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Is Crimea Russian? U.S. And EU Say No, Apple Says Kremlin Can See What It Wants To The tech giant's apps are doing what the European Union and the U.S. won't: Recognizing Russia's annexation of the peninsula seized from Ukraine. Users in Russia will see it as part of their country. Read more on NPR

Why A Company In The Netherlands Has Stopped Helping Facebook Fact-Check Content NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Gert-Jaap Hoekman of Nu.nl about why the company has stopped helping Facebook fact-check content. Nu.nl was Facebook's last remaining fact-checker in the Netherlands. Read more on NPR

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Following Backlash, Twitter Offers to 'Memorialize' Accounts Of The Deceased The company received criticism after it said that it will delete accounts that hadn't logged on in over six months. It later clarified deletions will not occur until after the function is introduced. Read more on NPR

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Built For Counterterrorism, This High-Tech Machine Is Now Helping Fight Fentanyl Public health officials are adopting a law-enforcement tool, the mass spectrometer, to instantly identify potentially deadly levels of opioids in local drug supplies. Read more on NPR

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99 Bottles Of Beer On The Touch Screen: The Spread Of Self-Serve Taps Order a drink, but hold the bartender? As it becomes relatively more expensive to run restaurants and bars, some are saving money by replacing human servers with pour-your-own electronic taps. Read more on NPR

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Amazon Warehouse Employees Face Serious Injuries, Report Says A report from the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Atlantic reveals how Amazon warehouse employees are dealing with crippling injuries. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to reporter Will Evans. Read more on NPR

Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act Is Introduced In U.S. Senate Senate Democrats have unveiled an aggressive digital rights privacy bill. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to one of the measure's sponsors, Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington. Read more on NPR

Grocery Delivery Services May Rescue Thanksgiving Dinner If you've ever run to the store right before Thanksgiving, you know it can be stressful. In recent years, more Americans have relied on the Internet to save them with last-minute grocery deliveries. Read more on NPR

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How Much Should Big Tech Know About Our Personal Health Data And History? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ben Moskowitz, director of Consumer Reports Digital Lab, about big tech's move into the health care industry and whether we can preserve our digital privacy. Read more on NPR

Uber Stripped Of Its License To Operate In London Uber is fighting for survival in London after the city's transportation agency said it would not renew the company's operating license, citing safety concerns. This adds to a difficult year for Uber. Read more on NPR

Islamic State 'Not Present On The Internet Anymore' Following European Operation European Union authorities said they worked with popular online services - such as Google and Twitter - to remove videos, social media accounts and communication channels used by the Islamic State. Read more on NPR

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Tiny Tech Tips: Which Of The New, 'Hi-Fi' Smart Speakers Sounds The Best? The new generation of smart speakers don't always play nice with each other's ecosystems, but at least they all sound much better. Read more on NPR

At The Mercy Of An App: Workers Feel The Instacart Squeeze The grocery-delivery app faces a new wave of discontent. Working for an algorithm means tweaks can upend a livelihood — and being a faster, nicer, more experienced worker doesn't guarantee better pay. Read more on NPR

Climate Planners Turn To Virtual Reality And Hope Seeing Is Believing The threat of climate change and the efforts needed to adapt to it are hard to comprehend. One Maryland community hopes it can be a model for communicating the risk and prompting action. Read more on NPR

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Social Media Platforms Roll Out New Rules For Political Ads NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Kara Swisher about new rules governing political ads on some social media platforms. Read more on NPR

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Elon Musk Unveils Tesla's Cybertruck, With A Polarizing Wedge Shape The truck's unique design threw some Tesla fans for a loop. And when Musk showed off the truck's "armor glass," its windows shattered. Read more on NPR

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Twitter Adds 'Hide Reply' Function To Try To Improve Online Conversation From now on, users can hide all manner of unwanted tweets — from the slightly irksome to the totally offensive. Read more on NPR

