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Amazon To Refund Millions In Unauthorized In-App Purchases

5:22am April 06, 2017

The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon and other companies after children racked up millions of dollars of in-app purchases without their parents' knowledge. The FTC and Amazon have dropped appeals.

Starsky Robotics is retrofitting large trucks to make them driverless. The startup hopes that by the end of the year, it will be able to operate a truck without a person physically sitting in the vehicle.

How Driverless Vehicles Could Harm Professional Drivers Of Color

4:32pm April 05, 2017

by Vignesh Ramachandran

African-American professional drivers earn a median annual wage nearly $2,500 higher than in nondriving jobs. For Hispanic drivers it's a $5,800 premium, and Native American drivers earn $2,000 more.

A view of a ballot scanner at a New York City Board of Elections voting machine facility warehouse just before last November's election.

State And Local Officials Wary Of Federal Government's Election Security Efforts

4:30pm April 05, 2017

by Pam Fessler

The federal government's new focus on election security has state and local officials concerned that they'll be told how to run their elections in the name of security.

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YouTube TV initially offers about 40 channels to subscribers in five of the largest U.S. markets.

Arts

Once An Alternative To Mainstream TV, YouTube Now Offers Just That With New Service

3:16pm April 05, 2017

by Eric Deggans

With its streaming TV service launching Wednesday, YouTube joins a crowded field. But it offers several features the others don't.

It is time for us to assess the pros and cons of the tweetstorm, the thread, the whatever and figure out just what it all means.

National

What Should We Make Of The 'Tweetstorm' or 'Thread,' Or Whatever You Call It?

3:14pm April 05, 2017

by Sam Sanders

They're all over Twitter: Strings of tweets about politics or Russian plots or long thoughts. Maybe they're a new way to tell stories, but they say just as much about us as they do about the platform.

Chicago police have arrested two teenage boys and are looking for several other suspects in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed on Facebook Live. Legal experts say some charges may be possible for those who watched online, but that

National

Should Viewers Of Facebook Live Gang Rape Face Charges?

12:10pm April 05, 2017

by David Schaper

Authorities say that about 40 people may have watched the rapes of a 15-year-old girl that were streamed on the social media platform — and that none of them reported the crimes.

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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will take the same position at the head of Verizon's Oath.

Yahoo And AOL Move In Together Under 'Oath,' Verizon's New Digital Arm

9:21am April 05, 2017

by Laura Sydell

The digital content mashup of Internet oldsters will be led by Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO. Though the Yahoo deal was widely panned, it gives Verizon a vast subscriber base appealing to advertisers.

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Nathan Dass (left), a computer science major, and Murtaza Bambot, an industrial engineering major, invented InternBlitz at Georgia Tech.

Education

How Two Georgia Tech Students Came Up With The Common App For Internships

8:01am April 04, 2017

by Lucia Maffei

Students create their profile and can apply for several internships with one click. Currently, InternBlitz is available to students at Georgia Tech, but there are plans to add more campuses soon.

Former FBI agent Clint Watts testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

How Russian Twitter Bots Pumped Out Fake News During The 2016 Election

5:55pm April 03, 2017

Clint Watts, a former FBI agent, describes a diffuse network of Russian hackers and propagandists conducting a misinformation campaign that didn't stop with the election of President Trump.

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Each autonomous vehicle has two Uber exployees in the front seat; one is ready to grab the wheel and apply a foot to the brake pedal, the other in the passenger seat, has a computer screen showing what the car's rooftop laser-bouncing radar is seeing.

Pittsburgh Offers Driving Lessons For Uber's Autonomous Cars

4:54pm April 03, 2017

Uber has been testing driverless cars in the city for the past six months. Local officials are happy for the investment the experiment brings and for the boost to the city's reputation as a tech hub.

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