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Biometric Data And The Rise Of Digital Dictatorship As historian and author Yuval Harari suggests, market forces and investor greed will keep moving the data revolution forward. But there are balancing forces to this onslaught, says Marcelo Gleiser. Read more on NPR

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Google Received 650,000 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests Since 2014 The search giant says in a new report that beginning in mid-2014, after a court ruling on the "right to be forgotten," it received 650,000 requests to delist 2.4 million URLs from search results. Read more on NPR

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Amazon Acquires Ring, Expanding Reach Into Home Security The tech giant bought the smart-doorbell maker in a deal reportedly exceeding $1 billion on Tuesday. It marks another big step into the camera surveillance business for the online retailer. Read more on NPR

House To Vote On Online Sex Trafficking Bill The House votes Tuesday on a bill giving prosecutors and victims more power to hold websites accountable for sex trafficking on their platforms. Some companies and digital rights groups oppose it, saying it will chip away at the legal immunity that's a pillar of the Internet. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who wrote the Senate version, tells NPR the tech industry is overreacting. Read more on NPR

Why Diesel-Powered Cars Are Bigger In Europe Than In The U.S. Diesel-powered cars are bigger in Europe and the rest of the world than in the United States, but why? A big part of it is the failure of U.S. carmakers to make a reliable diesel car in the 1970s, while another part of it is that diesel engines are nosier and pollute more. Read more on NPR

New Front In Data Privacy At The Supreme Court: Can U.S. Seize Emails Stored Abroad? The Supreme Court to decide whether a U.S. warrant can compel Microsoft to turn over a user's emails stored in Ireland. Read more on NPR

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Rapper 50 Cent, Who Bragged About Owning Bitcoin, Now Denies It Last month, the artist, whose is filing for bankruptcy, said he "forgot" he owned the cryptocurrency, which by some estimates would have been worth nearly $8 million. Read more on NPR

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How Hackers Could Cause Global Chaos. An Anarchist Explains On the TV show Mr. Robot, the lead character is a hacker who breaks into computer systems to promote a cause. Real-life hacktivist Barrett Brown served time for being part of Anonymous. Read more on NPR

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An Artist Sees Data So Powerful It Can Help Us Pick Better Friends It can feel intrusive to have so much data collected about us, but Laurie Frick is optimistic about how big data will evolve. She says it could help us evaluate how we respond to other people. Read more on NPR

Sometimes We Feel More Comfortable Talking To A Robot Artist Alexander Reben wants to know whether a robot could fulfill our deep need for companionship. He created a robot named BlabDroid that asks people to share their raw emotions and deep secrets. Read more on NPR

A Student Solution To Give Utah Debtors A Fighting Chance In Utah, the majority of civil lawsuits are debt related; nearly all of the debtors face those suits without any legal help. A group of law students at Brigham Young University wants to change that. Read more on NPR

Trump Administration Restricts H-1B Worker Visas Coveted By High Tech It's another step in fighting potential fraud and abuse in the program that brings 85,000 highly skilled workers into the U.S. every year. More detail is required on why the workers are needed. Read more on NPR

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How 1 Tweet From Kylie Jenner Caused Snap, Inc. To Lose $1 Billion NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Will Oremus, a senior technology writer at Slate about how a recent tweet by Kylie Jenner caused Snap, Inc. — the parent company for Snapchat — to lose more than $1 billion. Read more on NPR

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This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car — To Prove A Point Everything from cars to thermostats is being connected to the Internet, raising security concerns. Samy Kamkar, who once hacked MySpace, hopes exposing vulnerabilities will make these things safer. Read more on NPR

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Iran May Follow Venezuela In Launching Its Own Cryptocurrency The move, announced by a government official in a tweet on Wednesday, raised fears of rogue states using virtual currencies to evade sanctions. Read more on NPR

Take A Peek Inside The Market For Stolen Usernames And Passwords Our usernames and passwords, to all kinds of websites, are for sale on the dark web. Some, like bank account passwords, are obviously valuable. But hackers can extract money from this information in all kinds of creative ways. Read more on NPR

FCC Takes Another Step Toward Repeal Of Net Neutrality The agency has formally published the order to undo net neutrality rules, which opens the door for lawsuits by state attorneys general and others. Congress could also decide to block the repeal. Read more on NPR

SpaceX Completes Successful Launch, Narrowly Misses Catching $6 Million Nose Cone As part of his "rocket reusability" ethos, Elon Musk had hoped to use a giant net on a boat to catch the rocket's protective covering. It turns out it's hard to catch stuff falling from space. Read more on NPR

Synergy Between Nurses And Automation Could Be Key To Finding Sepsis Early A bedside computer loaded with software that tracks vital signs in the ICU can pick up early warning patterns, specialists say. But it takes a human care provider to sort the signal from the noise. Read more on NPR

FCC's Repeal Of Net Neutrality On Track To Go Into Effect In April The FCC has formally published the order to undo net neutrality rules, starting the two-month countdown to the repeal going into effect. State attorneys general, advocacy groups are filing lawsuits. Read more on NPR

Installation Progresses On Bezos-Backed 10,000-Year Clock A 500-foot-tall clock is being constructed inside a mountain in West Texas on property owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. It is the brain child of inventor Danny Hillis. Read more on NPR

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Crude, Expensive And Effective: How Russia Impacted The Election A Russian campaign aimed to spend a million dollars a month to destabilize American democracy. But the money didn't pay for sophisticated hackers. Instead, it bought Facebook ads and Twitter accounts. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Shooting Survivors Meet Trump, Students Protest For Gun Control President Trump met with survivors of school shootings Wednesday. Also, students in Florida protested in support of gun control and Mashable's Kerry Flynn discusses Twitter's purge of alleged bots. Read more on NPR

