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Subscribers: 2227
Reviews: 6
Episodes: 150

John
 Apr 20, 2024
Getting worse since Mari left couple of years ago. Might stop listening to it soon.

Opinions stated as facts
 Mar 22, 2024

Jonathan
 Dec 6, 2023
Well produced with great topics. There's a decent amount of far left propaganda mixed in tho.

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 Aug 16, 2018

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 Aug 3, 2018

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Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that’s constantly changing.

Episode Date
If AI writes code, is coding still crucial for kids to learn?
Feb 26, 2025
How will Australia’s teen social media ban work?
Feb 25, 2025
Satellites provide internet access and a lot more, but the skies are getting crowded
Feb 24, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — deep cuts at AI agency, DOGE sued again and pulling the plug on the Ai Pin
Feb 21, 2025
Responsible ways to use AI for government efficiency
Feb 20, 2025
The cost of losing government webpages and public data
Feb 19, 2025
When venture capital collides with the nation’s capital
Feb 18, 2025
Are we ready for ‘grief-tech’?
Feb 17, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — AI talks at Paris summit, Apple launches health study and BuzzFeed’s social media plans
Feb 14, 2025
Will DeepSeek disrupt American AI’s first-mover advantage?
Feb 13, 2025
The AI boom is carving space for the data centers economy
Feb 12, 2025
AI pressures professions to accept artificial expertise 
Feb 11, 2025
The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries
Feb 10, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Google’s AI policy pivot, OpenAI teams up with California colleges, and robotaxis arrive in Austin
Feb 07, 2025
The case for a comprehensive federal law to oversee AI
Feb 06, 2025
A veteran of Reagan’s “Star Wars” has doubts about Trump’s “Iron Dome”
Feb 05, 2025
Artificial ingredient: Cooking up new snacks with aid of AI 
Feb 04, 2025
Reimagining the long-term alignment of human and AI advancements
Feb 03, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — DeepSeek, chip tariffs, and an attempt to get kids off social media
Jan 31, 2025
Trump renews interest in crypto “meme coins”
Jan 30, 2025
How Trump’s executive order on online free speech could upend content moderation
Jan 29, 2025
“Superagency” explores how AI can enhance human potential to new heights
Jan 28, 2025
At Davos, rich and powerful now comfortable with power of AI
Jan 27, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — The Stargate project, Trump meme coins, and the TikTok flip-flop
Jan 24, 2025
As LA blazes rage, even firefighters turn to Watch Duty
Jan 23, 2025
How one college is leveraging AI for educators and students
Jan 22, 2025
Trump’s election syncs up with tech backlash against gloom and guilt
Jan 21, 2025
Biden pushed back on Big Tech’s power, and Trump found a few new friends
Jan 20, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — TikTok shutdown, Biden’s AI policies and Zuckerberg asks Trump for a favor
Jan 17, 2025
California’s wildfire detection tech was no match for the Palisades fire
Jan 16, 2025
Donors need protection too as wildfire misinformation and scams emerge
Jan 15, 2025
How AI chatbots are turning the tables on scammers
Jan 14, 2025
Will AI replace call center workers?
Jan 13, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta’s users take over fact checks, YouTubers sue PayPal and highlights from CES
Jan 10, 2025
Meta pivots to community fact-checking ahead of Trump term
Jan 09, 2025
A Dutch port demonstrates how automation in the industry could work
Jan 08, 2025
Why 2025 may be the year of small AI
Jan 07, 2025
With OpenAI seeking profits, activist seeks payback to the public
Jan 06, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Trump’s bid to delay TikTok ban, OpenAI’s advances and a tech prediction for 2025
Jan 03, 2025
Not all AI is, well, AI
Jan 02, 2025
Not all screen time is created equal (rerun)
Jan 01, 2025
Futurist forecasts convergence of key technologies into “living intelligence”
Dec 31, 2024
How content creators profit from rage-baiting
