Latest from Daniel Shin

• Sep 1, 2023

  Signal will leave the UK if the current version of the Online Safety Bill becomes law, says the company’s president

  

  “We have to recognize the stakes of a law like this, where people’s life and death can be at stake,” says Meredith Whittaker.

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• Aug 31, 2023

  Women’s health startups are still trying to crack Silicon Valley’s glass ceiling

  

  Despite the huge potential market, a small fraction of investment goes to new companies focused on women’s health issues. But women are becoming more vocal about their needs, says one hopeful entrepreneur.

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• Aug 30, 2023

  YouTube and Universal Music leap into the AI copyright void

  

  YouTube and Universal’s incubator could produce interesting technology, says Nilay Patel of The Verge, but it’s largely aimed at monetizing unauthorized use of music. “YouTube is inventing more copyright law without a legislature, without a judge,” he adds.

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• Aug 29, 2023

  Your next tattoo could be invisible

  

  A scientist, a celebrity tattoo artist and a former doctoral student are working on ink that turns on and off with different types of light.

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• Aug 28, 2023

  Diversifying the games industry, one virtual experience at a time

  

  “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio discusses how students working with Gameheads are trying to make it in video games while expressing themselves as artists, writers and coders.

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• Aug 25, 2023

  Tracking methane from space to slow the warming of Earth

  

  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory develops imaging spectrometers to detect emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. Senior scientist Rob Green explains the role of the technology in the effort to mitigate climate change.

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• Aug 24, 2023

  How one company hopes to alleviate poverty in India with “ethical data”

  

  The startup, Karya, pays thousands of people in low-income communities to create voice recordings and text on their smartphones.

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• Aug 23, 2023

  Artificial intelligence may influence whether you can get pain medication

  

  To contain the opioid crisis, health and law enforcement agencies have turned to technology to monitor prescription data. Experts have raised questions and worries about these systems.

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• Aug 22, 2023

  The cloud’s heavy toll on natural resources

  

  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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• Aug 21, 2023

  YouTube will disable recommendations for some users. Will that decrease harmful content?

  

  The platform’s change of policy represents the first “off switch” for potentially harmful homepage recommendations, says Katie Paul of the Tech Transparency Project. She’d like to see controls applied to up-next videos and across social media.

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