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California Passes Strict Internet Privacy Law With Implications For The Country California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an Internet privacy bill that would significantly expand online privacy rights of consumers in that state. Read more on NPR

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Wisconsin Hopes Foxconn Will Make It A Digital Hub, But Skepticism Abounds President Trump, who will attend the plant's groundbreaking Thursday, sees Foxconn as part of a new revival in U.S. manufacturing, but the state had to fork over billions to lure the company. Read more on NPR

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Marines Adapt To New Technology As warfare increasingly relies on digital technology, the Marine Corps is retooling its basic front-line infantry unit. Read more on NPR

FEC Takes On Online Political Ads The Federal Election Commission is holding public hearings on how to mandate transparency in online political advertising. NPR's David Greene interviews FEC Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub. Read more on NPR

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Orlando Police End Test Of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System Orlando's deal to open part of its camera systems to Amazon was reported by NPR in May, after one of the company's executives said the city was a Rekognition customer. Read more on NPR

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Supreme Court: Police Need Search Warrant To Track Cellphone Locations In a ruling seen as a major victory for privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court this morning has ruled that police need a search warrant to track people through cell-phone tower searches. Read more on NPR

In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Track Your Cellphone The Supreme Court ruled police do need a search warrant to obtain cellphone location information routinely collected by wireless providers. Read more on NPR

Finding The Lost World: Can Scientists Bring Back Dinosaurs? We're won't be so preoccupied asking whether we could that we'll forget to ask whether we should. Read more on NPR

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The Science Behind The World Cup Ball For every World Cup, there's a custom official ball. But how does the Telstar 18 actually stack up? To find out, scientists stuck it in a wind tunnel with a bunch of sensors. Read more on NPR

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Journalist Warns Cyber Attacks Present A 'Perfect Weapon' Against Global Order New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger says U.S. officials worry that foreign powers have planted malware that could knock out critical infrastructure, including electric power. Read more on NPR

This Fashion Brand Grew On Instagram With Help Of Celebs, Relatable Models Fashion Nova was among the top-trending fashion brands online in 2017. How did a retailer with only five stores get so popular? Associating its brand with Cardi B and Kylie Jenner didn't hurt. Read more on NPR

How Virtual Advisers Help Low-Income Students Apply To College Nearly one-fourth of high-achieving students from low-income families apply to college completely on their own. One approach to make the experience better? Pair students with a virtual adviser. Read more on NPR

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WHO Recognizes Gaming Disorder As A Mental Health Condition Gaming disorder, as in video games, is now an official mental health condition, according to the World Health Organization. But the idea of technology addiction is still controversial. Read more on NPR

IBM Touts Breakthrough Technology As Computer Debates A Person IBM unveiled a computer that is taking artificial intelligence to the next level. The computer debated a person in front of a live audience. Who won? Read more on NPR

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More Colleges Go Test-Optional; Google Launches College Search Tool Also in our weekly roundup of education news, the University of Chicago makes test scores optional for applicants. Read more on NPR

Audi CEO Arrested In Connection With Volkswagen Emissions Scandal German prosecutors reportedly said they feared that Rupert Stadler might attempt to suppress evidence. The head of Volkswagen's luxury car brand was taken into custody Monday morning. Read more on NPR

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Bureaucracy And Politics Slow Election Security Funding To States Congress is giving states $380 million to bolster the security of the 2018 elections. But getting that money out to local election officials has been a slow and laborious process. Read more on NPR

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A Guide To Parental Controls For Kids' Tech Use All the major tech companies offer parental controls — Apple is the latest. For parents, making the best of them can be tricky. Read more on NPR

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Trump Hits China With Tariffs On $50 Billion Of Goods; China Says It Will Retaliate President Trump imposes a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of Chinese goods, saying the U.S. is targeting China's technology sector. Read more on NPR

Elon Musk's Boring Company Will Build High-Speed Train To Chicago's O'Hare Airport The train tunnel company will build and operate an "express service to transport people to O'Hare Airport from downtown in 12 minutes," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says. Read more on NPR

Activists In Myanmar Say Facebook Needs To Do More To Quell Hate Speech "The risk of Facebook content sparking open violence is arguably nowhere higher right now than in Myanmar," six Myanmar organizations wrote in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in April. Read more on NPR

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Seattle Repeals Tax On Big Business After Opposition From Amazon, Starbucks The companies funded opposition to the tax that would have raised money to help with Seattle's ongoing homeless problem. Critics worried about homelessness growing despite millions spent already. Read more on NPR

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Tesla Lays Off 9 Percent Of Workforce CEO Elon Musk says the cuts will help the electric car company turn a profit for the first time in 15 years. Read more on NPR

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Senators Move To Reverse Trump's Deal Lifting Sanctions On China's ZTE A bipartisan amendment by Senators could undo a deal struck days ago to revive the Chinese telecoms giant after it was cut off from its U.S. suppliers over sales to Iran and North Korea. Read more on NPR

Cryptocurrencies Lose Billions In Value After An Exchange Is Hacked A hack in South Korea added to uncertainties in the virtual currency market, which saw a loss of well over $40 billion in cryptocurrencies' overall value. Read more on NPR

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Online Big Spenders Tend To Be Men, NPR-Marist Polls Shows Nearly 3 out of 10 online shoppers have taken the plunge to buy an item that costs $1,000 or more. Men are twice as likely as women to buy a big ticket item online, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. Read more on NPR

U.S. Takes Supercomputer Crown From China The U.S. is now home to the world's most powerful scientific supercomputer. Read more on NPR

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Would You Give Up Some Widely Used Features On The Internet? How about online maps, social media, Web searching, email or video streaming? Many of these services are largely free to use, so it can be hard to assess exactly how much users think they're worth. Read more on NPR

Dresses Flutter On Drones In Saudi Fashion Show, But Critics Aren't Buying It The organizer says the novel approach was a way to celebrate fashion while keeping to Ramadan sensibilities. Read more on NPR

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China's ZTE To Pay $1 Billion Fine To Settle U.S. Trade Case Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced a deal with Chinese telecommunications company ZTE — a move that may indicate progress in high-stakes trade talks between the U.S. and China. Read more on NPR

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Facebook's Data-Sharing Deals Included Huawei — Under U.S. Suspicion Since 2012 "Huawei worked with Facebook to make Facebook's services more convenient for users," the smartphone maker tells NPR. "Huawei has never collected or stored any Facebook user data." Read more on NPR

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