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Kids, Meet Alexa, Your AI Mary Poppins Amazon has announced new kid-friendly features and parental controls for the Echo home assistant. What do AI experts think about encouraging kids to spend more time with Alexa? Read more on NPR

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In 'Emergency Contact,' Finding A Safe Space In Texts Mary H.K. Choi's new novel follows Sam and Penny, both awkward and deeply damaged people, who forge a connection first through text messages and then in real life. Read more on NPR

What's An 'Incel'? The Online Community Behind The Toronto Van Attack Reporter Arshy Mann breaks down the ideology of violent misogyny linked to the Toronto suspect: "It's quite a disturbing part of the Internet." Read more on NPR

Passenger Who Survived A Fatal Flight Is Suing Southwest Airlines On April 17, an engine that exploded caused the death of one passenger and injured others. A survivor has filed a lawsuit against the carrier, alleging she now suffers from PTSD and other conditions. Read more on NPR

Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era Jimmy Wales has spent a lot of time thinking about how to address the spread of false information. He says Internet users should take a more skeptical attitude towards things they're sharing. Read more on NPR

This Is Your Brain On Ads: How Media Companies Hijack Your Attention How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio show, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media. Read more on NPR

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Amazon Reports Huge Quarterly Profits, Hikes Prime Membership Fee Amazon's first quarter sales reached $51 billion, a 43 percent increase over last year. Its net income was $1.6 billion. Amazon also increased its annual Prime membership fee to $119 a year from $99. Read more on NPR

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Amazon's Alexa Will Help Kids Learn Manners Amazon has updated the software so that now if a kid asks Alexa to do something with a "please" attached she'll say "thanks for asking nicely." Read more on NPR

Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks-For-Hire Website Shut Down European law enforcement agencies say they've arrested administrators and shut down a marketplace that allowed customers to pay to stage attacks and knock websites offline. Read more on NPR

As User Data Scandal Persists, Facebook Reports Record Earnings Mark Zuckerberg faced investors for the first time following the user data scandal as the company reported first quarter earnings on Wednesday. Read more on NPR

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How Web Browsers Have Changed 25 Years After The Introduction Of Mosaic This week marks the 25th anniversary of the first real web browser, Mosaic, the tool that opened up the Internet to widespread use. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Updates Community Standards, Expands Appeals Process The social media company announced changes to its community standards, releasing internal review guidelines and allowing appeals of content removal decisions. Read more on NPR

Sounding The Alarm About A New Russian Cyber Threat The U.S. and U.K. governments say Russia is targeting infrastructure in the West with cyberattacks. Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity chief Jeanette Manfra explains stay safe. Read more on NPR

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How The Tiny Nation Of Georgia Became A Bitcoin Behemoth The former Soviet nation of Georgia now consumes more power in mining cryptocurrencies than the United States. What's going on? Read more on NPR

Alexa, Tell Me A National Security Secret: Amazon's Reach Goes Beyond The Post Office It's little known that the CIA uses Amazon Web Services to store its data, and, now, it's the favorite for a big-money Pentagon contract to do the same. Amazon's tentacles go to other agencies, too. Read more on NPR

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DEA Adds More Technology To Its Fight Against Heroin Former Drug Enforcement Administration official Mike Vigil tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why adding more tech to the battle against Mexican heroin production is unlikely to do much. Read more on NPR

How Social Media Companies Profit From Data Heightens Concerns Worries have increased since Facebook's CEO testified on Capitol Hill. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Om Malik, a partner at a capital firm in Silicon Valley, about what it means for the tech industry. Read more on NPR

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Betting On Artificial Intelligence To Guide Earthquake Response A California tech firm believes that artificial intelligence can help communities prepare for, and respond to, quakes. Read more on NPR

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Where To Start With End-Of-Life Decisions We should all be prepared. Now. Read more on NPR

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IRS Computer Glitch Caused By 'Master File' Issue For nearly 11 hours on the busiest tax day of the year, the agency was unable to accept tax returns. Read more on NPR

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After Alert On Russian Hacks, Bigger Push To Protect Power Grid Homeland Security and the FBI have blamed Russia for a series of cyberattacks on U.S. power plants. The industry is stepping up efforts to protect the electric grid. Read more on NPR

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Robot Puts Together IKEA Chair Researchers in Singapore say they've built a robot that was able to put together a chair from IKEA in about 20 minutes. Read more on NPR

Facebook To Offer Users Opt-Outs That Comply With New European Privacy Rules The social media giant will ask users worldwide if they want to continue sharing data for ads as well as personal information such as political and religious leanings and relationship information. Read more on NPR

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Is Netflix On Its Way To World Domination Of Streaming? Netflix flew past Wall Street expectations and added 7.4 million subscribers globally in the first quarter. But a big entertainment rival could challenge the service that made binge-watching popular. Read more on NPR

The Wednesday News Roundup You read that right. Read more on NPR

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Is Netflix On Its Way To World Domination Of Streaming? Netflix flew past Wall Street expectations and added nearly a million more subscribers last quarter than expected. The ground breaking streaming service is now in 190 countries. Read more on NPR

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It's Tax Day. And The IRS' Online Payment Service Is Down The Internal Revenue Service's online payment tool is "currently unavailable," as a note on the site informs users ahead of the midnight filing deadline. The IRS acknowledges "technical difficulties." Read more on NPR

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Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Its Use Of Facial Recognition Data Facebook users in Illinois argue that the company has violated their privacy rights under state law and the damages could amount to billions of dollars. Read more on NPR

Facebook To Face Class Action Over Facial Recognition Facebook will have to face a class action lawsuit over privacy concerns about the company's facial recognition software, a federal judge ruled Monday. Read more on NPR

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After Detailing Russian Hack, White House Cyber 'Czar' Announces Departure Rob Joyce said he was stepping down hours after a joint U.S., U.K. and Australia statement blaming the Kremlin for an a cyber attack last year. Read more on NPR

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Europe's New Online Privacy Rules Could Protect U.S. Users Too When Europe begins enforcing sweeping new privacy rules next month, it will have a major impact on U.S. tech companies, both large and small. And it could affect American Internet users as well. Read more on NPR

The Renewable Energy Movement Ramps Up In Red States Where might you find a city that uses only renewable energy? Try Texas. Read more on NPR

The 'New Power' Generation: A Manifesto For A More Humane World Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms have written a guide for spreading ideas, building movements and staying ahead. Read more on NPR

What The European Union's New Online Privacy Law Means For The U.S. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Estelle Massé, senior policy analyst for Access Now — a non-profit organization devoted to open and secure communications worldwide — about the new law adopted by the European Union to protect online privacy. Read more on NPR

Weibo Bans Gay Content — And Quickly Reverses Itself After An Outcry The massive social media company drew outrage for lumping gay-themed content in with violent and pornographic material. Read more on NPR

Disgraced Donkey Kong Master Says He's Got Proof He Didn't Cheat Billy Mitchell, a star of the documentary King of Kong, is fighting a ruling that stripped his records in the arcade classic. "Witnesses, documents, everything will be made available to you," he says. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Admits 'Enforcement Error' In How It Handled Content From Pro-Trump Duo Diamond and Silk are two Internet personalities from North Carolina — also known as Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson — who amassed an enormous following during the 2016 election. Read more on NPR

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1A Spaces Out With The Crew Of The International Space Station Blastoff! Read more on NPR

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