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Inside The Movement To Improve Access To High-Speed Internet In Rural Areas Broadband Internet is a fact of life for most Americans. But 21 million people do not have access to high-speed connections at all. In rural areas, there's a move to improve the situation. Read more on NPR

Facebook's Dating App Rolls Out To U.S. Is There Appeal? NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington Post's Lisa Bonos about Facebook's new dating app. Read more on NPR

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What The Cybersecurity Company CrowdStrike Has To Do With The Trump-Ukraine Matter President Trump brought up the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike on a call with the Ukrainian president in July. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ryan Broderick of Buzzfeed News about what that means. Read more on NPR

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How The U.S. Hacked ISIS In 2016, the U.S. launched a classified military cyberattack against ISIS to bring down its media operation. NPR interviewed nearly a dozen people who lived it. Read more on NPR

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Why More Online Retailers Are Opening Brick-And-Mortar Locations Increasingly, online stores are opening up physical brick and mortar stores as a way to attract more sales. This new trend is called Clicks to Bricks. Read more on NPR

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No Plan B: Deciding Not To Have Children Because of Climate Change Faced with the prospect of severe climate disruptions, potential parents are rethinking that choice. Read more on NPR

Under Pressure To Bid Up Growth, EBay Parts Ways With Its CEO Devin Wenig, who has been chief executive since 2015, is leaving the online shopping company. Activist investors are pressing eBay to sell off parts of the business to boost its stock price. Read more on NPR

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VIDEO: What If Aging Wasn't Inevitable? The Quest To Slow And Even Reverse Aging Scientists have developed promising clock-turning treatments for mice. Could pills that mimic the benefits of exercise help humans? In this Future You: the effort to stop the symptoms of growing old. Read more on NPR

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Instagram Head Adam Mosseri On The Lessons He's Learned About Social Media Abuse NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Instagram head Adam Mosseri about the lessons he learned about social media abuses while in charge of Facebook's News Feed. Read more on NPR

Trump Vows To Release Ukraine Transcript Amid Impeachment Crescendo In D.C. The president says he would unveil the unredacted text of his much-discussed July phone conversation with Ukraine's leader. Meanwhile, Democrats neared a fever pitch on whether to impeach. Read more on NPR

'Right To Be Forgotten' Only Applies To Websites Inside EU, European Court Says The ruling is a win for Google, adding new restrictions to a 2014 EU court decision that affirmed individuals' right to have URLs removed from search results. Read more on NPR

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Instagram Head Adam Mosseri Discusses App's New Features Meant To Fight Bullying NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Instagram head Adam Mosseri about how it is adding protections for users, while preserving influencers' ability to make money through the platform. Read more on NPR

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He's Trying To Fill In The Gaps On Google Street View — Starting With Zimbabwe Not every corner of the world is yet on Google Street View. Tawanda Kanhema sees these gaps as a kind of digital divide, so he volunteers to photograph and upload some of the places left off the map. Read more on NPR

Twitter Removes Thousands Of Accounts For Manipulating Their Platform Many accounts Twitter has suspended or removed have been added to a growing archive of tweets identified as part of "state-backed information operations." Read more on NPR

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Senate Breaks Logjam On Election Security Cash, But Activists Say More Is Needed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to add $250 million for state and federal efforts to secure the election. Critics say Congress must set aside more dollars and pass a new bill. Read more on NPR

The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning Adrian Lamo was a hero in the hacker community for years. Everything changed when he began exchanging messages with U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Read more on NPR

Amazon Makes 'Climate Pledge' As Workers Plan Walkout Amazon's plans include being carbon-neutral by 2040 and buying 100,000 electric delivery vans. It faced outcry from workers, hundreds of whom planned to join the Global Climate Strike on Friday. Read more on NPR

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The Area 51 Mayhem, Explained Whatever you do, do not storm Area 51. Read more on NPR

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People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies Chinese intelligence officers like to use the professional social network — in which people often accept pings from strangers — to recruit sources within the U.S. government. Read more on NPR

U.S. Military Researchers Work To Fix Easily Fooled AI Researchers in the U.S. military are working to combat what they call "adversarial artificial intelligence." That's when someone hacks into an AI system to transmit the wrong information. Read more on NPR

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Free Software Pioneer Quits MIT Over His Comments On Epstein Sex Trafficking Case "I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations," Richard Stallman wrote on his blog. Read more on NPR

China Used Twitter To Disrupt Hong Kong Protests, But Efforts Began Years Earlier Social media networks banned hundreds of thousands of accounts last month. In NPR's assessment of the data, telling details begin to depict large disinformation campaigns. Read more on NPR

Using AI In Malawi To Save Elephants Poachers killed almost a third of the African elephant population between 2007 and 2014, a recent census found. Researchers hope artificial intelligence can help stop poachers and other threats, too. Read more on NPR

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Meet The Nuclear-Powered Self-Driving Drone NASA Is Sending To A Moon Of Saturn Almost everyone who learns about the project thinks it sounds "crazy," admits one scientist. But the technology should work. Read more on NPR

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Sophistication Of Saudi Airstrike Points To Iranian Involvement An attack over the weekend crippled a major Saudi Arabian oil facility. Evidence suggests the strike may have involved both missiles and drones and means Iran probably played a role. Read more on NPR

Most Isolated Tribe In Continental U.S. Gets Broadband The Havasupai Tribe's reservation, located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, is finally getting broadband access. Tribal members say it will improve education, health care and economic development. Read more on NPR

