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Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Paul Vixie, vice president at AWS Security and an early internet innovator, about the rapid buildout …
5 months ago
A historic home tour of the virtual world
529 Bryant St. in Palo Alto, California, is home to a key landmark in tech history. Now owned and operated as a data center by Equinix, the building …
5 months ago
Raising the “speed limit” on AI’s “information highway”
Billions of dollars has been poured into the AI economy in recent years. As part of a new series about what the AI economy means for you, Marketplace…
5 months ago
Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX eyes an IPO, community members want legal commitments from Micron, and YouTube to ditch AI slop
A Micron memory chip factory in upstate New York is wrangling with local groups who want legal assurances the project will benefit the local communit…
5 months, 1 week ago
Unraveling the complex knot of an AI-generated hoax
In the era of AI, sometimes a story is really just too good to be true, even if the initial evidence suggests otherwise.
And as artificially engineere…
5 months, 1 week ago
Welcome to the 'infocalypse'
Information Apocalypse Now.
AI content is flooding social feeds and its getting increasingly hard to determine what is real versus what is fake.
Aviv …
5 months, 1 week ago
How "surveillance pricing" charges one online customer more than another for the same item
Consumers have heard of “dynamic pricing,” when the prices are based on demand within a single moment. But whether they know it or not, they’re also …
5 months, 1 week ago
The 'biohacking' trend that has tech workers experimenting on themselves
In an industry known for pushing the bounds of human innovation, tech elites are now trying to push the bounds of their own bodies. The hot new bioha…
5 months, 1 week ago
Bytes: Week in Review – New chip exports for China, Microsoft to pay electricity for AI data centers, and Gemini will power Apple’s AI
Those massive AI data centers going in across the country can use as much energy as an entire city. President Trump said this week he wants tech comp…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Teaching students to 'be better than a robot'
When it comes to AI, educators biggest worry: cheating.
With the click of a button, students can form papers, generate test answers or even finish the…
5 months, 2 weeks ago