Dec 30, 2024
How China’s EV market could endure higher tariffs
Dec 27, 2024
Yelp helped change the game for online reviews
Dec 26, 2024
How teenagers can get hooked on sports betting (rerun)
Dec 25, 2024
Big Tech’s pivot away from diversity efforts (rerun)
Dec 24, 2024
A look back at 20 years of podcasting
Dec 23, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — SCOTUS to hear TikTok case, Congress unveils AI roadmap, and the year ahead for robotaxis
Dec 20, 2024
The good and bad of AI voice cloning
Dec 19, 2024
The entrepreneur who wants to buy TikTok
Dec 18, 2024
Nuclear power needs to build up its workforce so it can power up clean energy 
Dec 17, 2024
The download on Trump 2.0 and tech
Dec 16, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Investments flow into health tech, FDA approves modifying AI medical devices, and California’s AI insurance claim law
Dec 13, 2024
Could AI and fintech help you get a bank loan?
Dec 12, 2024
Consumer agency seeks to limit data sales, combat “digital surveillance”
Dec 11, 2024
How police are experimenting with AI
Dec 10, 2024
AI use surges in law firms, report says, creating an hourly billing paradox
Dec 09, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review – OpenAI’s military deal, Intel CEO resigns and Amazon’s new carbon capture project
Dec 06, 2024
“AI pimping” accounts are exploding on social media
Dec 05, 2024
Why Google’s “smart city” failed
Dec 04, 2024
Generative AI is impacting jobs across sectors, report finds
Dec 03, 2024
The year of “AI slop”
Dec 02, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Intel’s big grant, ChatGPT turns two and AI’s scaling problem
Nov 29, 2024
How one school in Ireland is trying to curb phone use among kids
Nov 28, 2024
Why Netflix is doing live TV
Nov 27, 2024
When political misinformation is an unwelcome guest at the holiday table
Nov 26, 2024
To EV, or not to EV
Nov 25, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — DOJ vs. Google, a bid to undercut internet safety, and X users flock to Bluesky
Nov 22, 2024
The algorithm behind health insurance denials
Nov 21, 2024
In the era of AI, photos aren’t what they used to be
Nov 20, 2024
SpaceX engineered cheaper space flight, but startups are entering the market
Nov 19, 2024
The dangers of designing AI chatbots to be human-like
Nov 18, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — SV takes DC, bitcoin’s historic rally and Reddit’s revenue rockets
Nov 15, 2024
Apple will reportedly face EU fine under new competition law
Nov 14, 2024
It’s not too late to change the future of AI
Nov 13, 2024
Understanding free speech in the online age
Nov 12, 2024
For parents, school phone bans connect to many issues
Nov 11, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — What a second Trump presidency could mean for the tech sector
Nov 08, 2024
Patience for learning wanes as students make AI a habit
Nov 07, 2024
AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option
Nov 06, 2024
Misinformation to guard against on Election Day
Nov 05, 2024
Internet freedom takes a hit during global elections, report finds
Nov 04, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates
Nov 01, 2024
Why AI is Hollywood’s favorite monster
Oct 31, 2024
AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows
Oct 30, 2024
Illicit, sexually explicit deepfakes are becoming a problem in schools
Oct 29, 2024
Voice-over artists allege an AI company cloned their voices in lawsuit
Oct 28, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — A fraying tech “bromance,” Claude’s new skills and a robotics boom
Oct 25, 2024
Apple answers the call for iPhone repairability
Oct 24, 2024
On Instagram, politics is the new taboo
Oct 23, 2024
How tech is boosting the turnout of disabled voters
Oct 22, 2024
How Big Tech is courting Big Oil
Oct 21, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — SpaceX vs. California, and AI crawlers and VC dollars
Oct 18, 2024
Why presidential candidates are embracing podcast interviews
Oct 17, 2024
After years of missed deadlines, Tesla enters the robotaxi race
Oct 16, 2024
A deluge of online misinformation obscures FEMA disaster relief efforts
Oct 15, 2024
TikTok creators don’t want a ban
