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'This Isn't Speech:' Attorney Carrie Goldberg On Revenge Porn

5:23pm November 16, 2019

by Michel Martin

Attorney and author Carrie Goldberg was the target of revenge porn from an ex-boyfriend, and now she's built a practice helping people in similar situations. Her new book is Nobody's Victim.

Arts

Epstein's Death Becomes A Meme

8:02am November 16, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Don Caldwell of knowyourmeme.com about the conspiracy theories about the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

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President Trump met with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as part of the American Technology Council in June 2017.

Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract

8:59pm November 14, 2019

by Alina Selyukh

Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI.

Politics & Government

News Brief: Impeachment Hearings, Stephen Miller Emails, Google Health Data

5:02am November 14, 2019

We look at what we learned in the first day of public impeachment hearings. Also, the Southern Poverty Law Center says emails show Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist theories.

Google Health Data Project Under Scrutiny

5:02am November 14, 2019

by Shannon Bond

Google is collecting the health data of millions of Americans in partnership with a big health care system. The project is raising questions about patient privacy.

How Internet Trolls And Online Extremists Are 'Hijacking' American Politics

1:43pm November 12, 2019

by Terry Gross

New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz spent years with far-right online extremists, embedding with them and watching them spread false news by exploiting social media. His new book is Antisocial.

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National

How San Diego's Utility Companies Are Working To Prevent Wildfires

4:51pm November 11, 2019

In California, power company PG&E is using blackouts to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires. But San Diego's utility doesn't use widespread outages because of changes it made a decade ago.

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Norman Reedus and Guillermo Del Toro both make appearances in Death Stranding, the new game from famed game designer and writer Hideo Kojima.

Arts

New Game 'Death Stranding' Is A Compelling Mess

5:02pm November 09, 2019

by Vincent Acovino

The latest game from visionary game designer Hideo Kojima is marred by moments of frustrating gameplay and bad dialogue. That doesn't mean it isn't interesting.

Instagram's Adam Mosseri speaks onstage at the WIRED25 Summit 2019 in San Francisco. He said some users will no longer see the "like" counter, but it won't impact "the whole U.S. at once."

National

Instagram Will Test Hiding 'Likes' On Some U.S. Accounts Starting Next Week

4:45pm November 09, 2019

by Brakkton Booker

"The idea is to try to 'depressurize' Instagram, make it less of a competition," the company's CEO Adam Mosseri announced on Friday.

The self-driving Uber SUV that struck pedestrian Elaine Herzberg on March 18, 2018, in Tempe, Ariz.

National

Feds Say Self-Driving Uber SUV Did Not Recognize Jaywalking Pedestrian In Fatal Crash

10:57pm November 07, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The death of a pedestrian struck by the self-driving vehicle in Arizona last year highlights safety concerns and calls for regulating the testing of such vehicles.