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Google Reportedly Faces FTC Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads
May 24, 2013 | NPR · The Federal Trade Commission is in the early stages of opening an antitrust probe into how Google runs its online display advertising business, according to a report by Bloomberg News, citing sources who want to remain anonymous because the FTC has not announced the probe.
 

Tackling New Tech In The Golden Years
May 24, 2013 | NPR · Smartphones, tablets and computers could help seniors stay connected to their communities and families. But a hefty price tag, steep learning curves, and designs meant for younger eyes and hands could keep some older adults from logging on. Guests discuss the best ways for seniors to tackle new technology, and how devices can be adapted to accommodate older users.
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Viewers To Decide If Amazon’s Sample Shows Make The Cut
May 24, 2013 | NPR · Amazon is piloting 14 possible shows for its streaming video service. The audience will vote on which shows it likes best. TV critic Eric Deggans says the process and the shows would like to be breaking ground for a new media — but they aren’t.
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Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?
May 24, 2013 | NPR · A Stanford MBA who used to work for Google returned to Myanmar to be an Internet entrepreneur. But it’s tough to start an Internet company in a country where the power goes out every day.
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3-D Printer Makes Life-Saving Splint For Baby Boy’s Airway
May 23, 2013 | NPR · A 3-D printer is being credited with helping to save an Ohio baby’s life, after doctors “printed” a tube to support a weak airway that caused him to stop breathing. The innovative procedure has allowed Kaiba Gionfriddo, of Youngstown, Ohio, to stay off a ventilator for more than a year.
 

Microsoft Unveils Its New Xbox One
May 22, 2013 | NPR · Microsoft has designs on your living room. The software giant’s new game console — Xbox One — uses speech-recognition technology and physical commands. Not just to control games, but also your TV, Skype and recorded video. Microsoft demonstrated the new device Tuesday.
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Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
May 22, 2013 | NPR · NASA and Google have come together to buy a new kind of computer that the manufacturer says runs on the strange laws of quantum mechanics. But some physicists counter that the machine, known as the D-Wave Two, has never demonstrated a phenomenon known as “quantum entanglement.”
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Microsoft Reveals New Xbox One Game System
May 21, 2013 | NPR · Microsoft unveiled its new Xbox One Tuesday, displaying a device that takes new steps in game consoles’ journey into becoming all-purpose entertainment and communication devices. The new console replaces the Xbox 360, which has been on the market for more than seven years.
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Vertical ‘Pinkhouses:’ The Future Of Urban Farming?
May 21, 2013 | NPR · Architects have come up with spectacular concepts for vertical farms that would grow crops in city skyscrapers. But many horticulturists think the future of vertical farming isn’t in skyscrapers, but rather in large, indoor warehouses lit up magenta by superefficient LEDs.
 

‘Reinventing The Register’ May Take Time For Square
May 21, 2013 | NPR · Square is the much buzzed-about digital payments company started by the founder of Twitter. With the launch of a new product last week, we check in on the company’s promise to revolutionize how we buy things.
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Flooding Brings San Antonio To Standstill, Kills One
May 25, 2013 | NPR · In one neighborhood, 54 were people rescued. They described a water level that “swallowed up trucks and was chin-high.”
 

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‘We’ll Keep Running’: Thousands Complete Final Mile Of Boston Marathon
May 25, 2013 | NPR · On a cold and rainy day in Boston thousands gathered to finish what two bombs stole from them. A one-mile run traced the home-stretch of the Boston Marathon, giving spectators, runners and victims a chance at closure.
 

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Stunned By Military Sex Scandals, Advocates Demand Changes
May 25, 2013 | NPR · As the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, outrage has been building on Capitol Hill and beyond over the military’s failure to repair a system that has placed service members in more danger of sexual assault than of battlefield injury.
 

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A Lost And Found ‘Wonder’: Pearl S. Buck’s Final Novel
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Before her death in 1973, Pearl S. Buck wrote one final novel. But The Eternal Wonder languished in a Texas storage unit for decades until its discovery last fall.
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Transcending Hardships By Saving Others In ‘Constellation’
May 25, 2013 | NPR · In his debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra takes readers to the war-torn republic of Chechnya. People disappear, informers betray and those with humanity endure great hardships.
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Two Songs That Led Keith Carradine From Screen To Broadway
May 25, 2013 | NPR · One of Keith Carradine’s most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.
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Two Songs That Led Keith Carradine From Screen To Broadway
May 25, 2013 | NPR · One of Keith Carradine’s most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite’
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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Clairy Browne’s Rock ‘N’ Soul Bus Rolls To The U.S.
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Browne and her band, The Bangin’ Rackettes, are a flamboyant retro ensemble from Australia. The group’s new album is called Baby Caught the Bus.
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