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Linda Wertheimer talks with Charles Vest, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the school's offer to create a Web site for most of its classes and to post materials from each course. (4:30) MIT's Web site is www.mit.edu.

People are paying hundreds of dollars for COVID testing because at-home antigen kits and free appointments that offer timely results are scarce.

Host Lynn Neary talks with Wall Street Journal technology writer Walter Mossberg about the future of communication via the so-called wireless web.

Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously upholds the decision to ban social media platform X nationwide.

Scientists are still trying to identify what a healthy gut microbiome looks like, but new research may offer a clue.

An ethnobotanist travels into the Sahara Desert to research the vanishing customs of Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center. In the first of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis for the start of a project to document disappearing cultures of the world.

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to move forward with considerations on a proposal for new open Internet rules. What exactly is in the proposal?

People buy and sell memorable domain names, like tv.com or cool.com, sometimes for millions of dollars. Planet Money explores why one premium domain — milk.com — is curiously undeveloped.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Babel or The Necessity of Violence, Sultana's Dream, La última copa/The Last Cup, and Brick.

The easing of pandemic restrictions has not been good for Netflix. The streaming service reported a decline in subscribers. The company also blames password sharing.