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Supreme Court issues first of many expected decisions on social media
The court laid down guidelines for the lower courts to use in assessing the facts in similar cases.
2 days ago
House passes bill that would lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner doesn’t sell. Senate path unclear
Lawmakers are acting on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a U.S. national security threat.
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Banning TikTok, ‘Coming of Age in a Digital World’, Ramadan
The House votes Wednesday on a bill to force the China-based parent company ByteDance to either divest or be banned in U.S. app stores.
Air Date: March 13, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 50:09What to know about the ‘confusion’ over Kate Middleton’s edited family photo
"Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing," the princess of Wales said, acknowledging suspicions about a family photo.
1 week ago
Airbnb bans all indoor security cameras
Previously, it allowed indoor cameras in common areas that were disclosed prior to booking and visible to guests.
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Getting to know you: This is what chatGPT says Philly is famous for
chatGPT says Philly is best known for history, food and even greenspace, but information science experts break down what the AI bot is actually doing.
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The initiative is part of the Delaware County Recorder of Deeds Office’s multi-year plan to digitize the records system.
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Listen 1:01Elections 101: What to know about electronic pollbooks, which Pa. counties use them, and more
E-pollbooks speed up key processes for poll workers. But like most election technology, they are potentially vulnerable to hacking if there aren’t safeguards in place.
2 weeks ago
Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Some scientists object to the whole idea of trying to revive extinct animals.
2 weeks ago
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads logins restored after widespread outage
The outage comes just ahead of Thursday's deadline for Big Tech companies to comply with the European Union’s new Digital Markets Act.
2 weeks ago
Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk over firings, seek more than $128 million in severance
The lawsuit says not paying severance and bills is part of a pattern for Musk.
2 weeks ago
Princeton High School students build STEM project to preserve Indigenous Guatemalan language
A group of high school research students aim to build sustainable plush animal robots to help preserve a vulnerable Mayan language spoken in Guatemala.
2 weeks ago
Listen 4:43The project is part of an initiative from NASA and the National Science Foundation to collect data and give students a chance to learn about scientific ballooning.
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Listen 2:28N.J. libraries are branching out and offering more than books and videos
Many libraries in N.J. have high-tech devices, child learning toys and machinery for patrons to borrow.
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Listen 1:17Delaware’s largest county adopts ‘Video 911’ to give dispatchers ‘eyes and ears on the scene’
Callers will have the sole discretion to allow dispatchers to access their phone, and the video transmission will stop as soon as the video chat ends.
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