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One Woman Wants To Create This: *Insert Afro Emoji Here* Writer Rhianna Jones is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for an emoji of a person with an Afro. Read more on NPR

One Woman Wants To Create This: [Insert Afro Emoji Here] Writer Rhianna Jones is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for an emoji of a person with an Afro. Read more on NPR

Petitioning For An Afro Emoji NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to writer Rhianna Jones, who is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for an emoji of a person with an Afro. Read more on NPR

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By KAREN WEISE from NYT Technology via New York Times

Does Instagram Have A Problem With Hate Speech And Extremism? While Facebook and Twitter have come under criticism for the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories, Instagram has flown relatively under the radar, says Taylor Lorenz of The Atlantic. Read more on NPR

Reports Say U.S. Sees A National Security Threat In Chinese Company Owning Grindr NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Chris Calabrese of the Center for Democracy and Technology about reports that the U.S. sees a national security threat in a Chinese company owning the dating app Grindr. Read more on NPR

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Former NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty To Stealing Classified Information Harold Martin, a 54-year-old Navy veteran, was arrested in 2016. Authorities said he amassed a staggering trove of government documents, endangering U.S. national security. Read more on NPR

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HUD Slaps Facebook With Housing Discrimination Charge The Department of Housing and Urban Development says Facebook allowed advertisers to use their platform to unlawfully discriminate by restricting which users can see housing ads. Read more on NPR

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Thailand Moves Forward With Chinese Tech Company Huawei To Build 5G Network The Chinese company Huawei is now building and testing Thailand's first 5G network. Thai authorities say they could not say no to Huawei's bargain prices, despite pressure from the U.S. Read more on NPR

Facebook Bans White Nationalism And Separatism Content From Its Platforms The company says such content is linked to white supremacy and organized hate groups. Users who search for terms related to white supremacy will be directed to an anti-hate site. Read more on NPR

E.U. Votes To Rewrite Its Copyright Laws, Delivering A Blow To Tech Giants The European Union voted to rewrite its laws, in a big blow for tech firms like Google and Facebook, forcing them to find copyright violations on their platforms and not wait for them to be reported. Read more on NPR

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Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? Recent studies suggest we're not witnessing the dawn of a new gig economy. What accounts for the resilience of traditional employment? Read more on NPR

The U.S. Pledges A Harder Line In Cyberspace — And Drops Some Hints Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the secretive National Security Agency and Cyber Command, is promising more aggressive cybermeasures against rivals. And he's talking about it — at least a little. Read more on NPR

Trump Administration Flips Switch On Energy Efficient Light Bulbs The Trump administration wants to reverse a rule designed to make light bulbs more efficient. Environmental groups say the change will cost consumers and waste energy. Read more on NPR

Man Pleads Guilty To Phishing Scheme That Fleeced Facebook, Google Of $100 Million Evaldas Rimasauskas admitted to his role in helping to orchestrate a two-year-long scam that tricked employees into wiring more than $100 million to his own company's bank accounts. Read more on NPR

Friday News Roundup - International Headlines this week included a deadly cyclone, a plan to ban semi-automatic assault weapons and the arduous grind of the Brexit debate. Read more on NPR

Does The Federal Aviation Administration Have A Dual Role? After two crashes of Boeing 737 planes, some are asking why the FAA didn't know about the apparent risks of these aircraft. Read more on NPR

Apple Debuts Streaming Video, Payment Card And News Subscription Services As iPhone sales slow, Apple is rolling out Apple TV+, a service to compete with Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services. It's also offering a virtual credit card and a subscription news service. Read more on NPR

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After Boeing Crashes, New Attention On The Potential Flaws Of Software Two Boeing 737 Max crashes are raising questions about whether the convenience of software has made it easier to miss the seriousness of possible flaws. Read more on NPR

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Too Much Video Streaming To Choose From? It's Only Going To Get Worse It can be frustrating when viewers try to figure out which service has what they want to watch — Netflix, Prime, Hulu? It's about to get worse as more streaming services launch this year. Read more on NPR

Students In Ukraine Learn How To Spot Fake Stories, Propaganda And Hate Speech A new report says students who received media literacy training were 18 percent better at identifying false reports than students without the lessons. Girls gained more knowledge than boys. Read more on NPR

We Want To Hear From You About Facebook Live Facebook Live has played a key role in the spread of violent images on social media. What do you think Facebook should do with this feature? Read more on NPR

By ERIN GRIFFITH from NYT Technology via New York Times

Leading Anti-Terror Technologist Says Facebook Failed In Its Response To Mosque Shootings A creator of anti-terror software says the re-uploading of the New Zealand mosque shootings video on Facebook is "absolutely inexcusable" because "we have the technology to stop it." Read more on NPR

By JAMIE CONDLIFFE from NYT Technology via New York Times

Investigators Probe Software's Role In Deadly Boeing 737 Max Crashes The probe of two Boeing plane crashes is focused, for the moment, on software. We examine how software has become a common fix for problems with hardware across industries, and how it can go too far. Read more on NPR

Facebook Stored Millions Of User Passwords In Plain, Readable Text The information was held in a readable format within the company's internal data storage systems. Facebook says it "found no evidence to date" of abuse. Read more on NPR

Meet Q, The Gender-Neutral Voice Assistant Most digital personal assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa have the option to sound either male or female. The team behind Q aims to break through gender binary. Read more on NPR

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By BRIAN X. CHEN from NYT Technology via New York Times

