How Influencing As A Career Has Impacted Today's Economy NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with aspiring influencer Cosette Rinab and former influencer Sara Li about how influencing has evolved as a career.
Uber To Start Banning Passengers With Low Ratings "Respect is a two-way street, and so is accountability," a company official announced. Riders will get advice on how to improve their ratings before being deactivated, including being polite. Sasha Ingber
'Plenty Of Cards To Play': Chinese Media Suggest Cutting Rare Earth Exports To U.S. Rare earths are used in communications, health care and national security. China blocked rare earths to Japan in 2010, but analysts say the threat — regardless of the trade war — may be hollow. Sasha Ingber
The big reasons behind Expedia's move to Seattle waterfront A glass-walled conference space called “The Prow” rises out of the earth like a ship near the water’s edge. It’s a flagship element in the Expedia Group’s opulent new headquarters along Seattle's waterfront. David Hyde
MacKenzie Bezos Pledges To Give More Than Half Of Her Billions To Charity "We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand," Bezos said as she signed the Giving Pledge. Bill Chappell
Tampered Videos Threaten To Hijack 2020 Political Conversations Videos suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was drunk and slurring her words went viral. They were proven to be fake but the damage was done. Should Facebook have taken them down? David Folkenflik
Troll Watch: City Infrastructures Targeted With Stolen NSA Hacking Tools NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Thomas Rid, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University, about how hackers are using software developed by the NSA to attack government computers.
How AI Can Change Texting Some companies have created apps that use artificial intelligence to help people text and communicate better. NPR's Susan Davis speaks to journalist Rainesford Stauffer about this AI trend.
Digital Forensics Expert Weighs In On Doctored Video Of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with digital forensics expert Hany Farid about a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which is being spread by conservative allies of President Trump.
Facebook Removed Nearly 3.4 Billion Fake Accounts In 6 Months Nearly all the phony accounts were caught by artificial intelligence and a boost in human monitoring. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said breaking up the company would make purging abusive accounts harder. Vanessa Romo