Month: June 2024

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Amazon Wants Your Handprint

Amazon has installed digital palm readers at Whole Foods. The reader scans your palm, collecting biometric data, and links it to your credit card to pay for your groceries. What does exchanging vein mapping for eggs and butter mean for the future of data security and in-person shopping. 

Guest: Emily Moore, freelance tech and food journalist

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What Could Go Right? - The Progress Report: Repairs to the Ozone & A Global News Roundup

In this week's Progress Report, Zachary and Emma look at a recent study that people are choosing to avoid the news due to its focus on negative stories. Efforts to repair the ozone hole have been successful, demonstrating the potential for positive change in environmental issues. The use of drones in agriculture can reduce pesticide use and have positive environmental and social impacts. Thailand's legalization of same-sex marriage is a positive development for LGBTQ rights in Southeast Asia.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Never Enough’ and ‘Roctogenarians’ examine the culture of success

Today's episode is all about what it means to "make it" – and why there's no one path to success. First, Jennifer Breheny Wallace speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about her new book Never Enough, which examines "toxic achievement culture" and the high pressure young people are under in regards to grades and college admissions. Then, WBUR's Tiziana Dearing speaks with Mo Rocca about Roctogenarians, co-written with Jonathan Greenberg, which profiles people who reached their goals and biggest dreams later in life.

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Inside Europe - Inside Europe 20 June 2024

The EU’s Nature Restoration Law is approved - thanks to a rogue Austrian minister, the King of Brexit shakes up British politics and the Estonia-based academic recruited to spy for Moscow. Also: the man tipped to be NATO's next chief, Turkey profits from weapons to Ukraine, Kyiv gets unusual funding from the G7, a boisterous start to Euro 2024 and France prepares for the Olympics and an election.
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CBS News Roundup - 06/20/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Tropical Storm Alberto dissipates but leaves lots of flooding along the Texas coast and four dead in Mexico. Temperatures soar in the Mid-Atlantic to New England. Actor Donald Sutherland dies at age 88. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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Strict Scrutiny - SCOTUS’s Indefensible Delay in Trump’s Immunity Case

The gang is back together! Ahead of the Strict Scrutiny live show on Saturday in DC, Kate, Melissa and Leah comb through four decisions from the Court. Are these the cases everyone’s waiting for? Not quite, but they do involve repatriation taxes, malicious prosecution, federal rules of evidence, and retaliatory arrests.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - A captive market: The high price of prison phone calls

When Diane Lewis' son, Jovaan, was sentenced to prison, she told him to call her every day. What he didn't know at the time is that those collect calls often meant Diane was unable to pay her other bills. Today on the show, how prison phone calls got so expensive, and the movement to make them free.

Related listening:
The Uncounted Workforce
From Prison to the Workforce
The Prisoner's Solution

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Behind ‘Dim Sum and Drag’, Chicago’s Asian Pacific Islander Drag Brunch

Dim Sum and Drag is a vibrant display of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage and LGBTQ+ glamor in Chicago. You can check out Dim Sum and Drag’s latest installment on Saturday, June 22. Performers will be celebrating the event’s three-year anniversary. Reset sat down with a drag performer and DJ to hear more. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Gist - Tricking Spotify Into Getting Weird

Glenn McDonald is a streaming music pioneer who worked for years for Spotify. He's out with a new book, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song: How Streaming Changes Music. Also, DeSantis and Disney get un-Frozen. Plus, assessing a challenge to New York Congressman Jamal Bowman on an issue other than Israel.


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - COINDESK DAILY: MicroStrategy Buys 11.9K More Bitcoin; SEC Ends Probe Into Consensys

Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from MicroStrategy's BTC purchase to SEC ending its investigation into Consensys.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including MicroStrategy's purchase of 11,931 BTC. Plus, Binance has been fined approximately $2.2 million by India’s Financial Intelligence Unit; and Consensys received letters from the U.S. SEC saying the regulator had ended its investigation into the technology incubator company.

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