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Trying to stay off your phone? There’s an app for that
The digital detox economy is estimated to grow to $20 billion by 2032. The gamification that got you addicted to your phone might be the key to puttin...
A whiplash year for electric vehicles
2025 brought some new speed bumps for electric vehicle sales, namely the Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It cut federal EV tax credits — up t...
How online age-gating laws went mainstream this year
About half of U.S. states now require some form of online age verification to prevent kids from accessing certain content — usually pornography. But i...
Why Big Tech leaders aligned themselves with White House politics this year
In January, we saw a who's who of tech leaders front and center at President Donald Trump's inauguration.
Since, the White House has advocated f...
Bytes: Week in Review - Micron's big earnings, Oracle's data center woes and "slop" is Merriam-Webster's word of the year
Building artificial intelligence tools requires a lot of graphic processing units, and those GPUs need huge amounts of ultra-fast memory to feed them...
A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works
Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at NYU, explains the differences between large language models and "world models" — and why he thinks the latter are k...
Bytes: Week in Review - Apple's leadership departures raises concerns over its AI future
There’s been something of a critical mass of high-profile departures and retirement announcements at Apple in recent weeks. Plus, how will consumers b...
3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t.
Prosthetic limbs can be expensive, costing thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. So the industry seemed ripe for disruption when 3D printing...
Using AI chatbots for mental health support poses serious risks for teens, report finds
A new report from Stanford and Common Sense Media finds that more than half of U.S. teens use AI chatbots for companionship. But, according to Dr. Dar...
Bytes: Week in Review - Amazon scales back AI anime dubs
The Trump administration has been trying for months to ban AI regulations at the state level. And its latest gambit to roll such a measure into the co...
Have we given up on data privacy?
Every day, consumers are confronted with the fragility of our personal data privacy — another data breach, another government agency accessing databas...
What happens when all your coworkers are AI?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once speculated that we'll soon see the first billion-dollar company run by one person and an army of AI agents. Journalist Evan...
What it's like to be in a relationship where wearable AI records your conversations
Marketplace's Matt Levin visits a couple in suburban Sacramento who both use an AI-enabled pendant that acts as a personal assistant — and sometimes,...
Can digital apps help solve Africa’s unemployment crisis?
Sub-Saharan Africa has a youth unemployment problem. The latest figures from the International Labour Organisation show more than one in five young pe...
AI-enabled ed tech vendors fail to disclose capabilities and safeguards, report finds
Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, senior technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, coauthored a recent report that recommends more transparency...
The federal data and tools that "died" this year
In the Trump administration's efforts to shrink and realign the federal government, datasets on climate, health and demographics have disappeared. Som...
AI-generated "letters to the editor" are flooding academic publications
Dr. Carlos Chaccour, physician scientist at the University of Navarra, noticed something fishy about a letter to the editor the New England Journal of...
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case
The holiday shopping season is here, and AI companies are pushing new chatbot retail partnerships. But, can these tools deliver on their promises to m...
This school trains the workforce behind China's automated factories
China recently came out with its latest five-year plan for growth, which will guide the world’s second largest economy through 2030. In it, top Commun...
For politicians, what makes a successful TikTok?
One thing almost everyone can agree on about Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City: he's very good at vertical short-form video.
Love it...
Bridging the uncanny valley of lab-grown meat
About a third of global greenhouse gas emissions come from our food systems, and livestock production is a big part of that. Experts largely agree tha...
Chocolate's high tech and climate-friendly pivot
Extreme weather caused by climate change is affecting agriculture and raising the cost of foods like coffee, olive oil and chocolate. Cocoa prices hav...
Bytes: Week in Review - Quantifying AI's impact on job cuts
On today's “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we discuss federal cybersecurity cutbacks that affected this week’s elections and a caucus of Midwestern stat...
Former regional Fed president: We need an "AI land grant act"
Big tech companies have invested hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure, including data centers that are popping up all over the country. Construct...
Silicon Valley's tech bro culture is changing
Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter at The San Francisco Standard, spends a lot of time thinking about the industry’s internal dynamics. Gone are the com...
Sora 2's disinformation problem
OpenAI’s latest AI video generator Sora 2 has gotten a lot of attention for its realistic creations. The tool is supposed to have guardrails to preven...
Sam Bankman-Fried returns to court to challenge fraud verdict
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is serving 25 years in federal prison for fraud. His company collapsed and w...
Bytes: Week in Review - OpenAI officially joins the browser wars
OpenAI released its new web browser, Atlas, in a bid to become our main conduit to the internet. Plus, we learned this week that Amazon may be plannin...
Bytes: Week in Review — Instagram to limit content for teens, Walmart lands OpenAI deal, and Apple rebrands streaming service
AppleTV+ ditches the plus in its name. Plus, Walmart announced an e-commerce deal with OpenAI so customers can shop through ChatGPT.
But first,...
Documents show ICE wants a nonstop social media surveillance system
Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to set up an around-the-clock social media surveillance network, according to public documents reviewed by W...
Is surveillance technology a more humane alternative to detaining immigrants?
Countries all over the world use technology to keep track of immigrants released from detention centers. The idea is to allow people to live in commun...
AI companies are eyeing your shopping cart and your data
Open AI has added a checkout feature to ChatGPT, partnering with Etsy and Shopify to let users purchase some items from select merchants. OpenAI says...
Bytes: Week in Review — ChatGPT vs. Claude, Nvidia in the hot seat, and Hollywood’s latest AI lawsuit
Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Nova Safo to break down all of these headlines. This episode was produced by Jesús...
What does ownership mean in the digital age?
There’s a new class action lawsuit against Amazon Prime Video that’s once again elevating the question of ownership in the digital age: Who actually o...
Is Google honest about the environmental impacts of Gemini?
A recent report put out by the tech giant claims its AI model consumes very little electricity and water for a single query. Emma Strubell, an assista...
Can customs tech really simplify the import-export process?
Borders may be invisible to most shoppers, but for businesses, they often mean delays, extra costs, and reams of paperwork. And amid Trump’s trade war...
Online coverage of anti-ICE protest split by political lenses
Protests in Southern California and around the country over raids targeting undocumented immigrants played out differently on social media depending o...
The various contracts Palantir has with the federal government
Data analytics company Palantir has many contracts with federal government, just as the Trump administration is reportedly trying to construct a centr...
Crypto crime gets physical
On today’s episode of Marketplace Tech, Nova Safo speaks with Ari Redbord, global head of policy with the blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, about...
Is Apple out of ideas?
Today on “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we're looking at Apple's latest software and operating system updates. Also, there's a tentative la...