Latest from Daniel Shin

• Jan 5, 2024

  Tesla updates driver assistance software, Apple’s rocky start to the year and the personal tech to keep an eye on in 2024

  

  Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal joins Marketplace’s Lily Jamali to discuss the biggest tech stories of the week.

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• Jan 4, 2024

  Is Big Tech using philanthropy to influence universities?

  

  A new database from the Tech Transparency Project shows that Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have donated hundreds of millions to universities. Katie Paul, the project’s director, says tech industry funding can have an impact on research as well as on the experts who consult with policymakers.

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• Jan 3, 2024

  The ins and outs of reporting on Facebook

  

  Jeff Horwitz, author of the new book “Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets,” details his experience covering the social media giant, including its efforts to control access to information.

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• Jan 2, 2024

  Using the internet to connect users to queer-owned spaces around the world

  

  After traveling to 40-plus states in the U.S. and having a hard time finding queer, inclusive spaces, Charlie Sprinkman founded Everywhere Is Queer, a worldwide map to let others know of where to find them.

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• Jan 1, 2024

  For many, AI is a religious experience (rerun)

  

  From chatting with the Robo Rabbi to being #BlessedByTheAlgorithm, religion and artificial intelligence are entangled, says the University of Zurich’s Beth Singler.

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• Dec 29, 2023

  What happened to the Metaverse?

  

  Ed Zitron, author and CEO of EZPR, explains why the excitement around an immersive, virtual experience died in just a couple of years.

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• Dec 28, 2023

  Crypto comes to the classroom

  

  Cryptocurrency is now a part of personal finance classes in high schools across the country. Yanely Espinal, host of “Financially Inclined,” says teachers need more resources to teach their crypto-curious students.

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• Dec 27, 2023

  RIP, Netflix DVD

  

  The iconic mail-order service that made Netflix a media giant shut down this year. Slate senior editor Sam Adams discusses its legacy.

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• Dec 26, 2023

  Preserving Indigenous cultures and languages with the help of AI

  

  Michael Running Wolf Jr., founder of Indigenous in AI, is on a journey to digitize much of Indigenous people’s traditions, cultures and languages. “We’re trying to show that …. breathing new life into our culture and our society and sovereignty is important and vibrant,” he says.

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• Dec 25, 2023

  The cloud’s heavy toll on natural resources (rerun)

  

  More and more of our digital lives is stored in the dense global network of data centers. As demand for cloud storage and computing grows, so do water consumption and other environmental impacts.

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