Latest from Daniel Shin

• Jul 18, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review - Crypto Week, Pennsylvania's $9 billion AI investment and Nvidia's return to China

  

  Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Jul 17, 2025

  ICE uses insurance fraud database to search for deportation targets

  

  Joseph Cox, reporter at the tech news site 404 Media, has been following all of the surveillance tech ICE agents are using to identify undocumented immigrants. More recently, he said, the agency is getting hold of many databases to dig through for potential targets.

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• Jul 16, 2025

  Right to repair hits the battlefield

  

  Retired Master Sergeant Wesley Reid explains why he believes giving U.S. soldiers the right to repair their equipment on their own is crucial and how manufacturer restrictions affected his deployment in Afghanistan.

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• Jul 15, 2025

  From 'rizz' to 'unalive': How social media algorithms are changing the way we talk

  

  Adam Aleksic is a linguist by trade, and recently published his new book "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.”

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• Jul 14, 2025

  Federal tax incentives could mean more tech research and innovation

  

  Rebecca Lester, senior fellow and associate professor of accounting at Stanford University, says tax provisions for R&D in the One Big Beautiful Bill will benefit smaller, research-intensive tech companies.

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• Jul 11, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review — X CEO steps down, SCOTUS greenlights age verification law, and tariffs on copper

  

  Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Jul 10, 2025

  Pay-per-crawl model would make AI firms pay for the content they scrape

  

  Last week, Cloudflare updated its web services to include blocking AI bots and crawlers from sites by default. Co-founder and CEO, Matthew Prince, hopes this changes the economic model on the internet.

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• Jul 9, 2025

  Are we “flying blind” into peak hurricane season?

  

  As we enter extreme weather season, the recent federal government cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service are a cause for concern.

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• Jul 8, 2025

  Could AI be a peacekeeper of the future?

  

  Tech companies are training AI to help predict and prevent global conflict. Investigative journalist Tekendra Parmar breaks down how governments may begin to use it.

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• Jul 7, 2025

  New report suggests one in five consumers are using AI daily

  

  Amy Wu Martin, partner at the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, explains how consumers are turning to AI tools, chatbots and large language models for things like shopping and parenting help.

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