John Ruwitch
Tech Correspondent at NPR
NPR, tech, China, ex-Reuters. RT ≠ endorsement/agreement. Etc. “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”
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1 week ago |
wusf.org | John Ruwitch
Updated June 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM EDTPresident Trump signed an executive order on Thursday putting more time on the clock for the popular short video app TikTok, five months after the start date of a federal law banning it in the U.S. unless it splits with its Beijing-based owner, ByteDance.
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4 weeks ago |
boisestatepublicradio.org | John Ruwitch
Chloe Samaha wasn't trained to write software. But she and her partner at their San Francisco-based startup BOND got a working version of a new online productivity manager and websiteup and running in less than a day. "He was on his way back from a ski trip and built the entire back end … in six hours. And I built the front end in, like, an hour-and-a-half, and we just had a functional product," Samaha said.
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1 month ago |
boisestatepublicradio.org | John Ruwitch
OpenAI, maker of leading artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, is about to get physical. The company announced that it is buying a device startup called io, launched by former Apple designer Jony Ive, in a deal worth just under $6.5 billion. It's OpenAI's biggest acquisition to date. The tie-up brings together two giants in the tech world: Ive, who designed the iPhone and other iconic Apple products, and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, who has been at the forefront of AI development.
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1 month ago |
nhpr.org | John Ruwitch
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:Vietnam has been transformed since the end of what people there called the war of resistance against America and what Americans call the war in Vietnam. Life expectancy has soared. Poverty has plummeted. Economic opportunities abound. NPR's John Ruwitch visited and spoke with young people there. They reflect the generational changes that have come with development in the half-century since the war ended.
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1 month ago |
wxxinews.org | John Ruwitch
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Per USTR, Vietnam imports $13.1 billion (with a b) worth of goods from the U.S., not "twelve-and-a-half million". Still makes for a large goods trade deficit, but worth clarifying b vs m.
KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of https://t.co/oR7B84MhZq