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Founded in 1906, Xerox is one of America's most venerable companies. But the corporate giant has struggled in the digital age. CEO Ursula Burns, the first African-American woman to run a Fortune 500 company, is working to transform a company known for photocopy machines into a services icon.
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When Katy McCaffrey's stolen iPhone began beaming her photos from a cruise ship, she posted a batch of photos from the purloined iPhone on her Facebook page, in an album called "Stolen iPhone Adventures."
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After helping the Boston Red Sox win the World Series, pitcher Curt Schilling could do no wrong. Then news broke that his video game company had chewed through a $75 million state loan that it's struggling to pay off. Now, Rhode Island officials are moving to protect taxpayers from what appears to have been a very bad investment.
Facebook shares fell again on Tuesday — dropping almost 9 percent after falling 11 percent on Monday. It makes Facebook's initial public offering one of the worst performing IPOs of the past five years.
Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless television remote control, has died at age 96.
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A mile below the sea surface near an oil drill, a robotic camera caught a glimpse of a green-gray blob. The camera operator spun the rig around to catch sight of the glimmering, undulating animal. What was it?
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says the testing doesn't save enough lives to justify the risk of unnecessary surgery and radiation. But one testing supporter says, "If all PSA screening were to stop, there would be thousands of men who would unnecessarily suffer and die from prostate cancer."
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Rejecting a friend request from your boss could be seen as a vote of no confidence, but do you really want his Burning Man photos showing up in your news feed? Comedian Baratunde Thurston and media technologist Deanna Zandt discuss proper workplace friending etiquette.
Gregory Jaczko, the controversial head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is resigning his post. During his tenure he frequently clashed with fellow commissioners and was called a bully. But in announcing his resignation, he didn't mention the internal strife.
Audie Cornish looks ahead to this week's tech news with technology correspondent, Steve Henn.
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Thanks to Facebook and other sites, American troops in Afghanistan are more connected than ever with what's going on back home. But that connectivity has also led to incendiary videos and photos getting posted online. Now, military leadership is taking steps to further educate troops on what is and isn't appropriate for public viewing.
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Dharun Ravi used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate, who soon after committed suicide. The case has gotten national attention.
Whether you're a pop icon or a high school teenager, no one's immune from public scrutiny. A status update or 140 characters can be enough to seriously offend others, and ruin your reputation. Host Michel Martin takes a look at the pitfalls of social media with blogger Latoya Peterson, and high school "Twitter Principal" Eric Sheninger.
Joel Tenenbaum has been mounting a defense against the recording industry's legal moves for nearly a decade.
Out West Sunday, it will start getting dark earlier than normal, but just for a little while. A major solar eclipse, although not quite total, will spread across the skies in a 200-mile swath from Oregon into west Texas. Longtime Washington, D.C., meteorologist Bob Ryan has traveled the world chasing eclipses with his wife. He joins host Rachel Martin.
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John Baldessari is a conceptual artist whose work includes people with colored dots on their heads, oddly composed photographs and large trumpet sculptures. What happens when the gravelly-voiced Tom Waits narrates a film about an artist who proclaims "I will not make any more boring art"?
With NASA's help, SpaceX is trying to send the first commercial spaceship to the International Space Station. The launch was aborted Saturday morning, but there will be another opportunity on Tuesday. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce.
The "Radio Time Machine" is an online application that has collected the top 20 Billboard hits back to 1940. Some transcend their time period, while the appeal of others may be harder to understand. Host Scott Simon speaks with Brett Westervelt, a grad student at Stanford University and the designer of the app.
Early investors like investment banks and venture capitalists already own shares of Facebook. Some are even starting to sell. Now small investors get their chance to buy with Friday's IPO. NPR's Sonari Glinton checks in with a few of them on the first day of trading.
BOSTON — Some experts are rethinking their reluctance about the use of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women.
Harvard, the MFA and a Waltham 3D company have created a virtual tour of the ancient pyramids of Egypt.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — This past weekend, MIT hosted ROFLcon – a two day conference devoted to understanding and celebrating Internet culture. It was a chance to really examine Internet’s role in society.
NEW YORK — The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passed closer to Earth than usual.
BOSTON — Starting next month you will be able to automatically record potholes with your smartphone as you drive over them and submit the data to the City of Boston.
BOSTON — Researchers are working to gain approval to study level 3 and 4 pathogens, but lab neighbors are concerned about what would happen if something went wrong.
BOSTON — Two Boston University archaeologists have found evidence in South Africa of a man-made fire dating back 1.2 million years, the earliest such discovery.
BOSTON — The 2012 Boston Indicators Report shows that the city is enjoying three decades of sustained building, increased ethnic diversity and solid job growth, but challenges remain.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — At a federal prison in the mountains of southern West Virginia, hundreds of female inmates are taking part in a pilot program to bring the quality of entertainment behind bars into the 21st century.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — A watchdog group that monitors the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth is holding a march this weekend to mark the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
BOSTON — Dr. Fred Wang resigned Thursday in the wake of word that a fourth monkey died at the facility in less than two years.
BOSTON — The two companies will a new reservation system that Google says could revolutionize the industry.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream.
BOSTON — “Whitey” is caught. DiMasi is convicted. Boston is “occupied.” Gambling is law. The Bruins are champs! And oh, that weather — snow, tornadoes, Irene. Review WBUR’s biggest stories of 2011.
BOSTON — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was back at Harvard Yard for the first time since he dropped out six years ago. But he’s not back to finish his degree. He wants more students to follow him to California.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Seven years after he dropped out of Harvard University, the founder of Facebook was back on campus Monday, meeting with students.
BOSTON — In a rare public talk, Mark Zuckerberg said if he were starting Facebook today, he would stay in Boston, rather than building his company in Silicon Valley.
Jobs, the legendary co-founder of Apple, died Wednesday night at age 56. His death has evoked an outpouring of grief, remembrances and tributes across the country and around the world.
BOSTON — Members of the Massachusetts technology community remembered Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a tech hero who inspired and challenged innovators.
