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Amazon Offers Refunds for Children's Unauthorized In-App Purchases The Federal Trade Commission sued the retail giant over charges incurred by kids using apps. Both sides dropped their appeals so the refunds could begin. Read more on NPR

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In Remote Southern California Desert, U.S. Army Tests Advanced Cyber Weapons Soldiers at the remote Fort Irwin, Calif., center are training with a new generation of cyber weapons. Turns out, electronic gizmos can make a difference on a real life battlefield. Read more on NPR

Call Me: Why Backchannels Matter What are backchannels with foreign nations for? And can they be abused? Read more on NPR

The Internet's First Amendment: The New Fight For Net Neutrality The head of the Federal Communications Commission plans to change the rules on Net Neutrality. But consumer advocates say the move would largely leave the industry to police itself. How do we keep the internet open, free AND competitive? Read more on NPR

Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game In the late summer of 1982, one man worked around the clock to program the video game version of Steven Spielberg's E.T. in just five weeks. The result wasn't pretty. Read more on NPR

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Activists Build Human Rights Abuse Cases With Help From Cellphone Videos A human rights group finds itself with an interesting problem — an overwhelming number of videos to catalogue as it builds legal cases. Computer scientists are creating tools to analyze the videos. Read more on NPR

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Flipbooks Help Prisoners Stay Connected To Their Loved Ones For people in prison, rules limiting access to technology make seeing video of their kids' first steps difficult. But a Colorado woman is using a 19th century solution for this 21st century problem. Read more on NPR

British Airways IT Meltdown Leaves Passengers Stranded NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Robert Wall of The Wall Street Journal about the British Airways software issue which required cancelling flights. Read more on NPR

For Video Soundtracks, Computers Are The New Composers In some cases, the job of composer might be going the way of typewriter repairman and bowling pinsetter as software creates music more cheaply and quickly than humans. Can you hear the difference? Read more on NPR

On Day 3 Of Cancellation Chaos, British Airways Edges Closer To Recovery A "catastrophic" IT systems failure has disrupted roughly 75,000 British Airways passengers' flights since it struck the company Saturday morning. "We profusely apologize," the airline's CEO said. Read more on NPR

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In The Age Of Digital Medicine, The Humble Reflex Hammer Hangs On Nearly 130 years since its inception, a modest knob of rubber with a metal handle is still invaluable in diagnosing disease and avoiding expensive testing. But its history is anything but simple. Read more on NPR

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How A Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs To A Middle-School Classroom Some compare the democratization of personal computing in the 1970s to the current changes in access to genetic engineering tools, in part thanks to the CRISPR gene editing tool. Read more on NPR

U.K.'s Anti-Terrorism Programs Under Scrutiny Some of the U.K. government's responses to terrorism have been controversial. Scott Simon speaks with Clive Walker of the University of Leeds, part of a team of independent policy reviewers. Read more on NPR

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After A Terrorist Attack, Social Media Can Cause More Harm Than Good NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Emily Dreyfuss, a reporter for Wired, who explains how sharing information about a terrorist attack on social media helps terrorists spread their message. Read more on NPR

Should The Police Control Their Own Body Camera Footage? There is a growing perception that body cameras, now generating millions of hours of footage, are there less to keep tabs on police, and more to keep tabs on the public. Read more on NPR

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Mark Zuckerberg Tells Harvard Graduates To Embrace Globalism, 'A Sense Of Purpose' The Facebook CEO said fighting authoritarianism and nationalism is "the struggle of our time." Some have speculated he may run for office, though Zuckerberg has denied it. Read more on NPR

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Google A.I. Clinches Series Against Humanity's Last, Best Hope To Win At Go Ke Jie is a wunderkind — the 19-year-old undisputed master of what might well be the world's most complex game. And he just soundly lost a best-of-three series to an artificial intelligence program. Read more on NPR

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Computer Wins Again In Chinese Game Of Go Google's AlphaGo program has won two games against Chinese player Ke Jie in the game of go, which has billions of possible moves and had been hard for computers to play. Read more on NPR

