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3 days 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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes
Sep 27, 2024Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for Tech Bytes: Week in Review. 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.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes
The push for electric vehicle adoption got a bit more uncertain with the election of Donald Trump. While reports of “EV death” have been greatly exaggerated, sales growth has slowed, and carmakers have pulled back on aggressive targets. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino may be part of that trend. She recently sold her 2019 Volkswagen e-Golf, which had 120 miles of range, and she says, after a lot of agonizing, decided not to get another EV just yet.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes
Mar 21, 2025Christina Farr, managing director at Manatt Health, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”The stock market has been a tad volatile lately. But this month, digital physical therapy company Hinge Health filed for an initial public offering. Plus, a new tool out of Stanford University evaluates how various AI models perform in real-world health care. It grades them on tasks from patient education to clinical note generation.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes
Yes, Napster is still alive and kicking. The peer-to-peer file-sharing company that became synonymous with music piracy in the early 2000s was bought by a company called Infinite Reality Labs last week for about $207 million. It’s the latest in a string of attempts to revive the brand. After it was shut down by the courts in 2001 and declared bankruptcy, Napster returned as a music subscription service, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens and now a virtual reality-metaverse destination.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado
After President Donald Trump's launched his “Liberation Day” tariff agenda, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite stock index suffered its biggest plunge since March 2020. The so-called Magnificent 7 — Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Tesla — lost a combined $1.8 trillion of market value in two days. The tariff-induced downturn in business conditions is likely to be temporary, according to Daniel Newman, CEO and chief analyst at the Futurum Group, a tech research and advisory firm.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes
This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. It may not be surprising that young Australians have mixed feelings about plans to ban social media for kids under 16. While some recognize that harm like online bullying is an issue, others think platforms don’t pose enough of a threat for a full ban. Australia isn’t the only country in the world mulling how to better protect young people from harm on the internet — but it has passed some of the most stringent rules to date.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes
Current stream: Carbon Sound - change to marketplace when marketplace.stream.publicradio.org is available Feb 28, 2025Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”On this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” the chip powerhouse Nvidia saw its revenue soar last quarter, showing that the AI boom is still booming.
