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Tech Stocks Have Taken A Beating This Year, And The Effects Have Been Far-Reaching After many years of flying high, mighty tech stocks have come tumbling down because of regulatory worries and slow growth. Their bad year affects companies that seemingly have nothing to do with tech. Read more on NPR

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In 2018, Streaming Services Helped Fuel A New Latin Explosion Spanish-language artists like Ozuna, J Balvin and Bad Bunny dominated YouTube with billions of plays. Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras and contributor Stefanie Fernández explain how we got here. Read more on NPR

Author Of 'The New Childhood' Advises Parents: Don't Panic About Screen Time NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Jordan Shapiro about his new book, "The New Childhood," which explains how children should engage with the digital technology around them. Read more on NPR

Cuba's Mobile Internet Access Is A Big Step, But It's Not Without Flaws The Cuban government recently extended Internet to mobile devices, a big step for Cubans living on the island under the repressive communist regime. Read more on NPR

What Asimov Predicted For 2019: Computerization And Lunar Life Computer scientist and professor Eugene Fiume talks about what science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov got right and wrong in his predictions of 2019. Read more on NPR

FCC Investigates Widespread CenturyLink Outage That Disrupted 911 Service The FCC chairman called CenturyLink's widespread telecom outage unacceptable and says an investigation will start immediately. Read more on NPR

Year Of The Woman? Women in politics, art, pop culture and sports reached great heights in 2018. But there were also reminders of inequality. Read more on NPR

How Much Of The Internet Is Fake? A Lot. How much of the internet is fake? From metrics and politics to people and businesses, according to Max Read's New York Magazine article, the answer is quite a lot. Read more on NPR

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The Unregulated Terrain Of Gene-Editing Technology A Chinese scientist's claim that he'd created the first gene-edited babies rocked the world, raising big questions about whether the scientific world is capable of policing powerful new gene-editing techniques. Read more on NPR

Patients Are Turning To GoFundMe To Fill Health Insurance Gaps Medical fundraisers account for 1 in 3 of the website's campaigns and bring in more money than any other GoFundMe category. Americans' confidence they can afford health care is slipping, some say. Read more on NPR

Virtual Reality Helps Hospice Workers See Life And Death Through A Patient's Eyes A Maine medical school and nearby hospice center are trying out a VR program aimed at fostering more empathy for dying patients among health workers-in-training. Not everyone is sold on the idea. Read more on NPR

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What's Next For Tiny Satellites? Two briefcase-sized satellites gave the control room of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November what scientists had never been able to get before: real-time information about a spacecraft's landing. Read more on NPR

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Beyond Garnish: How Science Helps An Indoor Farm Amp Up Flower Flavor Chefs are turning to Fresh Impact Farms, located in an unassuming strip mall outside of Washington, D.C., when they want edible flowers, herbs, and greens that do more than just make a pretty plate. Read more on NPR

Google's 'Duplex' Could Be Your New Personal Assistant NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to technology and science writer Annalee Newitz about Google's "Duplex" — an app that acts as your personal assistant. Read more on NPR

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Zoox Inc. Snags First California Permit To Transport Passengers In Self-Driving Cars The Silicon Valley-based company will offer ride services in its autonomous vehicles, with the supervision of a certified driver. One catch: it's not allowed to charge money. Read more on NPR

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The Words The World Turned To In 2018 Peter Sokolowski is a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about some of the Words of the Year, based on searches of the website, and the news events behind them. Read more on NPR

Huge Martian Crater 'Korolev' Appears Topped With Miles Of Pristine Snow The European Space Agency's new images show a 51-mile-wide ice-filled depression in the surface of Mars caused by the impact of a meteorite or other celestial body. Read more on NPR

How To Stop A Drone? There's No Good Answer Here's why the drone tormenting Gatwick's airport remains at large. Read more on NPR

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Lisa Nip: How Can We Engineer The Human Body To Survive On Mars ... And Beyond? Space is an extreme environment filled with radiation, and next to no oxygen. To survive there, Lisa Nip says humans are going to have to change themselves ... genetically. Read more on NPR

Stephen Petranek: How Will Humans Live On Mars? Stephen Petranek says, in the next decade, we will send humans to colonize Mars. He lays out the technology--from water-extraction to bricks made of Martian soil--that'll make life possible there. Read more on NPR

James Green: Could The Building Blocks Of Life Exist Elsewhere In Our Solar System? Earth may not be the only place in our solar system with life, says James Green. New data shows life might have existed on Mars, and could exist now. But what does that mean for us on Earth? Read more on NPR

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Amazon Customer Receives 1,700 Audio Files Of A Stranger Who Used Alexa The incident reportedly happened in Germany after the customer sent Amazon a request for his own data. "This unfortunate case was the result of a human error and an isolated single case," Amazon said. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Grapples With Another Privacy Scandal For Facebook, 2018 has been marked by persistent scandals. Noel King talks to author Anand Giridhadaras about the latest privacy scandal and why little has changed for the tech giant. Read more on NPR

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Report: Facebook Underreported Amount Of User Data Third Parties Had Access To A new New York Times story finds that Facebook has underreported the amount of personal user data it allowed outside companies to access. Noel King talks to Gabriel Dance, an author of the report. Read more on NPR

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Tiny Tech Tips: Finding The Perfect Headphones Finding the right pair of headphones is a pain. Having engineered more than 400 of our Tiny Desk Concerts, NPR's Josh Rogosin knows audio — and he's here to help. Read more on NPR

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Creator Of Floating Garbage-Collector Struggling To Capture Plastic In Pacific A young innovator wants to remove all the plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his invention — a long floating boom — is moving too slowly to hold the trash it collects. Read more on NPR

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Google Will Spend 1 Billion Dollars To Build New Campus in New York City Google is expanding its footprint in New York City, pledging to add jobs and spend $1 billion on a new campus. It's the latest example of a Silicon Valley giant branching out in an influential city. Read more on NPR

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Teen Girls And Their Moms Get Candid About Phones And Social Media About half of all teens say they've tried to cut back on their phone use. But one of the girls we spoke with says that's hard when "it's obviously designed to be addictive." Read more on NPR

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Facebook Says Some Users' Private Photos Were Accidentally Shared With Developers In September, a Facebook "bug" allowed developers to access images people shared with friends on Facebook Stories — or images users had not even posted. Up to 6.8 million users may have been affected. Read more on NPR

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Apple Will Build $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Adding 5,000 Jobs Apple says the move is expected to make it the largest private employer in Austin. The city already has the most Apple employees outside of the company's headquarters in California. Read more on NPR

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Chinese Hackers Are Responsible For Marriott Data Breach, Reports Say Chinese state hackers most likely attacked the reservation system at Marriott's Starwood chain which revealed details of 500 million guests, according to people familiar with the U.S. investigation. Read more on NPR

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