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A Fire Lookout On What's Lost In A Transition To Technology The number of manned fire lookouts in the U.S. is dwindling, as technology is increasingly used to spot and monitor wildfires. But can technology replace a human watch? Read more on NPR

More From Edward Snowden Six years ago, Edward Snowden gave classified documents from the U.S. government's surveillance programs to journalists. He talks about his motivations and his new memoir with NPR's Scott Simon. Read more on NPR

Uber To Pull Jump Bikes From Two Cities Shareable bikes and electric scooters have continued to create issues for cities, prompting some to implement bans and regulations. Read more on NPR

Friday News Roundup - Domestic Another former Republican politician is set to challenge the president in the primaries. And California passed a bill requiring companies to treat their contractors like employees. Read more on NPR

Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake, Regulate Big Tech Brad Smith says governments need to step in and set rules for the Internet giants. "Almost no technology has gone so entirely unregulated, for so long, as digital technology," he says. Read more on NPR

Edward Snowden Tells NPR: The Executive Branch 'Sort Of Hacked The Constitution' In an interview with NPR about his memoir, Permanent Record, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden denies any cooperation with Russian intelligence and says he would return if guaranteed a fair trial. Read more on NPR

In 'Permanent Record,' Edward Snowden Says 'Exile Is An Endless Layover' In his memoir, the former NSA contractor says he believes he's been proven right as the U.S. has amended laws regarding government surveillance. But the government still wants to prosecute him. Read more on NPR

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Lawsuits Say Lyft Doesn't Do Enough To Protect Women From Predator Drivers Dozens of women say Lyft drivers sexually assaulted them. They are suing the ride share company to force the company to make rides safer. Read more on NPR

When School Safety Becomes School Surveillance More and more schools are investing in technologies that scan social media posts, school assignments and even student emails for potential threats. Privacy experts say the trade-offs aren't worth it. Read more on NPR

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California Lawmakers Advance Bill To Redefine And Protect Gig Workers The bill, which passed the state Senate and is expected to become law, limits the kinds of workers who can be classified as contractors. It has vast implications for companies such as Lyft and Uber. Read more on NPR

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Apple Launches Video Streaming Service For $4.99 A Month Apple is entering the video streaming race, taking on Netflix, Disney and others with a new monthly subscription of $4.99. The company also announced new iPhones, as their sales have been slowing. Read more on NPR

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Louisiana Attorney General On The Multi-State Investigation Into Big Tech NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry about a new bipartisan, multi-state investigation into the business practices of large tech firms like Google and Facebook. Read more on NPR

With Next Goal To Secure 2020 Elections, Feds Seek To Absorb Lessons From 2016 The FBI and other intelligence and security agencies say they're combing the active measures playbook run against the 2016 presidential election in order to defend the next one. Read more on NPR

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Telepsychiatry Helps Recruitment And Patient Care In Rural Areas A telemedicine initiative at Meridian Health Services is making it possible to offer psychiatric care to more patients in remote areas. It's also helping recruit doctors in a tight labor market. Read more on NPR

48 States Investigating Whether Google's Dominance Hurts Competition The top legal officials of 48 states, led by Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, are announcing a major investigation into Google's dominance in search and advertising. Read more on NPR

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State Attorneys General Want To Know If Facebook And Google Are Too Big NPR's David Greene talks to Ohio Attorney General David Yost about the multi-state, antitrust probes into Facebook and the parent company of Google.(STATIONS NOTE: Facebook is among NPR's sponsors.) Read more on NPR

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Troll Watch: Deepfakes And 2020 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Paul Barrett, adjunct professor of law at NYU, about his report on what disinformation will look like in 2020 and what can be done to lessen its impact. Read more on NPR

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Attorneys General Focus On Facebook And Google Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have announced they're investigating Facebook for anti-competitive practices. Read more on NPR

Will A Massive Effort To Secure The 2020 Vote End Up Superfluous Or Not Enough? Officials at every level say they're changing their approaches to election security as the presidential race comes into view. One challenge, though, is not knowing exactly how to prepare. Read more on NPR

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Town Avoids Paying Massive $5 Million Ransom In Cyberattack New Bedford, Mass. was hit by an attack in July. Instead of paying up, the city opened communication with the attacker and bided its time until the data could be restored. Read more on NPR

Friday News Roundup - Domestic Hurricane Dorian threatens the eastern United States after devastating the Bahamas. And Texas loosens its gun safety laws after a deadly shooting. Read more on NPR

How Should Scientists' Access To Health Databanks Be Managed? Medical and genetic data from more than a million Americans are now in scientific databases. Some programs hoard the data, while others share widely with scientists, hoping to speed medical discovery. Read more on NPR

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Is Facebook Too Big? State Attorneys General Want To Know Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have launched a probe into Facebook and its market dominance. The Justice Department has also launched an antitrust review of big tech. Read more on NPR

Inglewood Community Fights Tech-Driven Gentrification Los Angeles County's tech boom is gentrifying the city of Inglewood, which investors had historically overlooked. African American residents there are working to preserve the community they've built. Read more on NPR

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Facebook And Big Tech Meet With Feds To Confer About 2020 Election Security The conference with the FBI and U.S. intelligence and security officials in California reflected a new consensus about the need to prepare against attacks aimed at the next election. Read more on NPR

FTC Fines Google $170 Million For YouTube Children's Privacy Violation NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Rohit Chopra, an FTC commissioner, who says the agency's fine against YouTube owner Google, for violating children's online privacy rules, didn't go far enough. Read more on NPR

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