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VIDEO: Elon Musk's Next Quest Is A Mind-Machine Meld. Let's Consider The Implications The tech entrepreneur recently said he is making implants that connect our brains to our devices. So let's explore the ethics of human upgrading — and what has technology already done to us. Read more on NPR

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U.S. Firms Get 90-Day Extension To Work With Huawei On Rural Networks The U.S. government is letting American businesses work with Chinese tech giant Huawei for another three months, in a third delay to a ban enacted in May for national security reasons. Read more on NPR

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Cybercrime Booms As Scammers Hack Human Nature To Steal Billions Cybercrime is ballooning as scammers learn to research their victims and fine-tune their psychological tricks. Read more on NPR

How Virtual Reality Can Help People Better Understand Climate Change As communities plan for sea level rise, it can be hard to convince residents of the dramatic changes in store. A California scientist is testing one possible answer: virtual reality. Read more on NPR

Unless Deadline Is Extended, U.S. Firms Must Stop Working With Huawei An extension allowing U.S. companies to keep doing business with Huawei, the blacklisted Chinese tech giant, is about to expire. Firms say the uncertainty is hurting their businesses. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Hong Kong Protests, Impeachment Probe, Huawei Deadline Clashes between Hong Kong police and protesters escalate. It's week two of public impeachment hearings. The deadline for U.S. firms to stop doing business with Huawei may be extended. Read more on NPR

The Language Of Cybercrime Cybercriminals have learned to refine the language they use in scams, making scams harder to detect and more likely to fool potential victims. Read more on NPR

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Troll Watch: Disinformation Around Impeachment Hearings NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Karen Kornbluh, senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund, about disinformation campaigns related to the impeachment hearings. Read more on NPR

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'This Isn't Speech:' Attorney Carrie Goldberg On Revenge Porn Attorney and author Carrie Goldberg was the target of revenge porn from an ex-boyfriend, and now she's built a practice helping people in similar situations. Her new book is Nobody's Victim. Read more on NPR

Apple Bans Vaping-Related Apps Apple has removed 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store. The move comes amid growing concern over the health effects of e-cigarettes and the rise of vaping-related illnesses among young people. Read more on NPR

Epstein's Death Becomes A Meme NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Don Caldwell of knowyourmeme.com about the conspiracy theories about the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Read more on NPR

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Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI. Read more on NPR

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Hey Alexa, Should We Worry About Kids And Smart Speakers? If more than one in four American households have a smart speaker — how will they affect family relationships? Read more on NPR

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Google Health Data Project Under Scrutiny Google is collecting the health data of millions of Americans in partnership with a big health care system. The project is raising questions about patient privacy. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Impeachment Hearings, Stephen Miller Emails, Google Health Data We look at what we learned in the first day of public impeachment hearings. Also, the Southern Poverty Law Center says emails show Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist theories. Read more on NPR

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How Internet Trolls And Online Extremists Are 'Hijacking' American Politics New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz spent years with far-right online extremists, embedding with them and watching them spread false news by exploiting social media. His new book is Antisocial. Read more on NPR

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How San Diego's Utility Companies Are Working To Prevent Wildfires In California, power company PG&E is using blackouts to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires. But San Diego's utility doesn't use widespread outages because of changes it made a decade ago. Read more on NPR

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A Smart Home Neighborhood: Residents Find It Enjoyably Convenient Or A Bit Creepy Smart homes let homeowners turn on lights and unlock doors from a mobile phone. But the technology also sends incredible amounts of data to big tech companies. Read more on NPR

Instagram Will Test Hiding 'Likes' On Some U.S. Accounts Starting Next Week "The idea is to try to 'depressurize' Instagram, make it less of a competition," the company's CEO Adam Mosseri announced on Friday. Read more on NPR

Long-Lost Texts Arrive If you caught heat for neglecting to send a romantic text last Valentine's Day, you might now be vindicated: Server maintenance slowed 170,000 texts to a glacial pace. They were recently delivered. Read more on NPR

