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Tech Incubator Faces Challenges Of Tackling Sexual Harassment Among Investors Y Combinator, an influential startup incubator, sends its entrepreneurs a form to report sexual harassment. Such reports influence what venture capitalists get invited to its prestigious Demo Day. Read more on NPR

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Watchdog Group Files Complaint Over Google Tracking In-Person Purchases Using search and app data, combined with third-party credit card records, Google can link online ad viewing to purchases at physical stores. User privacy may be at risk, an advocacy group says. Read more on NPR

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Familiar-Looking Numbers Are The Latest Twist In Robocalls Ailsa Chang looks at a now rampant kind of robocalling — neighbor spoofing. These are automated calls coming from phone numbers that look strangely similar to the recipient's own phone numbers. Read more on NPR

Timeline: Foreign Efforts To Hack State Election Systems And How Officials Responded For all the focus in 2016 on the cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, less attention was paid to what was happening in the states. Read more on NPR

How Steve Jobs Helped This North Korean Defector 'Think Different' When Kim Hak-min got to South Korea, he saw his first-ever smartphone, the iPhone 4. It changed his life trajectory. Read more on NPR

This Wisconsin 'Chip Party' Doesn't Come With Cheese Dip Some employees of 32M have volunteered to have microchips implanted in them. NPR's Noel King and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor of information studies Michael Zimmer, explore the risks. Read more on NPR

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For Maine Islands, Internet Means Opportunity Residents of some Maine islands say lack of decent internet is keeping them from participating in the economy. Jobs are in short supply and telecommuting isn't practical. Read more on NPR

Apple Accused Of Removing Apps Used To Evade Censorship From Its China Store VPNs can be used to skirt China's "Great Firewall" of Internet censorship. China is among Apple's biggest markets, and the company has shown a willingness to comply with Beijing's demands. Read more on NPR

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British Hacker Known As 'Spiderman' Sentenced Over Cyberattack The 29-year-old man was given a suspended sentence of one year and eight months in an attack that reportedly knocked out Internet for nearly 1 million people in Germany in November. Read more on NPR

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How New York's Roosevelt Island Sucks Away Summer Trash Stink Underneath high-rise apartment buildings along the 2-mile island, an automated trash disposal system whisks away nearly 6 tons of trash per day through pipes and tubes. Read more on NPR

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Pakistani Ride Sharing App Puts A Matchmaker In The Car The Careem app ran a campaign: Book a car — and a matchmaker will join you. The company thought it was funny. But a lot of women hated it. Read more on NPR

Social Media Lets Anti-Government Bundys Reach Followers Groups who monitor far-right extremists warn that anti-government militants are increasingly using social media to promote armed protests and violence. Read more on NPR

Rep. Keith Ellison On Trump And The Media Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison tells Rachel Martin that he thinks Twitter should ban President Trump after the president tweeted insults to members of the media. Read more on NPR

Morning News Brief: Health Care, Transgender Service Members, Foxconn, Charlie Gard Republicans continue debating health care plans while President Trump tweeted about transgender people in the military. Tony Romm of Recode discusses electronics-maker Foxconn's U.S. factory plans. Read more on NPR

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Hospitals Face Growing Cybersecurity Threats Cyberattacks and data breaches are common at health care facilities, and they can put patients' health at risk. Hospitals are behind the curve in beefing up defenses, industry analysts say. Read more on NPR

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Military Tries To Cut Through The Noise Of War Noise on the battlefield leads to problems communicating and other dangers. The military is making new efforts to enhance some sounds and dampen others. Read more on NPR

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To Keep Drivers From Leaving, Uber Tries To Treat Them Better Uber is changing its harsh termination policies and launching a hotline for drivers in distress. Leaders at the tech company are trying to repair the relationship they say is "broken." Read more on NPR

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In Bid To Keep Drivers From Leaving, Uber Tries To Treat Them More Kindly Uber is changing its harsh termination policies and launching a new hotline for drivers in distress. Leaders at the tech company are trying to repair the relationship they say is "broken." Read more on NPR

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Alabama Woman Stuck In NYC Traffic In 1902 Invented The Windshield Wiper Entrepreneur Mary Anderson thought it made no sense that New York streetcar drivers had to keep jumping off to clean snow from the windshield. She soon won a patent for her "window cleaning device." Read more on NPR

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Apple Unveils 56 New Emoji — Including T. Rex And A Zombie The world is getting new emoji. Emjoi expert Jeremy Burge talks with Robert Siegel about who gets to decide what icons join the emoji lexicon and how the meaning of those icons can change. Read more on NPR

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Are Helicopter Parents Ruining Summer Camp? In a wired world, summer camp is one of the last phone-free zones. But campers, staff and especially parents don't always appreciate the message. Read more on NPR

Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake Autonomous vehicles have gotten pretty good at detecting other cars and pedestrians. But "seeing" bikes and predicting what they'll do is still a challenge. The answer may lie in bikes themselves. Read more on NPR

Creating A 'Dadbot' To Talk With A Dead Father NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with James Vlahos about his article in Wired. He wrote about creating a chatbot that allows him to "communicate" with his father who died of cancer. Read more on NPR

Screen Saviors: Can Activism-Focused Games Change Our Behavior? In recent years, there has been an influx of games centered on social and political issues from sexism to racism to the refugee crisis. In one of the latest, you rescue animals in a slaughterhouse. Read more on NPR

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Sing Different: Steve Jobs' Life Becomes An Opera The Apple co-founder's complicated story is the subject of The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs, by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. It premieres Saturday in Santa Fe. Read more on NPR

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I Sink, Therefore I Am: This Robot Wasn't Programmed For Existential Angst After a security robot drowned in a fountain in Washington, D.C., NPR's Scott Simon muses on robot suicide, and how long it will be until a robot has the capacity to question its own existence. Read more on NPR

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A Future Of Gadgets Without Power Cords? Not So Fast This month, the first wireless-charging laptop hit the market. But making wireless power a standard consumer feature is a big technological — and psychological — challenge. Read more on NPR

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Spotify Sued, Yet Again, Over Compositions Two new lawsuits against the music streaming leader landed this week, over issues that have already twice led to settlements. Read more on NPR

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How Did The Afghan All-Girl Team Do At The Robotics Competition? The Afghan team made headlines even before the event started when their visas were denied. But they made it after all! Read more on NPR

Justice Department Announces Seizure Of Dark Web Marketplace The Department of Justice announced Thursday its seizure of an international marketplace on the dark web. AlphaBay provided an anonymous site for people selling illegal drugs, firearms and other items. Read more on NPR

In Rural Oregon, Efforts To Bring In Large Data Centers Raise Housing Costs In places like rural Oregon, politicians are working to bring in large data centers to town. It's great for folks who want good jobs but don't want to move away. But it's also raising housing costs. Read more on NPR

Justice Department Announces 'Largest Darknet Takedown In History' A joint operation by the department, the FBI and international law enforcement has shut down AlphaBay and Hansa, two of the world's largest anonymous marketplaces for illicit drugs and goods. Read more on NPR

Elon Musk Says He Has 'Verbal' OK To Build N.Y.-D.C. Hyperloop There's still much to do before getting formal approval, the entrepreneur adds. Hyperloop has the goal of reaching speeds of more than 700 mph, using magnetic levitation in a vacuum environment. Read more on NPR

U.S. Ends Laptop Ban On Flights From Middle East The ban originally affected ten airports and nine airlines, mostly Middle Eastern carriers. Meanwhile, the U.S. has issued additional security requirements affecting some 280 international airports. Read more on NPR

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Congress Struggles To Keep Up With Regulations For Self-Driving Cars Cars that drive themselves are a thing of the not-so-distant future. But Congress is having a hard time keeping up regulations to go with the technological change. Read more on NPR

Getting Really Smart About Artificial Intelligence AI isn't on the way … it's already here. Read more on NPR

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The YouTube Star Who's Teaching Kids How To Bake Celebrity chef Rosanna Pansino hosts the YouTube show Nerdy Nummies and has more than 8 million subscribers. Among her fans are thousands of children who want to learn how to bake. Read more on NPR

Musk's Warning Sparks Call For Regulating Artificial Intelligence Elon Musk is warning that artificial intelligence is a "fundamental existential risk for human civilization." Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is looking into how states can respond. Read more on NPR

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With Entry Into Interest Curation, Google Goes Head-To-Head With Facebook In the feed, users will get a stream of news, photos and more based on their search histories and interests across Google products. The company promises a different, less friend-filtere d experience. Read more on NPR

Tour Rio De Janeiro's Oldest Slave Port With This New App Rio de Janeiro was home to the Americas' largest slave port, which received nearly a million slaves over several centuries. Now modern day Cariocas have developed an app that provides an immersive tour through that history. Read more on NPR

When Robot Face-Plants In Fountain, Onlookers Show Humanity — By Gloating The Knightscope K5 is a state-of-the-art machine, a patrol bot built to rove complexes in search of "unusual activity." But on Monday, it appeared to have a little trouble with stairs. Read more on NPR

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Font Could Be The Key To Corruption Probe Of Pakistan's Prime Minister An investigation into Nawaz Sharif's wealth found forensic evidence that papers were forged to "camouflage truth." A document dated 2006 uses Calibri, a font that wasn't widely available until 2007. Read more on NPR

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