Marketplace Tech Podcast
1) Bipartisan bill would help parents to monitor kids' social media for harmful activity
It’s challenging for parents to get access to their kids’ data to look out for online harms. In Congress, there's a bipartisan push to change that with a bill called Sammy's Law, named after a teen wh...Show More
2) The latest iPad update comes with laptop functionality
Fifteen years ago, then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad. His vision was for a lean-back device used mostly to consume content. Now, with the latest iPadOS 26, the device is evolving into something di...Show More
3) Using AI to simplify criminal record expungement
A lot of people are eligible to have their criminal records expunged. And there are tens of millions of such files out there for things like misdemeanors, low-level felonies such as drug offenses and ...Show More
4) Have video games become unaffordable?
Video gaming can be an expensive hobby. Nintendo’s latest Mario Kart game, Mario Kart World, released in June, costs $80, and it’s widely expected that Grand Theft Audio VI, coming out next year, will...Show More
5) Bytes: Week in Review — Google antitrust verdict, Trump's crypto stake, and AI angst
The Trump family took their digital token public this week. Plus, artificial intelligence is generating angst in Silicon Valley.But first, Google’s antitrust case over its search business ended this w...Show More
6) Police departments quietly disable AI-generated report safeguards
Axon, a company that makes policing equipment, developed new software called Draft One that takes recordings from police cameras and uses artificial intelligence to summarize them into incident report...Show More
7) Can you buy wins in sports or the AI talent wars?
Big Tech companies have been in an all-out bidding war to capture top AI researchers and engineers. Companies like Meta have reportedly been offering compensation packages in the hundreds of millions ...Show More
8) Is grieving with AI a healthy way to cope?
More and more people are using generative AI to “resurrect” deceased loved ones. There are tools that can turn an old photograph into a short animation or create entire "AI clones" trained on old audi...Show More
9) "Organs on a chip" help researchers better understand diseases like endometriosis
Endometriosis is a condition in which the tissue that typically lines the uterus grows outside of it instead, often causing intense pain and infertility. MIT researchers are studying that living tissu...Show More
10) Bytes: Week in Review – Spotify is sliding into our DMs
Chipmaker NVIDIA reported quarterly earnings this week and they were strong - better than expected, even. NVIDIA's sales rose last quarter by over 50% though its data center business was a little soft...Show More