Marketplace Tech

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Marketplace Tech

by Marketplace

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.

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1

Too much AI in the office is causing "brain fry"

5:59 Mar 31, 2026

2

MLB brings automated ball-strike tech to the Big Leagues

8:05 Mar 30, 2026

3

Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

11:29 Mar 27, 2026

4

The tech transforming Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge

3:51 Mar 26, 2026

5

Why digital archiving is more than "store and ignore"

5:17 Mar 25, 2026

6

U.S. regulators eye rules for prediction markets

5:22 Mar 24, 2026

7

What do students lose when they rely on AI for homework?

6:39 Mar 23, 2026

8

Bytes: Week in Review — Gecko's $71M contract with U.S. Navy, BuzzFeed doubts its business viability, and Amazon offers faster delivery

12:04 Mar 20, 2026

9

How low-cost drones are used in modern military strikes

7:35 Mar 19, 2026

10

The ethics of using AI to immortalize the dead

7:31 Mar 18, 2026

11

AI-powered workplace tools keep tabs on employees

7:20 Mar 17, 2026

12

How confident are crypto consumers?

5:44 Mar 16, 2026

13

Bytes: Week in Review - Amazon and AI, YouTube tops the media market and Meta buys an AI-only social network

10:55 Mar 13, 2026

14

Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil

7:34 Mar 12, 2026

15

An Ohio newspaper gives AI a byline

8:14 Mar 11, 2026

16

What do Girl Scouts get out of selling cookies online?

7:03 Mar 10, 2026

17

California’s one-stop shop for data brokers to delete consumers' data

7:54 Mar 9, 2026

18

Bytes: Week in Review — Prediction markets reel amid Iran conflict, defense contractors to drop Anthropic, and Meta's AI deal with News Corp

13:22 Mar 6, 2026

19

Iran’s cyberwar on American banks

7:39 Mar 5, 2026

20

Brands are racing to show up in AI search

8:18 Mar 4, 2026

21

Digital archiving and the global memory shortage

3:44 Mar 3, 2026

22

How government uses "surveillance as a service" to collect data

5:46 Mar 2, 2026

23

Bytes: Week in Review - Anthropic and the Pentagon face off, OpenAI teams up with consulting firms and Mac Mini moves to the U.S.

9:03 Feb 27, 2026

24

Physical media's comeback

3:52 Feb 26, 2026

25

AI meets the search for a BA

4:16 Feb 25, 2026

26

Here's how to prep for a job interview with AI

8:29 Feb 24, 2026

27

AI makes it easier to code websites — including ones that scam consumers

5:11 Feb 23, 2026

28

Bytes: Week in Review — Google to make links more prominent, Palantir moves to Florida and Ring reportedly had plans to use "Search Party" for more than finding lost dogs

10:10 Feb 20, 2026

29

Meta's big bet on "superintelligence"

8:45 Feb 19, 2026

30

Can software companies survive the AI boom?

8:36 Feb 18, 2026

31

Fewer students are enrolling in computer science classes and majors

7:37 Feb 17, 2026

32

High-tech data centers get a powerful assist from a century-old company

5:36 Feb 16, 2026

33

Bytes: Week in Review — Alphabet takes on debt to pay for AI projects, the social network where humans aren't allowed, and Spotify reports record user growth

13:46 Feb 13, 2026

34

Crypto’s big growth on the books and in the shadows

11:21 Feb 12, 2026

35

Is the moon (and its resources) up for grabs?

6:38 Feb 11, 2026

36

TPU? GPU? What's the difference between these two chips used for AI?

6:13 Feb 10, 2026

37

New study reveals a "smartphone penalty" that distorts survey results

10:27 Feb 9, 2026

38

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX and xAI merge, Nvidia and OpenAI's funding relationship and U.S. TikTok's rough start

10:25 Feb 6, 2026

39

Is social media addictive? And are social media companies liable?

7:53 Feb 5, 2026

40

What AI fitness apps can and can't do — for now

7:49 Feb 4, 2026

41

Making AI work — for work

8:24 Feb 3, 2026

42

Making the most of AI, without the hype

9:41 Feb 2, 2026

43

Bytes: Week in Review – Are we in an AI bubble?

12:57 Jan 30, 2026

44

A recycling startup joins the AI boom

3:40 Jan 29, 2026

45

Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble

4:13 Jan 28, 2026

46

A historic home tour of the virtual world

4:20 Jan 27, 2026

47

Raising the “speed limit” on AI’s “information highway”

5:30 Jan 26, 2026

48

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX eyes an IPO, community members want legal commitments from Micron, and YouTube to ditch AI slop

12:17 Jan 23, 2026

49

Unraveling the complex knot of an AI-generated hoax

8:50 Jan 22, 2026

50

Welcome to the 'infocalypse'

7:24 Jan 21, 2026

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