Marketplace®
Every story is an economic story

The Secret Service wants sarcasm detection software

The Secret Service wants someone to create software that will detect sarcasm.

This final note on the way out, which I’m sure will work…

The Secret Service wants sombeody to invent a piece of software that’ll, “detect sarcasm and false positives,” according to the work order. So, if you’re a teenager on Twitter and you threaten to blow up a plane because you’re bored, this would in theory prevent the FBI from knocking on your door.

You got less than a week if you’re up to the challenge because next Monday is the deadline.

What could possibly go wrong.

Sarcasm.

Related Topics

Collections:

Latest Episodes

View All Shows
  • Marketplace
    5 hours ago
    25:16
  • Marketplace Morning Report
    12 hours ago
    5:54
  • Marketplace Tech
    17 hours ago
    8:19
  • This Is Uncomfortable
    5 days ago
    27:11
  • Million Bazillion
    7 days ago
    12:18
  • Make Me Smart
    4 months ago
    24:33