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Technology

FILE - A man uses a cell phone in New Orleans on Aug. 11, 2019.
Community

AT&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.

1 year ago

The exterior of the Pennsylvania Judicial Center
Courts & Law

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.

1 year ago

University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Education

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.”

1 year ago

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A man uses the dating app Tinder in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, File)
The Pulse
Science

Dating apps have a ‘gold mine’ of data on attraction, but does it lead to better matches?

Three in 10 U.S. adults have used a dating app, so what have researchers learned about human interaction, relationships and attraction from all of that data?

1 year ago

Listen 10:55
School science experiment
Education

Scientist ‘Grand Hank’ inspires Philly students to delve deeper into the world of STEM careers

On Tuesday at Allen M. Stearne School in Philly, eighth grade students were in awe as "Grand Hank" demonstrated different cool and innovative explanations of science.

1 year ago

Listen 1:30
Scott Joachim tries out an Apple Vision Pro headset during the first day of sales at a Palo Alto, Calif., Apple store on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Studio 2

Our Virtual Reality Future, Super-Earth Space Discovery, Ballet Brothers

Will we all be walking around with our phones strapped to our faces? We'll talk about Vision Pro. Plus, NASA discovers a new planet - a super-Earth - that could support life.

Air Date: February 6, 2024 12:00 pm

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File photo: Sheriff Rochelle Bilal. (Sam Searles/WHYY News)
Politics & Policy

Philly sheriff’s campaign takes down bogus ‘news’ stories posted to site that were generated by AI

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal's campaign is acknowledging that a series of positive “news” stories posted to her campaign website were generated by ChatGPT.

1 year ago

The exterior of the Pennsylvania Judicial Center, home to the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg, Pa., is pictured on Nov. 6, 2020
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania statewide court agency’s website hit by disabling cyberattack, officials say

The courts agency, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, did not immediately identify the attackers or a motive.

1 year ago

Buses travel through the main campus of the University of Vermont Medical Center, Friday Nov. 20, 2020, in Burlington, Vt.
The Pulse
Health

How U.S. health care providers deal with hundreds of data breaches every year

Cyberattacks on health care providers in the U.S. have gone up steadily over the last decade, exposing the personal health data of millions of patients.

1 year ago

Listen 8:44
Signage is affixed at the YouTube Space offices in Los Angeles
Community

A beheading video was on YouTube for hours, raising questions about why it wasn’t taken down sooner

“It’s another example of the blatant failure of these companies to protect us,” said Alix Fraser. “We can’t trust them to grade their own homework.”

1 year ago

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg turns to address the audience during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, to discuss child safety. X CEO Linda Yaccarino watches at left.
Politics & Policy

Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation

The hearing comes as lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.

1 year ago

911 dispatch
Courts & Law
6abc

Bucks County’s 911 dispatch system up and running after 9-day outage from cyber attack

County officials say they have determined the ransomware group Akira was involved in the 911 communication center outage.

1 year ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about an old Facebook web site during the F8 conference in San Francisco.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
The Pulse
Science

Facebook, a computing pioneer, a secret government program, and a strange coincidence

How one man’s quest to remember everything helped usher in a new era.

1 year ago

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
The Pulse
Science

How external researchers struggle to understand the ‘black box’ of Facebook

Facebook, like other social media companies, control all their data, so researchers either work with Facebook to access what data they can, or struggle on the outside.

1 year ago

Listen 10:15
(courtesy of 6abc)
Community

Cybersecurity incident impacting Bucks County’s emergency communication system

Dispatchers are reportedly using pen and paper to take information from callers.

1 year ago

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