Technology

Health & Safety

'Body Electric Challenge': Start the new year off with movement breaks

8:14am January 09, 2024

The challenge invites anyone who wants to join to inject prescribed doses of movement in their lives. Follow along with the series at npr.org/bodyelectric or on the TED Radio Hour podcast feed.

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Kate Speer, on a hike with her service dog, Waffle. Her popular social media accounts feature frank discussion of mental illness.

Health & Safety

To help young people with #mentalhealth, researchers team up with TikTok influencers

7:32pm January 05, 2024

by Andrea Muraskin

Harvard professors wanted to flood social media with evidence-based information about conditions like anxiety and depression. So they turned to the people who already know how to go viral.

Microsoft makes its first keyboard change in 30 years

5:15am January 05, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent for Axios, about the keyboard change Microsoft is making with the addition of an AI key.

Tech journalist Cory Doctorow outlines how sites can change the deal with users.

National

From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'

5:00am January 04, 2024

If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.

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Artificial intelligence faces more legal challenges

6:09pm January 03, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

Legal challenges to the development and use of generative AI are accumulating. Developers are confronting potential legal minefields involving privacy, cybersecurity and defamation.

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Willis Gibson at the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship

A 13-year-old in Oklahoma may have just become the 1st person to ever beat Tetris

5:34pm January 03, 2024

by Diba Mohtasham

Before last month, no human had ever been known to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. Artificial intelligence had done so, but then came Willis Gibson, who only needed 39 minutes.

Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires. Companies and researchers are using AI to both detect wildfires early, and to help prevent megafires.

Environment

4 ways AI can help with climate change, from detecting methane to preventing fires

5:01am January 02, 2024

by Julia Simon

Many companies, researchers and governments are using artificial intelligence as a tool to help with climate solutions. Here are four ways AI is now used to combat global warming.

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Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts is shown joining other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

National

Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on artificial intelligence in the courts

1:58am January 01, 2024

by The Associated Press

Roberts focused on the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the courts in his annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal cases involving Donald Trump.

Economy

The crypto comeback

5:15pm December 30, 2023

by Adrian Ma

At the start of the year, the market for cryptocurrencies was in the midst of a monthslong crash. But as we close out 2023, some digital currencies are surging.

Michael Cohen arrives at New York Supreme Court for former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial on Oct. 25, 2023 in New York. Cohen says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a New York judge.

Politics & Government

Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney

8:20am December 30, 2023

by The Associated Press

Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer says he passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.