
Technology
What to know about living and working with AI
Ethan Mollick's guidelines of using AI: “always invite AI to the table, be the human in the loop, treat AI like a person and assume this is the worst AI you will ever use.”
Air Date: July 18, 2025 12:00 pm
Listen 50:23Settlement reached in investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company leaders
The settlement was announced in Delaware’s Court of Chancery at the start of the second day of trial.
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A new app allows Philadelphians to report parking violations using ‘laser vision’
From illegal sidewalk parking to bike lane obstructions, violations captured by photo trigger an automatic report that gets sent to the PPA.
1 week ago
Pennsylvania’s 911 services restored; investigation into outage underway
Officials say the outage Friday is believed to be due to a glitch in the system and not a cyberattack.
1 week ago
The rise of romance novels and the ethics of human-chatbot relationships
AI chatbots are becoming more popular, offering people friendship, romance and even sex. Are these 'real' relationships? What do we lose without human connection?
Air Date: July 10, 2025 12:00 pm
Listen 51:36Republicans urge U.S. universities to cut ties with Chinese-backed scholarship program
Leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said Wednesday they'd sent letters Temple University and other colleges and universities.
2 weeks ago
25 years later: Inside the cut-throat race to decode the human genome
How the competition between the Human Genome Project and its industry rival, Celera, drove forward one of the most historic scientific discoveries of our age.
4 weeks ago
Listen 35:35How an American musician is using AI to translate grief across cultures
AI-created art has been widely decried as the end of human creativity. But for one Palestinian woman, AI is helping to democratize art.
1 month ago
Listen 15:58Sen. David McCormick joined the governor in announcing what he called a “huge victory for Pennsylvania.” Some concerns remain about powering new AI centers.
1 month ago
License plate reading tech at Temple University helps police catch suspected serial burglar
Temple says it's the first university police department in Pennsylvania to use this license plate reading system.
2 months ago
Why Amazon is doubling down on robots at its massive Delaware fulfillment center
About 4,500 people are working inside Amazon’s fulfillment center in Wilmington at any given time. After renovations, some of their newest coworkers will be robots.
2 months ago
Listen 1:07President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes. What is it?
U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, who represents Berks and Montgomery counties, is among the legislation's co-sponsors.
2 months ago
Philly’s ‘Power Up Tour’ focuses on digital equity, device access around city
The program is giving away 500 laptops to those in need. It’s just one initiative the city is using to promote digital equity.
2 months ago
The Federal Aviation Administration is working on a short-term fix to the problems at New Jersey’s largest airport that includes technical repairs and cutting flights.
2 months ago
Twenty-five years ago, Onel de Guzman tricked millions of people and cost the world economy billions by unleashing a computer worm disguised as a love letter.
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