Technology
Birth of cool: 40-year retrospective of Dieter Rams’ product design at Philly art museum
If you’ve ever tried to imagine what a space-age bachelor pad might look like, this exhibition of his stereo equipment and modular furniture may come close.
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Facebook says it’s better at detecting rule violations
Facebook is making progress on rooting out hate, fake accounts and other objectionable content.
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Wharton prof: No amount of money would’ve swung Amazon
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State, city offered Amazon a $5.7 billion incentive package to build Philly HQ2
Until now, Mayor Jim Kenney and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf have refused to discuss details of the incentives offered in their HQ2 proposal.
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Philly’s Amazon HQ2 loss could be a long-term win for city, experts say
Mayor Jim Kenney responded to the news with a thank you to Amazon.
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Listen 1:57Pizza Gutt uses Instagram as shortcut to pizza fame
What started out as a way to destress from a job he hated has become Daniel Gutter's sole way of earning a living. His secret recipe? Instagram.
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Listen 4:17Philly adds electric bikes to Indego fleet
Like Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, Indego has gone electric, adding 10 pedal-assist bicycles to its bike share fleet.
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Why put carpets in cars, when they’re so hard to clean?
Leaves, paper, crumbs and other bits of trash cling to auto carpets — don’t even mention the liquid stains and smells.
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Listen 7:23Astronaut Scott Kelly’s view from space; Jeff Sessions’ firing
Guests: Mark Mazzetti, Scott Kelly SCOTT KELLY spent 3 ...
Air Date: November 8, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Facebook blocks more than 100 accounts, citing possible foreign influence
Facebook's head of cyber security policy, said 85 of the accounts were on the company's Instagram service, with the remainder on Facebook itself.
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Social media’s misinformation battle: No winners, so far
Caught embarrassingly off-guard, technology giants have thrown millions of dollars, tens of thousands of people into fighting fake news, propaganda and hate.
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‘Skin positivity’ confronts acne stigma
A new movement on social media is trying to change the way we think about acne.
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Listen 4:41Law enforcement faces dilemma in assessing online threats
"We can go out on Twitter and there are loads of people saying insane stuff, but how do you know which is the one person?"
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Nearly 30 percent of anti-Semitic online attacks are bots
Researchers at the ADL analyzed 7.5 million Twitter messages between Aug. 31 and Sept. 17.
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