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Bytes: Week in Review — Apple unveils iPhone Air, researchers allege Meta suppressed child online safety research, and Waymo gets competition

Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal, to discuss all these topics and more. This episode was produced by Jesús Alvarado.

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Bipartisan bill would help parents to monitor kids' social media for harmful activity

It’s challenging for parents to get access to their kids’ data to look out for online harms. In Congress, there's a bipartisan push to change that with a bill called Sammy's Law, named after a teen w…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The latest iPad update comes with laptop functionality

Fifteen years ago, then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad. His vision was for a lean-back device used mostly to consume content. Now, with the latest iPadOS 26, the device is evolving into something d…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Using AI to simplify criminal record expungement

A lot of people are eligible to have their criminal records expunged. And there are tens of millions of such files out there for things like misdemeanors, low-level felonies such as drug offenses and…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Have video games become unaffordable?

Video gaming can be an expensive hobby. Nintendo’s latest Mario Kart game, Mario Kart World, released in June, costs $80, and it’s widely expected that Grand Theft Audio VI, coming out next year, wil…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Bytes: Week in Review — Google antitrust verdict, Trump's crypto stake, and AI angst

The Trump family took their digital token public this week. Plus, artificial intelligence is generating angst in Silicon Valley.

But first, Google’s antitrust case over its search business ended this …

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Police departments quietly disable AI-generated report safeguards

Axon, a company that makes policing equipment, developed new software called Draft One that takes recordings from police cameras and uses artificial intelligence to summarize them into incident repor…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Can you buy wins in sports or the AI talent wars?

Big Tech companies have been in an all-out bidding war to capture top AI researchers and engineers. Companies like Meta have reportedly been offering compensation packages in the hundreds of millions…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Is grieving with AI a healthy way to cope?

More and more people are using generative AI to “resurrect” deceased loved ones. There are tools that can turn an old photograph into a short animation or create entire "AI clones" trained on old aud…

Published on 4 months ago

"Organs on a chip" help researchers better understand diseases like endometriosis

Endometriosis is a condition in which the tissue that typically lines the uterus grows outside of it instead, often causing intense pain and infertility. MIT researchers are studying that living tiss…

Published on 4 months ago