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Subscribers: 2243
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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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
The rise of the "Splinternet"
May 12, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review - RIP Skype
May 09, 2025
Vibe coding is having its moment
May 08, 2025
The human cost of fast shipping
May 07, 2025
Fiverr CEO explains why everyone needs to upskill with AI
May 06, 2025
Is talking to AI chatbots good for us?
May 05, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review - Meta joins the AI assistant race
May 02, 2025
When an AI internet search competes against a human internet search
May 01, 2025
Meta's news blackout in Canada causes problems during election
Apr 30, 2025
A battery farm in the Bronx could help clean up New York's power grid
Apr 29, 2025
AI can't read the room
Apr 28, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review - OpenAI's for-profit troubles, FTC sues Uber and how VCs are weathering Trump tariffs
Apr 25, 2025
Is community fact-checking the future of social media moderation?
Apr 24, 2025
Cities take the lead in battling rent-setting algorithms
Apr 23, 2025
This company uses AI to make workers AI-savvy — and keep their jobs
Apr 22, 2025
Mobile apps are failing users with disabilities
Apr 21, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta's antitrust trial, Nvidia's export restraint, and Jack Dorsey's hot take on IP law
Apr 18, 2025
For the 2034 Olympics, Utah wants air taxis instead of Ubers
Apr 17, 2025
Can the U.S. get around China's restrictions on rare earth minerals?
Apr 16, 2025
Virginia's reliance on surveillance tech raises data privacy questions
Apr 15, 2025
Is using AI in job interviews cheating?
Apr 14, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — How tariffs impact consumer gadgets, e-commerce and the AI boom
Apr 11, 2025
Etsy's AI curates the search for the perfect thing
Apr 10, 2025
What does a bear market mean for Big Tech?
Apr 09, 2025
Microsoft wants to be the world's AI platform
Apr 08, 2025
How to ethically design a nuclear power plant
Apr 07, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — TikTok’s new bidders, Tesla sales slump and OpenAI raises $40 billion
Apr 04, 2025
Why LGBTQ+ teens, young adults feel safer online
Apr 03, 2025
Worry over worker visas goes viral in Silicon Valley
Apr 02, 2025
Napster lives on
Apr 01, 2025
China sets its sights on AI leadership
Mar 31, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Trump officials’ Signal leak, 23andMe goes bankrupt and chatbots take on search engines
Mar 28, 2025
Network effect: Customers help utilities build smarter, more efficient power grid
Mar 27, 2025
The SEC invites cryptocurrency supporters and skeptics to the table
Mar 26, 2025
AI chatbots mimic human anxiety, study finds
Mar 25, 2025
Workers hope to steer giant Southern EV battery plant toward unionization
Mar 24, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Nvidia’s new bot, evaluating AI models in health care, and a health tech company preps its IPO
Mar 21, 2025
More Stanford grads are finding jobs and purpose in defense tech
Mar 20, 2025
Ransomware’s new strategy: naming and shaming victims
Mar 19, 2025
The do’s and don’ts of payment apps
Mar 18, 2025
Schools are using AI tracking software on student devices, recent investigation shows
Mar 17, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review – AI that reads emotions, Waymo expands its services, and the industry pushes back on federal tech cuts
Mar 14, 2025
Futurist couldn’t predict our inability to plan for the future
Mar 13, 2025
The pandemic made teachers learn to love tech
Mar 12, 2025
Keeping remote workers close to the action
Mar 11, 2025
How the pandemic gave a huge boost to wastewater virus tracking
Mar 10, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review – Tariff tensions hit tech stocks, TSMC expands its U.S. investment and a tech leader joins bid to buy TikTok
Mar 07, 2025
Maryland’s message to Big Tech: Think different.
Mar 06, 2025
Can close connections with AI chatbots harm kids?
Mar 05, 2025
Parents want their kids to be social, but with less social media
Mar 04, 2025
Youngsters’ social media habit has developmental impact, researcher says
Mar 03, 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s huge investment, Nvidia’s strong earnings and Bybit hack batters bitcoin
Feb 28, 2025
As followership wanes, TikTok resets relations between creators and fans
Feb 27, 2025
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