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HMD Global Plans To Bring Back Nokia 3310 Cell Phone HMD Global will be relaunching the Nokia 3310, the iconic phone that originally came out in 2000 and became one of the best-selling mobile phones ever. Read more on NPR

Ford Replaces CD Player With Streaming Music In New Vehicle For the first time in 25 years, Ford Motor Company is offering a vehicle without a CD player. The company will replace the CD player with streaming audio and video. As car companies compete to get out front on self-driving cars, they will also be providing more entertainment options. Read more on NPR

Trump May Weigh In On H-1B Visas, But Major Reform Depends On Congress President Trump has said he wants to crack down on abuses and protect American workers. But it's Congress that holds the power to fundamentally reform the program, and work there is underway. Read more on NPR

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Can Sex Offenders Be Barred From Social Media? Justices Lean Toward No The court heard two cases today: One on whether the government can deport a resident for a statutory rape conviction, and another on whether a state can criminalize social media use for sex offenders. Read more on NPR

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Privacy Paradox: How To Gain More Control Over Your Data The WNYC podcast, "Note to Self," conducted an experiment called The Privacy Paradox, which involved thousands of people who tried to strengthen control over their personal information online. Read more on NPR

New FCC Chairman Plans To Block Privacy Regulations The Federal Communications Commission's new chairman wants to block a rule approved by his predecessor requiring Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon adhere to new privacy standards. Read more on NPR

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To Keep Teens Safe Online, They Need To Learn To Manage Risk Teens should be included in efforts to mitigate their online risks, researchers say, but apps focus more on parents controlling access by monitoring and blocking sites. Read more on NPR

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North Carolina Law Makes Facebook A Felony For Former Sex Offenders North Carolina has a law banning sex offenders from social media. The state says sex offenders use sites to find future child victims. The court will decide if this is constitutional. Read more on NPR

How The Media Are Using Encryption Tools To Collect Anonymous Tips Technology has made for more ways to leak scoops to the press than ever before. And newsrooms across the country are taking advantage of that. Read more on NPR

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The Early 2000s Are Calling: New Nokia 3310 Phones Revealed We reported earlier this month on rumors that the Internet's favorite indestructible brick of a phone would be returning to shelves. Now it's official. The not-so-smartphone will cost about $50. Read more on NPR

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Trump Administration Weighs Increased Scrutiny Of Refugees' Social Media The Obama administration began checking social media accounts of prospective Syrian refugees more than a year ago. Such steps could expand as President Trump prepares a new executive order on vetting. Read more on NPR

FCC Chairman Goes After His Predecessor's Internet Privacy Rules The new telecom chief is moving to halt one part of the sweeping rules for Internet service providers, which were passed last year in part based on "net neutrality" regulations. Read more on NPR

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Google Spin-Off Sues Uber, Saying Leader Of Autonomous Vehicle Unit Stole Key Designs Waymo, the company that began as Google's self-driving-car project, says a former manager "took extraordinary efforts to raid Waymo's design server and then conceal his activities." Read more on NPR

Liz Coleman: How Do We Teach College Students To Ask Big Questions? Former Bennington College President Liz Coleman believes higher education is overly-specialized & complacent. She says we need to encourage students to ask bigger questions and take more risks. Read more on NPR

Kevin Jones: Can Embracing Uncertainty Lead To Better Medicine? Sometimes, doctors just don't have the answers. Surgeon Kevin Jones says having the humility to acknowledge this leads to better medicine. Read more on NPR

The Struggles Of Austin's Music Scene Mirror A Widened World As the face of Austin's music office prepares to depart, the city's problems and successes may offer a lesson for the world at large about globalization and technology. Read more on NPR

Reading The Game: Shadow Of Mordor As part of our occasional series on storytelling in video games, we're looking at a game where the story fails: Shadow of Mordor, which won awards for its gameplay, but lacks a compelling narrative. Read more on NPR

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WATCH: In The War Between Tigers And Drone, Chalk One Up For Tigers Sure they might be chubby — to put it charitably — but they're still tigers. And when Chinese zookeepers mobilized a drone to get them some exercise, the big cats had little trouble bringing it down. Read more on NPR

