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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed to the Federal Trade Commission 32-year-old Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech and favorite among progressives.

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  • Technology

Lina Khan, Prominent Big Tech Critic, Will Lead The FTC

The bipartisan vote in the Senate on Tuesday gives one of the most prominent skeptics of the tech industry a key role in shaping government regulation of the tech industry.

June 16, 2021
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  • Bobby Allyn
U.S. and Russian flags fly on the Mont-Blanc bridge on the eve of a US-Russia summit on Tuesday in Geneva. A former intelligence operative says agencies are in high gear.

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  • National Security

Why Geneva Is Teeming With Spies As Biden And Putin Prepare To Meet

Intelligence agencies from the U.S. and Russia are both trying to figure out what the other side is going to say, a longtime CIA operative says. China is probably trying to listen in, too.

June 15, 2021
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  • Mary Louise Kelly

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  • Economy

How 'Chaos' In The Shipping Industry Is Choking The Economy

The U.S. trade deficit is hitting record highs — and it's fueled by a surge in demand for imports, mostly from East Asia. On both land and at sea, the shipping industry is struggling to keep up.

June 15, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Clippings from the <em>Great Falls Tribune</em> were part of the Cascade County Sheriff's Office investigative file into the 1956 murders of Patricia Kalitzke and Lloyd Duane Bogle.

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  • National

Detectives Just Used DNA To Solve A 1956 Double Homicide. They May Have Made History

It's one of the oldest criminal cases cracked with the new DNA technology. The murders of teen sweethearts Lloyd Duane Bogle and Patricia Kalitzke had gone unsolved for more than 60 years.

June 14, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Janelia's cafeteria, which was noisy and crowded in pre-pandemic times, now operates a contactless takeout system.

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  • Business

It's Personal: Zoom'd Out Workplace Ready For Face-To-Face Conversations To Return

Before the pandemic, the Janelia Research Campus was a hive of collaboration. Now, as researchers return to their offices and labs, they're eager to restore the connections lost this past year.

June 14, 2021
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  • Andrea Hsu
Hyundai Motor Company employees put the finishing touches on vehicles in Montgomery, Ala.

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  • Business

Hyundai Plant In Alabama Pauses Manufacturing Due To Car Chip Shortage

A global shortage of semiconductor chips has impacted the manufacturing of cars, electronics and appliances.

June 14, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Apple announced this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference a new feature in its forthcoming operating system, iOS 15, that will digitize state-issued licenses and ID cards.

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  • Technology

Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge

Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking and Apple's turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.

June 12, 2021
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  • Bobby Allyn
Participants sit a Blue Origin space simulator during a conference on robotics and artificial intelligence in Las Vegas on June 5, 2019. On Saturday, Blue Origin announced that an unidentified bidder will pay $28 million for a suborbital flight on the company's New Shepard vehicle.

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  • Space

An 11-Minute Flight To Space Was Just Auctioned For $28 Million

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is going up July 20 on a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin. So is his brother. And now a mystery bidder has won an auction to join them.

June 12, 2021
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  • Avie Schneider
As ransomware cases surge, the cyber criminals almost almost always demand, and receive, payment in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The world's largest meat supplier, JBS, announced Wednesday that it paid $11 million in Bitcoin to hackers in a recent ransomware attack.

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  • National Security

How Bitcoin Has Fueled Ransomware Attacks

If you're planning a multi-million dollar ransomware attack, there's really only one way to collect - with cryptocurrency. It's fast. It's easy. Best of all, it's largely anonymous and hard to trace.

June 12, 2021
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  • Greg Myre
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  • Technology

Privacy Experts Ask: Should State-Issued IDs Be Stored On Our iPhones?

Apple says it is working with states to digitize government-issued IDs. The announcement has privacy advocates on edge.

June 12, 2021
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  • Bobby Allyn

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  • Technology

Social Audio Began As A Pandemic Fad. Tech Companies See It As The Future

Live conversations on Clubhouse and Twitter took off during the pandemic, connecting people online when they couldn't in real life. Now social media companies are scrambling to launch audio features.

June 11, 2021
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  • Shannon Bond
A sign at a store in El Zonte, El Salvador, advertises that it accepts bitcoins for payment.

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  • Energy

El Salvador Plans To Use Electricity Generated From Volcanoes To Mine Bitcoin

Bitcoin mining has taken a lot of heat for being harmful to the environment since it requires massive amounts of electricity to generate the invisible currency.

June 11, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a standoff with social media companies over what content gets investigated or blocked online, and who gets to decide.

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  • Asia

India And Tech Companies Clash Over Censorship, Privacy And 'Digital Colonialism'

India's new social media rules give the government broad powers to block some content and break encryption. It's the latest in a standoff with tech companies over censorship, privacy and free speech.

June 10, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Shannon Bond
President Biden on Wednesday rescinded former President Donald Trump's actions targeting Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat.

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  • Technology

Biden Drops Trump's Ban on TikTok And WeChat — But Will Continue The Scrutiny

President Biden revokes Trump-era executive orders against TikTok and WeChat, but national security experts say the scrutiny of the apps will continue despite the reset in relations.

June 09, 2021
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  • Bobby Allyn
A man holds his vaccination reminder card after having received his first shot at a pop-up vaccination site next to Maximo Gomez Park, also known as Domino Park, on May 3 in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.

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  • Law

Fake COVID Vaccine Cards Are Being Sold Online. Using One Is A Crime

Officials have pleaded with tech giants to keep the documents off their sites, but Amazon briefly had blank vaccination cards for sale this week. They could land their bearers in prison.

June 08, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
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