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Apple Invests $1 Billion In Chinese Ride-Hailing App

9:56am May 13, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

In China, Didi Chuxing dominates the ride-hailing market — despite Uber's attempts to break in. Now Apple Inc. is investing big in the service, ahead of a visit to China by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"I'm afraid there's a growing sense that the path to health is through testing," says Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a Dartmouth Institute internist who has written books on the pitfalls of overdiagnosis. Encouraging the worried well to order their own blood tests

DIY Blood Tests? There's A Downside To Ordering Your Own

9:16pm May 12, 2016

by Jon Brooks

It's legal to order diagnostic blood tests without consulting a doctor in many states. But critics say healthy patients can go down a rabbit hole of invasive assays and unnecessary treatments.

Amid Allegations of Bias, Facebook Explains How 'Trending Topics' Works

8:51pm May 12, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

The release of the internal document represents Facebook's continued pushback against claims that the social media network discriminated against conservative news sources.

Stuart Broad of Nottinghamshire bowls at Nick Gubbins of Middlesex during a match at Lords Cricket Ground in London.

Sports

Want To Be Wicket Smart? Now There's An App For Cricket's Many Rules

4:44pm May 12, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

A new app from the "Guardians of the Laws and Spirit of Cricket" takes on the challenge of explaining the game and its many "delightful complications," using videos, animations and quizzes.

Researchers Offer Jet Lag Advice In Return For Data About Your Sleep

1:35pm May 12, 2016

by Alan Yu

Users of an app developed by the University of Michigan to help with jet lag entered information on their time zone and sleep patterns that helped academics with their work. But is the approach valid?

National

Google To Ban Payday Loan Ads

4:28pm May 11, 2016

by Laura Sydell

Google says it will ban all payday loan ads from its site. Consumer advocates say the lending practice hurts the poor and vulnerable.

Tech startup Hyperloop One is trying to build a new mode of transportation that would involve pods moving at very high speeds through a tube.

National

Elon Musk's Hyperloop Dream Has Its 1st Public Demo

3:03pm May 11, 2016

by Dana Farrington

Imagine a pod that can travel through a tube between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 30 minutes. Hyperloop One tested a piece of this technology in the Nevada desert on Wednesday.

National

Google Announces It Will Stop Allowing Ads For Payday Lenders

1:39pm May 11, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The search giant prohibits ads for dangerous, counterfeit and offensive items, among other things. Now it will also ban ads for loans due in less than 60 days, or with an APR of 36 percent or more.

Dartmouth College researcher Timothy Pierson holds a prototype of Wanda, which is designed to establish secure wireless connections between devices that generate data.

Health & Safety

Researchers Hope This Invention Could Wave Away Medical Data Hacks

7:48pm May 10, 2016

by Jordan Gass-Pooré

As health care increasingly moves from hospitals and doctors' offices to the home, patient medical data become more vulnerable to hackers. Dartmouth College researchers hope their product will help.

A Facebook official said the company has found no evidence to back up allegations that company contractors suppressed stories of interest to conservatives in its trending topics section.

Is Facebook Suppressing Politically Conservative Content?

6:09pm May 10, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The fallout continues after the tech website Gizmodo published an article on Monday alleging that Facebook wasn't just relying on algorithms to identify trending topics on the social media platform.