Meghan McCarty Carino
Senior Reporter at Marketplace
Workplace/Tech reporter at national public radio business show @Marketplace, former Transportation reporter @KPCC LAist
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino
Want to know a fright-inducing retail trend? Not only is pumpkin spice season extending its sickly sweet reach into summer, Halloween merchandise is now hitting store shelves. Yes, in June. Retailers have even given the extra early rollout of spooky season a catchy new name: Summerween. To get the feel for Summerween in action, I visited my local Michael’s store in Northern California and skulked through the aisles.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino
Amazon is launching an artificial intelligence video ad generator for sellers in the U.S. this week. With basically one click, the tool can turn a still image of any product into a customized video showing the item in action. The e-commerce giant is just the latest in Big Tech to push further into the business of generating ads instead of just selling them. Amazon has had an AI image generation tool for ads for a couple years now.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado
California’s Central Valley is just hours from Silicon Valley, but it can feel worlds away. It’s farm country: The region grows most of the fruits, nuts and vegetables for the U.S. But it, too, is being transformed by technology. In the face of climate change, labor challenges and shrinking margins, many farms are turning to automation, and there’s a push to make this area a hub for innovation sort of like its techie neighbor.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino
Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, this week. Reddit accused Anthropic of accessing its data without permission to train AI models. Large language models are hungry for two things: compute power (that’s all those chips Nvidia is selling) and data — in this case, that’s potentially millions of user posts across Reddit’s thousands of niche communities.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin
Brain-computer interfaces or BCI's have made real gains in recent years. This technology has enabled people with paralysis to move prosthetic limbs or type out communication using computer implants in their brains. Now, some neurotech startups are hoping to bring their implants to a larger market by making them less invasive.
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