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NY State Attorney General On Why He's Going After Fake Social Media Accounts NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Eric Schneiderman, New York State Attorney General, about his investigation of a company selling fake followers on social media. Some of the profiles being used have been stolen from real people. Read more on NPR

Fujifilm To Acquire Photocopying Pioneer Xerox In A $6.1 Billion Deal The deal signals the end of independence for a once-iconic U.S. company. Tokyo-based Fujifilm said it will cut 10,000 jobs as part of the restructuring of its 56-year-old joint venture with Xerox. Read more on NPR

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FCC Wants To Ensure Only Those Affected By Natural Disasters Get Emergency Messages Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai is proposing changes in the way alerts are sent to cell phones, hoping to make them more targeted. Such changes might have better informed residents of Houston during last year's hurricane related flooding and California residents during wildfires. Read more on NPR

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False Hawaii Alert Sent Because Drill Said 'This Is Not A Drill' An investigation finds that the false alert sent to the state earlier this month was the result of a worker misunderstanding a drill as a true emergency. Read more on NPR

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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway And JPMorgan Chase Launch New Healthcare Company The new company will be "free from profit-making incentives and constraints" as it tries to find ways to cut costs and improve healthcare satisfaction for employees Read more on NPR

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German Carmakers Test Emissions On Humans And Monkeys Twenty-five "healthy young persons" were exposed to different concentrations of nitrogen dioxide for hours as part of a study for the car manufacturers. The gas can cause respiratory problems. Read more on NPR

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Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Soldiers' Strava Tracks Are Seemingly Exposed The Pentagon says it's looking at adding new training and policies to address security concerns, after researchers see potential security breaches in Strava's Heat Map of jogging and cycling routes. Read more on NPR

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What Kind of Screen Time Parent Are You? Take This Quiz And Find Out Are you strict, pushover or right down the middle? These nine questions could help you find the right balance when it comes to your kids and digital devices. Read more on NPR

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Montana Pushes Back On FCC Ruling To Enforce Net Neutrality NPR's Michel Martin talks with Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who signed an executive order requiring Internet service providers to follow net neutrality principles if they do business with the state. Read more on NPR

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5 Ways Election Interference Could (And Probably Will) Worsen In 2018 And Beyond Voting infrastructure is old. Social media companies are befuddled on how to react. One expert warns if the U.S. does nothing, future attacks will "make 2016 look quaint by comparison." Read more on NPR

Intelligence Community Looking At Crowdsourcing For Predicting Geopolitical Events NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Seth Goldstein, a program manager for Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, about the $200,000 prize offered to anyone able to demonstrate accurate forecasting of a geopolitical event via crowdsourcing. Read more on NPR

$400 Million Missing In Hack Of Japanese Digital Currency Exchange Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck shut down trading Friday, after hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars in digital currency. Financial regulators said they were looking into the loss. Read more on NPR

Anne Milgram: How Can Smarter Statistics Help Us Fight Crime? As New Jersey Attorney General, Anne Milgram transformed the most dangerous city in her state. She changed a criminal justice system based on gut and instinct to one supported by data and statistics. Read more on NPR

Mona Chalabi: How Can We Tell The Good Statistics From The Bad Ones? We need statistics to make fair policy decisions, but there are a lot of bad stats out there. Data journalist Mona Chalabi says you need skepticism and a list of questions to face any dubious stat. Read more on NPR

Alan Smith: Why Do We Trust Intuition Over Even The Most Reliable Numbers? For years, Alan Smith analyzed the most reliable demographic data in the U.K. — the census. He noticed people's perceptions conflicted with reality, and wondered if there was a way to bridge the gap. Read more on NPR

Joy Buolamwini: How Does Facial Recognition Software See Skin Color? Facial analysis technology is often unable to recognize dark skin tones. Joy Buolamwini says this bias can lead to detrimental results — and she urges her colleagues to create more inclusive code. Read more on NPR

Cathy O'Neil: Do Algorithms Perpetuate Human Bias? Mathematician Cathy O'Neil says algorithms embed existing bias into code — with potentially destructive outcomes. Everyone should question their fairness, not just computer scientists and coders. Read more on NPR

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What's New At The Detroit Auto Show New cars on display at the Detroit auto show are full of fancy new technology. But it doesn't have anything to do with automation or self-driving. Read more on NPR

