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A view of the TikTok app logo, in Tokyo, Sept. 28, 2020.

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  • Politics

Montana becomes the first state to ban TikTok

Gov. Greg Gianforte banned the app on state government electronic devices last December, and has said he is concerned about people's user data being compromised by the Chinese government.

May 18, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

Montana's governor signs a measure banning TikTok in his state

Montana has become the first state to completely ban TikTok. Gov. Greg Gianforte has said he is concerned about people's user data being compromised by the Chinese government.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Bobby Allyn
Robot business man go brrrr.

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  • Technology

Can politicians catch up with AI?

Experts are warning that artificial intelligence is developing far more rapidly than regulators can keep up with. Is there any chance of picking up that slack?

May 17, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019.

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  • Technology

If you haven't logged into your Google account in over 2 years, it will be deleted

The deleted accounts will get rid of user data in Gmail, Google Drive and Docs, Google Calendar and YouTube. To keep an account active, a user simply has to log in.

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The future is already here. What will the coming years bring?

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  • Business

Tell us how AI could (or already is) changing your job

Do you worry about the way artificial intelligence could affect your job or industry? Has it already started to happen? We want to hear from you.

May 16, 2023
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By:
  • Brianna Scott
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is embarking on an effort to draft legislation that would put guardrails around rapidly evolving artificial intelligence.

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  • Politics

Congress wants to regulate AI, but it has a lot of catching up to do

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to lead an effort to craft groundbreaking legislation to install safeguards around artificial intelligence. But lawmakers have a lot to learn.

May 16, 2023
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
Luis Suárez, a 37-year-old from Venezuela, was repeatedly timed out of the CBP One app, days after officials announced major upgrades. He has been unable to schedule an appointment on the platform for about six months, he said.

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  • National

Migrants are frustrated with the border app, even after its latest overhaul

Immigration authorities touted a major update meant to improve CBP One, an app that's now the main authorized portal to seek asylum at the border. But migrants in Juárez say it's still not working.

May 13, 2023
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters on Sept. 29, 2015, in Fremont, Calif.

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  • Technology

A brief biography of 'X,' the letter that Elon Musk has plastered everywhere

From X.com to X Corp., the letter X holds "great sentimental value" to billionaire Elon Musk, according to his biographers.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Yang
Linda Yaccarino speaks at an event on Sept. 27, 2016 in New York. The former chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal is set to become Twitter's next chief executive, succeeding owner Elon Musk.

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  • Technology

Elon Musk picks NBC advertising executive as next Twitter CEO

Musk confirmed Yaccarino will succeed him as chief executive of Twitter, which has seen advertising plummet. The two appeared in a marketing conference in April.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Yang
Jay Baruchel plays Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in the film<em> BlackBerry.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

A new film explains how the smartphone market slipped through BlackBerry's hands

This smartly entertaining new movie tells the story of how the BlackBerry became the hottest personal handheld device on the market — only to get crushed by the iPhone.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Justin Chang
In this photo illustration the Twitter account of Elon Musk is seen on a mobile cellphone on April 21, in Knutsford, United Kingdom.

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  • Technology

Elon Musk says 'I've hired a new CEO' for Twitter

Musk indicated his successor is female, but the billionaire stopped short of naming a person.

May 12, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
The hero of <em>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</em>, Link, and his trusty allies.

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  • Arts & Life

Zelda fans are taking the day off to explore 'Tears of the Kingdom'

Fans of the wildly popular Zelda game share the excuses they're making up to stay home and play on the day of its release.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Tilda Wilson
Georgia Academy for the Blind senior Daquan Brown with the 3d yearbook printed for him and other members of the Class of 2023 by Mercer University engineering students.

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  • Technology

To give visually impaired students a yearbook, 3D imaging is the key

Yearbooks and yearbook photos are a huge part of how we remember our school years. But for visually impaired students, capturing the physical essence of friends is a challenge. Now 3D imaging technology is meeting the need.

May 10, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
GPB News NPR

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  • Media

Tucker Carlson says he'll take his show to Twitter

The fired Fox News host announced he is bringing his show to Twitter, owned by Elon Musk, "soon." His lawyers reportedly have sent threatening letters to Fox to let him out of his contract.

May 10, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Yang and
  • David Folkenflik
A visitor at the Connections Museum works the kind of switchboard system that first connected American phone users.

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  • Technology

Remembering America's first social network: the landline telephone

Young tech nerds in Seattle are trying to preserve the mysterious machines — many of them almost lost forever — that made America's landline telephone system work before the age of computers.

May 10, 2023
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  • Brian Mann
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