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Feds Say Self-Driving Uber SUV Did Not Recognize Jaywalking Pedestrian In Fatal Crash The death of a pedestrian struck by the self-driving vehicle in Arizona last year highlights safety concerns and calls for regulating the testing of such vehicles. Read more on NPR

How Saudi Arabia Used Twitter To Spy On Dissidents NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Mark Rasch, formerly of the Justice Department's computer crime unit, about arrests of two people on allegations that they enabled Saudi Arabia to spy on Twitter users. Read more on NPR

'Ok Boomer:' Apathy, Anger And A Viral Meme Here's how a Tik Tok meme has become rallying cry for Gen-Z. It does involve SoundCloud. Read more on NPR

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'The Mysterious Affair At Olivetti' Attempts To Find A Cold War Conspiracy Biographer Meryle Secrest chases a theory that two key Olivetti computer visonaries' deaths did not happen as officially recorded. While a gripping read at times, there's not a lot of solid ground. Read more on NPR

2 Ex-Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Mike Chapple, a former computer scientist with the NSA, who says Twitter should have known that its employees were working for a foreign power. Read more on NPR

In 2020, Some Americans Will Vote On Their Phones. Is That The Future? Despite unanswered questions about security and transparency, mobile voting pilots aimed at overseas and military voters move forward in a number of states. Read more on NPR

2 Ex-Twiiter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Mike Chapple, a former computer scientist with the NSA, who says Twitter should have known that its employees were working for a foreign power. Read more on NPR

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2 Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia One of the accused accessed more than 6,000 Twitter accounts allegedly looking for information about critics of the Saudi government, according to court documents. Read more on NPR

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Uber Drivers Protest Rejection Of Labor Law That Would Extend Protections To Millions Uber drivers showed up at the homes of the company's big investors on Wednesday to protest how the ride-hailing company has made a few people incredibly rich. Read more on NPR

China Introduces Restrictions On Video Games For Minors Under new rules, late night gaming sessions and multi-hour binges are no more. Officials say these rules aim to reduce video game addiction in minors. Read more on NPR

How Social Media Platforms Decide What Makes An Ad Political NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, about how social media platforms decide what makes an advertisement political. Read more on NPR

California Attorney General Seeks Court Order To Force Facebook To Turn Over Records The attorney general's office filed a subpoena earlier this year as part of an investigation into allegations that the company misused user data. Read more on NPR

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The Doctor Will Skype You Now: Virtual Checkups Reach Bangladesh's Isolated Islands As residents of "char" islands grapple with poverty and climate change, they are often cut off from medical services. A new service could help. Read more on NPR

Blown Away: Why Police Rely On Faulty Breathalyzers A million Americans a year are arrested for drunk driving. How reliable are the tools that helped make those arrests? Read more on NPR

FCC Clears T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Deal The next hurdle is a federal trial in December in which a coalition of state attorneys general are challenging the merger as anti-competitive. Read more on NPR

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Amazon Expected To Fight Pentagon's Decision On Microsoft For $10 Billion Contract Amazon will likely fight the Pentagon's choice of Microsoft for the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, after President Trump's criticism. Microsoft's bid is said to have "hit the ball out of the park." Read more on NPR

FTC Issues Rules For Disclosure Of Ads By Social Media Influencers The consumer watchdog agency is trying to protect users from deceptive ads on social media. The influencer market on Instagram is expected to reach more than $2.5 billion in 2020. Read more on NPR

Social Media Sites Under Pressure To Prep For Census Trolls And Interference Civil rights groups and lawmakers are pushing tech companies to prepare for an onslaught of disinformation that could turn people off from the 2020 census, especially among communities of color. Read more on NPR

Kickstarting The Conversation On Crowdfunding Public radio is no stranger to crowdfunding, or as we call it, "a pledge drive." But let's take a moment to talk about a different kind. Read more on NPR

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Who's Making Spyware, Who's Buying It And How It's Being Used NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New York Times cybersecurity correspondent Nicole Perlroth about spyware, who is making this technology and how governments are often their biggest clients. Read more on NPR

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