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Lina Khan, here at her home in Larchmont, N.Y., in 2017, has been nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. An Rong Xu/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
SkySilk CEO Kevin Matossian joined the tech company just before it decided to help revive the conservative social media site Parler. Tara Pixley for NPR hide caption
Fitness classes are among the many elements of daily life that moved to Zoom during the pandemic. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Pandemic Winner: How Zoom Beat Tech Giants To Dominate Video Chat
The massive core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is in the B-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, for the core stage Green Run test series. NASA hide caption
Pictured is a FedEx truck produced by BrightDrop, a General Motors company dedicated exclusively to electric delivery vehicles. FedEx was BrightDrop's first customer. The delivery company has pledged to replace its entire pickup and delivery fleet with electric vehicles by 2040. General Motors hide caption
After the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, big tech companies accelerated a process of "deplatforming," or removing the right of extremists to use their technology. But the far-right is quickly adjusting to this reality. Tracy J. Lee for NPR hide caption
Across The Internet, A Game Of Whac-A-Mole Is Underway To Root Out Extremism
Critics say Facebook does not apply its rules against misinformation as robustly to posts in Spanish, allowing harmful claims to spread. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
The Age Of Automation Is Now: Here's How To 'Futureproof' Yourself
Everydays, The First 5000 Days, sold for $69 million at auction Mike Winkelmann hide caption
Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., where workers are voting on whether to unionize. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
Birmingham Barons outfielder Luis Basabe moves toward a ball in front of the vintage scoreboard in 2019 at Rickwood Field, America's oldest baseball park, in Birmingham, Ala. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
A fake video featuring former President Obama shows elements of facial mapping used in new "deepfake" technology that lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said. (AP Photo) AP hide caption
Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
A digital collage called "Everydays — The First Five Thousand Days" by the artist Beeple sold for almost $70 million by Christie's in an online auction Thursday. Christie's hide caption
One of the suits of armor available in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — if you're willing to pay real money. Screenshot by Elijah Smith/Ubisoft hide caption
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated more than $400 million to nonprofits that in turn distributed grants last year to state and local election officials. Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize hide caption
Private Donations Helped Pay For 2020 Elections. Arizona Republicans Say No More
Cassette tapes gave new control to music fans, allowing them to create and share their own collections of songs in a cheap and easily portable format. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
A man uses a tablet device in a subway train in Moscow in 2019. Russia's Internet regulatory agency announced it is slowing Twitter because the company has ignored requests to remove content harmful to children. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption
The world of Roblox has become a popular escape during the pandemic. Roblox hide caption
Researchers are concerned that Instagram's new "suggested posts" feature is contributing to the spread of misinformation. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography The Code Breaker, shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editing technology. Nick Otto/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
CRISPR Scientist's Biography Explores Ethics Of Rewriting The Code Of Life
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster hide caption
Facebook has promised repeatedly in recent years to address the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation on its site. Ben Margot/AP hide caption