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Apple's Lousy Week Could Signal Times Of Trouble For Tech Giant Apple got hit with a lot of bad news this week. First, the company posted its first quarterly revenue drop since 2003. And then billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn revealed that he has dumped all of his shares in Apple. NPR explores whether the company is really in trouble or if is this all just a bump in the road. Read more on NPR

'The Guardian' Launches New Series Examining Online Abuse A video was released this week where female sports journalists were read abusive online comments to their face. It's an issue that reaches far beyond that group, and The Guardian is taking it on in a series called "The Web We Want." NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with series editor Becky Gardiner and writer Nesrine Malik, who receives a lot of online abuse. Read more on NPR

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Join Us At Noon Today For An #AirbnbWhileBlack Twitter Chat Today, Code Switch's Gene Demby and Hidden Brain's Shankar Vedantam will be leading a Twitter chat to discuss what it's like to be a person of color participating in the sharing economy. Read more on NPR

With New Deals, Apple And SoundCloud Remix The Dance Music Marketplace Apple's agreement with Dubset could ease legal posting of DJ sets that contain copyrighted material. SoundCloud is unveiling a paid service. It's hard to say for sure who is going to benefit. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Apple Music for Android Just Got Better Thanks to a new update Published on April 29, 2016 at 10:15AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1Wv93GL

U.S. Steel Says China Is Using Cyber Stealth To Steal Its Secrets The steelmaker is asking a U.S. agency to investigate its claims that the Chinese government not only dumps steel at unfair prices, but also uses computer hackers to steal intellectual property. Read more on NPR

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Weighing The Good And The Bad Of Autonomous Killer Robots In Battle It sounds like science fiction, but it's a very real and contentious debate that is making its way through the U.N. Advocates of a ban want all military weapons to be under "meaningful human control." Read more on NPR

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Tech on TIME.com Uber Would Like to Remind You That Tipping Is Optional As some drivers demand in-app tipping Published on April 28, 2016 at 03:15PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1WVe2kB

Not A Drone After All? Unclear What Hit That British Airways Plane The incident prompted calls for more drone regulation, but a U.K. lawmaker now says it probably was not a drone that struck the plane. And an investigation has ended because of a lack of evidence. Read more on NPR

Mars By 2018? SpaceX And NASA Announce A New Space Project The Red Dragon missions are aimed at figuring out what's needed "to land large payloads propulsively on Mars." For now, the plan doesn't include sending astronauts to the red planet. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Facebook Spends a Huge Amount to Keep Mark Zuckerberg Safe According to recently released documents Published on April 28, 2016 at 01:25PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1VV51Jl

Tech on TIME.com HP’s New Chromebook Looks Like One of the Best It has a premium build without a hefty price tag Published on April 28, 2016 at 01:25PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1VV51Jh

Yahoo's Security Chief On Encryption Debate: What Is The Greater Good? When Bob Lord talks about encryption, he invokes the imagery of a whisper — the idea that you should be able to recreate the most private means of physical communication in the digital world as well. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Apple’s Plan To Turn the iPhone Into a Medical Wonder Starts Now This could be a big deal for healthcare Published on April 28, 2016 at 09:50AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/26x4qAN

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Tech on TIME.com UC Davis Head Removed From Post During Investigation The official used school funds to pay PR consultants at least $175K Published on April 28, 2016 at 09:02AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1NWwX7p

FBI Explains Why It Won't Disclose How It Unlocked iPhone The agency says it doesn't have the rights to the technical details of the unlocking method, and so it can't submit it to a special review that would have determined if Apple should be informed. Read more on NPR

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Tech on TIME.com You Can Play Minecraft in Virtual Reality Right Now Finally Published on April 27, 2016 at 03:15PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1SBxrl8

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Tech on TIME.com Here Are Nintendo’s Next Two Smartphone Apps They're games you'll recognize Published on April 27, 2016 at 11:15AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1qTTpIZ

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Tech on TIME.com This Is When You Can Buy Nintendo’s Next Console The NX is coming Published on April 27, 2016 at 10:15AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1WSIVpN

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Intel Layoffs Are 'Significant' In Oregon, The State's Largest Private Employer Intel is reducing its workforce by 12,000 people as it pivots away from chips for personal computers and towards other business lines such as cloud computing. Read more on NPR

Apple Reports First Revenue Decline Since 2003 As expected, Apple on Tuesday announced its first quarterly decline in revenue in 13 years, driven by falling iPhone sales. The company's quarterly profit dropped 22.5 percent. Read more on NPR

New York Wants To Know: Have You Been Texting And Driving? A bill in New York would allow police to examine drivers' phones to see if they were using the device at the time of an accident. But critics are worried about privacy implications. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Here’s How Much It Would Cost to Have Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook Auction winners get an hour-long lunch with Cook and passes to an Apple event. Published on April 26, 2016 at 09:15PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1SO0uri

India Will Require 'Panic Button' On Cellphones To Report Assault By 2017, all new mobile phones will have to be able to send out a distress call. It is part of an initiative to centralize India's emergency response system — and to address violence against women. Read more on NPR

Beyond Streaming: How Will Future Fans Discover Prince's Music? Whoever ends up running his estate will face some tough decisions about how to handle his musical legacy. What happens to the music in his vault? Will future concertgoers see him as a hologram? Read more on NPR

Dip In iPhone Sales Results In Apple's First Revenue Decline In 13 Years The company's quarterly profit dropped 22.5 percent as revenue slipped for the first time since 2003. Read more on NPR

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Can Big Data Resolve The Human Condition? What makes the Kavli HUMAN Project, which will follow 10,000 people over 20 years, so exciting is that it's exactly the kind of approach that can show us if Big Data really works, says Adam Frank. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Facebook Is Planning its Own Camera App to Get You to Share More Stuff It will reportedly support live streaming besides stills and video Published on April 26, 2016 at 01:13AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/1SKYmjV

#AirbnbWhileBlack: How Hidden Bias Shapes The Sharing Economy The sharing economy is making online transactions far more personal, which can lead to some unintended consequences. Read more on NPR

Charter's Merger With Time Warner Cable Nears Regulatory Approval The Justice Department has approved the massive cable deal and FCC chairman has recommended approval, with conditions. Read more on NPR

ISIS Uses Cyber Capabilities To Attack The U.S. Online The U.S. and the West aren't the only ones operating on the cyber-battlefield in the war with ISIS. The terror group has cyber-capabilities of its own. NPR takes a look at these capabilities and explores how they play into the larger expansion of cyber-strike and counter-strike throughout the Middle East. Read more on NPR

U.S. Spy Chief Considers Disclosing Number Of Americans Surveilled Online National Intelligence Director James Clapper says there are multiple obstacles in calculating just how many U.S. citizens are ensnared in government data-collection programs targeting foreigners. Read more on NPR

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