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Aug 26, 2016

Marketplace Tech for Friday, August 26, 2016

On today’s show, we’ll talk about technology’s presence at Burning Man, a Nevada festival of art and self-expression; play this week’s Silicon Tally with Tricia Berry, director of the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin; and look at how Nextdoor, the social network for neighborhoods, is aiming to get neighbors to do less racial profiling. 

Dancers at the Burning Man festival create patterns with fireworks.
Dancers at the Burning Man festival create patterns with fireworks.
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On today’s show, we’ll talk about technology’s presence at Burning Man, a Nevada festival of art and self-expression; play this week’s Silicon Tally with Tricia Berry, director of the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin; and look at how Nextdoor, the social network for neighborhoods, is aiming to get neighbors to do less racial profiling.