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It's A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One A broad new national survey examines media use amoung children and teenagers and the very different ways young people are using their devices. Read more on NPR

Twitter Bans Political Ads Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the platform will ban all political ads. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Russia Director Out At NSC, Twitter Bans Political Ads, PG&E A key witness in the impeachment inquiry is set to leave his top post on the National Security Council. Also, Twitter bans political ads and the latest on PG&E and wildfires in California. Read more on NPR

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Twitter To Halt Political Ads, In Contrast To Facebook CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will stop running political ads, citing online ads' "significant risks to politics." Facebook has been criticized for allowing deceptive political ads. Read more on NPR

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'Mr. Robot' Creator Says His Own Anxiety And Hacking Helped Inspire The Show In college, Sam Esmail shied away from parties and instead took refuge in the the computer lab, where he experimented with hacking. He later built on those experiences to create his hit show. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Pays $643,000 Fine For Role In Cambridge Analytica Scandal Facebook paid the fine to the U.K.'s data protection watchdog, but it also made no admission of liability. Read more on NPR

Facebook Takes Down Accounts Tied to Russian Businessman Behind 'Troll Factory' Facebook said the influence campaigns were tied to Yevgeny Prigozhin, an associate of Vladimir Putin who was indicted for running the troll factory that meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election Read more on NPR

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Facebook Feels Pressure On Political Ad Policy Facebook workers are the latest critics urging the social network to change its political advertising policy. They say the company should hold political ads to the same standards as all other ads. Read more on NPR

Australia Accuses Google Of Misleading Consumers Over Location Data The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said that Google purposefully misled Android users into thinking their personal data was not being collected. Read more on NPR

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Protecting The Voices 'Beyond The Valley' Professor Ramesh Srinivasan's new book explains the challenges at the intersection of technology and democracy. Read more on NPR

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Report: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Own A Smartphone By Age 11 American teenagers spend 7 hours, 22 minutes per day on average with screen media, not counting schoolwork or homework. That's according to the newly released Common Sense Census. Read more on NPR

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U.S. Campaign Ads Are Popping Up On Russian Propaganda YouTube Channels On YouTube, campaign ads have begun appearing on Russian propaganda channels. But it may be the algorithm, not collusion. Read more on NPR

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Fast DNA Sequencing Can Offer Diagnostic Clues When Newborns Need Intensive Care Rapid genome decoding and analysis have made it possible to quickly diagnose some baffling rare diseases that make babies sick. Even when there's no cure, the information can help families cope. Read more on NPR

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Do Robots Or Trade Cost Jobs? NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks about whether automation and robots, or bad trade policies pose a bigger threat to jobs in America. Read more on NPR

Facebook Rolls Out Its News Feature NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ken Doctor, a media consultant and analyst, about the "News" feature Facebook launched this week for users on its mobile app. Read more on NPR

Pentagon Awards $10 Billion Contract To Microsoft Over Front-runner Amazon "We're surprised about this conclusion. AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing," an Amazon Web Services spokesperson told NPR. The contract is for 10 years. Read more on NPR

The Importance Of Preserving Videos Of War Crimes NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Dia Kayyali, program manager for Witness, about YouTube's removal of videos considered to be evidence of human rights violations in countries such as Syria and Yemen. Read more on NPR

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The News Roundup - Domestic House Republicans go where they're not invited. Mark Zuckerberg is grilled on Capitol Hill. Read more on NPR

'SIM-Swap' Scams Expose Risks Of Using Phones For Secondary I.D. Security experts say our growing reliance on cell phones to help confirm our identity online is motivating "SIM-swap" scams to highjack our numbers. Read more on NPR

Trump Ads Alongside Russian Propaganda: It's Not Collusion. It's An Algorithm Some familiar political advertisements end up alongside Russian government-backed messaging online. But it's not Moscow's doing. It's about Google — and you. Read more on NPR

Elephants Under Attack Have An Unlikely Ally: Artificial Intelligence Conservationists are deploying audio recorders, neural networks and predictive analytics in a bid to save elephants from extinction. Read more on NPR

Facebook News: App Will Offer Hand-Picked Stories From NPR, Other Outlets Amid criticism of its role in spreading misinformation, the social media giant unveils a feature promoting stories that are "deeply-reported and well-sourced" — and picked by real journalists. Read more on NPR

As President Trump Tweets And Deletes, The Historical Record Takes Shape Trump's tweets are considered part of the presidential record, which federal law says must be preserved. His deleted posts are alarming experts and prompting grassroots archival efforts. Read more on NPR

