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Emojis Of 2018: Bagels, Kangaroos, Redheads Are In. 'Frowning Pile Of Poo' Is Out The committee that selects emojis for 2018 has narrowed down its selection for the new batch. Read more on NPR

Lawsuits Mount As Apple Manages Fallout From Revelation Of Slowed iPhones While Apple's apologies and response to its slowing down of older phones might help on the public relations front, the legal issues are another matter. Read more on NPR

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Apple Issues Apology After Admitting To Slowing Down Older iPhones Apple is doing damage control after iPhone owners expressed outrage when the company admitted to intentionally slowing down older phones to preserve battery life. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Will Oremus, who is covering the story for Slate, now that Apple has put out an unsigned apology. Read more on NPR

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Move Over, 'Despacito.' These Videos Also Ruled YouTube In 2017 YouTube's top videos of 2017 include a singing oyster from Thailand, an attack on rainbow foam "squishies" from Indonesia and a dancing Kenyan president. Read more on NPR

Apple Apologizes For Slowdowns, Lops $50 Off Battery Replacement Cost "We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize," the company said in announcing a plan to help customers speed up their older iPhones. Read more on NPR

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New Wave Of Electric 2-Wheelers Hits U.S. City Streets As battery technology improves and cities get denser, some West Coast companies are targeting millennial and Gen X consumers by producing cheaper and greener mopeds, scooters and e-bikes. Read more on NPR

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How The Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets As word got out on Christmas Day about the sudden proliferation of winning tickets, a frenzy reportedly ensued. The state has suspended sales and validations of the game while it investigates. Read more on NPR

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Library Of Congress Announces It Will Be Selective In Which Tweets It Archives The Library of Congress announced on Tuesday that it will no longer archive every tweet published on Twitter. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with social media scholar Michael Zimmer about the challenges the library has faced in its efforts to collect every tweet. Read more on NPR

When Harry Met Barack: Obama Tells Prince About Life After White House Leaving the White House after the inauguration, Obama says his first thought was gratitude for his wife, Michelle. He describes days still driven by purpose, but with more leisurely breakfasts. Read more on NPR

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Yale University Hosts Hackathon Aimed At Fake News Two students, Michael Lopez-Brau and Stefan Uddenberg, won that competition by creating a plug-in for the Google Chrome browser that will help users better distinguish fake news stories. Read more on NPR

Library Of Congress Will No Longer Archive Every Tweet The library says that as of Jan. 1, it will only acquire tweets "on a very selective basis." By 2013, the archive had already amassed more than 170 billion tweets. Read more on NPR

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A Follow Up On Op-Ed: 'Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses' David Greene talks to Siva Vaidhyanathan, author and UVA Media Studies professor, who revisits his op-ed. He shares his view on how the social media giant will continue to impact politics. Read more on NPR

North Korea Designed A Nuke. So Did This Truck Driver It took decades, but John Coster-Mullen has pieced together specs for America's first nuclear bombs. Some believe his odyssey says something about North Korea's rapid nuclear progress. Read more on NPR

A Look At How Word Prediction Software Works This week's All Tech Considered looks at how words pop up when we compose messages on our devices. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Ben Medlock of Swiftkey about all you ever wanted to know about word prediction software. Read more on NPR

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Retro-Games And Consoles Are The Latest Craze in the Gamer World Many gamers are spending big money on retro-games and their consoles, even as new games and consoles are released. What's with this craze to keep the past alive? Read more on NPR

Facebook, Twitter Issue Policy Changes To Manage Fake News And Hate Speech Facebook and Twitter update their platforms in order to better manage the amount of misinformation and hate speech that show up on people's news feeds. Kerry Flynn, a reporter at Mashable, speaks with NPR guest host Ray Suarez on what to make of these changes and whether they'll be effective. Read more on NPR

The Russia Investigations: Battle Lines Drawn Over Mueller, Justice Dept. And The FBI Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe made separate visits to Capitol Hill for 17 hours' worth of closed sessions with three House committees — Intelligence, Judiciary and Oversight — this week. Read more on NPR

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Blocks, Bans And Blame: Social Media Reckons With Itself Facebook knows it can be bad for you. Twitter understands white supremacists use its service. Read more on NPR

UNICEF Is Unhappy About Lack Of Online Protection For Kids A new report looks at the dangers that youngsters face on the internet — but also points up the transformative ways in which they benefit from digital access. Read more on NPR

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Keeping Pace With The Threat Of Campaign Hacking Cybersecurity experts are worried that political campaigns are still vulnerable to hacking efforts that plagued the 2016 campaign season. Read more on NPR

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You're Not Crazy: Apple Confirms It Limits Your Smartphone's Lifespan Apple says it deliberately slows the performance of some older iPhones — an attempt to protect those phones whose aging lithium-ion batteries can't keep up with the power demands of fast processors. Read more on NPR

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Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones To Save Their Battery Life Apple is responding to owners of older phones who have increasingly said they notice slower performance after they upgrade their device's software. Read more on NPR

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Beetle Penises May Hold Clues For Better Medical Devices Male cassidine beetles have enormously long, hooked penises that are rigid in some parts and soft in others. Scientists hope studying the beetle penises could help people design better catheters. Read more on NPR

