3pm on KVPR. This week, we’re heading to California’s Central Valley to see how technology is transforming this agricultural region. Yesterday, we visited a farm to see the latest gadgets in action. And today, we’re going straight to the innovation source: the University of California, Merced.
Farmers in California are reshaping agriculture with cutting edge technologies

2 weeks ago | kvpr.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

This story originally aired on “Marketplace Tech” on May 20. Listen to Marketplace each weekday morning at 4:45 am on KVPR. California is known for being home to Hollywood and, of course, the center of global tech, Silicon Valley.
The rise of the "Splinternet"

3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

There was a time not so long ago when it seemed like the most consequential conversations in our society were happening on social media. But as the digital commons spawned mobs, performative posturing and rage-baiting, a lot of those conversations went private. That's one takeaway from the recent Semafor report on the private group chats between tech titans, business leaders and public intellectuals.
The human cost of fast shipping

1 month ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

May 7, 2025Theo Wayt, reporter at The Information, recently wrote about the working conditions for delivery and warehouse workers at the logistics company UniUni. He found that the company's way of saving money often meant poor working conditions. E-commerce sites like Temu and Shein might not be quite as cheap as they were a week ago now that tariffs are kicking in on even small-dollar imports.
When an AI internet search competes against a human internet search

1 month ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

When President Jimmy Carter died late last year, the foundation that runs Wikipedia noticed something unusual: the flood of interest in the late president created a content bottleneck, slowing load times for about an hour.
AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows

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

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 for deception has led about two dozen states to enact some form of regulation requiring political ads that use artificial intelligence to include a label.
SpaceX engineered cheaper space flight, but startups are entering the market

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

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. And the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, as well as 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?
Bytes: Week in Review — Trump officials’ Signal leak, 23andMe goes bankrupt and chatbots take on search engines

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

Mar 28, 2025Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”AI company Anthropic recently added web search to its chatbot Claude. It joins other artificial intelligence tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT in delivering one clear answer to a web search query instead of pages and pages of links.
Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability

1 month 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.