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The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.

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How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy

When the California biotech firm filed for bankruptcy, there was one looming question for customers: What's going to happen to my data?

March 25, 2025
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The Internet Archive office is housed in a former Christian Science church in San Francisco. Six weeks into the administration, the Internet Archive said it had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that existed on the U.S. government websites prior to Trump's inauguration and have since been expunged.

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As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

March 24, 2025
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Across the federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community from their websites.

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  • Politics

Here are all the ways people are disappearing from government websites

Executive orders from President Trump have agencies across the government scrubbing websites of photos and references to transgender people, women and people of color.

March 20, 2025
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Chelsea Finn (left) and Moo Jin Kim conduct a demonstration with a robot at Stanford University.

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ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the virtual world. But reality bytes.

March 19, 2025
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  • Technology

'AI Valley' author worries there's 'so much power in the hands of few people'

Author Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: "AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education ... as long as we're deliberate about it."

March 19, 2025
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  • Dave Davies
Protesters rally outside a Tesla store in Boston on March 1 against the company's CEO, Elon Musk, who is leading an effort to cut government jobs on behalf of President Trump.

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  • Technology

A Tesla protester targeted by Elon Musk speaks out: 'I have to protect myself'

"When one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful person in the world is saying you've committed a crime, it doesn't matter what the truth is," says Valerie Costa, an anti-Tesla protester.

March 17, 2025
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From left to right: Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Avowed.

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The best and biggest games of 2025 so far

Game studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR staff and contributors round up the latest from a promising 2025.

March 14, 2025
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  • James Perkins Mastromarino
Motorists pass through a toll plaza near St. Petersburg, Florida. Bogus text messages threatening phone users with unpaid toll fees have spread rapidly — in part because scammers try to benefit from trends in travel and congestion pricing, an expert tells NPR.

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  • National

(Don't) click here to pay your tolls: How you can stop spam texts

"Smishing" scams aim to compromise your data and pilfer money. And if you think the problem is getting worse, you're right.

March 14, 2025
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Elon Musk's DOGE team has sought sweeping access to government databases that store personal information on millions of Americans.

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  • National

The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

March 12, 2025
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria's civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it.

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  • World

He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country's tech industry.

March 11, 2025
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Elon Musk at <em>The New York Times </em>Dealbook conference in November 2023, when he criticized advertisers for boycotting his social media platform, X, after Media Matters and other groups reported on the rise of extremist content on the platform since his 2022 purchase.

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  • Technology

Media Matters sues Elon Musk's X over 'libel tourism' legal assault

A new suit in an ongoing legal battle between the billionaire and the liberal advocacy group claims Musk's legal attacks are impeding the organization's work.

March 10, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
Visitors look over a 2024 Cybertruck in the Tesla display at the Electrify Expo, last July.

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  • Politics

Top Democrats ask Rubio for answers on now-canceled $400 million Tesla plan

A letter from two House Democrats presses Rubio for details about who approved an effort to try to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on armored electric vehicles from Tesla.

March 07, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
Elon Musk delivers remarks during a Cabinet meeting held by President Trump at the White House on Feb. 26.

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  • Business

Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with 'ghost employees'?

When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.

March 07, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
A view of the moon from Intuitive Machine's Athena Lander.

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  • Space

Intuitive Machines sends another probe to the moon, but can't stick the landing

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe on the moon, but company officials say it isn't in the correct position. The same thing happened last time.

March 06, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
Visitors watch as SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Sunday, March 2, 2025.

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  • Space

The latest launch for Elon Musk's Starship rocket has been delayed

Starship had been expected to launch again Monday. A previous launch ended in an explosion over the Caribbean, and sent commercial airlines scattering to avoid falling rocket debris.

March 03, 2025
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