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How Hijacked Cellphone Numbers Can Be Security Risks People have come to rely on cellphones to help confirm their identities online. Security experts say that's motivating scammers to try to hijack people's phone numbers. Read more on NPR

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BBC Launches Tor Mirror Site To Thwart Media Censorship The BBC hopes people in countries that have blocked their website, such as China, Iran and Vietnam, could now have unrestricted access to the British news service. Read more on NPR

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China's Tech Giant Huawei Spans Much Of The Globe Despite U.S. Efforts To Ban It America's lobbying against the brand has had limited success. Many countries in Europe, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East are continuing their 5G rollout with at least some Huawei equipment. Read more on NPR

FACT CHECK: Do Robots Or Trade Threaten American Workers More? Democratic presidential candidates have divergent world views on whether automation or trade policy is to blame for lost jobs. Read more on NPR

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Faces Lawmakers' Questions On Digital Currency And More Mark Zuckerberg is defending Facebook on Capitol Hill. Members of the House Financial Services Committee are grilling the CEO about the company's plans for a new digital currency and other issues. Read more on NPR

Google Claims To Achieve Quantum Supremacy — IBM Pushes Back Google employees say they have built a computer capable of solving problems that current technology cannot. Read more on NPR

Sen. Mark Warner On Social Media, Syria And The Election The Virginia politician realizes that digital tools, even if they don't cost anything, are never really free. Read more on NPR

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Itty-Bitty Satellites Take On Big-Time Science Missions CubeSats are only about twice the size of a Rubik's Cube. Once dismissed as tools for students learning the principles of aerospace engineering, they're now being used for more sophisticated missions. Read more on NPR

Mark Zuckerberg Offers A Choice: The Facebook Way Or The China Way In prepared remarks to Congress, the CEO acknowledges Facebook is not "the ideal messenger" for its digital currency plan, but says innovation is essential to American financial leadership. Read more on NPR

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Former Cambridge Analytica Director Says She Saw Company Techniques 'As Savvy' There's a victim-blamey tone in Brittany Kaiser's memoir Targeted, but what it offers over other look-backs is a more in-the-room account of what exactly, she alleges, was in the company's pitch deck. Read more on NPR

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VIDEO: The Military Discovered A Way To Boost Soldiers' Memories, And We Tried It Researchers have found that giving your brain an electrical stimulation while you sleep can lead to quicker learning and improved memory. Future You's episode 6 explores what this will mean in 2050. Read more on NPR

A Soccer Team In Denmark Is Using Facial Recognition To Stop Unruly Fans Past matches between archrivals Brondby and Copenhagen have resulted in mayhem and arrests. So the Brondby team has begun screening fans to make sure banned spectators aren't allowed in the stadium. Read more on NPR

'We Have A Big Responsibility:' Facebook Rolls Out New Election Security Measures The social network is fighting foreign efforts to manipulate and mislead its users ahead of the 2020 presidential election. CEO Mark Zuckerberg called election security one of his "top priorities." Read more on NPR

What Breaking Up Big Tech Might Look Like NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Tim Wu, a professor of law, science and technology at Columbia Law School, about how to break up big tech and increase competition. Read more on NPR

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Kara Swisher's Take On Mark Zuckerberg's 'Free Speech' Speech NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the editor-at-large of Recode, Kara Swisher, about Mark Zuckerberg's controversial speech at Georgetown University on Facebook's policy governing political ads. Read more on NPR

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Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch Two Years Before Deadly Crash One pilot messaged that the problem was "egregious" and he had "basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly)" when he had told the FAA that the flight control system was safe. Read more on NPR

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Drone Delivery Is One Step Closer To Reality Walgreens is testing out delivery from store to door by drone in Virginia, and UPS won approval to expand air delivery of medical supplies. Read more on NPR

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Discusses Free Speech With Georgetown Students Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will address Georgetown University students about free speech. Facebook and other platforms like Twitter are under pressure to define how they are policing free speech. Read more on NPR

Who Has The Right To Be Forgotten? EU citizens have the right to be forgotten. Why don't Americans? Read more on NPR

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Fortnite Unveils New Chapter After Two-Day 'Black Hole' Shutdown More than 5.5 million people watched the dramatic end of Fortnite's first chapter on Sunday. On Tuesday morning, the game relaunched as Fortnite Chapter 2. Read more on NPR

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