Digital Life

Google announced it is partnering with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to expand its self-driving car project. This is the first time Google has worked directly with an automaker to integrate its self-driving technology into a passenger vehicle.

National

Google And Fiat Chrysler Partner To Make Self-Driving Minivans

7:56pm May 03, 2016

by Laura Wagner

This is the first time Google has worked directly with an automaker to integrate its self-driving technology into a passenger vehicle, the companies said in a joint statement.

Human-sized hands make doll-sized doughnuts in the Tiny Kitchen Ã¢ÂÂ roughly 1/12 the normal size.

Arts

'Tiny Kitchen' Videos Cook Up Real Food In Doll-Sized Portions

2:04pm May 03, 2016

by Tove Danovich

They've fried hard shell tacos, made a gooey pot of queso, even whipped up a batch of rainbow sprinkle-covered doughnuts. All in a dollhouse kitchen roughly 1/12 the normal size.

Can An Online Game Help Create A Better Test For TB?

12:43pm May 02, 2016

by Esther Landhuis

In a vote of confidence for citizen science, researchers who created an online RNA-folding game launched the project's first challenge aimed at a disease — creating a better tuberculosis test.

Entrepreneur Craig Wright says he is the creator of the bitcoin crypto-currency. In this 2014 file photo, a man arrives for the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show in New York.

Economy

Bitcoin's Maker Revealed? Australian Man Says He Is 'Satoshi Nakamoto'

9:44am May 02, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Craig Wright, 45, is an entrepreneur whose name has often been mentioned in conversations about bitcoin's creator; in recent months, he was also investigated by tax authorities.

National

'The Guardian' Launches New Series Examining Online Abuse

4:28pm April 29, 2016

A video was released this week where female sports journalists were read abusive online comments to their face. It's an issue that reaches far beyond that group, and The Guardian is taking it on in a series called "The Web We Want." NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with series editor Becky Gardiner and writer Nesrine Malik, who receives a lot of online abuse.

Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord on encryption: "Yes, it's used by terrorists. It's also used by people who are looking to voice their opinions on issues and to save lives."

Yahoo's Security Chief On Encryption Debate: What Is The Greater Good?

5:31pm April 28, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

When Bob Lord talks about encryption, he invokes the imagery of a whisper — the idea that you should be able to re-create the most private means of physical communication in the digital world as well.

ISIS Uses Cyber Capabilities To Attack The U.S. Online

4:37pm April 25, 2016

by Mary Louise Kelly

The U.S. and the West aren't the only ones operating on the cyber-battlefield in the war with ISIS. The terror group has cyber-capabilities of its own. NPR takes a look at these capabilities and explores how they play into the larger expansion of cyber-strike and counter-strike throughout the Middle East.

If there was a way to keep using your phone forever, would you want to?

Environment

Phone, Everlasting: What If Your Smartphone Never Got Old?

4:30pm April 25, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

For many of us, when a phone starts slowing down we face a choice: spend the money to try to fix it or get a new one. But could there be a phone that never loses its luster?

A trip to Iceland wouldn't be complete without a dip in the Blue Lagoon, a man-made geothermal pool on Reykjanes peninsula.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Soak Up This Weekend

1:36pm April 23, 2016

The premise of #NPRreads is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading and each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

Voting is now open to name two eaglets that were born last month. They're seen here in a recent photo from the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.

National

Name These Eaglets: Honor And Glory? Anacostia And Potomac?

4:39pm April 19, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Voting began today and will run through next week, with five names to choose from. So far, the young birds have been known only as DC2 and DC3.