Apple Issues Apology After Admitting To Slowing Down Older iPhones : NPR

Apple is doing damage control after iPhone owners expressed outrage when the company admitted to intentionally slowing down older phones to preserve battery life. NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Will Oremus, who is covering the story for Slate, now that Apple has put out an unsigned...

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King-size games may have to wait as Nintendo reportedly delays 64-gig Switch cartridges

The Switch may be the most pleasant tech surprise of 2017, but although it has many excellent qualities, excessive storage space is not among them. And it looks like that will continue to be a problem if, as The Wall Street Journal hears, Nintendo is delaying the production of 64-gigabyte...

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Death by rumor: The imagined gloomy outlook for Apple

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Margo Price; The Best Books Of 2017; 'Rethinking Infidelity' : NPR

Margo Price’s new album, All American Made, is out now.

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The 10 Most Popular 'Fresh Air' Interviews Of 2017 : NPR

In 2017, Fresh Air marked 30 years as a nationally syndicated, daily radio program by doing what it does best: more in-depth interviews.
This year’s guests included journalists, late night hosts, notable authors, political movers and shakers and an FBI profiler —...

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S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets : The Two-Way : NPR

The South Carolina Education Lottery says a programming error in its computer system vendor is to blame for a profusion of winning tickets on Christmas. Two of the state’s lottery tickets are pictured here in 2005.

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Attending CES 2018? TechCrunch wants to see your company

CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadgets, toys and products.
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Certainties: Death, taxes and annual iPhone forecast cuts

Stop the Macalope if you’ve heard this one.
OK, not literally. He doesn’t get paid if he doesn’t write a whole column. And alfalfa doesn’t get delivered for free. Somewhere, presumably, it grows free but the Macalope hasn’t figured out where that is yet.
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Novelist John Le Carré Reflects On His Own 'Legacy' Of Spying : NPR

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Germany's 'In The Fade' Flips The Script On The Terrorism Film : NPR

Diane Kruger won the top acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in In the Fade. She dedicated her award to survivors of terrorism.

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'Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses' : NPR

David Greene talks to Siva Vaidhyanathan, author and UVA Media Studies professor, who revisits his op-ed. He shares his view on how the social media giant will continue to impact politics.





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Laser-equipped shoes help Parkinson’s patients take the next step

Here’s an unexpected but pleasant little way tech might be able to improve a few lives: laser shoes. Yes, seriously. Shoes equipped with small laser emitters were shown in recent tests to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease to walk normally.
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Snakable Armored Apple MFi Lightning cable review

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Lin-Manuel Miranda On Disney, Mixtapes And Why He Won't Try To Top 'Hamilton' : NPR

Miranda says he doesn’t feel the need to duplicate the success of Hamilton. “If you think in terms of topping, you’re in the wrong business,” he says. Originally broadcast Jan. 3, 2017.

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'Florida Project' Tops David Edelstein's List Of The Year's Best Films

In a year dominated by stories of sexual harassment and abuse, Fresh Air‘s movie critic says his favorite films featured voices that aren’t heard from enough.


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Battle Lines Drawn Over Mueller, Justice Dept. And The FBI : NPR

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is Capitol Hill on Thursday for a meeting with members of the House Oversight and House Judiciary committees.

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Meet Molekule, the sleekest air purifier on the market

Molekule, a San Francisco-based startup with a sleekly designed molecular air purifier started as an immigrant dream twenty years ago and ended up being named one of Time’s top 25 inventions of 2017.
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Wasted: Arguments about your Apple product buying decisions

2017 is almost over, so let us begin the shaming of decisions you might have made this year!
Writing for Fortune, Jay Kapoor tells us about “4 Apple Products You Probably Wasted Money on This Year.” (Tip o’ the antlers to Philip Speicher.)
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Trombonist Roswell Rudd Packs A Lot Of Wisdom Into Every Note Of 'Embrace' : NPR

Rudd started out playing dixieland before graduating to free jazz. Now he’s collaborating with singer Fay Victor on his latest album. Critic Kevin Whitehead says Embrace has a “valedictory air.”





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Movies You Missed: 'Die Hard' : NPR

We conclude this season of Movies You Missed, holiday edition, with a Christmas classic: Die Hard. NPR’s Scott Simon talks to friends Kelly Wilson and Laura Mullaney.