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EU Fines Google $1.7 Billion Over 'Abusive' Online Ad Strategies For years, AdSense contracts gave Google a wide range of control, including how its rivals' search ads would appear — and their size, color and font, the EU says. Read more on NPR

What Will Stop The Spread Of Online Extremism? After a brutal terrorist attack in New Zealand was live-streamed, how are tech companies responding? Read more on NPR

By TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER from NYT Technology via New York Times

Despite U.S. Pressure, Germany Refuses To Exclude Huawei's 5G Technology The U.S. says it may stop sharing intelligence with Germany if it adopts Chinese firm Huawei's 5G technology. But the threats haven't swayed Germany, which says it can set its own security standards. Read more on NPR

Facebook Apologizes For Banning Trump's Social Media Director Facebook temporarily banned Dan Scavino, President Trump's social media director, from posting comments. Facebook says his postings were flagged by an algorithm. Read more on NPR

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By NOAM SCHEIBER and MIKE ISAAC from NYT Technology via New York Times

By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and BRIAN X. CHEN from NYT Technology via New York Times

After Lawsuits, Facebook Announces Changes To Alleged Discriminatory Ad Targeting Facebook had given online advertisers tools to exclude which users could view the ads on the basis of race, gender and other federally protected characteristics. Now Facebook is changing that. Read more on NPR

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Massive U.S. Machines That Hunt For Ripples In Space-Time Just Got An Upgrade The twin sites in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are about to go back online. New hardware should make them able to sense more colliding black holes and other cosmic events. Read more on NPR

Facebook Admits Mosque Shooting Video Was Viewed At Least 4,000 Times The video was viewed about 4,000 times before Facebook removed it. Then the social media platform had to contend with more than a million attempted re-uploads. Read more on NPR

Russia Criminalizes The Spread Of Online News Which 'Disrespects' The Government President Vladimir Putin signed the new law, which allows punishment of individuals with fines and jail time for the spread of "fake news." Read more on NPR

By NELLIE BOWLES from NYT Technology via New York Times

Why The Promise Of Electronic Health Records Has Gone Unfulfilled The government used a 2009 financial stimulus package to move the country from paper medical charts to electronic records. Care was supposed to get better, safer and cheaper. It hasn't worked out. Read more on NPR

Germany Risks U.S. Backlash If It Hires Chinese Company Huawei For 5G Tech Germany wants to speed up its mobile data service with 5G technology, which Chinese telecom Huawei is bidding to provide. But if Berlin lets Huawei compete, it faces the Trump administration's wrath. Read more on NPR

YouTube's Chief Product Officer On How The Company Responded To Mosque Shootings NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Neal Mohan, chief product officer for YouTube, about how the tech company responded when a video of last week's deadly shootings in New Zealand went viral. Read more on NPR

Japan Is Betting Big On The Future Of Hydrogen Cars Japan doesn't think battery electric cars are the only future for transportation. It is investing millions to ramp up production of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, citing their convenience for consumers. Read more on NPR

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MySpace Says It Lost Years Of User-Uploaded Music Millions of music and other media files may have been lost, the company acknowledges. The news comes after some users reported difficulty accessing their music files over the past year. Read more on NPR

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Ethiopian Flight Data Shows Similarities To Indonesian Crash Of Same Boeing Model Ethiopia's Transport Minister said a preliminary review of the flight data from last week's plane crash reveals "clear similarities" in that accident and the crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX last October. Read more on NPR

By DAVID STREITFELD from NYT Technology via New York Times

Flying Taxis. Seriously? They're not quite here yet, but Uber and others are working on them and have set some bullish timelines. Flying taxis promise to ease traffic on the ground, but some worry they'll boost inequality. Read more on NPR

The Efforts To Misdirect In Shooter's Screed NPR's Melissa Block asks Robert Evans, who's reported on extremists online, what he noted and what he ignored in the screed posted by the man who claimed responsibility for the New Zealand attacks. Read more on NPR

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG from NYT Technology via New York Times

New Zealand Mosque Attacks Raise Questions About Internet's Role In Radicalization The rambling document allegedly written by the attacker in New Zealand echoes the sarcasm and "trolling" of the internet. How much of his inspiration comes from internet politics in the U.S.? Read more on NPR

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The Role Social Media Plays In Mass Shootings The shootings at mosques in New Zealand were live-streamed on Facebook, and shared on YouTube and Twitter. The companies have been challenged on their ability to remove this kind of content quickly. Read more on NPR

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Adam Spencer: Why Are Monster Prime Numbers Important? Adam Spencer is fascinated by prime numbers. These seemingly simple numbers can be found in monster sizes—the latest being almost 25 million digits long. Read more on NPR

Eddie Woo: How Can Math Help Us Understand The Complexity Of The Universe? The world is full of recurring patterns based on math. Math teacher Eddie Woo explains why human beings are naturally drawn to patterns and how we can use math to engage with our complex world. Read more on NPR

Phylecia Jones: How Can We Encourage Girls To Keep Pursuing Math? Why do so many teen girls lose interest in math? Phylecia Jones explores how we can get more women involved in STEM by starting with a simple idea: tell every girl in your life she's great at math. Read more on NPR

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The Woman Who Calculated 31 Trillion Digits Of Pi Emma Haruka Iwao, who has been fascinated with the mathematical constant since childhood, set the Guinness World Record for most accurate value of pi. Read more on NPR

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