Go To College, Play Video Games. E-Sports Make A Play For The Big Ten There's no prize money involved, although League of Legends maker Riot Games offers scholarships for the e-sports teams at Ohio State and competitors at other Big Ten campuses. Read more on NPR

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After Making History In Space, Mae Jemison Works To Prime Future Scientists For the first African-American woman in space, her path to spaceflight and beyond includes trying to pave the way for more girls of color to follow in her footsteps. Read more on NPR

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Should Scientists March? U.S. Researchers Still Debating Pros And Cons A "March for Science" is set for April 22 in Washington, D.C., to show support for evidence-based public policy. But some worry the march will be seen as partisan, and may even undermine sound policy. Read more on NPR

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Are Cyborgs In Our Future? 'Homo Deus' Author Thinks So Yuval Noah Harari expects we'll soon engineer our bodies in the same way we design products. "I think in general medicine ... will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy," he says. Read more on NPR

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Uber Orders Investigation Into Sexual Harassment Claims A former engineer for the ride-hailing app Uber published a blog post this weekend claiming that she faced sexual harassment while working at the company. Uber says it's investigating the allegations. Read more on NPR

'#Republic' Author Describes How Social Media Hurts Democracy NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks to Cass Sunstein about his new book, #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media. He says democracy needs people to come across a variety of viewpoints, and much of social media limits that exposure. Read more on NPR

Uber Will Investigate Sexual Harassment Claims By Engineer Uber's CEO has ordered an investigation into a sexual harassment claim made by a female engineer after she published a blog post detailing her experience. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Wants Great Power, But What About Responsibility? Mark Zuckerberg has announced a plan to make Facebook the only primary platform people use to connect to others virtually. But he fails to discuss the responsibilities that come with that power. Read more on NPR

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Your Shareable Google Maps Lists May Be Really Interesting To Advertisers A new feature allows users to create lists of places and share them with friends. Is Google Maps trying to become a social network or to collect more information about its users? Maybe both. Read more on NPR

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Local Police Departments Invest In Cell Phone Spy Tools As we depend on our cell phones more and more, the tools to peek into our phones are getting better. Local police departments across the country are investing heavily in this technology. And, with few laws governing what police can collect and store, that has a lot of privacy advocates alarmed. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to City Lab reporter George Joseph about the spread of tools that let police collect cell phone data. Read more on NPR

Scientific Conference Planners Concerned About Immigration Policy There's increasing concern among planners of science and technical conferences about the Trump administration's immigration restrictions. Many groups signed a letter asking Trump to rescind the order. Read more on NPR

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Banned In Germany: Kids' Doll Is Labeled An Espionage Device The doll Cayla looks like an everyday toy and gives no notice that it collects and transmits everything it hears, German regulators say. Read more on NPR

The Turtles Lose Case Over Rights To Their Oldies In New York Members of The Turtles lost their New York class action in a ruling from the state's appeals court. Read more on NPR

Using The Blockchain To Change Prisons Charlie Shrem went to prison for his involvement in Bitcoin trading. Now he's out and part of the next evolution of Bitcoin's future, investments that trade using Bitcoin's underlying technology. Read more on NPR

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Yahoo Warns More Users That Their Private Information May Have Been Stolen The company is warning some users that intruders might have accessed their accounts by using forged cookies in a 2014 hack. It is the latest in a series of revelations about account security breaches. Read more on NPR

Recipe For New Sports? Just Add A Drone You may have heard of drone racing, but people keep coming up with new ways to enjoy these flying machines. A Latvian firm has developed a drone to pull snowboarders in a sport called "droneboarding." Read more on NPR

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The South Has Been Slow To Harness Its Wind, But That's Changing There are several reasons the region is lagging in wind energy — including lower wind speeds. But now North Carolina is home to the first large-scale commercial wind farm in the Southeast. Read more on NPR

5 Ways Teachers Are Fighting Fake News In an era of national attention to what's real and what isn't, we asked educators to share their strategies for helping students sort out fact from fiction. Read more on NPR

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Nokia's Famously Indestructible Phone Rumored To Be Returning To Shelves Launched in 2000, the Nokia 3310 was a rugged little brick that won Internet fame for its durability. There are rumors, which HMD Global won't confirm, that the company is bringing the phone back. Read more on NPR

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