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Tech on TIME.com Rights Groups Ask Facebook to Clarify Its Policies on Content Removal The social network has come under fire recently for controversial decisions Published on October 31, 2016 at 10:16PM Shared at 9 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2egLL8v

Peter Thiel Stands Out In Silicon Valley For Support Of Donald Trump Thiel, a billionaire investor, has caused a lot of friction in Silicon Valley, which has largely backed Hillary Clinton. But others who disagree with Thiel's views stand by his right to express them. Read more on NPR

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Turn On, Tune In, Transcribe: U.N. Develops Radio-Listening Tool In rural Uganda, "radio is everything," as one journalist puts it. So the U.N., hoping to hear more rural voices, used a tiny amount of data to build speech recognition software for new languages. Read more on NPR

With GPS And Graph Paper, Farmers Find A-maze-ing Ways To Bring In Cash Using technology and math, farmers are creating elaborate corn maze designs, from replicas of fine art to Internet kitties. Labyrinths help make ends meet — they yield more cash per acre than crops. Read more on NPR

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Tech on TIME.com It’s Harder to Get an Uber or Lyft if You’re Black, Study Says Riders with black-sounding names faced longer waits and more cancellations Published on October 31, 2016 at 12:31PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2fntpVL

Tech on TIME.com The 50 Best Apps of the Year Our favorite iPhone and Android apps of the year Published on October 31, 2016 at 10:15AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2eeKY7U

New York's Museum Of Modern Art Acquires Original Emoji NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Paola Antonelli, senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, about the museum's recent acquisition of the original emoji for its permanent collection. Read more on NPR

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Even In A Virtual World, The Harsh Reality Of Sexual Harassment Persists As gamers wade into virtual reality technology, recent allegations of in-game sexual harassment have surfaced some thorny questions: What does it look like in a virtual world, and how do you stop it? Read more on NPR

Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh On The Synths That Changed Pop Forever The revolutionary Minimoog Model D is being revived after decades out of his production. To demonstrate what's made the it so influential, Mothersbaugh brought one of his own Moogs into NPR's studios. Read more on NPR

How One University Used Big Data To Boost Graduation Rates Georgia State says it's saved students $12 million in tuition because they're graduating faster, thanks to its new high-tech advising system. Read more on NPR

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Will Self-Driving Trucks, Now A Reality, Unseat Truck Drivers? NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New York Times technology columnist Farhad Manjoo about self-driving trucks. Read more on NPR

FBI Investigates New Emails Related To Clinton Private Server Case FBI Director James Comey told Congress a new batch of emails may be pertinent to Clinton's case in light of an unrelated criminal investigation into Anthony Weiner. NPR's Carrie Johnson has more. Read more on NPR

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Tech on TIME.com What Apple and Microsoft’s New Computers Say About the Future of PCs Get ready for very powerful, very expensive computers Published on October 28, 2016 at 03:33PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2dPzFEH

Tech on TIME.com Hello Games Says It Didn’t Call No Man’s Sky a Mistake Studio's official account had tweeted the game "was a mistake," but now says it's the victim of a server hack Published on October 28, 2016 at 02:17PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2feRZYY

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E-Sports Athletes Command The Game Just As Much As NBA Stars E-sports competitors might be wielding swords and magic during their games, but these players are just as much athletes as those in the NFL and NBA. And that's according to the former pros themselves. Read more on NPR

A Moment Of Silence For The Black And Brown Talent That Grew On Vine We'll miss Vine, but not just for its goofy, raw six-second looped videos. We'll miss the platform for its ability to incubate young, black talent. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com ‘The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’ Director Reflects On Roleplaying Epic’s Hits and Misses The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Special Edition is out now for Xbox One, PS4 and PC Published on October 28, 2016 at 10:46AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2fek6aH

An Ode to Vine's Cutest Animals The Internet is sad about the end of Vine. Here are some adorable animal Vines to cheer you up. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com What It’s Like to Use Apple’s New MacBook Pro ‘Touch Bar’ It's a tiny touchscreen that replaces the function keys Published on October 28, 2016 at 07:01AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2fmprMi

Tech on TIME.com Losing Your Mind Over Apple’s New Mail App? Read This. How to go back to your iPhone's old email settings Published on October 28, 2016 at 06:06AM Shared at 15 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2eWMVV9

Tech on TIME.com Losing Your Mind Over Apple’s New Mail App? Read This. How to go back to your iPhone's old email settings Published on October 28, 2016 at 07:01AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2dSIEjy

Do Parents Invade Children's Privacy When They Post Photos Online? The kids look so darned cute in that photo, it's hard not to post it online for all too see. But there are privacy risks to sharing children's images, and children often don't want the exposure. Read more on NPR

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Qualcomm Spends Big Money To Get In The Car (Chip) Business The smartphone chipmaker has agreed to buy NXP Semiconductors for $38 billion. The deal allows Qualcomm to rely less on the smartphone industry. NXP makes semiconductors for cars. Read more on NPR

Obama Urges A Boost In IT Spending To Secure Federal Computers Protecting decades-old systems from hackers is like "trying to put airbags into an old car," the government's chief information officer says. The administration proposes $3.1 billion in upgrades. Read more on NPR

R.I.P. Vine: Twitter To Retire App In Financial Restructuring One of the Internet's quirkiest outlets for creativity is being shut down. Vine is where people post six second videos, which play in a loop. Twitter owns Vine and announced Thursday that in coming months it will end the app as part of its financial restructuring. Read more on NPR

Vine Withers, Reminding Us That Nothing Is Forever The news of Vine shutting down has sent a shockwave through the Internet. It had brought together a diverse slew of comedians, musicians, artists and amateur directors, preceding the live video craze. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Here’s Everything Apple Announced Today Including a brand new MacBook Pro with an interesting new feature Published on October 27, 2016 at 03:33PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2eRoj0I

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FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission To Share Your Data Internet service providers will have to ask consumers before collecting and selling their data. However, the new rules do not apply to Google, Facebook and other tech giants. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com Here’s Everything New Coming to the Apple TV A new TV app, Minecraft and more Published on October 27, 2016 at 01:45PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2fjRM62

Tech on TIME.com This Is Apple’s Brand New MacBook Pro Everything to know about Apple's latest laptop Published on October 27, 2016 at 01:46PM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2e1j2Ex

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Tech on TIME.com Museum of Modern Art Adds the 176 Original Emojis to Its Collection They will join works by Van Gogh and Picasso in the museum Published on October 27, 2016 at 10:16AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2eJNUdD

Twitter Is Laying Off 9 Percent Of Employees Amid $103 Million Loss There was some good news in Twitter's third-quarter earnings report, including revenue of $616 million. But to be more efficient, it'll cut around 350 jobs. Read more on NPR

Tech on TIME.com These Are Some of the Devices Vulnerable to Mirai The virus was used in a massive cyberattack Published on October 27, 2016 at 09:00AM Shared at 0 shares/hour Read more: http://ift.tt/2eyYBQ3