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U.S. sues Apple for abusing its power to monopolize the smartphone market

The federal government accuses Apple of using its monopoly power to stomp out competitors and keep customers from switching phones.
Dara Kerr
National

Age of misinformation: Washington students primed on media literacy, but wonder why adults don't get the same education

One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.
Kim Malcolm
National

The battle for technological dominance between China and the U.S. rages on

Experts say Washington's recent move on Tiktok is just the latest in a race between the U.S. and China for technological dominance.
Jackie Northam
Politics

U.S. Commerce secretary says $8.5B Intel grant is a national security and economy win

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about the CHIPS act and the $8.5 billion grant awarded to Intel to help build semiconductor chip factories.
Erika Ryan

Christopher Intagliata

Ailsa Chang
Science

The unusual manner in which cicadas pee — and why the information is useful

Little insects pee in droplets. But it turns out that cicadas pee in jets — and why and how they do it could help scientists better understand microfluidics and advance all kinds of technologies.
Ari Daniel
Politics

This senator tells NPR why he's leading a charge against TikTok — and what comes next

The House has voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don't sell it. So now the future of the wildly popular social media platform is in the hands of the Senate.
Ari Shapiro

Jordan-Marie Smith

Sarah Handel
National

Reddit and YouTube must face a lawsuit over the radicalization of the Buffalo shooter

The sites' algorithms served the 18-year-old with increasingly extremist content and led to the attack, the suit claims. On Monday, a judge rejected the companies' request to have the suit dismissed.
Becky Sullivan
Technology

Supreme Court seems wary of barring government contacts with social media

At issue was a sweeping Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that barred government officials from having contacts with social media platforms.
Nina Totenberg
Technology

As Congress pushes potential TikTok ban forward, users wonder what happens next

Last week, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the video sharing platform within 180 days. If that doesn’t happen, TikTok could be banned from U.S. app stores and web hosting platforms. Now the legislation heads to the Senate, and its future is far from clear.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan
Business

Supreme Court examines whether government can combat disinformation online

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.
Nina Totenberg

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