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Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Jul 1, 2015

Episodes 2971 - 2980 of 4493

  • Airing on Tuesday, June 30, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Chester Wisniewski, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos, about the Federal Aviation Administration’s consideration of new cybersecurity guidelines for the airline industry. We’ll also hear from Julie Ask, VP at Forrester Research, about why Uber is acquiring some of Bing’s mapping technology. And Marketplace Senior Technology Correspondent Molly Wood joins us to talk about the future of our digital media as streaming everything becomes more popular.

  • Airing on Monday, June 29, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Alex White, CEO and cofounder of Nextbigsound, on how music streaming services are changing people’s listening habit. Plus, as video-cams get better and cheaper, we’ll explore how they are spreading into a lot of workplaces unrelated to policing. We’ll also talk about mini-drones by air, land, and sea. Listen to learn more.

  • Airing on Friday, June 26, 2015: First up, Dan Slater, author of “Love in the Time of Algorithms,” comments on Match.com’s IPO. Plus, we’ll talk to Marketplace’s Dan Gorenstein about using healthcare data to look at the whole patient. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, host Ben Johnson takes on actor and podcaster Jeff Cannata. 

  • Airing on Thursday, June 25, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Andrew Fitzgerald of Wall Street Journal about how much water data center uses to cool its machines. And as part of our prison technology series, we talk to the co-founder Collaborative Benefit, a LinkedIn type platform that connects incarcerated individuals with employers, about learning to code in prison. We’ll also talk to Sam Esmail, creator of the new show “Mr. Robot,” about actors playing hackers. 

  • Airing on Wednesday, June 24, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Alex Gawley, Product Management Director at Google, about Gmail’s new unsend button. And Molly Wood, Marketplace Senior Tech Correspondent, joins us to talk about Amazon’s Echo release. We’ll also speak with Nick Higgins, Director of Outreach Services at Brooklyn Public Library and Luce Maldanado Romero and family, about a program that allows inmates to read to their kids over remote video conference, for the third segment in our “Jailbreak” series.

  • 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.

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Every weekday morning, Marketplace Tech demystifies the digital economy. The radio show and podcast explain how tech influences our lives in unexpected ways and provides context for listeners who care about the impact of tech, business and the digital world.

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