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Kids Benefit Tremendously From Internet But Better Protection Is Essential : Goats and Soda : NPR

It seems like every kid is online. But a UNICEF director of data Laurence Chandy observes: “It’s a huge inequity between those who have access and those who do not.”

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Amazon acquires connected camera and doorbell startup Blink

Amazon has acquired Blink (via Slashgear), a startup founded in 2014 that builds connected Wi-Fi home security cameras, as well as a new video doorbell introduced earlier this week. The company got its start via a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $1 million for its totally wireless...

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Save 50% On Roxio Toast 16 Titanium - Deal Alert

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Remembering Jazz Singer Keely Smith : NPR

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This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Keely Smith, the singer who won a Grammy Award when paired with her bandleader husband Louis Prima, died last weekend at age 89. As a...

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'Phantom Thread' Is Deeply Weird And Marvelously Entertaining : NPR

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a British women’s fashion designer in the 1950s. Critic David Edelstein says the film is an amusing portrait of artistic and marital anguish.





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Coding and Collaboration with a Buddy System

For several years our kindergarten and third grade students were accustomed to pairing up as reading buddies to improve their literacy skills through a mentee/mentor relationship. As a result of that success we decided to use a similar model to encourage our kids to collaboratively...

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How to Find a Court Reporter That Offers Impeccable Service

The operation of a legal court depends on several individuals serving in official capacities, and the least noticed of these individuals is always a court reporter. Sitting quietly at the front of the courtroom in a fixed position for hours on end, a court reporter fulfills what seems like an...

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Beetle Penises May Hold Clues For Better Medical Devices : The Two-Way : NPR

Studying the penis of a thistle tortoise beetle may lead to a better design for medical catheters.

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Kuri the adorable home robot starts shipping to pre-order customers

Kuri, the home robot that wants to be more companion and less Roomba, has begun shipping out to customers. Kuri creator Mayfield Robotics, a Bosch-owned startup, revealed that its initial shipments have gone out via FedEx – which means it technically met its goal of beginning to ship the...

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Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread is a baked treat that dates back to the Middle Ages. It is thought to have first appeared in the U.S. in the nineteenth century, when the Swiss monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana baked gingerbread on holidays, […]

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Looking for an iPhone X case? Here’s what’s available at the online Apple store

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Third-party iPhone X cases are making their way to market. In the meantime, here’s what you’ll find at the online Apple store.





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'The Post' Is A Crackling Newsroom Thriller With Electrifying Relevance

Steven Spielberg’s new drama revisits The Washington Post‘s 1971 decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in defiance of the Nixon administration. Justin Chang calls it “terrifically entertaining.”


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A Filmmaker's 'Quest' For A Quiet Family Portrait Is Pierced By Unforeseen Trauma

Jonathan Olshefski spent 10 years filming Christopher Rainey and his family, who run a recording studio in a working-class African-American section of North Philadelphia. Then their daughter was shot.


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Russia-Based Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration For Banning Its Software : The Two-Way : NPR

Eugene Kaspersky, founder and head of cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, speaks in Berlin, Germany, last month. Kaspersky’s company filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today.

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NASA engineers stare at the sun to see shockwaves from supersonic flight

Before the eclipse this summer, NASA warned us over and over again not to stare directly at the sun — but now they’re doing just that. Its researchers have reinvented a photography technique more than a century old, using the sun itself as a backdrop in order to capture the shockwave...

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Verizon is selling the third-generation Nest for $180

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'American Seafood' Author Recommends Putting 'Underloved' Fish On the Plate

Chef and sustainable seafood advocate Barton Seaver works to get people excited about fish. He says there are lots of species that are not endangered that we should be eating, like Hake.


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In A Year Of Heartbreak And Reckoning, 12 Films Remind Us Of Cinema's Greatness

Film critic Justin Chang picks his top 12 movies of the year, pairing them thematically, from Call Me By Your Name and The Florida Project, to War For The Planet of the Apes and Dunkirk.


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Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

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Don’t keep cell phones next to your body, California Health Department warns

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a warning against the hazards of cellphone radiation this week. Yes, the thing we are all addicted to and can’t seem to put down is leaking electromagnetic radiation and now California has some guidance to safeguard the public.
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Profane in the membrane: Apple’s naughty list

The year will be over soon so it is the natural time to look back at everything Apple has done and swear at it all.
Writing for Gizmodo, Adam Clark Estes details “Everything Apple F***ed Up This Year.” (Tip o’ the antlers to Rick.)
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David Kleinert Photography | Rainbow Bee-eaters

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Director Spike Lee; 'Godless' Creator Scott Frank : NPR

DeWanda Wise plays Nola, a self-described “sex-positive, polyamorous, pansexual,” in the Neflix series She’s Gotta Have It.

