
Technology
House passes bill that would lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner doesn’t sell. Senate path unclear
Lawmakers are acting on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a U.S. national security threat.
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Banning TikTok, ‘Coming of Age in a Digital World’, Ramadan
The House votes Wednesday on a bill to force the China-based parent company ByteDance to either divest or be banned in U.S. app stores.
Air Date: March 13, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 50:09Getting to know you: This is what chatGPT says Philly is famous for
chatGPT says Philly is best known for history, food and even greenspace, but information science experts break down what the AI bot is actually doing.
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The initiative is part of the Delaware County Recorder of Deeds Office’s multi-year plan to digitize the records system.
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Listen 1:01Elections 101: What to know about electronic pollbooks, which Pa. counties use them, and more
E-pollbooks speed up key processes for poll workers. But like most election technology, they are potentially vulnerable to hacking if there aren’t safeguards in place.
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Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads logins restored after widespread outage
The outage comes just ahead of Thursday's deadline for Big Tech companies to comply with the European Union’s new Digital Markets Act.
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Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk over firings, seek more than $128 million in severance
The lawsuit says not paying severance and bills is part of a pattern for Musk.
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Princeton High School students build STEM project to preserve Indigenous Guatemalan language
A group of high school research students aim to build sustainable plush animal robots to help preserve a vulnerable Mayan language spoken in Guatemala.
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Listen 4:43The project is part of an initiative from NASA and the National Science Foundation to collect data and give students a chance to learn about scientific ballooning.
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Listen 2:28N.J. libraries are branching out and offering more than books and videos
Many libraries in N.J. have high-tech devices, child learning toys and machinery for patrons to borrow.
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Listen 1:17Delaware’s largest county adopts ‘Video 911’ to give dispatchers ‘eyes and ears on the scene’
Callers will have the sole discretion to allow dispatchers to access their phone, and the video transmission will stop as soon as the video chat ends.
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Listen 2:58Philadelphia Navy Yard begins autonomous, electric shuttle service
The Navy Yard’s AV shuttle can fit nine seated passengers and a wheelchair.
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Listen :47AT&T says its cellphone network restored after a widespread outage hit users across the U.S.
Outages began at about 3:30 a.m. ET and peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. By 5 p.m. ET, the reports were down to fewer than 1,500.
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Pennsylvania courts say no ransom was paid in cyberattack, and attackers never sent a demand
The attack didn't compromise any data or stop the courts from operating on a normal schedule, officials said.
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Penn to become first Ivy League to offer AI degree, looks to ‘train the leaders’ in emerging field
Penn believes the undergraduate degree program will allow for “students to unlock AI's potential.”
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