2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (13+ words) Allbirds is the latest direct-to-consumer brand to lose its luster'marketplace.org...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (207+ words) Emails, texts, and fake websites posing as the IRS are becoming more sophisticated, according to research from McAfee. Tax season is here, and with it come scammers hoping to steal your money or even personal information. Now, with AI in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (174+ words) Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the Golden State's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) could be a tool for other states to learn from and maybe adopt down the line. The 39.4 million people who live…...

1+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (159+ words) As more consumers turn to AI chatbots for search queries, New York Times reporter Erin Griffith says companies are seeding the internet with as much information about themselves as possible to increase their chances of being surfaced by the AI....

8+ mon, 6+ day ago  (211+ words) The Biden-era Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program championed a "fiber first" strategy. About a year ago, "Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal was hanging out in Claremont, North Carolina, in a plant owned by Prysmian, a fiber-optic cable manufacturer. He was…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (649+ words) AI coding agents make it possible for anyone to build a sophisticated-looking website, including scammers. Artificial intelligence coding agents have been getting so capable and intuitive, basically anyone can program their own software without much technical knowledge. Want to build…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (785+ words) Advice on money and dating, featuring radio and podcast host Sam Sanders Dating and money drama go together like dinner and a movie. A few weeks ago, we asked for your questions about money and dating and you delivered. Joining…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (205+ words) Payphones are borderline extinct in the U.S., but the need for public phone access still exists. There were more than two million pay phones across the U.S. in 2000. By 2016, that number had dwindled to around 100,000 and past that, the FCC stopped keeping…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (233+ words) In trials starting this week, Meta and YouTube will defend themselves against claims that their social media platforms are knowingly addictive and harmful to children. Jury selection began this Tuesday for the first of a slew of trials that will…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (495+ words) For nearly a century, 529 Bryant Street in Palo Alto, California, has been an information connection point. In downtown Palo Alto, California, on a busy street with coffee shops and art galleries, there is a building that helped shape the internet…...