Technology

In this photo provided by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, its members search for a radioactive capsule believed to have fallen off a truck being transported on a freight route on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, on Saturday.

A tiny radioactive capsule was lost on a 700-mile stretch of highway in Australia

4:57pm January 31, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

The round, silver capsule — measuring roughly a quarter of an inch wide by a third of an inch tall — is believed to have been lost somewhere along the road in Western Australia.

The CEO of TikTok will testify before Congress amid security concerns about the app

10:08am January 31, 2023

by Ayana Archie

TikTok has been under scrutiny in recent years about its privacy and security practices and its effect on young people's mental health. Various bans of the app have been enacted across the country.

An employee examines a vanadium flow battery stack in the Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL.

National

Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

4:00pm January 30, 2023

by Laura Sullivan

The Department of Energy allowed a taxpayer-funded breakthrough in batteries to transfer overseas with little oversight

Trump, Meta and misinformation

5:08pm January 29, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Vivian Schiller, executive director of Aspen Digital, about Meta's decision to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Season: A letter to the future's protagonist journeys to record the world before a foretold cataclysm.

Arts

In 'Season: A letter to the future,' scrapbooking is your doomsday prep

9:08am January 27, 2023

by Justin Lucas

Scrapbook and bike your way through a beautiful world in the face of a foretold cataclysm.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco (left), and FBI Director Christopher Wray at the Department of Justice in Washington on Thursday.

National

FBI says it 'hacked the hackers' to shut down major ransomware group

3:57pm January 26, 2023

by Jenna McLaughlin

The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.

Grim systems engineer, Isaac Clarke, in the ruins of the USG Ishimura.

Arts

'Dead Space' Review: A new voice for a recurring nightmare

3:05pm January 26, 2023

This year's tastefully refurbished Dead Space provides plenty of reasons to revisit the sci-fi horror classic.

Social media's role in Jan. 6 was left out of the final report

1:36pm January 26, 2023

by Dave Davies

Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell says the unpublished report shows that tech companies didn't respond to employees' warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms.

Queue Listen Now

Not all educators are shying away from artificial intelligence in the classroom.

'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy

6:35am January 26, 2023

An associate professor at the prestigious Wharton School is not only allowing his students to use ChatGPT, they are required to.

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The Justice Department accuses Google of an advertising monopoly

5:05am January 26, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with University of Chicago professor Luigi Zingales about the federal antitrust case targeting Google's digital advertising business.