Tina Riley moved to Idaho recently in search of a new career working in the clean energy transition. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
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Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton used text-to-speech technology to advocate for her bill on the House floor Monday, following her diagnosis with the rare brain condition known as progressive supranuclear palsy. C-SPAN/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
TikTok's suit is in response to a law passed by Congress giving ByteDance up to a year to divest from TikTok and find a new buyer, or face a nationwide ban. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption
Katy Perry pictured at an event in Los Angeles in April. She wasn't at Monday night's Met Gala, despite the fake photos of her circulating on social media. Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
Women no longer have to make the first move on Bumble, the dating app that was launched in 2014 with the goal of putting more power in the hands of women. Nikos Pekiaridis/Getty Images hide caption
Women no longer have to make the first move on Bumble. Will it make the app better?
Social media creator Lauren-Ashley Beck has more than 500,000 TikTok followers. Money she earns on the platform is now her largest source of income. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR hide caption
Possible TikTok ban could be 'an extinction-level event' for the creator economy
Deer are expanding north. That could hurt some species like boreal caribou
Peloton hit the skids after its pandemic boom, struggling to figure out how to grow beyond sales of luxury fitness equipment. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images hide caption
The Department of Justice and a group of 35 states sued Google in 2020 for allegedly using anticompetitive tactics to monopolize online search. The trial is over and closing arguments are under way. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Instructions for a fingernail filing gadget for infants says, "Stay away from children." It's enough to make a new parent holler. Thanasis Zovoilis/Getty Images hide caption
Eight daily newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, alleging that the maker of ChatGPT copied its work without permission or payment. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
AI is contentious among authors. So why are some feeding it their own writing?
The Federal Communications Commission has restored net neutrality rules that ban content providers from restricting bandwidth to customers. Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images hide caption
Dazhon Darien had allegedly used the Baltimore County Public Schools' network to access OpenAI tools and Microsoft Bing Chat before the viral audio file of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert spread on social media. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
A newly signed law requires that the Chinese-owned TikTok app be sold to satisfy national security concerns. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
China's influence operations against the U.S. are bigger than TikTok
People gather for a press conference about their opposition to a TikTok ban. A couple looking at a cake. Brendan Smialowski / AFP; George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
Despite the video game industry raking in more and more money every year, the working conditions for many designers leave much to be desired. Recent surveys show that developers don't believe their careers are sustainable, leading to a surge of unionization efforts in the industry. Theresa O'Reilly for NPR hide caption
Workers at this Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., held a revote on unionizing in March 2022, but the result remains unresolved. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
President Biden speaks with Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as they look at a mock-up of a semiconductor facility in Syracuse, N.Y. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The anonymous producer Ghostwriter, seen here in February at a Grammy party at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, created a stir in 2023 with the single "Heart on My Sleeve," which used deepfake technology to recreate the voices and styles of Drake and The Weeknd without either artist's involvement or permission. JC Olivera/Getty Images hide caption
President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption