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Meghan McCarty Carino

Senior Reporter

Meghan McCarty Carino is a senior reporter at Marketplace headquarters in Los Angeles. She’s also a fill-in host on “Marketplace Tech.” Since 2019, Meghan has covered workplace culture, from #MeToo to pandemic remote work, the movement for racial justice and the artificial intelligence boom. In her free time she can often be found obsessing over pizza dough, cocktail experiments or her latest food and drink fixation. She tracks her favorite international sunscreens in a Google doc – just ask. Meghan previously reported, hosted and produced for Los Angeles station KPCC/LAist, and got her start as an intern at KQED in San Francisco. Her work has won a National Headliner Award, Online Journalism Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, LA Press Club Award and has been featured by Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and the Center for Public Integrity. Meghan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended UCLA and USC.

Latest from Meghan McCarty Carino

  • This company uses AI to make workers AI-savvy — and keep their jobs
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    Ujjwal Singh, chief product and technology officer at Multiverse, says the company’s AI coach can keep workers’ skills up to date. Otherwise, they could be nudged aside by those who know their way around a chatbot.

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  • Mobile apps are failing users with disabilities
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    Many apps are falling short of being accessible to disabled users, according to a recent report from software developer ArcTouch and the online platform Fable. Ben Ogilvie, head of accessibility at ArcTouch, explains how mobile app developers can improve on their accessibility features.

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    Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Can the U.S. get around China's restrictions on rare earth minerals?
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    China is responsible for most of the world’s processing of rare earth metals and minerals, but its new export restrictions have raised the stakes for U.S. efforts to build its own supply chain and processing industry. Barbara Arnold, a professor of mining engineering at Penn State, says there are options, but they require time, development and investment.

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  • Virginia's reliance on surveillance tech raises data privacy questions
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    The state’s law enforcement agencies are increasingly implementing public-facing, 24/7 surveillance tech like automated license plate readers, according to an investigation by the nonprofit Cardinal News. Editor Jeff Schwaner discusses the rights issues that motivated him to take an excursion through the network.

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  • Is using AI in job interviews cheating?
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    People applying for technical jobs are being rejected for using AI in interviews, even as more companies require coders and engineers to use AI at work, according to Business Insider’s Amanda Hoover. AI’s growing role in technical fields is complicating the effort to, in Hoover’s words, “get the best people connected to the best jobs.”

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  • Bytes: Week in Review — How tariffs impact consumer gadgets, e-commerce and the AI boom
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    Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Etsy's AI curates the search for the perfect thing
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    Nick Daniel, chief product officer, says the LLMs connect buyers’ desires to Etsy’s vast inventory of unique, handmade items. The business model, though, still relies on the expertise of human trendspotters.

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  • What does a bear market mean for Big Tech?
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    Consumers won’t be buying as many gadgets during the potential downturn that’s slamming tech stocks, forecasts Daniel Newman of the Futurum Group. But the tariff-fueled disruption could widen giant companies’ advantage over the rest.

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  • Microsoft wants to be the world's AI platform
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    The software titan is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month and building up its AI assistant, known as Copilot. Microsoft's consumer marketing chief, Yusuf Mehdi, touts the program's abilities and discusses the company's AI ambitions.

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