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Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Jun 24, 2015

Episodes 2961 - 2970 of 4478

  • Airing on Tuesday, June 23, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Lindsey Turrentine, CNET, about Instacart reclassifying some of its workers as employees. Then, Peter Wayner, author and programmer, joins us to talk about Amazon’s new pay-per-page structure for self-publishers and what it means for writers and readers. And Bernadette Rabuy, Prison Policy Initiative, tells us about video visitation in jails, the second segment in our “Jailbreak” series.

  • Airing on Monday, June 22, 2015: A technical glitch in the U.S. Visa system may cause a headache for thousands of visitors to the United States this summer. In addition to recreational travelers, visas for farmworkers from Mexico and visiting students could also be affected. More on that. We’ll also talk to Will Oremus, senior tech writer for Slate, about Twitter’s Project Lightning. And Eric Markowitz, senior writer for International Business Times, joins us to talk about how new technology gets inside prisons, the first segment in our “Jailbreak” series.

  • Airing on Friday, June 19, 2015: First up on the show, we’ll talk with Adrienne LaFrance, Senior Technology Editor at The Atlantic, about how the NFL’s “Rooney Rule” could be applied to Silicon Valley hiring practices to bring in more diverse candidates. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, host Ben Johnson takes on Simon Doonan, the Creative Ambassador-at-Large for Barneys New York. He’s also the author of “The Asylum: True Tales of Madness From a Life in Fashion.”

  • Airing on Thursday, June 18, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Adriene Hill, Marketplace’s Entertainment correspondent, about highlights from the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles. We’ll also speak with Ryan Calo, Assistant Law Professor at the University of Washington and an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, about face recognition technology and Back to the Future: Part II.

  • Airing on Wednesday, June 17, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk to Marketplace Sustainability Desk reporter Scott Tong about updating the power grid and mining it for information about how we use energy. It’s part of our series on infrastructure — the pipes, roads, and power lines that make our lives possible, and our economy strong — called The Weak Link. Problem is, nobody wants to pay when infrastructure gets old and broken.  

  • Airing on Tuesday, June 16, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-chief at CNET.com, about why Belgium is suing Facebook. Then, Melvin Backman, finance and markets reporter for Quartz, joins us to talk about why neighborhood branches still matter in the age of mobile banking. Plus, we’ll talk about about sexism and the gaming community with Shannon Sun-Higginson, director of ‘GTFO’.

  • Airing on Monday, June 15, 2015: Will this be the year that virtual reality takes it place in gaming? We’ll see when the E3 conference kicks off. More on that. Plus, it’s been three days since the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules officially took effect. We’ll talk to Brian Fung, technology reporter for the Washington Post, about what that means. And with 4 million current and former government employees receiving notifications that their personal information has been hacked, we take a look at why the fix is not as simple as issuing new social security numbers. ESET researcher Stephen Cobb tells us more.

  • Airing on Friday, June 12, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with tech writer Paul Ford, who wrote ‘What is code?’ for Bloomberg Businessweek’s code issue, about whether or not everyone should understand how computer code works. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, host Ben Johnson takes on Greta Johnsen, co-host of the Nerdette podcast.

  • Airing on Thursday, June 11, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Frank Gillett, Industry Analyst at Forrester Research, about Microsoft’s giant, Surface Hub tablet and why the company is manufacturing it in the U.S. Plus, Walgreens is making medical consultations for non-emergencies available by cellphone, tablet and computer. Just what can these doctors do for you, without you leaving the house? And Bob Wachter, Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, joins us to talk about Medtronic’s partnership with Glooko to do more with the diabetes data it collects.

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