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Movies You Missed: 'The Muppet Christmas Carol'

Listener Audrey Wang watched The Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time this week. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with her about what she thought of it.


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Human Trafficking Prevention Event Hosted by ED and HHS

Human trafficking, exploiting people through forced labor and commercial sex, is modern-day slavery.  ED’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students maintains that schools can and should be safe places where students can thrive.  Unfortunately, the trafficking of America’s students, both for...

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FCC Votes To Repeal Restrictions On Internet Providers : The Two-Way : NPR

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai led a vote to repeal Obama-era “net neutrality” rules on Thursday.

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A week on the wrist with the Alpina Startimer

It’s refreshing to wear a mechanical watch. The soft sweep of the seconds hand reminds us of the fleeting nature of time while the endless ticking in a dark room is a comfort and a spur to action. Add in a little limited edition provenance with big face and crown and you’ve got a stew...

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Christmas Crafts

“Tis the season to be jolly.” And Christmas crafts certainly add to the season’s jolliness, don’t you think? This week’s website picks showcase Christmas craft projects for kids of all ages.

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FCC votes to kill net neutrality: What happens next?

That noise you just heard was the sound of millions of modems across the U.S. crying. As expected, the FCC just voted 3-2 to kill its own net neutrality rules, and the Internet as we know it could be forever changed.
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David Kleinert Photography | Red-bellied Black Snake

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Remembering Smithereens' Songwriter And Lead Singer Pat DiNizio : NPR

DiNizio, who died Tuesday, told Fresh Air in 1988 that his music was influenced by the songs he grew up listening to on AM radio in the 1960s. The Smithereens formed in Carteret, NJ, in 1980.





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31 Years Later, Spike Lee Puts A New Spin On 'She's Gotta Have It' : NPR

DeWanda Wise plays Nola, a self-described “sex-positive, polyamorous, pansexual,” in the Neflix series She’s Gotta Have It.

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France Moves To Ban Students From Using Cellphones In Schools : The Two-Way : NPR

High school students use smartphones and laptops at a vocational school in Bischwiller, France, in September. The country’s education minister said he will tighten the ban on phones for elementary and secondary school students, except for educational...

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Review: Shinola Canfield headphones are an overpriced mess

T
he Shinola Canfield headphones cost $600 and do not ship with a stereo adapter. That should tell you everything you need to know. But if not, keep reading and let me explain why these fashion headphones are not worth the price.
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David Kleinert Photography | Damselflies

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Ranky Tanky Builds On The Music And Culture Of Slave Descendants

Three members of Ranky Tanky perform songs from their self-titled debut. The band’s name and music derive from the tradition of the Gullah, slave descendants from the Georgia and South Carolina coast.


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The Last Jedi' Introduces Welcome Shades Of (G)Rey : Monkey See : NPR

Rey (Daisy Ridley) may or may not be the title character of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. We’re not telling.

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What's Behind Bitcoin's All-Time High Value : NPR

The value of digital currency bitcoin has skyrocketed. But what is bitcoin and is it just a bubble? Timothy Lee of Ars Technica explains to NPR’s Scott Simon.





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The 5-year bootstrapped odyssey of Sno-Go, a snow bike for the everyday ski mountain visitor

Skiing has always been something of a nightmare for me. I first “learned” how to ski in middle school, and still to this day don’t really understand how to stop. I once went to a “black diamond” mountain in Minnesota (read: gently sloping Midwest hill) and had to slam myself into the...

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Reverse indicator: The future of the Mac

Good news, Mac fans! Apple is committed to the Mac for the foreseeable future and you can look forward to a strong product pipeline. How does the Macalope know this? Because John C. Dvorak just wrote that Apple was going to do the opposite.
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James Franco; 2017's Word Of The Year; Guillermo Del Toro : NPR

James Franco plays eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. Franco says Wiseau “looks sort of like a mix between a vampire and a pirate and Michael Jackson. … He has long black hair that looks like it’s dyed with magic...

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'It's A Wonderful Life' : NPR

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Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries : The Two-Way : NPR

Three major U.S. airlines have announced new restrictions on “smart luggage” because of the fire hazard posed by lithium-ion batteries in cargo holds. The airlines say any such batteries need to be removable.