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Grumpy Cat Awarded $710,000 In Copyright Infringement Suit A jury said that Grenade Beverages illegally used the social media star's likeness on a line of coffee grounds and t-shirts promoting its "Grumppuccino" brand iced coffee. Read more on NPR

Logan Paul Issues Suicide Awareness Video, In Return To YouTube Three weeks after a backlash over footage of a dead body in Japan's "suicide forest," Logan Paul publishes a new video. It focuses on a suicide survivor and promotes awareness. Read more on NPR

'Don't Think A Robot Could Do This': Warehouse Workers Aren't Worried For Their Jobs A new NPR/Marist poll found that 94 percent of American workers think it's unlikely they would lose jobs to automation. At a New Jersey warehouse, many workers say they're confident in their future. Read more on NPR

Spotify's Unusual IPO Model Will Test The Company's Strength Spotify's IPO, slated for this spring, gives investment banks a smaller role in the company's trading. It's been seen as a sign of Spotify's strength, but there are many unanswered questions. Read more on NPR

50 Cent: 'I Forgot' Taking 700 Bitcoins For 2014 Album; Stake Is Now Worth Millions 50 Cent agreed to accept bitcoin from people buying his Animal Ambition album. The value of those sales has now skyrocketed: The rapper's holding is worth more than $7.5 million. Read more on NPR

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Google's Space Race To The Moon Ends, And Nobody Wins Lunar X Prize When it was announced in 2007, the prize's organizers said they expected it to be claimed before the original deadline of Dec. 31, 2014. One team raised more than $90 million. Read more on NPR

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Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way? We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education. Read more on NPR

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Welcome To The Age Of Digital Transcendence Smartphones have become an extension of the owner; it is the closest we've ever become to being omnipresent and omniscient and — in a metaphorical sense, at least — divine, says Marcelo Gleiser. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Says Social Media Can Be Negative For Democracy "As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it's being used in unforeseen ways with social repercussions that were never anticipated," says Facebook. Read more on NPR

No Carts, No Cashiers: Amazon Opens Brick-And-Mortar Convenience Store Amazon opened its new brick-and-mortar convenience store to the public on Monday in Seattle. There are no carts or cashiers, and it's BYOB situation, meaning customers have to provide their own bags. Read more on NPR

Tech Companies Working On Fixes For Fake News As Midterms Approach Fake news, hate speech and foreign interference are the notable examples of what went wrong online during the 2016 campaign. Facebook, Google and Twitter want to avoid a repeat in the 2018 midterms. They're working on fixes, but the solutions won't be easy. Read more on NPR

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Amazon's Cashier-Less Seattle Grocery Opens To The Public The store, which had been open only to Amazon employees for the past year, uses a smartphone app and a network of cameras to track a customer's purchases. Read more on NPR

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How Apps Helped Log One Long-Distance Couple's 'Love Letters Of Our Time' The odds of finding your future mate on an anonymous chat site seem low. But that's how a woman in Detroit and a man in Wales met. And their romance blossomed thanks to apps like Snapchat and Skype. Read more on NPR

How Dangerous Is Misinformation On Facebook? NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Roger McNamee, a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook. He believes the company threatens democracy because it has helped spread fake news. Read more on NPR

Facebook Moves To Decide What Is Real News It will combat fake news by pushing up news articles that come from "high quality" sources, and pushing down the others. It's asking users which news organizations they trust. Read more on NPR

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What's The Best Way To Help Refugees Land A Job? Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab has created an algorithm to predict where a refugee has the best chance of finding employment. Read more on NPR

Cryptocurrency Investors Worry, Wait After Bitcoin Price Drop There are hundreds of digital currencies worldwide. The price of the largest, best known one just plummeted by 50 percent. Now, investors are watching for a boom — or a bust. Read more on NPR

Google's Art Selfie App Offers A Lesson In Biometric Privacy Laws In U.S. Google's popular art selfie feature isn't available in Illinois or Texas. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Matthew Kluger, a professor at George Mason University, about how biometric privacy laws are affecting tech companies in certain states. Read more on NPR

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Drone Used To Save Two Teens Caught In Dangerous Australian Waves The full rescue was caught on the drone's camera, as it flew out over crashing surf, dropped a floating device and hovered over the boys as they swam to shore. Read more on NPR

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