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Technology

Chelsea Manning is pictured in Philadelphia  in this 2017 file photo. (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, file)
NPR
Courts & Law

Chelsea Manning jailed after refusing to testify about WikiLeaks

Chelsea Manning, the former Army private, is back in U.S. federal custody, jailed over her refusal to testify in a case involving WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

7 years ago

After widespread pressure to repudiate anti-vaccine misinformation on the social media platform, Facebook announced on Thursday that it's taking several steps to tackle the issue. (Richard Drew/AP)
NPR
Science

Facebook vows to quash anti-vaccine misinformation

Facebook announced on Thursday it is taking steps to combat the spread of anti-vaccine information across the social media platform.

7 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pictured at F8, Facebook's developer conference last month. On Thursday, the company announced a new test feature had changed users' privacy settings without their consent. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
Community

Can Zuckerberg really make a privacy-friendly Facebook?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.

7 years ago

Developer Ken Weinstein at a lot he tried to purchase from the city in Philadelphia’s Wayne Junction neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

How City Council broke Philly’s app for selling blighted land

At the current pace, it will take the City of Philadelphia 50 years to sell off its publicly owned vacant land.

7 years ago

A flood warning sign installed in Sea Isle City. (Provided)
Down the Shore
Urban Planning

Shore town installs flood warning signs affixed with live streaming camera

Motorists driving through one Cape May County municipality during flooding events can now make better decisions, officials say.

7 years ago

YouTube says it will ban comments on videos featuring young minors, including cases where the videos are deemed to be
NPR
Money

YouTube bans comments on videos deemed vulnerable to pedophiles, amid ad pullback

YouTube is disabling comments on millions of videos featuring minors, responding to accusations that pedophiles use comments to network and share links.

7 years ago

Students participate in an Advanced Placement government class at Hightstown High School in Hightstown, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Education

N.J. teens tweet Trump, find Senate ally, score civil rights win

All the bill needed to become law was President Donald Trump's signature. It would create a national archive of documents from civil rights cold cases.

7 years ago

Raman Ghuman demonstrates a HoloLens device at Microsoft's annual conference for software developers on May 7, 2018, in Seattle. Microsoft workers are protesting the use of the augmented reality technology in a U.S. Amy contract. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
NPR
Science

Microsoft workers protest Army contract with tech ‘designed to help people kill’

Friday's letter to Microsoft leaders is the latest instance of U.S. technology workers standing up to their companies over the companies' lines of business or policies.

7 years ago

Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. It shut down in September 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

Offshore wind company considers using Shore power plants for energy distribution

A Danish offshore wind company is considering adaptively reusing two New Jersey power plants set to be decommissioned.

7 years ago

(Shirley Min/WHYY, file)
Courts & Law
NJ Spotlight

Push for N.J. laws to cover drones over schools, homes

Lawmakers say their big concern is that a camera could be attached to a drone by someone seeking to spy on a neighbor or to take photos without their permission.

7 years ago

A sign at the entrance to Facebook's corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Advocacy groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into Facebook practices that let children make in-game purchases without their parents' permission.
(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Advocates ask FTC to investigate Facebook over kids’ in-game purchases

Parents also say Facebook made it challenging to find out how to report what had happened and often would not reimburse parents.

7 years ago

When Eastern State Penitentiary opened in the 1820’s it was considered the the world’s first true penitentiary, a building designed to inspire remorse and regret, says Sean Kelley, Senior Vice President and Director of Interpretation.  The cells were 8 x 12 with a bed and toilet.  People who were incarcerated there were kept in total isolation. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

The Impact of Isolation

Humans are social animals, equipped with brains hard-wired to connect with those around us. We rely on relationships for safety and survi ...

Air Date: February 21, 2019

Listen 49:01
This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
The Pulse
Science

Is NASA’s Curiosity rover lonely on Mars?

Some humans here on Earth think so, now that the Opportunity rover’s mission has ended.

7 years ago

Listen 05:56
Sketches show the first step in the process of designing 3D puzzles. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Education

Delaware school adds robots, 3D printers to help struggling students

Teachers at The College School in Delaware are using robots and 3D printers to help struggling students succeed.

7 years ago

Tech giant Google, whose headquarters is in Mountain View, Calif., plans to build a campus in nearby San Jose. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)
NPR
Money

This city told Amazon and Google: No incentives for you

A California mayor refused to offer similar incentives that New York offered to Amazon for a potential headquarters, but landed Google anyway.

7 years ago

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