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New technology helps trackers follow consumers' digital imprints — including across devices — through browser settings, battery levels and other details. Mark Airs/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption
Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'Fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
Republicans Say Obama Administration Is Giving Away The Internet
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Apple (left) and Google screenshots of the Willamette National Forest. The pins in each image indicate where each app says the forest is located, when searched. Apple & Google/Screenshots by NPR hide caption
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is demonstrated in New York on July 28. All owners of the new smartphone have been urged to exchange the device after reports of phones' exploding or catching fire. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
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The new Apple iPhone 7 lacks a separate headphone jack, which makes people wonder how they can charge the phone while listening to music through a wired headphone via the Lightning connector. Apple's answer: a separate dock that starts at $39. Stephen Lam/Getty Images hide caption
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An exhibitor shows a smart rice cooker to a visitor at a display booth for MiJia, a new brand by Xiaomi at the 2016 Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing on April 28. Andy Wong/AP hide caption
Losing Steam In Smartphones, Chinese Firm Turns To Smart Rice Cookers
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Juno CEO Talmon Marco talks with driver Fara Louis Jeune. The company recruited drivers by looking at Uber cars with the highest ratings. Juno hide caption
Uber Competitor In NYC Promises Drivers Benefits, Even Employee Status
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Old Macs are displayed in glass cases in the back of Tekserve, a repair shop with a cult following that's closing this week. Jon Kalish hide caption
Saying Goodbye To Old Technology — And A Legendary NYC Repair Shop
Tuesday
Passengers wait at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after a computer systems failure on Monday caused Delta to delay or cancel hundreds of flights. Branden Camp/AP hide caption
Why The Airline Industry Could Keep Suffering System Failures Like Delta's
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Taylor Swift is one of many artists urging Congress to update copyright laws, which they argue don't fairly pay for music available online. Kevin Mazur/WireImage/Getty hide caption
Why Taylor Swift Is Asking Congress To Update Copyright Laws
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Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers a keynote during the Yahoo Mobile Developers Conference on Feb. 18, in San Francisco. Stephen Lam/Getty Images hide caption
Is There A Double Standard When Female CEOs In Tech Stumble?
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Sophisticated ways of tracking reading habits give publishers hard data that reveals the kinds of books people want to read. But a veteran editor says numbers only go so far in telling the story. Kathy Willens/AP hide caption
Publishers' Dilemma: Judge A Book By Its Data Or Trust The Editor's Gut?
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Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers a keynote address at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas in 2014. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption