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How A Position Of Power Can Change Your Voice

6:37pm February 09, 2015

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Once you become the boss, it's likely that you'll start to speak quite differently. The pitch, resonance and intensity of your speech change in ways that listeners can detect as signs of power.

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U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., says our cars are becoming increasingly vulnerable to hacking.

National

Q&A: Sen. Ed Markey On Protecting Data Our Cars Are Sharing

6:27pm February 09, 2015

by NPR Staff

We've entered the age of Internet-connected cars, and the Massachusetts lawmaker says they're vulnerable to all kinds of data breaches.

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World News

Document Leak Reveals Secret Swiss Bank Accounts

6:27pm February 09, 2015

by Jim Zarroli

For years the Swiss banking industry has been under pressure to get out of the tax evasion business. A trove of documents released by a former employee of HSBC shows just how aggressive the bank was in marketing tax avoidance schemes to clients.

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A man walks past a Samsung smart TV advertisement at a showroom in Seoul in 2011.

Samsung's Privacy Policy Warns Customers Their Smart TVs Are Listening

5:23pm February 09, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Samsung warned its customers that their TVs are sending reports to third parties and that could include sensitive information spoken by the owners. The policy has drawn comparisons to Orwell's 1984.

World News

Leaked HSBC Documents Shed Light On Swiss Banking Industry

4:59pm February 09, 2015

by Jim Zarroli

The records of some 30,000 accounts containing $120 billion show the bank helped customers — including politicians, royalty, celebrities and criminals — conceal their accounts from authorities.

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HSBC Helped Clients Hide Millions, News Report Says

4:29pm February 09, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' story was based on documents leaked in 2007. HSBC says it ended those practices starting that year.

Economy

Madoff's Victims Are Repaid Another $355 Million, Trustee Says

3:39pm February 09, 2015

by Bill Chappell

More than half of the accounts with allowable claims against disgraced financier Bernard Madoff have now been fully repaid, according to the trustee handling recovery efforts.

Interior view during the Netflix portion of the 2013 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California.

With New Rules In Place, Netflix Expands To Cuba

3:30pm February 09, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Starting today, Cubans with an Internet connection and access to international payment methods will have access to a wide array of movies and shows. There are huge hurdles, though.

After designing a soy sauce bottle for Kikkoman in 1961, Kenji Ekuan went on to design everything from motorcycles to a bullet train.

From Soy Sauce To Bullet Trains: Famed Japanese Designer Dies At 85

11:24am February 09, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Decades after Kenji Ekuan created Kikkoman's iconic soy sauce bottles with their red caps, he designed Japan's bullet train, in a career driven by a desire to make good design accessible to everyone.

Oil Price Dip, Global Slowdown Create Crosscurrents For U.S.

8:48am February 09, 2015

by John Ydstie

The big drop in oil prices is a gift to consumers that should propel the U.S. economy, analysts say. But those lower prices are hurting the energy sector, and consumers continue to be cautious.

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