Oct 14, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Breaking up Google, TikTok troubles and the “Godfather of AI” gets a Nobel Prize
Oct 11, 2024
Some of the walls around Meta’s Threads app are coming down
Oct 10, 2024
Do paid data-removal services pay off?
Oct 09, 2024
A “village” of hackers is beefing up election security
Oct 08, 2024
The quest to discover the creator of bitcoin
Oct 07, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s valuation doubles, biotech investment grows and a prescription giant is acquired
Oct 04, 2024
The AI-crypto power struggle
Oct 03, 2024
In most voting precincts, no-tech ballot counting is a nonstarter
Oct 02, 2024
What do generative AI and social media have in common? A lack of regulation.
Oct 01, 2024
Parents, educators are unaware how their students use generative AI, report finds
Sep 30, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — X’s transparency report, Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” and Meta’s celebrity chatbots
Sep 27, 2024
Commercial space travel is risky business
Sep 26, 2024
Inside the data center capital of the world
Sep 25, 2024
VoteFlare’s mission to upgrade voter communication
Sep 24, 2024
How teenagers can get hooked on sports betting
Sep 23, 2024
Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Senate weighs AI regulation, Instagram launches teen accounts and AirPods aid the hard of hearing
Sep 20, 2024
Polling response rates are dropping. AI chatbots could be the solution.
Sep 19, 2024
An appeals court heard arguments on TikTok’s ban-or-sale case. What’s next?
Sep 18, 2024
States step in to regulate digital replicas
Sep 17, 2024
Telegram-linked ads on Meta platforms may promote illegal activity, report finds
Sep 16, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Google on trial, underwater data centers and how AI spurred a celebrity endorsement
Sep 13, 2024
Crypto emerges as a funding powerhouse in the election
Sep 12, 2024
Big Tech’s pivot away from diversity efforts
Sep 11, 2024
The threat posed by rumors of noncitizen voting
Sep 10, 2024
SpaceX comes to NASA’s rescue
Sep 09, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review —  the X ban, Apple’s AI and airplane Wi-Fi gets upgraded
Sep 06, 2024
A mother’s quest for social media reform
Sep 05, 2024
The AI safety bill dividing Silicon Valley
Sep 04, 2024
Teenagers could be more susceptible to online “dark patterns”
Sep 03, 2024
Have you heard the one about the AI-written comedy routine?
Sep 02, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Telegram’s CEO arrested, SF startups boom and Meta pivots
Aug 30, 2024
With campaign hacks, Iran takes a page from Russia’s playbook
Aug 29, 2024
AI in the election: misinformation machine or meme generator?
Aug 28, 2024
Court upholds block of California law aimed at protecting kids online
Aug 27, 2024
The loose, undefined guardrails of X’s AI image generator
Aug 26, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Dems’ tech platform, Google’s legal troubles and OpenAI’s newest partnership
Aug 23, 2024
What it’s like to be a content creator at the DNC
Aug 22, 2024
New online age-verification tools could exclude lots of adults
Aug 21, 2024
The Chandra X-ray telescope, now 25, offers a more “complete story of what the universe is doing”
Aug 20, 2024
Not all screen time is created equal
Aug 19, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — X vs. advertisers, Instagram’s harassment problem, and the food delivery race continues
Aug 16, 2024
Senators advance bipartisan effort to regulate deepfakes
Aug 15, 2024
Can AI accurately simulate a human?
Aug 14, 2024
Remembering a Silicon Valley giant
Aug 13, 2024
Can AI solve fans’ concert ticket woes?
Aug 12, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — An AI bubble, Olympians’ mental health and controversial ads
Aug 09, 2024
Yes, you can place bets on the election (for now)
Aug 08, 2024
Can an algorithm break antitrust law?
Aug 07, 2024
With the internet now a necessity, the digital underclass is still in need
Aug 06, 2024
AI is learning how to lie
Aug 05, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Kids’ online safety legislation, Meta’s AI and EV regrets
Aug 02, 2024
The hidden cost of smart home technology
Aug 01, 2024