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What Do Self-Driving Cars Mean For Auto Liability Insurance?

4:39pm March 01, 2016

Google is acknowledging fault in an accident that involved one of its prototype self-driving cars last month. The self-driving car struck a bus. NPR explores what it would mean for auto liability insurance if the streets of the future are full of self-driving cars.

The Waze navigation app has an option to "avoid dangerous areas," meaning areas Israel does not legally allow its citizens to go. This mechanism was disabled on the phones of the Israeli soldiers who strayed into a Palestinian refugee camp.

World News

Israeli Troops Using Waze App Stray Into Palestinian Camp, Sparking Violence

4:26pm March 01, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Two soldiers got lost, entered the refugee camp and were attacked. Other Israeli troops arrived on the scene. A Palestinian man was killed, and several Israelis and Palestinians were wounded.

Traffic passes the giant animated billboard on the facade of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, in New York's Times Square.

Using Billboards, Company Will Collect Personal Information To Help Advertisers

8:49pm February 29, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Clear Channel Outdoor — one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the U.S. — will now use billboards to map real-world habits and behaviors from nearby consumers.

Nancy Jo Sales interviewed more than 200 teenage girls about their social media and Internet habits while researching her book American Girls.

Books
Arts

Teen Girls And Social Media: A Story Of 'Secret Lives' And Misogyny

7:43pm February 29, 2016

Author Nancy Jo Sales says the Internet fosters a kind of sexism that is harmful to teen girls. Her new book is American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers.

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National

New York Judge Sides With Apple In Another Legal Faceoff With FBI

7:20pm February 29, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

Though not binding on other courts, the decision cuts against the same law that the FBI is using to compel Apple's help in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Kanye West at a laptop during his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show and album debut at Madison Square Garden in New York Feb. 11.

Music & Culture

Is Tidal Changing How Fans Talk About Music?

6:24pm February 29, 2016

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Technological innovations like streaming are shifting how music gets released today — but artist exclusives are also changing the way fans process today's most popular tracks.

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Kanye West's 'The Life Of Pablo' Sparks Rampant Piracy

4:44pm February 29, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Paul Resnikoff, publisher of Digital Music News, about what the piracy of Kanye West's new album says about streaming as a venue for music.

National

Being Black In The Tech Industry

5:43pm February 28, 2016

by Eric Westervelt

Professor, author and CEO of Clearly Innovative, Aaron Saunders talks about the challenges of being African-American in the tech industry.

National

What's So Revolutionary About Amazon's 'Echo'?

7:57am February 28, 2016

Rachel Martin asks Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray if the Amazon Echo is a gadget worth adding to all our other gadgets.

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Apple's First Amendment Argument

4:11pm February 27, 2016

by Laura Sydell

Is software code speech? Apple says that it is, in its motion to vacate a federal judge's order requiring the company to help the FBI break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

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