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Your Favorite Audio Stories Of 2017 On NPR One There's a difference between the news that you listen to, and the stories you love. Read more on NPR

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A Year Of The Trump Presidency, In Tweets President Trump's most popular tweets include attacks on the media, name-calling North Korea's leader and "covfefe" — whatever that is. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos Currently, the site uses face recognition to prompt users to tag themselves or their friends in photos. Now users will get alerts when a photo is posted of their face, tag or no tag. Read more on NPR

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Being Different Helped A NASA Roboticist Achieve Her Dream Ayanna Howard was 27 when she headed her first team at NASA. She talks about feeling like an outsider, and discovering that diversity drives innovation. Read more on NPR

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U.S. Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For 'WannaCry' Ransomware Attack In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert writes that after careful investigation, the U.S. is sure that Pyongyang carried out the attack in May. Read more on NPR

Why Silicon Valley Is Hiring Ex-Federal Agents Major tech companies have been growing internal crime-fighting cyber teams, often staffing them with former law enforcement agents. NPR gets a look inside one of these units. Read more on NPR

Russia-Based Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration For Banning Its Software The Department of Homeland Security has "harmed Kaspersky Lab's reputation and its commercial operations without any evidence of wrongdoing by the company," said Eugene Kaspersky. Read more on NPR

Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage Without insurance, an ambulance trip can be expensive. A new study suggests people are opting to avoid the cost by using the ride-hailing app, which frees up ambulances for more critical patients. Read more on NPR

Twitter Says It Will Ban Threatening Accounts, Starting Today In the wake of several controversies about its response to online harassment, the social media platform says it will enforce new rules that prohibit threats of violence towards individuals or groups. Read more on NPR

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On A Bad Date? These Apps Could Help You Stay Safe Safety apps are designed to help women ease out of a dating situation that seems uncomfortable or dangerous. But experts say it's also important to help friends in real life. Read more on NPR

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Hi, Robot: Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley Guest bloggers Henry Wellman and Kimberly Brink reflect on their new study shedding light on how adults, older children and young children perceive human-like robots — and what the future might hold. Read more on NPR

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We LYLAS, But It's Time To Say TTFN As AOL Instant Messanger Signs Off For Good AOL instant messenger signed off for the final time this morning — 20 years after changing online communication. Read more on NPR

DHS Wants To Build A Computer System To Help Determine Who Gets To Visit The U.S. Can a computer tell if you're going to be a productive member of society? Can it tell if you're a terrorist? The Department of Homeland Security is trying to answer these questions. The agency hopes to build a computer system to help determine who gets to visit or immigrate to the U.S., but that idea has some techies worried. Read more on NPR

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Long Island Woman Charged With Using Bitcoin To Launder Money To Support ISIS Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, allegedly used credit cards to buy more than $60,000 in cryptocurrency that she later transferred abroad. The Justice Department says she intended to join ISIS in Syria. Read more on NPR

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Facebook's Partnership With Fact-Checkers Gets Off To A Rocky Start A year ago, Facebook said it was bringing in fact-checkers from leading news organizations to combat fake news. It appears the fact-checkers have been left in the dark about the impact of their work. Read more on NPR

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FCC Repeals 'Net Neutrality' Rules For Internet Providers After a brief security evacuation, the agency voted to undo Obama-era regulations that prohibit cable and telecom companies from blocking access to websites and apps or influencing how fast they load. Read more on NPR

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FCC Set To Repeal 'Net Neutrality' Rules For Internet Providers Thursday's vote at the agency is expected to undo Obama-era regulations that prohibit cable and telecom companies from blocking access to websites and apps, or influencing how fast they load. Read more on NPR

What Could Change After Net Neutrality Repeal The FCC is expected to repeal net neutrality regulations Thursday. Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla Foundation tells Steve Inskeep that the rules provide vital protections against Internet censorship. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Senate And House Republicans Agree On Tax Bill, FCC To Repeal Net Neutrality House and Senate Republicans have hammered out details of a final tax overhaul bill. Also, the FCC is set to repeal net neutrality rules, and an update on Tanzanian U.N. peacekeepers who were killed. Read more on NPR

As FCC Prepares Net-Neutrality Vote, Study Finds Millions of Fake Comments The federal agency is about to decide if all Internet traffic should be treated equally. And yet among 22 million comments the FCC received, many were fake. Some are calling for a delay on the vote. Read more on NPR

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'I Came, I Saw, I Selfied': How Instagram Transformed The Way We Experience Art Immersive exhibits, such as "Infinity Mirrors" and Artechouse, are driving people to museums in search of the perfect snapshot. The craze is changing the way we experience art in the Instagram-era. Read more on NPR

How A Deregulated Internet Could Hurt America's Classrooms Schools use the internet for a lot of learning: researching, virtual travel, watching videos. Educators say it opens their classrooms to the world. The removal of net neutrality could change all that. Read more on NPR

How A Woman Engineer Built A Public Case Against A Sexual Harasser In Silicon Valley Niniane Wang, an experienced engineer with a startup incubator, says she was harassed by a male investor. She wanted to be certain that when she came forward, she wouldn't be ignored. Read more on NPR

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