Latest from Daniel Shin

• Dec 22, 2023

  A week of legal troubles for Big Tech

  

  Paresh Dave of Wired joins Lily Jamali for Bytes: Week in Review to discuss Google’s antitrust settlement, Pulitzer-winning authors joining a copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, and Apple pausing sales on two watch models over patent issues.

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• Dec 21, 2023

  Long lines and broken chargers: Demand for powering EVs outpaces infrastructure

  

  Americans bought more than 1 million electric vehicles this year. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino says the expanding fleet has collided with our inadequate public charging network.

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• Dec 20, 2023

  Are lab-grown diamonds dazzling consumers?

  

  Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry maker, is ditching mined diamonds for lab-grown diamonds, with its smallest diamonds starting at just $290. The BBC’s Leanna Byrne finds out whether consumers are taking a shine to them.

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• Dec 19, 2023

  EU’s tech regulatory framework protects its consumers, but can slow down innovation

  

  Andrea Renda, director of research at the think tank Center for European Policy Studies, says the U.S. can learn a lot from European regulation, but focusing legislation that’s sector-specific would be more flexible and pro-innovation.

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• Dec 18, 2023

  How AI could help families get paid leave benefits

  

  For parents who live in states that offer paid family leave, it can be so difficult to navigate those programs that many give up without receiving the benefit. Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, says a new AI chatbot can clear the way.

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• Dec 15, 2023

  Europe’s landmark AI law, Google’s court loss and the data behind nearly 100 billion hours of Netflix

  

  On Bytes: Week in Review, Maria Curi of Axios joins Marketplace’s Lily Jamali to discuss some of the biggest tech stories this week.

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• Dec 14, 2023

  Meta has a problem with hosting predators on its platforms

  

  Katherine Blunt of The Wall Street Journal has been investigating how pedophiles use Facebook and Instagram to access child sex content. It’s been a challenge for Meta to assess the full scope of the issue and curtail the activity, she says.

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• Dec 13, 2023

  Bug bounty hunters’ attempt at patching zero day vulnerabilities

  

  Reporter Dina Temple-Raston highlights how bug bounty hunters go after software vulnerabilities and help patch them before bad actors exploit them.

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• Dec 12, 2023

  Tech companies want marketable web addresses. These island nations are selling them.

  

  The British territory of Anguilla, for instance, makes a third of its revenue selling the .ai domain name to artificial intelligence companies. In some cases, journalist Amy Thorpe says, these islands’ outsize presence online contrasts with their diminishing presence on Earth as sea levels rise.

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• Dec 11, 2023

  The green bubble vs. blue bubble debate isn’t just a tech issue

  

  The imagined superiority of iPhone users over Android fans is a social problem that can even affect children, says New York Times columnist Brian Chen. But Apple plans to start remedying texting disparities between the two.

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