Latest from Daniel Shin

• Apr 7, 2025

  How to ethically design a nuclear power plant

  

  The small, modular reactor industry could bring safer, low-carbon electricity production closer to populated areas. Professor Aditi Verma at the University of Michigan is teaching students about designing these facilities with community needs in mind.

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• Apr 4, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review — TikTok’s new bidders, Tesla sales slump and OpenAI raises $40 billion

  

  Maria Curi of Axios joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Apr 3, 2025

  Why LGBTQ+ teens, young adults feel safer online

  

  The Born This Way Foundation and the nonprofit Hopelab jointly published a report showing that a majority of queer 15-24-year-olds prefer expressing their true selves and interacting with others in online spaces.

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• Apr 2, 2025

  Worry over worker visas goes viral in Silicon Valley

  

  Gerrit De Vynck of The Washington Post reports that tech workers with H-1Bs are being advised to not leave the country in case they can’t reenter. The industry fears that major constraints on skilled immigration would hold back innovation, he says.

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• Apr 1, 2025

  Napster lives on

  

  Since its file-sharing operation was shut down in 2001, Napster has been bought and reimagined several times. Harry McCracken, global technology editor at Fast Company, says the disruptor brand still has appeal but the “learned nostalgia” that surrounds it may be overvalued.

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• Mar 31, 2025

  China sets its sights on AI leadership

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping is investing in the development of advanced technology, a pivotal arena of competition with the United States. The nation has made notable gains, most famously the DeepSeek chatbot. 

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• Mar 28, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review — Trump officials’ Signal leak, 23andMe goes bankrupt and chatbots take on search engines

  

  Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Mar 27, 2025

  Network effect: Customers help utilities build smarter, more efficient power grid

  

  “Virtual power plants” enlist users in producing electricity and balancing supply and demand. But there’s no tech fix for getting people to sign up, as Rice University’s Daniel Cohan explains.

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• Mar 26, 2025

  The SEC invites cryptocurrency supporters and skeptics to the table

  

  Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission held its first roundtable discussion on whether cryptocurrency should be regulated as a financial asset. Axios’ Brady Dale explains why that’s such a complicated question to answer.

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• Mar 25, 2025

  AI chatbots mimic human anxiety, study finds

  

  Neuroscience researcher Ziv Ben-Zion says even though the bots don’t have emotions, they can simulate a person’s responses because they’re trained on human data. They may play a role in psychotherapy, and meditation seems to help them chill out.

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