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Technology

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro arrives at a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

AGs announce agreement to crack down on robocalls

Pennsylvania's attorney general is touting an agreement he and other attorneys general have made with a number of the country's biggest phone companies.

7 years ago

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Community
Billy Penn

Google sent up an SOS for the North Philly shooting — in the wrong location

Experts say the search giant might be doing more harm than good.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Lifestyle

Standoff in north Philly/Mindfulness and doing nothing

How do we cope with the countless distractions that await us every day? By learning how to do nothing.

Air Date: August 15, 2019

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The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Thursday that Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over its use of facial recognition technology. (Richard Drew/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Users can sue Facebook over facial recognition software, court rules

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, it's the first decision by a U.S. appellate court to directly address privacy concerns posed by facial recognition technology.

7 years ago

Grand opening of the SEAMAAC Computer Literacy Lab, Thursday Nov. 3, 2016, inside the SEAMAAC Community Outreach Office in South Philadelphia.  (Joseph Kaczmarek/Comcast)
Community
Broke in Philly

Comcast expands low-cost internet, along with learning programs that actually work

The media giant gave out $1 million for digital literacy workshops in Philly last year.

7 years ago

An archived screenshot of 8chan, an online message board that shooters have used to post messages before their attacks, describes itself as 'the darkest reaches of the Internet.' (Wayback Machine/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Community

‘Uniquely lawless’: Security firm drops 8chan website following El Paso shooting

A web security company is dropping its protections for 8chan.

7 years ago

Nasir Holloman (left), Kyree Keels (center) and Kadir Douglass (right) opened a phone repair business at their school. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly teen tech entrepreneurs take matters into their own hands, or phones

Teens Do Tech is a group of three teenagers from North Philadelphia who have decided to repair phones in school for almost no cost.

7 years ago

Listen 3:09
The HeNN app developed at the University of Delaware provides detailed information about help for those struggling with substance use disorder. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

Delaware app helps people locate nearby substance use help

Friends and family looking to help loved ones battling addiction can now access an app to find treatment and other support.

7 years ago

Listen 0:49
Sen. Josh Hawley has made it a point to challenge the major tech companies since his election in 2018. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Lawmaker aims to curb social media addiction with new bill

Sen. Josh Hawley's Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology, or SMART, Act would ban features that encourage prolonged engagement such as infinite scrolling and autoplay.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly's transportation reporter Darryl Murphy (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Lifestyle
PlanPhilly

E for exhilarating: PlanPhilly reviews Indego’s new e-bikes

Indego plans to roll out 400 e-bikes by mid-August.

7 years ago

Voices in the Family

What can FaceApp teach us about aging?

Are your friends suddenly looking a LOT older – at least on social media? Lots of people had fun with an app that allows you to dramati ...

Air Date: July 29, 2019

Listen 03:03
Dr. Gordon Baltuch and his team check on a patient throughout a procedure that uses a beam of ultrasound waves to stop his hand from trembling. (Kyrie Greenberg/WHYY)
Science

Focused ultrasound treats tremors from Parkinson’s disease

The FDA recently approved a procedure to ease the trembling caused by Parkinson’s that doesn’t involve invasive surgery and cutting into a patient’s head.

7 years ago

Listen 2:02
Katherine Streeter for NPR
NPR
Education

Parents, sometimes you’re the problem when it comes to tech use

Parents of young kids pick up their phones an average of almost 70 times a day — often to escape a stressful parenting moment.

7 years ago

With a mobile phone, Kenyans can send and receive money via a service called M-PESA. Now Facebook is entering the digital currency realm. The social media giant has helped develop a digital currency called Libra that plans to launch in 2020. (Nichole Sobecki for NPR)
NPR
Money

Does Facebook need a humanitarian partner for its new digital currency?

Libra, according to its website, wants to "reinvent" money by making a financial transaction as cheap and simple as "sending a text message or sharing a photo."

7 years ago

Greg Force and Abby Force at StoryCorps in Greenville, S.C.
(Alletta Cooper/StoryCorps)
NPR
Community

How a 10-year-old-boy helped Apollo 11 return to Earth

A half-century ago, America's dreams were realized in space. The power of U.S. innovation and spirit took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon and back.

7 years ago

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