Do phone sleep trackers work?
Sun Jan 18 5:22 pm
Are sleep trackers on your phone helping you get a full night's rest? NPR's Life Kit investigates.
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They quit their day jobs to bet on current events. A look inside the prediction market mania
Sat Jan 17 5:00 am
Prediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the industry's bonanza.
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Elon Musk's X to block AI chatbot Grok from making explicit images of real people
Fri Jan 16 6:54 am
Elon Musk's social media company X says it will block its AI chatbot Grok from creating explicit images of real people after governments around the world launched investigations into the feature.
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Minnesota shows what happens when governing and content creation merge
Fri Jan 16 5:00 am
As President Trump approaches one year back in office, the policies his administration pursues — and how those policies are communicated — have been increasingly shaped by social media.
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Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know
Thu Jan 15 3:47 pm
Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.
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There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out?
Thu Jan 15 12:24 pm
Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.
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After widespread outage, a look at the vulnerabilities in the U.S. wireless grid
Thu Jan 15 4:45 am
Verizon customers across the U.S. were affected by a widespread outage Wednesday. NPR's A Martinez asks Lee McKnight of Syracuse University about vulnerabilities in the nation's wireless grid.
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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
Wed Jan 14 7:00 am
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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Will these tech trends take off in 2026?
Tue Jan 13 4:43 pm
Every year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 breakthroughs poised to take off in the coming year. Amy Nordrum, executive editor of operations there, talks through this year's entries.
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FTC accuses AI search engine of 'rampant consumer deception'
Tue Jan 13 4:34 pm
Federal officials say a company that operates hundreds of landing pages for AI answers is running an operation that has duped thousands of users, who were unable to stop costly monthly charges.
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