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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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PlanPhilly
Courts & Law
PlanPhilly

Scamming SEPTA is getting harder: Agency hits 10-year low for claims payouts

A decade after SEPTA put its first surveillance cameras up, the transit authority has closed the book on its leanest year for payouts yet.

7 years ago

The Wing company, a Google spinoff, has won federal approval to operate its drone delivery system as an airline in the U.S. (Wing)
NPR
Community

FAA certifies Google’s Wing drone delivery company to operate as an airline

By developing delivery drones — and a retail system that would connect customers with local merchants — Google's parent company is directly competing with Amazon.

7 years ago

A sample ballot provided by a voting machine company hoping to win contracts with Pennsylvania counties. (PennLive)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. is spending millions on election security, but the effort has its critics

"We are not fighting this battle alone.”

7 years ago

Google is looking to artificial intelligence as a way to make a mark in health care. (Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Google searches for ways to put artificial intelligence to use in health care

Google's push into artificial intelligence as a tool for health improvement is a natural evolution for a company that has developed algorithms that reach deep into our lives.

7 years ago

Helvetica is celebrated and loathed for its ubiquity. Now, the 62-year-old font is getting a face lift for the digital age. (Jim Davis/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Helvetica, the iconic font both loved and loathed, gets its 1st redesign in 36 years

The updated font even has a new name: "Helvetica Now." But like many changes, some people are skeptical.

7 years ago

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Radio Times
Health

Designing healthy hospital sound

Doctors, musicians, and engineers are teaming up to find out how to rid hospitals of stressful beeps and alarms and replace them with more harmonious alternatives.

Air Date: April 17, 2019

Listen 49:51
Nurse practitioner Debra Brown guides patient Merdis Wells through a diabetic retinopathy exam at University Medical Center in New Orleans. (Courtesy of IDx)
NPR
Health

How can we be sure artificial intelligence is safe for medical use?

The FDA, accustomed to approving drugs and clearing medical devices, is now figuring out how to make sure computer algorithms are safe and effective.

7 years ago

Only about one in 10 teenagers say they share personal, religious or political beliefs on social media, according to a recent survey from Pew Research Center. (Karly Domb Sadof/AP)
NPR
Lifestyle

Under employers’ gaze, Gen Z is biting its tongue on social media

Malak Silmi and many of her peers say they worry about being unable to express any opinions on social media out of fear of self-sabotaging a potential career opportunity.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the deployment of 5G technology in the United States during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, April 12, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Community

FCC to hold big 5G auction, spend $20B for rural internet

The U.S. government will hold a massive auction later this year to bolster 5G service, the next generation of mobile networks.

7 years ago

Top government leaders told NPR that federal agencies are years behind where they could have been if Chinese cybertheft had been openly addressed earlier. (Bill Hinton Photography/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

As China hacked, U.S. businesses turned a blind eye

Technology theft and other unfair business practices originating from China are costing the American economy more than $57 billion a year, White House officials believe.

7 years ago

Image: ADragan
The Pulse
Health

Failing Better

In science — and in life — failure is both a stumbling block and a building block. We regard failure as the enemy of success — but ...

Air Date: April 12, 2019

Listen 49:23
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at a trade fair in 2018. The company says it will use artificial intelligence to figure out which of its users have died.
NPR
Community

Facebook promises to stop asking you to wish Happy Birthday to your friend who died

Unless someone explicitly informs Facebook that a family member has died, Facebook has been known to remind friends to send birthday greetings

7 years ago

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2018, file photo, a man using a mobile phone walks past Google offices in New York. Executives from Google and Facebook are facing Congress Tuesday, April 8, 2019, to answer questions about their role in the hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Politics & Policy

Capitol Hill hearing on online hate sees it firsthand

A congressional hearing on online hate turned into a vivid demonstration of the problem Tuesday when a YouTube livestream was bombarded with racist and anti-Semitic comments.

7 years ago

 Facebook said it
Politics & Policy
Marketplace

If it’s online, it’s not permanent. Internet archives can disappear

Facebook said it "mistakenly deleted" posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but also changed how it archives corporate announcements and blog posts that makes them harder to find.

7 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's annual developers conference in San Jose, Calif., May 1, 2018. Facebook is beginning to enforce a ban on white nationalist content. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)
NPR
Community

With Facebook ban on white extremism, international norms apply to U.S.

Facebook was once praised for spreading free-speech values. But the world is pushing back with different values, which Facebook is importing to the U.S.

7 years ago

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