As Washington Gears Up To Tackle Foreign Influence, How Effective Can It Be? Leaders in Congress and elsewhere in D.C., including top DOJ officials, want to start taking concrete steps to defend the 2018 elections from another foreign attack. But it's a big, broad challenge. Read more on NPR

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Russian Trolls Are Flooding Social Media With Messages Meant To Increase Tensions In U.S. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., about how Russian bots are still flooding social media, including fomenting American tension over the Florida school shootings, and what he thinks should be done about it. Read more on NPR

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Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes More than a third of patients with cancer of the esophagus responded to experimental treatment in China with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Several CRISPR studies are underway there. Read more on NPR

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Russian Bots Are Spreading False Information After The Florida Shooting It's known that Russian groups used Facebook and other social media platforms to spread false information during the 2016 election, but now Russian bots are doing the same after the Florida shooting. So, how are tech giants thinking about tackling these issues and making sure the same thing doesn't happen in this year's midterm election? Read more on NPR

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Michio Kaku Predicts "The Future of Humanity" The futurist and physicist talks about mankind's next giant leap. Read more on NPR

Facebook Is Counting On Postcards To Prevent Future Election Interference Under fire for its role in the presidential election, the social network giant unveiled plans involving snail mail to verify the identity of advertising buyers and stop future foreign manipulation. Read more on NPR

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At The Winter Olympics, Robots Are Here To Help. But Don't Assume They Work All Hours Directions, weather reports and water bottles are a few things robots are delivering at the Olympics. They're also helping South Korea present itself as a tech-savvy nation with an eye on the future. Read more on NPR

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Artists And Criminals: On The Cutting Edge Of Tech Sci-fi authors like William Gibson foresaw what the Internet would bring. Inspired by their visions, NPR's Laura Sydell set out to see what artists and criminals think about and do with technology. Read more on NPR

The Father Of The Internet Sees His Invention Reflected Back Through A 'Black Mirror' The titans of Silicon Valley have a grand vision of the future. But they have a tendency to miss the downside of their inventions — think cybercrime and online harassment. Read more on NPR

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'Automating Inequality': Algorithms In Public Services Often Fail The Most Vulnerable Author Virginia Eubanks argues that automated systems that governments across the U.S. use to deliver benefit and welfare programs are often rigged against the very people who need it most. Read more on NPR

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Uber Eats Driver Allegedly Shoots And Kills Customer In Atlanta Atlanta Police are seeking an Uber Eats driver in connection with the killing of a 30-year-old customer during a delivery. Read more on NPR

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Scientists Develop A Way To Use A Smartphone To Prevent Food Poisoning A microscope that clips on to your phone's camera can detect bacteria, such as salmonella or E. coli, even in tiny amounts. But the technology can't yet distinguish between good and bad bacteria. Read more on NPR

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Should The Parkland Shooting Change How We Think About Phones, Schools and Safety? Security experts say allowing students to have their phones with them during the school day is unlikely to make anyone safer. Maybe even the opposite. Read more on NPR

Приве́т, 2018: Protecting America's Next Elections "Frankly, the United States is under attack," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says. Read more on NPR

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Google To Block 'Annoying' Online Ads That Fail To Make The Grade Starting today, Google will award ads a "passing," "warning" and "failing" designation and block some of the most annoying, including pop-ups and auto-playing videos. Read more on NPR

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Medical Records May Finally Be Coming To Your Apple Smartphone In a planned upgrade of Apple's operating system for iPhones, the Health app will include health records, so people can take detailed, personal health information anywhere. Read more on NPR

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Tech Giants Under Pressure Over Russian Opposition Leader's Posts YouTube and Instagram are reportedly facing the prospect of sanction in Russia if they do not remove posts implicating a Russian billionaire and a senior Russian government official. Read more on NPR

Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can't Engineers at Dartmouth College have developed a computer chip that can detect a single particle of light. Cameras with the chip would have visual abilities even a superhero would envy. Read more on NPR

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Malware Attacks On Olympics Could Have Come From Russia And North Korea, Experts Say An attack known as "Olympic Destroyer" is similar to ones initiated by Russian hackers in the past, cybersecurity experts say. A separate attack may have been carried out by North Korea. Read more on NPR

Taking A Page From 'Shark Tank' To Put Up Political Candidates In Austin, a political nonprofit is employing a model from the tech industry to find and train candidates. It is pitting them against each other to win campaign funding and support. Read more on NPR

Malware Attacks On Olympics Could Have Come From Russia And North Korea, Experts Say An attack known as "Olympic Destroyer" is similar to ones initiated by Russian hackers in the past, cybersecurity experts say. A separate attack may have been carried out by North Korea. Read more on NPR

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'Videocracy' Looks At What Makes A Video Go Viral A new book by Kevin Allocca, YouTube's head of culture and trends, breaks down the world of viral videos. From fans of elevators to make-your-own-slime videos, online communities that form around niche interests are as vital as the videos themselves. Read more on NPR

What Happens When You Fill A House With 'Smart' Technology Gizmodo reporters Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu talk about their recent experiment in which Kashmir lived in a smart home — complete with connected bed, coffee maker, toys and more — and Suryu tracked the data being sent from all of those devices. Read more on NPR

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Porn And The Teenage Brain There is a lot of pornography on the internet. There are a lot of teenagers with smartphones. Read more on NPR

Tech Utopianism And Our Walled Gardens: Is It Time For A Jailbreak? John Perry Barlow's death last week raised the question of whether his legacy as a fierce defender of tech freedoms and whether his influence on the generation that came after would be a lasting one. Read more on NPR

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