Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRing founder Jamie Siminoff on default encryption and AI privacy
Amazon's popular brand of video-enabled smart home and security devices, Ring, is adding a new encryption system called TAKE — Throw Away the Key Enc…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Oil markets brace for maintenance season
In Texas oil country, September usually marks the beginning of maintenance season. But with refineries running at near-100% capacity to meet increase…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Food assistance, 62 years on
Sixty-two years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law, making food stamps — now known as SNAP benefits — permanen…
3 weeks ago
What BookTok is doing for bookstores
More than 1,500 new independent bookstores have opened nationwide since 2020, according to the American Booksellers Association. And the pace is acce…
3 weeks ago
ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing
Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be responsible for collecting the DNA of nearly a million people in 2025. The genetic material is then sent t…
3 weeks ago
The ongoing cost of ICE raids on Latino entreprenuers
It’s been more than a year since the Trump administration intensified ICE raids in immigrant communities across the U.S. Latino entreprenuers say the…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The summer of the "very stretched consumer"
Consumer confidence is down in the dumps. We got lots of retail earnings reports this week, and they hinted at the continued K-shape of our economy, …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Could tech startups rescue rural healthcare?
Late last year, the federal government announced the Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion initiative looking to improve the health of r…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Meta's landmark social media settlement
Meta announced this week that it has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark trial over social media addiction. It also agreed to add st…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Grass is always greener
The NFL is back in a couple weeks, and so is artificial turf. Several NFL stadiums rolled out the green carpet this summer for World Cup matches, whi…
3 weeks, 3 days ago