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Money

Comcast v. Disney: A fight for Twenty-First Century Fox

Comcast said Wednesday that it's in the "advanced stages" of making an offer.

8 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Community

Philly introduces affordable route to rooftop solar

Solarize Philly, the city group-buying program rolled out in April, promises an additional 20 percent savings on monthly energy bills for those who participate.

8 years ago

The Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon Web Services has government contracts that show its influence is far beyond the Post Office. (Reed Saxon/AP)
Courts & Law

ACLU: Amazon shouldn’t sell face-recognition tech to police

"This raises very real questions about the ability to remain anonymous in public spaces."

8 years ago

DNA isolated from a small sample of saliva or blood, can now fairly inexpensively yield information about a person's relative risk of developing dozens of diseases or medical conditions. (GIPhotoStock/Cultura RF/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Routine DNA screening moves into primary care

If you have a genetic mutation that increases your risk for a treatable medical condition, would you want to know?

8 years ago

In this video, Amazon's Ranju Das demonstrates real-time facial recognition to an audience. It shows video from a traffic cam that he said was provided by the city of Orlando, where police have been trying the technology out.
(Amazon Web Services Korea via YouTube/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Community

Orlando Police testing Amazon’s real-time facial recognition

There are no laws explicitly barring law enforcement from using real-time facial recognition, and the constitutionality has not been tested by higher courts.

8 years ago

Dickinson High junior Jeremy Nolan works on his robot as partner Ian Shotwell observes. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
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Education

For these Delaware students, robotics is ‘getting them to see the future’

Walking through Dickinson High School, one can't help but notice the two fluorescent yellow mechanical creatures.

8 years ago

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Politics & Policy

New regulations, payment protections for gig workers in N.J.

With as many as 600,000 New Jersey residents now working as freelancers, Assemblyman says legislation is needed to ‘ensure they’re treated fairly.'

8 years ago

Personal injury law firms in the Philadelphia area are sending patients in ERs, chiropractors and pain clinics targeted ads that some privacy experts and prosecutors say are intrusive, and possible, illegal. (ShutterStock)
Courts & Law

Forget ambulance chasing, personal injury law firms are now waiting for you at the hospital 

Geo-fencing has been deployed by retailers for years. Bringing it into health care spaces, however, is raising alarm among privacy experts.

8 years ago

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Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica employee, prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. (Stringer/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica aimed to trigger paranoia, racial biases

"Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental and emotional characteristics in certain subsets of the American population and worked to exploit them."

8 years ago

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said he is committed to changing the company's culture to have a new emphasis on accountability and earning trust. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Uber will no longer force sexual assault survivors into arbitration or NDAs

Uber riders who experience sexual harassment or assault will now be able to take their claims to court.

8 years ago

After Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Congress about a massive data breach, the company announced it would no longer fund an effort to oppose The Consumer Right to Privacy Act.
(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

One-fifth of Delaware’s population may have had Facebook data exposed

The personal information of more than 200,000 Delawareans was compromised in the recently disclosed Facebook data breach.

8 years ago

Listen 1:53
“The Internet wasn’t broken in 2015,
NPR
Politics & Policy

FCC plans net neutrality rollback for June 11; Senate Democrats plan a key challenge

The Federal Communications Commission says that its order ending an era of "net neutrality"

8 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney takes a virtual tour of the state with the Delaware 360 video tourism officials are now using to promote the state. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

To attract more visitors, Delaware tries out virtual reality

They’ve used billboards and TV spots, magazine spreads and internet ads. Now, Delaware Tourism leaders are trying out virtual reality to draw more visitors to the state.

8 years ago

Horatio Monroe of Tracy, Calif. comes to PLAYlive Nation to play Fortnite every day after work. He says it relaxes him. (Adhiti Bandlamudi/Capital Public Radio)
NPR
Lifestyle

The Fortnite craze might be here to stay

Since its release in September 2017, Fortnite has caused a major stir in the video gaming world by transforming casual video game players into avid ones.

8 years ago

In this April 26, 2018, photo, a robot entertains visitors at the booth of a Chinese automaker during the China Auto 2018 show in Beijing, China. Under President Xi Jinping, a program known as
Politics & Policy

U.S.-China trade talks center on rivalry over technology

Chinese and U.S. officials met face-to-face Thursday in an attempt to resolve a dispute that has taken the world's two largest economies to the brink of a trade war.

8 years ago

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