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White House Aides Used Private Email For Official Business: 'Just Very, Very Stupid' Lawmakers want the names of any White House aides using private email accounts for official business. A law professor said using private email is "not a criminal offense. It's just very, very stupid." Read more on NPR

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40 Years Of Athletic Support: Happy Anniversary To The Sports Bra Here's a more intimate milestone in women's sports: In 1977, three women sewed two jockstraps together and the first modern was born. Read more on NPR

Trump Deleting Tweets After Luther Strange's Loss Raises Legal Questions After Roy Moore defeated the president's chosen candidate, Trump acted to remove evidence of his support. Transparency advocates argue the move is part of a larger pattern of poor record keeping. Read more on NPR

Two Viral Twitter Poets Are Rewriting The Book On Astrology Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov of Astro Poets want to bring astrology up to speed with shifting views of gender, sexuality and pop culture. Read more on NPR

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The Pitfalls Of Social Media Advertising Many companies are investing money in social media to advertise new products. But they could be paying a hidden price for those ads. Read more on NPR

Breakthrough Pain Treatment Or Snake Oil? You Decide. A painkiller cream is based on sound scientific reasoning, but hasn't undergone tests to prove it works. You can buy it on the Internet, but should you? Read more on NPR

Russia Continues To Use Social Media To Influence Public Opinion In The U.S. Congressional investigators are continuing to talk with social media companies about what is known about the role Russian bots played in last November's election and how to prevent the next onslaught. Read more on NPR

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As Scrutiny Of Social Networks Grows, Influence Attacks Continue In Real Time Trolls, bots and other mischief aimed at shaping the U.S. information environment have continued long after the presidential election even as Washington focuses on Facebook and Twitter. Read more on NPR

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Paul Horner, Fake News Purveyor Who Claimed Credit For Trump's Win, Found Dead At 38 Horner made his living making bogus reports go viral, and said he didn't expect for his stories to believed by Trump supporters. Authorities say they do not suspect foul play. Read more on NPR

Ready Or Not, Twitter Is Doubling A Tweet's Character Limit To 280 A small beta group will go through initial testing with the new character limit before Twitter slowly rolls the change out to other countries. Read more on NPR

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Twitter To Try Giving Users 280 Characters — Whether They Want Them Or Not The company says it wants to give users more room to express themselves. But many users worry it will rob Twitter of its microblogging soul. Read more on NPR

Wish You Could Soar? A $2 Million Contest Aims For Personal Flying Device A group of aviation companies and advocacy groups, backed by Boeing, have announced a competition to develop a safe and easy-to-use personal flying vehicle in the next two years. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Faces Increasing Scrutiny Over Election-Related Russian Ads Facebook is under increasing pressure to scrutinize its advertising content after it discovered that ads on the site had been placed by a Russian agency to influence the 2016 U.S. election. Read more on NPR

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The Producer Who Created 'Beat Kits' Behind Today's Pop Music Behind almost all of the popular music you hear today, there is a hidden, high-tech, economy. The Planet Money podcast has a story about a music producer who helped create this world. Read more on NPR

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Equifax Chief Steps Down After Massive Data Breach The credit reporting agency said Chairman and CEO Richard Smith is retiring — just weeks after Equifax acknowledged that hackers had accessed that personal information of up to 143 million consumers. Read more on NPR

Russian-Linked Election Ads Highlight Scope Of Facebook's Power Facebook is facing pressure after news that Russia was behind a vast number of ads that tried to take votes away from Hillary Clinton in last year's presidential election. People are now realizing the scope of the social media giant's power. Read more on NPR

How Do You Turn Around A Tech Giant? With Empathy, Microsoft CEO Says The CEO of Microsoft was hired to turn the company around. And now, just three years into the job, Satya Nadella has written a book reflecting on this monumental task — and the empathy it requires. Read more on NPR

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The Russia Investigations: Bad Week For Manafort, Social Networks In The Hot Seat Donald Trump's former campaign chairman is in the special counsel's crosshairs. Facebook and Twitter are under the interrogation lights. Here's a look back at the past week in the Russia imbroglio. Read more on NPR

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London Officials Say Uber Is Unfit To Operate In City The transport authority said Uber's approach and conduct "demonstrate a lack of corporate responsibility in relation to a number of issues that have public safety and security implications." Read more on NPR

With Power Out And Phones Down, A Struggle To Reach Loved Ones In Puerto Rico Two days after Hurricane Maria thrashed the island, most of Puerto Rico's cellular sites are down — along with the entire power grid. That has made contacting people on the island difficult. Read more on NPR

