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The longer the federal shutdown lasts, the more likely security breaches of government websites become, cyber specialists say. And it could lead to security problems long after the government reopens. (Sarayut Thaneerat/Getty Images/EyeEm)
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Politics & Policy

Shutdown makes government websites more vulnerable to hackers, experts say

The shutdown also means there are fewer IT staff on hand.

8 years ago

Delaware's new schools
Education

Delaware unveils online 'report card' for public schools

Delaware's new schools 'report card' is colorful and interactive. Users can find an array of information on academics, enrollment, school climate and faculty.

8 years ago

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‘The Forward,’ storied Jewish paper, shutters print edition after 121 years

Founded as a Yiddish-language daily in 1897, the newspaper once known as The Jewish Daily Forward is ending its print operation to "become a digitally focused publisher."

8 years ago

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The Conversation

Change your phone settings so Apple, Google can’t track your movement

Technology companies have been pummeled by revelations about how poorly they protect their customers’ personal information.

8 years ago

Philadelphia voting machines are stored at the Office of the City Commissioners warehouse. (Brad Larrison for WHYY News, file)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia scrambles to get new voting machines

Philadelphia officials are scrambling to get a new voting system with a verifiable paper trail installed by the November election.

8 years ago

This August 2018 photo shows Holocaust survivor Max Glauben sitting in an interactive green screen room while filming a piece for the Dallas Holocaust Museum in Dallas. (McGuire Boles/Dallas Holocaust Museum via AP)
Community

Technology brings images of Holocaust survivors to life

Max Glauben, who turns 91 on Monday, is the latest Holocaust survivor to record an interactive testimony for the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.

8 years ago

A Peoples Gas vehicle is equipped with an advanced leak detection system to find places where methane is escaping from pipelines.
(Sabrina Bodon / WESA)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Peoples Gas unveils high-tech methane leak detection system

Utilities across Pennsylvania are required by law to look for leaks.

8 years ago

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Radio Times
Lifestyle

Is YouTube radicalizing its users?

Guests: Zeynep Tufekci, Becca Lewis YouTube is a great resource for tutorials for learning new skills, the latest ...

8 years ago

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In this Feb. 23, 2010 photo, Dr. Jacob Khushigian checks on a patient who had overdosed with his portable computer data base shown in a Kaweah Delta Emergency Room in Visalia, Calif. (Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)
Health

Opioid prescription database helps Pa. doctors find at-risk patients

The prescription drug monitoring program has led to a 20 percent drop in opioid prescriptions in Pennsylvania, according to the state health department.

8 years ago

(photo credit: Marty Moss-Coane)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Is YouTube radicalizing its users?

Guests: Jamil Smith, Zeynep Tufekci, Becca Lewis YouTube is a great resource for tutorials for learning new skill ...

Air Date: January 9, 2019 10:00 am

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In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 file photo, the icons of streaming services Netflix and AmazonPrime Video are pictured on an iPhone in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Streaming your favorite movies and TV shows is about to get way more expensive. Amazon Prime customers can add-on subscriptions to HBO, Showtime or Starz. (Martin Meissner/AP Photo, File)
Lifestyle

Netflix and chill no more — streaming is getting complicated

Streaming TV may never again be as simple, or as affordable, as it is now.

8 years ago

Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico started a GoFundMe campaign for homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt (right). (GoFundMe)
Courts & Law

After GoFundMe scam, N.J. lawmaker seeks tougher penalty for crowdfunding swindlers

A South Jersey couple and a homeless Philadelphia man fabricated the feel-good tale, prosecutors say, to trick the public into donating to a crowdfunding site.

8 years ago

Hacked information that was leaked via Twitter included private data from German Chancellor Angela Merkel — seen here speaking in Germany's Bundestag last month. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Hackers attack hundreds of high-profile German politicians, post private data online

Hackers have published cellphone numbers, credit card data and private communications belonging to members of nearly every German political party, in a sweeping breach last mo

8 years ago

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Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. sees progress in test of paper-trail voting machines that allow audit of results

A review of midterm election offers assurance that electronic vote counts are reliable, but lawmakers show limited interest in deploying the technology statewide.

8 years ago

This composite image made available by NASA shows the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule indicated by the crosshairs at center, with stars surrounding it on Aug. 16, 2018, made by the New Horizons spacecraft. The brightness of the stars was subtracted from the final image using a separate photo from September 2017, before the object itself could be detected. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)
Science

NASA spacecraft opens new year 4 billion miles from Earth

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived the most distant exploration of another world, a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles away that looks to be shaped like a peanut.

8 years ago

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