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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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  • Technology

Apple CEO Tim Cook's fix for those pesky green text bubbles? 'Buy your mom an iPhone'

Google has called on Apple to adopt RCS, a new messaging service that is increasingly used on Android devices. The iPhone maker, which uses its own iMessage service, hasn't budged.

September 08, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
Harri Hursti told NPR he's been instructed not to open the box containing the Dominion ImageCast X machine that he bought on eBay for $1,200.

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  • National Security

A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Michigan officials are now investigating

Harri Hursti bought the Dominion machine to uncover its vulnerabilities, something he often does for state election officials. But authorities are trying to find out how the machine ended up online.

September 08, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
A protester outside of the Maxwell trial wearing a hat claiming that Epstein's death was not a suicide.

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  • Politics

Here's why conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein keep flourishing

Wealthy and powerful sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for three years, but members of the far-right keep invoking him in conspiracy theories to smear their opponents.

September 08, 2022
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  • Lisa Hagen
Police in Memphis, Tenn., said a man who drove around the city shooting at people during an hours-long rampage that forced frightened people to shelter in place Wednesday has been arrested.

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  • National

Memphis police say a man who livestreamed shootings that killed 4 has been arrested

A gunman livestreamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, police said.

September 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, investigators hold a photo of Stacey Lyn Chahorski, a Michigan woman who was found dead in Georgia in 1988.

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  • Law

Genealogy DNA is used to identify a murder victim from 1988 — and her killer

Investigators in Georgia say Henry Fredrick Wise killed Michigan woman Stacey Lyn Chahorski 33 years ago. They used technology to create a genealogical profile of the killer to solve the cold case.

September 08, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, comments on a cyberattack on the LAUSD information systems at a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.

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  • Education

A cyberattack hits the Los Angeles School District, raising alarm across the country

The ransomware attack on the country's second-largest school district sounded alarms across the country, from urgent talks with the White House and the National Security Council.

September 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's legal team argues that allegations by Twitter's ex-security chief give him reason to pull out of his agreement to buy the Twitter. Here, Musk speaks at a meeting of energy, oil and gas executives in Norway on August 29.

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  • Technology

Elon Musk wants to get out of buying Twitter. A whistleblower's claims might help him

The social media company appeared to be on solid legal ground when it sued the Tesla CEO to force him to complete the merger. But allegations by Twitter's ex-security chief may help Musk's case.

September 06, 2022
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  • Raquel Maria Dillon
This is Britain's new prime minister, Liz Truss, who goes by @trussliz on Twitter. It isn't Liz Trussell, aka @LizTruss, but Trussell will play along if you mistake her for the other one.

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  • World

Stop tweeting @liztruss your congratulatory messages. That's not Britain's new PM

Many constituents and politicians have reached out to Britain's new prime minister on Twitter — or so they thought. Many actually tagged the account of Liz Trussell, who's been having fun with it.

September 06, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
The insurance firm Axa said it regretted that its crash test of a Tesla, in which the front half of the car burst into blames, caused confusion, and the company admitted that electric vehicles don't catch fire any more often than combustion-engine automobiles.

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  • Technology

A Tesla burst into flames during a crash test. The organizer admitted it was staged

The insurance firm Axa said it regretted that its crash test caused confusion and admitted that electric vehicles don't catch fire any more often than combustion-engine automobiles.

September 02, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
Workers line up to vote on unionization at Amazon's warehouse in Staten Island on March 25.

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  • Business

Amazon loses key step in its attempt to reverse its workers' historic union vote

A federal labor official is recommending a dismissal of Amazon's objections after a lengthy hearing on the company's appeal against the historic union win at a warehouse in New York's Staten Island.

September 01, 2022
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  • Alina Selyukh
The Twitter logo is seen at their headquarters in San Francisco. The company say it's testing out an edit button, which is its most-requested feature.

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  • Business

Twitter says it's testing an edit button — after years of clamoring from users

Twitter says it is testing out the feature internally before rolling it out to Twitter Blue subscribers. It will allow users to edit tweets several times within 30 minutes of posting them.

September 01, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Data centers have become integral to a global economy that's powered by digital information. However, many of the facilities depend on water to keep from overheating. That is further straining water resources in places like California, where Lake Oroville is almost dry due to severe drought that's being fueled by climate change.

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  • Climate

Data centers, backbone of the digital economy, face water scarcity and climate risk

About 20% of data centers in the United States already rely on watersheds that are under moderate to high stress from drought and other factors. However, few companies are talking about the issue.

August 30, 2022
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  • Michael Copley
GPB News NPR

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  • Mental Health

Life Kit: How to log off

Lots of people struggle to put their phone down. And lots of solutions say to just log off, but it's not always that easy. NPR's Life Kit has tips on how to log off.

August 27, 2022
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  • Mayowa Aina
Boston Children's Hospital said it had received "threats of violence toward our clinicians and staff" after false claims were made online that the hospital provides genital surgeries to minors.

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  • Technology

Children's hospitals are the latest target of anti-LGBTQ harassment

The harassment campaigns are organized online, raising questions about what role social media platforms should play in preventing abuse.

August 26, 2022
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  • Shannon Bond
In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, a student argued that his university violated his Fourth Amendment rights when it asked him for a webcam recording of his testing space.

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  • Law

Scanning students' rooms during remote tests is unconstitutional, judge rules

In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, a student argued that Cleveland State University violated his Fourth Amendment rights when he complied with a webcam recording of his exam space.

August 26, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
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