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The ExxonMobil logo appears above a trading post at the New York Stock Exchange.

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  • Climate

ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action

The oil and gas giant is suing investor groups that want it to slash climate pollution. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could lead to more lawsuits against activist investors.

February 29, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Copley
Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade.

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  • Climate

How scientists are using facial-recognition AI to track humpback whales

After being hunted for decades, humpback whales returned to the Pacific Ocean in big numbers. Now, new technology is revealing that underwater heat waves are taking a toll on that recovery.

February 29, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of new products on the Apple campus in September 2023.

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  • Technology

After 10 years of development, Apple abruptly cancels its electric car project

The tech giant's sudden move took the thousands of employees working on the effort by surprise and sent a jolt to the automotive industry, which was closely watching the specter of an Apple car.

February 28, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai sent an email to staff on Tuesday saying Gemini's release was unacceptable.

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  • Technology

Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users"

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an internal memo that the AI tool's problematic images were unacceptable. He vowed to re-release a better version of the service in the coming weeks.

February 28, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
The gate to a large property in Waimea. Median home prices in the area are up 87% from pre-pandemic prices.

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  • Business

A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.

February 28, 2024
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities were tricked into calling for the ouster of Moldova's president through videos requested on the Cameo app that were edited and posted on TikTok.

Tagged as: 

  • National

Cameo is being used for political propaganda — by tricking the stars involved

Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities were tricked into calling for the ouster of Moldova's president. It's the latest example of the Cameo app being used for an apparent political propaganda operation.

February 27, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
A side-by-side comparison between Sandra Young (left) and an image rendered in 2021 using DNA technology (right.)

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  • National

Decades-old missing person case solved after relative uploads DNA to genealogy site

Sandra Young was between 16 and 18 years old when she went missing in the late 1960s. Police in Oregon say an upload to the genealogy database GEDMatch helped them identify her remains.

February 27, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws

These cases raise a critical question for the First Amendment and the future of social media: whether states can force the platforms to carry content they find hateful or objectionable.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Kara Swisher attends Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference on Sept. 6, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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  • Technology

Kara Swisher is still drawn to tech despite her disappointments with the industry

Writer and podcaster Kara Swisher wrote her memoir, Burn Book, about her disillusionment with many tech moguls. It recounts more than three decades covering the tech industry.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
Blastocyst illustration. A blastocyst is a hollow ball of cells with a fluid centre formed after several divisions of a fertilised cell (zygote). The inner cell mass (purple) contains the cells that will form the embryo proper, the embryonic stem cells (ESCs).

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  • Science

In light of the Alabama court ruling, a look at the science of IVF

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos can be considered "extrauterine children" under state law has major implications for how in vitro fertilization, commonly called IVF, is performed. Since the first successful in vitro fertilization pregnancy and live birth in 1978, nearly half a million babies have been born using IVF in the United States. Reproductive endocrinologist Amanda Adeleye explains the science behind IVF, the barriers to accessing it and her concerns about fertility treatment in the post-Roe landscape.

Read more about the science of IVF.

Questions or ideas for a future episode of Short Wave? Email us at shortwave@npr.org — we'd love to hear from you!

February 26, 2024
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  • Emily Kwong,
  • Berly McCoy,
  • and 3 more
In this image from video provided by NASA, Steve Altemus, CEO and co-founder of Intuitive Machines, describes how it is believed the company's Odysseus spacecraft landed on the surface of the moon, during a news conference in Houston on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.

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  • Space

U.S. lunar lander is on its side with some antennas covered up, the company says

Odysseus — the first U.S. lander in over 50 years — tipped over at touchdown and ended up on its side near the moon's south pole, hampering communications, Intuitive Machines officials said Friday.

February 23, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Popular online message board site Reddit is filing to sell stock in an initial public offering, the first social media IPO since 2019.

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  • Technology

Meet RDDT: Popular social platform Reddit to sell stock in an unusual IPO

Reddit's IPO will be the first time since 2019 that a social media company has premiered on the stock market.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A sign is posted in front of an AT&T retail store in 2021 in San Rafael, Calif.

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  • Business

AT&T says cell service is back after a widespread outage and some disrupted 911 calls

Reports of outages spiked around 3:30 a.m. ET Thursday, affecting more than 71,000 customers within a few hours. The FBI says it has been in contact with AT&T about the disruptions.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Neuman

Tagged as: 

  • National Security

Leaked document trove shows a Chinese hacking scheme focused on harassing dissidents

The large cache of more than 500 documents posted online anonymously last week details one Chinese tech company's hacking operations, target lists and marketing materials for the Chinese government.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
The AI-powered Rabbit R1 device is seen at Rabbit Inc.'s headquarters in Santa Monica, California. The gadget is meant to serve as a personal assistant fulfilling tasks such as ordering food on DoorDash for you, calling an Uber or booking your family's vacation.

Tagged as: 

  • Technology

First there were AI chatbots. Now AI assistants can order Ubers and book vacations

A new batch of AI-powered devices known as AI agents are all the rage in Silicon Valley. They're devices with a voice assistant that can complete real-world tasks for you.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
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