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The Next Big Focus In The Russia Investigations: Social Media Social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter played a larger role than anyone first knew in Russia's influence campaign against the 2016 U.S. presidential race — and Congress wants answers. Read more on NPR

Facebook To Turn Over 3,000 Ads To Congress In Russian Election Interference Probe The ads ran during the 2016 presidential campaign. Facebook also will give users who see one attack ad the ability to find out who the company is tageting in others. Read more on NPR

After Massive Data Breach, Equifax Directed Customers To Fake Site The credit reporting agency Equifax set up a website to help people determine if they had been affected by a cyberattack. But then, they repeatedly pointed people to a phishing site on Twitter. Read more on NPR

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SEC Says Cybercriminals Hacked Its Files, May Have Used Secret Data For Trading The Securities and Exchange Commission says the "nonpublic information" might have given the intruders an edge in the markets, but didn't contain personally identifiable information. Read more on NPR

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Quantity Of 'Skills' Doesn't Mean Quality In Amazon Echo's Alexa Amazon Echo's Alexa has helped people do all sorts of tasks. Although Alexa now has more than 15,000 so-called "skills," critics say that many of Amazon's skills are low-quality. Read more on NPR

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iPhone X's Face ID Inspires Privacy Worries — But Convenience May Trump Them Advocates are concerned facial scan data could be stolen, or that a successful rollout could make consumers more comfortable with less innocuous, less accurate uses of facial recognition technology. Read more on NPR

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Rise Of The Beerbots: Is Tech Taking The Craft Out Of Homebrewing? Automated systems have turned the messy, ancient art of brewing into a tidy hobby requiring fairly minimal skill, and of course, a smartphone or tablet. Critics ask: Where's the craft in that? Read more on NPR

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Silicon Valley's Ellen Pao Tackles Sex Discrimination, Workplace Diversity In Memoir The tech investor dives into the lawsuit that thrust her into the national spotlight and the workplace discrimination that prompted it. She says firms are largely applying "tepid diversity solutions." Read more on NPR

Cities Try Convincing Amazon They're Ready For Its New Headquarters Atlanta, Denver and other cities are making their cases for the online giant to locate its second headquarters in their area. At stake: up to 50,000 well-paying jobs and billions in investments. Read more on NPR

Apple's Face Recognition Software Has Privacy Advocates Worried Critics are concerned that the facial recognition system in the new iPhone X could be used — and misused — for other purposes. Read more on NPR

When Amazon Was Just A River In Brazil: An Early Chat With Jeff Bezos Commentator Andrei Codrescu met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 1995, back when the company was in its earliest days. We went to the archives to hear why Bezos was betting on the Internet to sell books. Read more on NPR

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Looking For Analog: Old Button-Mashing Arcades Come Back For A New Generation "I know I didn't grow up with arcades, but ... I enjoy talking with my dad about it and it's just something we bonded over," says one 17-year-old player. Read more on NPR

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Apple Gets Mixed Reactions To New iPhone's Facial Recognition Technology Clare Garvie of Georgetown University's Law Center on Privacy and Technology talks with NPR's Michel Martin about the implications of Apple's embrace of facial recognition technology. Read more on NPR

What To Do When Your Personal Information Gets Hacked The personal information of millions of people was potentially exposed after the hack of Equifax. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Lisa Gerstner of Kiplinger's Personal Finance about what you should do. Read more on NPR

What It Might Take To Stop The Data Breaches NPR's Scott Simon talks to technology writer and professor Zeynep Tufekci about what she describes as Equifax's unaccountability after a massive data breach. Read more on NPR

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High-Tech 'Bodega' Falls Short Of Tthe Real Thing Two entrepreneurs attracted criticism after they unveiled a ritzy vending machine they named Bodega. NPR's Scott Simon muses on the value of the brick and mortar stores that predate the machine. Read more on NPR

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Hacker Group OurMine Targets Vevo's Data (And Removes It By Request) The hacker group, which posted hundreds of gigabytes of data it took from the music video site on Friday, said that it had alerted Vevo about the site's failure to protect itself. Read more on NPR

3 Female Former Employees Sue Google Over Alleged Gender Pay Discrimination "It is time to stop ignoring these issues in tech," says one plaintiff. They are seeking class-action status to sue on behalf of all women employed by Google in California over the past four years. Read more on NPR

Crashing Cassini It's always best to go out with a bang. Read more on NPR

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Sam Harris: What Happens When Humans Develop Super Intelligent AI? Does superhuman artificial intelligence sound like science fiction? Not for Sam Harris. He says it's not a question of if but when — with potentially destructive consequences. Read more on NPR

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