Technology

FTC: Facebook's Zuckerberg Must Give Progress Reports To Regulators

11:50am July 24, 2019

by Aarti Shahani

The FTC and Facebook entered a new settlement over privacy violations. CEO Mark Zuckerberg must give quarterly progress reports directly to regulators. Facebook must also pay a $5 billion fine.

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News Brief: Robert Mueller, DOJ's Tech Review, Pa. School's Lunch Debt

9:09am July 24, 2019

Ex-special counsel Robert Mueller testifies Wednesday before 2 House panels. DOJ launches a review into major tech firms. And a Pennsylvania school district rebuffs donor efforts to pay lunch debts.

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Justice Department Begins Review Of Whether Big Tech Is Too Powerful

6:17am July 24, 2019

by Aarti Shahani

The Justice Department is launching a wide-ranging antitrust review of big tech companies. The inquiry will consider concerns raised about "search, social media and some retail services online."

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A woman walks past a Google sign in San Francisco. The Justice Department is launching an antitrust review of major online companies. The DOJ did not name the firms, but there have been increasing calls to regulate companies like Google, Facebook and Amaz

DOJ Starts Review Of Whether Major Tech Companies Are Too Powerful

8:38pm July 23, 2019

by Alina Selyukh

The Justice Department says it is launching a wide-ranging antitrust review, without naming the companies. But there have been increasing calls to regulate companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Environment

A New Battery Could Be Key To Cutting Carbon Emissions, Slowing Climate Change

8:15pm July 22, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of materials science and engineering at MIT, about why new battery technology is key to cutting carbon emissions and slowing climate change.

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Equifax will pay up to $700 million in a proposed settlement over its 2017 data breach.

Equifax To Pay Up To $700 Million In Data Breach Settlement

5:10pm July 22, 2019

The credit reporting agency will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach that affected nearly 150 million people.

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The fractions of pennies per play that streaming pays out has been a boon to the recording industry — but artists often criticize it for the same.

Music & Culture

The Success Of Streaming Has Been Great For Some, But Is There A Better Way?

1:13pm July 22, 2019

by Paula Mejía

Chastened since the turn of the millennium, the streaming revolution has now revivified the recording industry — at least, those at the top of it. What are the alternatives, then?

Through a webcast, a man at New Delhi's Nehru Planetarium takes pictures of the liftoff of the Indian Space Research Organization's unmanned spacecraft, launched Monday on a mission to the far side of the moon.

India Launches Mission To The Moon On Its 2nd Try

12:49pm July 22, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

If Chandrayaan-2 reaches the moon as planned, India would become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface, after the United States, Russia and China.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6. On Friday he announced a new election security czar for the agency.

Director Of National Intelligence Dan Coats Appoints New Election Security Czar

4:02pm July 19, 2019

by Philip Ewing

Spy world veteran Shelby Pierson will attempt to centralize election security efforts across the intelligence community with soon-to-be-designated agency leads.

With a mobile phone, Kenyans can send and receive money via a service called M-PESA. Now Facebook is entering the digital currency realm. The social media giant has helped develop a digital currency called Libra that plans to launch in 2020.

Does Facebook Need A Humanitarian Partner For Its New Digital Currency?

3:59pm July 19, 2019

by Malaka Gharib

The aid group Mercy Corps believes that the new Libra currency could help funnel aid to the poor. But critics wonder why the charity has teamed up with a controversial company.