Sites that churn out spam death notices exploit tragedy for profit and have raised concerns about the reliability of search engines. Mia Sato of The Verge investigated the situation.
TikTok’s sister app, Douyin, has more than 700 million users in China. But why did ByteDance, the company behind both apps, create similar but separate products in the first place? Jennifer Pak, Marketplace’s China correspondent, explains.
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource is President Biden’s plan for getting the government in the AI game. Critics warn that Washington’s ambitions mean investing taxpayer dollars in Big Tech companies.
Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Lily Jamali to discuss these headlines for Tech Bytes: Week in Review.
Matt Perault, now at the University of North Carolina, recounts that the persuasion efforts were routine, bipartisan, and made him wonder about First Amendment protections.
Megan Iorio of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and NetChoice’s Carl Szabo discuss what they think the ideal federal law to protect minors online would look like.
The number of gamers in Africa has doubled in recent years, but many gaming platforms require users to pay for subscriptions or make in-game purchases. That’s a problem for users who don’t have credit cards, but some fintech companies think they have a solution.
