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Technology

Radio Times
Lifestyle

Textiquette and sharenting

Guests: Naomi Baron, Stacey Steinberg Hey! So… When someone texts you a lot of question marks, how does it make ...

Air Date: January 1, 2019 10:00 am

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Digital technology lifestyle of school girl child or student using wireless internet for distance learning application and reading e-book app on mobile ipad smart device multimedia computer tablet
Radio Times
Education

Embracing children’s online lives

Guests: Jordan Shapiro In his new book, ...

Air Date: December 31, 2018 10:00 am

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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, photo, Psychologist Hilarie Cash walks on a forest path at a rehab center for adolescents in a rural area outside Redmond, Wash. The complex is part of reSTART Life, a residential program for adolescents and adults who have serious issues with excessive tech use, including video games. Disconnecting from tech and getting outside is part of the rehabilitation process. The organization, which began about a decade ago, also is adding outpatient services due to high demand. Cash is chief clinical officer and a co-founder at reSTART. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
Lifestyle

‘Tech addicts’ seek solace in 12 steps and rehab

We like to say we're addicted to our phones or an app or some show on a streaming video service. But for some people, tech gets in the way of daily functioning and self-care.

8 years ago

The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. (Richard Drew/AP)
Science

Did 2018 usher in a creeping tech dystopia?

The list is long: High-tech tools for immigration crackdowns. Fears of smartphone addiction. YouTube algorithms that steer youths into extremism. Gene-edited babies.

8 years ago

A jet lands at London Gatwick Airport on Friday. The airport had been closed for over a day after a drone repeatedly flew nearby. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

How to stop a drone? There’s no good answer

Shoot it down. Jam it. Use a missile or maybe a net. There's no shortage of ideas about how to stop a drone, but as the past few days show, the reality is far more difficult.

8 years ago

The Google AI lab in Princeton. (Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite)
Science

Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton, N.J.

The company will focus on recruiting students, graduates, and others in the area to work on artificial intelligence, which powers features such as 'smart reply' in Gmail.

8 years ago

Christine Jacono has her virtual reality headset adjusted by software engineer Erwin Bautista during a December chemotherapy treatment at Christiana Care's cancer center. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Health

Delaware patients use virtual reality to get through chemotherapy

Some 200 Christiana Care cancer patients have used virtual reality during chemotherapy. Immersion in a rainforest or other natural scenes helps them relax and pass the time.

8 years ago

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Ontario and C streets is rated a “3” on Philadelphia’s Litter Index. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philly’s dirtiest blocks get surveillance cameras as city steps up fight against illegal dumping

Surveillance cameras are coming to Philadelphia neighborhoods as part of a plan to make illegal dumpers pay for their trashy behavior.

8 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney signs a bill Tuesday authorizing the Philadelphia Energy Authority — an independent municipal authority set up specifically to reduce the city's energy's consumption — to enter into a contract to purchase 22 percent of its power from solar provider Community Energy. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly signs agreement to buy solar energy

The city of Philadelphia plans to fulfill 22 percent of its energy demand with solar power.

8 years ago

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Money
NJ Spotlight

N.J. ponders ban on ‘cashless stores’, Amazon objects

Lawmakers concerned that if stores only accept credit and debit cards they would discriminate against poor and elderly customers.

8 years ago

(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

The art of patience

Guests: Sarah Schnitker, Jason Farman Our patience can be tested in the holiday season– we’re dashing to work ...

Air Date: December 17, 2018 10:00 am

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Facebook employees talk to visitors at a one-day Facebook pop-up kiosk in Bryant Park in New York City on Thursday. The company was fielding questions about its data-sharing practices and teaching users how to understand its new privacy controls. The next day, Facebook announced that a
NPR
Politics & Policy

Facebook says some users’ private photos were accidentally shared with developers

Up to 6.8 million users may have been affected, Facebook says.

8 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photograph at the beginning of a one-on-one meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Russia’s interference in the 2016 election

Guest: Kathleen Hall Jamieson The U.S. Intelligence agencies have concluded that, without question, the Russians ...

Air Date: December 14, 2018 10:00 am

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Certfa researchers Nariman Gharib, (left), and Amin Sabeti look at a computer at a cafe in London on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. The Associated Press drew on data gathered by the London-based cybersecurity group Certfa to track how a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten spent the past month trying to break into the private emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials. Also on the hackers’ hit list: high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees. (Raphael Satter/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Iran hackers hunt nuke workers, U.S. officials

The AP drew on data gathered to track how a hacking group spent the past month trying to break into the private emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials.

8 years ago

The flip-board sign at 30th Street is the last of its kind still in service at an Amtrak station (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Amtrak may spare 30th Street Station’s beloved flipping board

The beloved split-flap sign at 30th Street Station, in Philadelphia, may have earned an 11th hour reprieve.

8 years ago

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