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Shaheen Ainpour

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Shaheen Ainpour is a former Marketplace production intern. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a degree in finance and journalism. Before coming to Marketplace, Shaheen was a summer intern at NPR. He likes radio.

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Disinformation

How social media bots can amplify fake news

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 27, 2018
The disinformation war is being waged online, but who's behind it?
Twitter announced a new effort to prioritize accessibility after garnering criticism from the rollout of a voice tweet feature this summer that didn't offer captioning.
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China is drowning in a sea of cardboard — so is the U.S.

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes , Jennifer Pak and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 26, 2018
Online shopping comes with a lot of packaging, and that packaging is becoming a problem.
Chinese laborers load cardboard onto a truck to be recycled in the Dong Xiao Kou village in Beijing in 2014.
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Should we trust Silicon Valley to fix itself?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 23, 2018
Some tech pioneers want to repair the problems they helped create, like addictive technologies.
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The president's space station budget is one giant leap for privatization

by Molly Wood , Kimberly Adams , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 22, 2018
NASA's education program is also targeted. But does this budget matter?
The International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011.
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Good luck watching the Winter Games in 4K

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 21, 2018
Want to see the Olympics in ultra high definition? You'll need to clear some technical hurdles, but the "sparkles are unreal," an Ars Technica reporter says.
Figure skating really shines with all the benefits of 4K, says Sam Machkovech, a writer for Ars Technica. Above, USA's Adam Rippon competes in the men's free skate event during the Pyeongchang Olympics on Feb. 17.
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Tim Armstrong: People need to vote on net neutrality

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 19, 2018
Oath is uniting AOL and Yahoo, but can it compete with today's online giants?
“The net neutrality debate has to end up in Congress,” says Oath CEO Tim Armstrong, onstage at the Makers Conference at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
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Evenly Distributed

Black Twitter is a force for activism

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 16, 2018
Feminista Jones on what the social forum has accomplished.
Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the U.S.
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Stitch Fix's CEO says there should be more seats at the table, not in investors' hot tubs

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 14, 2018
Katrina Lake on sexism in Silicon Valley.
Molly Wood (left) interviewing Katrina Lake (right) of Stitch Fix at the Makers conference in Los Angeles. 
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Why facial recognition software has trouble recognizing people of color

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 13, 2018
"Data reflects our history, and our history has been very biased to date," MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini says.
Passersby walk under a surveillance camera that is part of a facial recognition technology test at Berlin's Suedkreuz train station in 2017.
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Bitcoin is a hassle ... but maybe not for long

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 12, 2018
A new technology aims to make the cryptocurrency work faster and use less computing power.
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