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Researchers train robots to see into the future

Robots usually react in real time: something happens, they respond. Now researchers University of California, Berkeley are working on a system that lets robots “imagine the future of their actions” so that they can interact with things they’ve never seen before.
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Best Buy is selling a Philips Hue–Google Home Bundle for $199 today

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Will The Mueller Investigation Unearth A Crime? Legal Reporter Says It's Complicated : NPR

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'The Disaster Artist' Is A Very James Franco Production : Monkey See : NPR

Greg (Dave Franco) and Tommy (James Franco) in The Disaster Artist.

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A Tech-Based Tool To Address Campus Sexual Assault : NPR Ed : NPR

Jessica Ladd was sexually assaulted while at Pomona College, just as one in five college women are. She says she found the reporting process, “more traumatic than the assault” itself. She felt “like I didn’t have control. A lack of agency. I...

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Lytro’s ‘living pictures’ cease to live

As part of its move away from consumer gear toward professional cinema hardware, Lytro has killed off the site that once hosted its “living pictures,” still photos taken with its cameras that could be refocused after the fact. This will turn a handful of those pictures, where they had been...

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Pearl Harbor Naval Station on the Hawaiian island of Oahu is Navy headquarters for the United States Pacific Fleet. Yet even after seventy-six years, its name is synonymous with the surprise Japanese attack of “December 7, 1941 – a […]

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Apple releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update

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As Fissures Between Political Camps Grow, 'Tribalism' Emerges As The Word Of 2017 : NPR

“However people map out the geography of American political tribes, they always exempt themselves and their neighbors,” Geoff Nunberg says.

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James Franco Tackles A Hollywood Story 'Unlike Any Other' In 'Disaster Artist' : NPR

James Franco plays eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. Franco says Wiseau “looks sort of like a mix between a vampire and a pirate and Michael Jackson. … He has long black hair that looks like it’s dyed with magic...

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Very Special Student Artists Display Vision, Imagination in VSA Exhibit at U.S. Department of Education

Seventeen-year-old Keevon Howard has mastered one cardinal rule laid down by his high school art teacher, one that resonates beyond the classroom. “Don’t erase,” his teacher counselled — accept the mistake and weave it into your composition. Coping is a vital life skill, she said, so...

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What This Picture Of Beyoncé Tells Us About How Generation Z Connects

Why talk when you can say it with an emoji or a GIF? “Instead of me telling someone how good I look, I can just send them a picture of Beyoncé in a queen’s outfit,” Youth Radio’s Robert Fisher says.
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Kinin puts aromatherapy in your mouth

Kinin is a new portable aromatherapy vaporizer that, in theory, offers a refreshing break from THC and nicotine based vapes. Multi-use products let you inhale the strange fragrances of “Narrow leaf eucalyptus,” “Polynesian kava kava,” and “nootropics.”
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tvOS 11.2 is now available, adding a Sports section, HDR and frame rate options

tvOS 11.2 is now available, adding a Sports section, HDR and frame rate options | Macworld









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'Nuclear War Planner' Reflects On The Cold War And Assesses The Current Threat

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in hopes they would help end the Vietnam War. He looks back on his early days as a national security analyst in The Doomsday Machine.


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In 'Bombshell,' The Double Identity Of Hollywood Star Hedy Lamarr : NPR

Film actress Hedy Lamarr, pictured here around 1955, was both a major star on screen and an inventor by night.

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Trump Retweeted A Racist Group, But How Did He Find Its Videos? : NPR

In September, President Trump meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May, who says the group whose videos Trump retweeted this week “seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives that stoke tensions.”

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Rocket blast from the past: Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980

While some spacecraft get the chance to go out in a blaze of glory, others are in it for the long haul – Voyager 1 more so than any other. The mission celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, but it’s not just a lump of metal floating through interstellar space: that baby still runs....

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If your iPhone started crashing at midnight on Dec. 2, iOS 11.2 will fix it

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Patton Oswalt; 'The Shape Of Water'; 'President Show' Stars : NPR

Patton Oswalt co-starred on the comedy series King of Queens and voiced the main character in the Pixar film Ratatouille. More recently, he has appeared in Veep, Justified and Young Adult and other TV and film roles.

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Movies You Missed: 'Elf'

The movie Elf is an exuberant holiday tale about acceptance. NPR’s Scott Simon asks Tom Lovett, who has watched the movie for the first time, about its status as a Christmas classic.


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