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Subscribers: 2182
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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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
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
A lifesaving medical technology puts some patients on a “bridge to nowhere”
Jul 31, 2024
For data-hungry tech companies, YouTube is a gold mine
Jul 30, 2024
Does the tech sector need its own regulatory agency?
Jul 29, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Google cookies, Waymo vandalism and Kamala Harris memes
Jul 26, 2024
Landmark disability law now applies to life online
Jul 25, 2024
How DIY medical testing is changing health care
Jul 24, 2024
Lessons to learn from the massive CrowdStrike outage
Jul 23, 2024
EU regulators request information on Amazon’s algorithms
Jul 22, 2024
Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Vance’s Silicon Valley ties, Prime Day injuries and Starbucks bets on EVs
Jul 19, 2024
How to deal with misinformation about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump
Jul 18, 2024
The complicated reality of school cellphone bans
Jul 17, 2024
The digital surveillance of transgender people
Jul 16, 2024
Online speech cases sent back to the lower courts
Jul 15, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — FTC’s latest tech crackdown, Trump’s pro-crypto campaign and Threads turns a year old
Jul 12, 2024
More website links are expiring. Is it a bug or a feature of the internet?
Jul 11, 2024
Progressive TikTok creators turn against Biden
Jul 10, 2024
The making of Sam Altman
Jul 09, 2024
AI concerns stall contract negotiations between game companies and actors
Jul 08, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — the most impactful moment, the biggest flub and the most underreported story in tech
Jul 05, 2024
The unstoppable rise of Swedish music tech
Jul 04, 2024
What do billboards say about a city?
Jul 03, 2024
Creating a “joy spiral” to revive San Francisco’s downtown
Jul 02, 2024
Is San Francisco in a “doom loop” or a “boom loop”?
Jul 01, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — music biz vs. AI, social media moderation and Nvidia stock woes
Jun 28, 2024
The evolution of political messaging into the digital age
Jun 27, 2024
How data generated by everyday apps can incriminate abortion seekers
Jun 26, 2024
Protecting abortion patients’ digital data in the post-Roe era
Jun 25, 2024
Telehealth widens access to abortion care as lawmakers restrict it
Jun 24, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Warning labels for social media, Adobe’s hidden fees and a less open OpenAI
Jun 21, 2024
2014: The year that shaped social media
Jun 20, 2024
Juneteenth’s viral moment and its future
Jun 19, 2024
Meet the man who combines science, technology and magic to understand proteins
Jun 18, 2024
How to find a mailbox in Sao Paulo’s favelas
Jun 17, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s AI flex, Uber’s legal loss and X’s hidden “likes”
Jun 14, 2024
Greater, newer AI models come with environmental impacts
Jun 13, 2024
Disinformation on elections, migration is spreading in Spanish too
Jun 12, 2024
California AG: Without federal law, kids’ online safety starts with the states
Jun 11, 2024
Reddit’s CEO on why it’s partnering with OpenAI and Google
Jun 10, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review – AI whistleblowers, Facebook’s future, and meme stock backlash
Jun 07, 2024
Deepfake detectors promise to tell truth from AI-generated fiction. Do they work?
Jun 06, 2024
The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Webb Space Telescope shows
Jun 05, 2024
Paris braces for a barrage of cyberattacks
Jun 04, 2024
The dark side of AI in India’s election
Jun 03, 2024
Bytes: Week in Review — OpenAI’s workplace expansion, data center power woes and the ’80s on TikTok
May 31, 2024
Potential TikTok ban stirs anxieties in small-business owners
May 30, 2024
A scientist’s struggle to find the truth behind 3M’s “forever chemicals” problem
May 29, 2024
What to do when combating misinformation gets personal
May 28, 2024
A not-so-furry dog to help the visually impaired
May 27, 2024
Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Online extremism, Section 230, and ScarJo vs. OpenAI
May 24, 2024
NASA scrapped the next phase of its Mars mission. Now what?
May 23, 2024
A professor tries to turn the tables on Section 230’s web protections
May 22, 2024
Why cellphones — and trust — may be affecting polling data
May 21, 2024
“Right-to-mine” crypto laws are making their way across the U.S.
May 20, 2024
Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Google doubles down on AI, ChatGPT gets chatty and Congress charts a path for AI regulation
May 17, 2024
A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage
May 16, 2024
Digital ad spending streams past traditional TV
May 15, 2024
Why deepfakes of foreigners are selling goods on Chinese social media
May 14, 2024
What happened to the “Texas miracle”?
May 13, 2024
Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Layoffs at Tesla, OpenAI’s deepfake detector and lots of new iPads
May 10, 2024
How scammers hijack their victims’ brains
May 09, 2024
Pinterest CEO wants to build a “more positive version of social media”
May 08, 2024
Millions of Americans could lose home internet access next month
May 07, 2024
Rethinking the lifecycle of AI when it comes to deepfakes and kids
May 06, 2024
Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Walmart health centers, VCs and Bumble
May 03, 2024
AI is surpassing humans in several areas, Stanford report says
May 02, 2024
Can life exist on Europa, Jupiter’s moon?
May 01, 2024
Deepfakes and online misinformation in India’s election
Apr 30, 2024
Atlas, forefather of humanoid robots, gives way to next generation
Apr 29, 2024
Tech Bytes — Week in Review: The TikTok ban, the end of noncompetes and Sony’s EV
Apr 26, 2024
Inside Amazon’s business tactics and company culture
Apr 25, 2024
Training for the next crisis with “serious games”
Apr 24, 2024
Why the Ai Pin fell flat
Apr 23, 2024
When a senior is ill, can an algorithm decide length of care?
Apr 22, 2024
Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Amazon, deepfakes & the creator economy
Apr 19, 2024
How science could disrupt the gin industry
Apr 18, 2024
Scientists try to prevent “forever chemicals” from being a forever problem
Apr 17, 2024
How Arizona is preparing for AI-powered election misinformation
Apr 16, 2024
The 65-year-old computer system at the heart of American business
Apr 15, 2024