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Data Of Some 500 Million Marriott Customers Stolen In Breach Marriott is investigating a hack of its reservation database, as data from some 500 million guests was stolen. Compromised information includes passport numbers, dates of birth and credit cards. Read more on NPR

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Marriott Says Up To 500 Million Customers' Data Stolen In Breach The hotel giant said information on up to 500 million customers worldwide was exposed in a breach of its Starwood reservation database. The data includes dates of birth and passport numbers. Read more on NPR

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Bitcoin Is Bouncing Around Again. Here Are Some Possible Causes Bitcoin is known to be volatile. But recently it has suffered a rash of notable losses. Analysts are looking to the amount of computing power used and the split of a rival cryptocurrency for answers. Read more on NPR

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Focus To Electric Vehicle Market Drives Changes AT GM General Motors says its future is in electric vehicles, but it makes much of its profit from trucks and SUVs. David Greene talks to auto reporter Micheline Maynard, who monitors GM's ups and downs. Read more on NPR

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Google Tweaks Email Program That Assumed An Investor Was Male When Google saw that one of its predictive text technologies assumed someone's gender based on occupation, it blocked the technology from using all gender-based pronouns. Read more on NPR

Critics Say YouTube Hasn't Done Enough To Crack Down On Extremist Content A year ago, YouTube faced heavy criticism for not taking down extremist content. Since then, the company has revamped its algorithm and hired content moderators. But is the new formula working? Read more on NPR

Google Employees Join Others In Asking The Search Engine To Stay Out Of China Google left China in 2010 because of government censorship. But the controversial Project Dragonfly would return a version of the search engine that would cooperate with the authoritarian government. Read more on NPR

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Cargill Tests Robotic Cattle Driver As A Way To Improve Worker Safety Hundreds of injuries — and some fatalities — are caused by cattle each year. But a new robot might be able to emulate some sounds and actions of workers, keeping them safe from kicks and attacks. Read more on NPR

'We're Taking A Stand': Google Workers Protest Plans For Censored Search In China Several employees released a letter Tuesday calling on the tech giant to halt its reported work on a proposed search engine tailored to Chinese censorship demands. Read more on NPR

Chinese Scientist Says He's Created First Genetically Modified Babies He Jiankui says he undertook the experiment in order to protect the twin baby girls from HIV. The claim is being met with international skepticism and condemnation. Read more on NPR

Thanks To Science, You Can Eat An Apple Every Day After harvest, apples can be stored for months in controlled atmosphere storage rooms where the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels are adjusted to put them into hibernation. Read more on NPR

Chinese Scientist Says He's First To Create Genetically Modified Babies Using CRISPR A scientist says he created the first genetically edited babies using CRISPR to protect them from HIV infection. The move has prompted immediate criticism as premature and reckless. Read more on NPR

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From Believeland To Blockland — Cleveland Aims To Be A Tech Hub Some civic leaders in Cleveland want the local economy to embrace blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin. It will only work if the average citizen grasps what this new cryptocurrency is all about. Read more on NPR

From Get-Out-To-Vote To Text-Out-To-Vote: The Rise Of Peer-To-Peer Texting Peer-to-peer texting, also called P2P, is becoming a key component of most campaign toolboxes, and is slowly eclipsing other social media methods as a means to use technology to promote campaigns. Read more on NPR

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No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics In a sometimes testy and awkward interview, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that despite calls for his resignation, he is not stepping down. Read more on NPR

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Optimized Prime: How AI And Anticipation Power Amazon's 1-Hour Deliveries Amazon executives often evoke magic when talking about fast shipping. Now in a race for one-hour deliveries, few retailers can afford to keep up. And few rely quite so much on artificial intelligence. Read more on NPR

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Free Speech Or Hate Speech: When Does Online Hate Speech Become A Real Threat? The Supreme Court has ruled that hate speech is protected under the Constitution. But what about social media? Several alleged perpetrators in mass shootings have ranted online before acting. Read more on NPR

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Supercomputers Assist Firefighters In Evacuations As Wildfires Spread In California Calif. firefighters use a supercomputer called comet to assist in tracking where the wildfire might lead in order to quickly issue evacuation orders and help get residents to safety. Read more on NPR

Science, Technology, Math, Engineering And Now Congress "Somebody with a technical background might think in a little bit different than the way, for instance, that a lawyer would think," says Chrissy Houlahan, a new lawmaker with a STEM background. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk Ten times a day, on average, Facebook's AI-driven self-harm detection system alerts authorities to someone who may be about to harm him or herself. Read more on NPR

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Reddit: Downvoting Conspiracy, Upvoting Community? Are disinformation and conspiracy just par for the course on “the front page of the internet?” Read more on NPR

Why Ford Is Getting Into The Scooter Business Money is going a lot of different ways in the car industry. Experts say companies are investing in new technology simply because they don't want to be left behind. Read more on NPR

Simone Giertz: What Can Making Useless Robots Teach Us About Joy? Simone Giertz is an inventor of useless robots. She finds joy and freedom in learning to build machines that are meant to fail. She shares that joy with millions through her YouTube channel. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Is On The Defensive After 'NYT' Report On Response To Russian Interference Facebook says it is cutting ties with the Washington consulting firm Definers Public Affairs, which spread disparaging information about the social network's critics. Read more on NPR

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How Amazon's New Headquarters Could Change Communities In New York And Virginia Amazon announced its expanding footprint, adding some 25,000 jobs in Long Island City in Queens and Arlington, Va. Some in those cities are worried about housing prices and congestion on the roads. Read more on NPR

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How Big Is Amazon? Amazon means shopping. But it also makes movies and smart locks, publishes books, operates stores, helps other companies deliver packages and run websites. How many Amazon brands will you recognize? Read more on NPR

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Amazon's Grand Search For 2nd Headquarters Ends With Split: NYC And D.C. Suburb Amazon is expected to divide its second headquarters between the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens and the Crystal City area in Northern Virginia, according to a person familiar with the plan. Read more on NPR

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'The Cleaners' Looks At Who Cleans Up The Internet's Toxic Content Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck discuss how their documentary tells the sobering story of the trauma and challenges faced by those who sift through social content. Read more on NPR

R.I.P. HAL: Douglas Rain, Voice Of Computer In '2001,' Dies At 90 Rain was best known for the eerie, sonorous voice he lent to HAL 9000 in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film. However, he was also celebrated for his decades of performances on the Shakespearean stage. Read more on NPR

Troll Watch: On Eve Of Midterm Elections, Misinformation Targets Bigger Political Issues New York Times columnist Kevin Roose was tracking trolls and fake news on social media during the run up to the midterm elections . Read more on NPR

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AI News Anchor Makes Debut In China "This is my very first day at Xinhua News Agency," says a sharply dressed artificial intelligence news anchor. "I look forward to bringing you the brand new news experiences." Read more on NPR

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Gab Server Subpoenaed By Pennsylvania Attorney General Tweets by Gab, a social media site used by the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, show that the site's new server host, Epik has been served a subpoena by the Pittsburgh Attorney General. Read more on NPR

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