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Apple suspended the platform from its app store in the wake of the Capitol riots, citing inadequate content moderation practices. Parler says it will relaunch next week with "several new safeguards."

The U.S. announced new sanctions on Russia in response to the SolarWinds attack. Hackers broke into the networks of key companies and federal agencies. This is the story of how they did it.

NASA announced that a small helicopter sent to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover took flight — the first controlled, powered flight on another planet. The helicopter took aerial photos of Mars.

Apple is rolling out a big change to the way iPhones and iPads track millions of people: Apps will now be required to ask before collecting data to share with data brokers for targeted advertisements.

With industrial metal tufting guns, fiber artists can make colorful, textured designs — Pokémon characters, candy wrappers, portraiture — worthy of walls, floors or social media feeds.

Charlotte Jee of the MIT Technology Review speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about some of the ideas to make the internet more welcoming to women.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Heather Bolen about an article she wrote that got LinkedIn to add several new title options for stay-at-home parents.

The House of Yes performance venue in Brooklyn is closed for now, but the artists that were active in it are busier than ever, finding themselves and making art that speaks to the times we live in.

People are using social media to proclaim joy at getting a jab. And that's not just boasting. Even in a world of vaccine inequity, these celebratory tweets and videos carry a vital message.

A Finnish computer scientist had a dream that a blackbird was speaking to her in human language. So she devised a computer program to transform the sounds of the human voice into birdsong.