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Marketplace Tech for Thursday, January 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015

Marketplace Tech for Thursday, January 15, 2015

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Airing on Thursday, January 15, 2015: Google launches a Domains service, which will compete with the likes of GoDaddy. We look at the impact of this competition, and the impact on users in terms of making it easier to register websites. Plus, we'll speak with Matthew Nordan, managing partner at MNL Partners an energy and environmental investment firm, about electronic waste and Google’s Project Ara. And Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, talks about license plate tracking technology for this week’s Back to Back to the Future Part II segment.

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Barcode license plates? Try mass traffic surveillance

Jan 15, 2015
Our roads feature scarier technology than the streets of "Back to the Future II."

Airing on Thursday, January 15, 2015: Google launches a Domains service, which will compete with the likes of GoDaddy. We look at the impact of this competition, and the impact on users in terms of making it easier to register websites. Plus, we’ll speak with Matthew Nordan, managing partner at MNL Partners an energy and environmental investment firm, about electronic waste and Google’s Project Ara. And Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, talks about license plate tracking technology for this week’s Back to Back to the Future Part II segment.

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