Fitness Trackers: Good at Measuring Heart Rate, Not So Good At Measuring Calories A study of seven popular fitness trackers found they are generally good at measuring heart rate, but may mislead consumers about how many calories they have burned. Read more on NPR

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After Manchester, Social Media Helps And Hurts, Venues Stay Alert And Shows Go On In the wake of the bombing on Monday night at an Ariana Grande concert, venues have stepped up security, a promoter laments the imperfect security and social media is useful and harmful — again. Read more on NPR

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'Like A God,' Google A.I. Beats Human Champ Of Notoriously Complex 'Go' Game "Last year, it was still quite humanlike when it played," the world's No. 1 Go player, Ke Jie, said after losing the first of a three-match series. "But this year, it became like a god of Go." Read more on NPR

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At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared In the late 19th century, French inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville patented the earliest known sound recording device. But his accomplishments were only recognized recently. Read more on NPR

Federal Computers Dodge Global Malware Attack ... This Time Experts say federal agencies have taken steps to secure networks, but they remain vulnerable. Read more on NPR

At 94, Lithium-Ion Pioneer Eyes A New Longer-Lasting Battery In 1980, John Goodenough's work led to the lithium-ion battery, now found in everything from phones to electric cars. He and fellow researchers say they've come up with a faster-charging alternative. Read more on NPR

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Feeling Sidelined By Mainstream Social Media, Far-Right Users Jump To Gab Criticized for being affiliated with the alt-right, the social site Gab now reports 170,000 users. It has found a niche among some conservatives and others who feel stifled by Facebook and Twitter. Read more on NPR

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Don't Feed Parrots Chocolate, Despite What Happens In Minecraft In the game Minecraft, a chocolate chip cookie will tame a parrot, but they're poisonous to the birds in real life. Minecraft has promised to update the game. Read more on NPR

Small Indiana Nonprofit Falls Victim To Ransom Cyberattack A small Indiana nonprofit was devastated by a malware attack earlier this year. It's still recovering after hackers stole data. Read more on NPR

In Google's Vision Of The Future, Computing Is Immersive Point your camera at a flower and your phone identifies it. Walk into a store and your phone leads you to the item you're looking for. It's part of a future world blurring the virtual and the real. Read more on NPR

Scientists One Step Closer To 3-D-Printed Ovaries To Treat Infertility Researchers printed gelatin scaffolds into which they placed ovarian tissue, and then implanted the new organs in mice. Three out of seven female mice produced healthy offspring using the technology. Read more on NPR

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Friday News Roundup - International Turkey's president comes to Washington, but it's his bodyguards who leave a mark. Vladimir Putin says he can prove President Trump did not give secrets to Russia. And it's a pilgrimage of sorts as Donald Trump prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican. Read more on NPR

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Google Is Investing In 'Immersive Technology' Google is making a push into virtual reality with a headset that doesn't require a user to connect to a phone or computer. Amidst massive hype, virtual reality has been slow to take off. Read more on NPR

FCC Votes To Begin Rollback Of Net Neutrality Regulations The vote begins a months-long process to collect — once again — public comment on how the government should regulate Internet service providers. The FCC is repealing Obama-era rules. Read more on NPR

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Is 'Internet Addiction' Real? What started out as web surfing by a healthy teen descended into online obsession and isolation. Was it depression, internet addiction or both? Whatever you call it, rehab is now part of the answer. Read more on NPR

Morning News Brief: Robert Mueller As Special Counsel, New Google Products Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been appointed as a special counsel to investigate Russian influence in the election. And Google has unveiled its latest product ideas. Read more on NPR

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Total Failure: When The Space Shuttle Didn't Come Home In Part 1 of the series Total Failure, a former NASA official recalls the disastrous mission of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003 and how the accident changed his life forever. Read more on NPR

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Long Before 'WannaCry' Ransomware, Decades Of Cyber 'Wake-Up Calls' "The [WannCry] attack is a wake-up call for all of us," Microsoft's president wrote about last week's incident. How many times have we heard cyberattacks described this way? Let's look back. Read more on NPR

WannaCry, Gonna Cry: Cybersecurity In The Face Of Ransomware We live on a hackable planet. How do we stay safe? Read more on NPR

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