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The Catholic rosary got a digital upgrade — but it's a mixed blessing

Members of the Catholic Church who spoke to NBC News acknowledged that while not the most traditional offering, it did provide a new way for people to connect with God.

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U.S. Army bans TikTok following guidance from the Pentagon

Lt. Col. Robin Ochoa, an Army spokeswoman, told Military.com that the app is considered a cyber-security threat.

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Greta Thunberg blazed a path for the year in climate change

"In a sense, we're at a tipping point for world industries, but the hope is that we're tipping in the right direction and not back to the Stone Age," one climate scientist said.

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How online 'cloud buckets' are exposing private photos and other sensitive data

NBC News located a trove of personal information in online file storage systems left unprotected by the companies that use them.

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Meetup was a darling of the tech industry. But can it survive WeWork?

As WeWork seeks to divest its companies, Meetup CEO David Siegel is looking for a new owner who can keep the brand alive.

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How social media has changed in the past decade, according to its influencers

As the decade comes to a close, NBC News asked the content creators who've shaped internet culture to reflect on the 2010s.

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Merry Hacksmas: Why Dec. 25 has cybersecurity experts on alert

Christmas Day is now a peak time for hackers to demonstrate their skills, purposefully anger people or try to extort money from vulnerable businesses.

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America's delivery appetite appears unquenchable. That's a problem.

Analysis: The delivery crunch is a year-round phenomenon that's causing people to rethink the design of American cities.

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Starliner makes safe return to earth after clock error cuts trip short

"This marks the 1st time an American-made, human-rated capsule has landed on land," NASA stated.

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Trolls turned 911 into a weapon. Now cops are fighting back

Once viewed as a prank, police are now treating 'swatting' as a serious crime that wastes city resources and puts targets' lives at risk

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Pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people, Facebook says

Facebook took down more than 600 accounts tied to The Epoch Times, a media outlet that has spent heavily on digital ads to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories.

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Australia is on fire, literally — and so are its climate politics

Australia faces bushfires and record-setting heat, a double whammy of extremes that has amplified scrutiny of Australian climate politics.

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Australia is on fire, literally — and so are its climate politics

Australia faces bushfires and record-setting heat, a double whammy of extremes that has amplified scrutiny of Australian climate politics.

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More drivers sue Uber, saying they're employees, not contractors

The drivers allege that under California law they should have been considered employees, not contractors, at least since a 2018 ruling from the California Supreme Court.

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Security engineer says Google fired her for trying to notify co-workers of right to organize

"I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google's obligations under labor law," said Kathryn Spiers, the former Google engineer.

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The world's oceans are acidifying — but it's happening twice as fast off California

Oceans play an important role in the planet's delicate carbon cycle, acting as a crucial reservoir that absorbs and stores carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere.

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How the EU plans to lead the global monitoring of CO2 emissions

The EU's Earth observation service Copernicus and the European Space Agency are working on the world's most ambitious C02 emissions monitoring project. It will be able to differentiate between human-caused and natural CO2 emissions. Here's how it will work.

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Indigenous leader Alberto Curamil, a 'green Nobel' winner, acquitted in Chile

But supporters in Chile and elsewhere worry about his safety in a region where many environmental activists have paid with their lives.

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Intel broke ranks in releasing pay data. Will other tech companies follow?

Intel is so far the only company to release the data publicly, according to organizations that advocate for equal pay — and the numbers were not flattering.

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Facebook wants to integrate Instagram and Whatsapp. The U.S. government may try to stop it.

Facebook has been the subject of an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, the federal government's main business regulator.

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