Business, Spoken

In an antitrust suit, the Justice Department claims the company uses exclusive deals with device makers and browser makers to prop up its near-monopoly on search. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

California’s privacy law says businesses must respect universal opt-outs. Now the technology finally exists to put that to the test. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company, launched by Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey, is building software to connect multiple Air Force systems—allowing officers to act more quickly. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Plus: a plan to break up Microsoft, anonymity on the internet, and a baffling balcony address. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Labor Department last week questioned Microsoft’s stated goal to double the number of Black leaders in the company. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Political strategists say they combine information from multiple databases to identify the people they want to vote—and not vote. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More potential young voters are on social media than enrolled in college full time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Plus: Mark Zuckerberg’s own words, the personification of the internet, and Burger King’s whopper of an ask. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Algorithms can help diagnose a growing range of health problems, but humans need to be trained to listen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company's Q3 report exceeded analysts' expectations, but its stock still fell about 3 percent in Friday morning trading. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

At Toyota, researchers are experimenting with prototypes that swoop from the ceiling to take care of chores with the help of machine learning. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52 percent since March. Publishers say their easy availability hurts sales. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Four congressmembers say formulas that include race as a factor can hurt Black Americans' access to care. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new feature from Amazon allows the intelligent assistant to ask users to clarify requests, such as “Dim the lights.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

One year after organizing a walkout, employees are calling for a more ambitious environmental agenda. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Reducing the cost of electric vehicles is all about a cheaper battery. Tesla outlined a plan that includes making more of the components itself. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It won’t solve everything, but a new study suggests real-time automated feedback could help make the internet a less toxic place. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The first big US city to prohibit private businesses from using the technology reflects rising skepticism of new tools and concerns about fairness. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Plus: Kevin Systrom’s app inspiration, the characteristics of successful CEOs, and Colorado’s disconcerting forecast. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Blyncsy wants states using Apple and Google technology to pay it $1 per resident. It may not win, but the patent tussle could deter others from adopting apps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Combining the two chipmakers would unite leaders in two big tech trends—artificial intelligence and mobile computing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A Bluetooth-based system coming this fall will be especially useful for high-value shipments, like medicines or vaccines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A swarm of Ghost 4s, controlled by a single person on the ground, can perform reconnaissance missions like searching for enemy weapons or soldiers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Police increasingly ask Google and other tech firms for data about who was where, when. Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Several companies are testing airborne deliveries. But rules are years away, and no one knows if consumers are even interested. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“We can treat only one patient at a time, but if we can get a message out there that can hit thousands or hundreds of thousands, then we can change their thoughts.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The ride-hail company joined rival Lyft with a “Green” pledge. It's counting on incentives to encourage drivers to switch to battery power. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Older patients and other vulnerable populations tend to need more medical care, but it’s often difficult for them to get online for remote visits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Users say the platform’s new Creator Fund is opaque and riddled with problems. The company says it’s listening. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A former world champion teams up with the makers of AlphaZero to test variants on the age-old game that can jolt players into creative patterns. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tech companies are swapping on-campus gourmet chefs for free snack deliveries, but they're also stepping up childcare support and mental health services. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After learning its own ethics lessons the hard way, the tech giant will offer services like spotting racial bias or developing guidelines around AI projects. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The companies will handle more of the technology for notifying people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Privacy won't be affected, they say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Alphabet's DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A California company used it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If it succeeds, AB979 would require Facebook, Netflix, Nvidia, Salesforce, and others to add directors of color. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The digital infrastructures have been under construction for years. But the pandemic has forced candidates to embrace them and to get creative with how they use them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Conservative influencers say they understand the president's moves to shut down the platform in the US, even if it costs them their audience. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A leading antitrust scholar says yes. Congress may be listening. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Many states are not collecting the race or ethnicity of coronavirus patients, which can make it harder to know the true impact on low-income communities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The companies are backing bills in more than a dozen states that would legalize the devices. Some bills would block cities from regulating them at all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pilot projects for autonomous shuttles abound. But technical limitations and hostility from labor unions may thwart large deployments Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This year's A-Levels, the high-stakes exams taken in high school, were canceled due to the pandemic. The alternative only exacerbated existing inequities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Thousands protest in the UK after a formula replaced a test that influences college placement. It's led to broader scrutiny of automation and inequality. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The ride-hail services are threatening to stop service in the Golden State to protest a judge's ruling. They did something similar in Texas in 2016. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A top Trump adviser outlines a blueprint for experimenting with wireless tech on bases and using software to counter China's lead in hardware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The president's latest actions against China may affect US tech firms, and Americans who communicate overseas through the social apps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Pentagon will share part of the wireless spectrum, allowing telecom carriers to reach more areas with fewer cell towers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Civil rights activists warn of "mission creep," as cameras installed to prevent break-ins are increasingly used to monitor protesters and communities of color. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices