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Suspension of Pinduoduo comes amid U.S. concerns that Chinese-owned apps like TikTok pose national security threat.

Google has announced it’s allowing more people to interact with “Bard."

The conservative majority may strike down consideration of race in school admissions. David Remnick talks with two academics and an admissions officer about the future of diversity.

Psychotherapist Thomas Kersting and public safety policy attorney Donte Mills joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to weigh in on the Silicon Valley school district's lawsuit.

Intense work can be exhausting and burnout-inducing—and thrilling. Walking away isn’t so easy.

Google had sought to move the litigation over its advertising business to New York, where related cases pending against the company have been consolidated.

A Virginia judge rejected a request from Google to transfer a federal antitrust case. Several states sued Google earlier this year, alleging a virtual monopoly that was detrimental to consumers.

A judge has rejected a request from Google to transfer a federal antitrust lawsuit against it from Virginia to New York.

Navalny, the opposition leader, survived poisoning and now languishes in prison. His colleague Maria Pevchikh talks about the Oscar-nominated documentary “Navalny.”

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner and Republican John Thune will unveil a highly anticipated bill to give the president broad power to address threats from TikTok.

In responding to employee criticism of Google's new desk-sharing policy for the cloud unit, CEO Sundar Pichai reminded staffers that real estate is pricey.

Social-media algorithms show us what they want us to see, not what we want to see. But there is an alternative.

Section 230 dictates that online platforms aren't responsible for the effects of users' speech, which has allowed the internet to become a massive ideological marketplace.

Garrett Gruener, co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.

Big Tech companies spent years pouring money into ambitious ideas like drone delivery and extending human lifespans. Those days are over.

How transformative are the new AI search tools? Are they a new Skynet or just a new Clippy?

Blake Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot had gained sentience.

Blake Lemoine, who was fired by Google after he claimed that the tech giant's AI engine had become sentient, is now targeting Bing's new chatbot, Bing Search.

Sturdy has risen to the ranks as one of the top investors in the tech industry.

Time is ticking on an ambitious antitrust agenda, as modern-day trustbusters like the FTC's Lina Khan meet resistance from industry, Congress and the courts.

The so-called Henderson test would significantly weaken the power of Section 230, several experts said, including some who work for Google-backed groups.

Proponents of the growing field argue that the early weirdness of AI chatbots can be avoided by a human giving the machine all the right instructions.

Russia’s cyberattacks may have helped inoculate Ukraine against more devastating attacks, experts say, and that is resonating in Europe and the United States.

You can’t buy a Netflix subscription in the app. Audible is cheaper if you don’t pay in the app. Why should this be kept secret from you?

The $10,000 Nvidia A100has become one of the most critical tools in the artificial intelligence industry,

The alleged issue is one that previously came up in Epic Games' antitrust litigation against Google.

Employees at the search giant will be matched with a partner and alternate days for reporting into the office.

Internet service providers will likely have to tweak the algorithms that determine what users see, but that won’t fundamentally change the web.

The Department has already filed two antitrust lawsuits against Google focused on its search distribution and its online advertising business.

According to the real-time numbers, Corpus Christi is the Texas metro area that’s searched this topic the most in the past day. San Antonio and Harlingen are close behind.

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, was the latest lawmaker to be swept up in the Twitter Files, which show his 2018 campaign flagged hundreds of Twitter accounts it claimed were "bots."

The Supreme Court spent more than five hours over two days considering the responsibilities and failures of Big Tech, but seems reluctant to make big changes.

When the World Wide Web opened for public use in 1991, its enthusiasts proclaimed a new era of unfiltered free expression. That was before the internet in general, and social media platforms in particular, proved to be such effective places to spread misinformation about important matters such as Covid-19 and vaccines, disinformation (intentional falsehoods) about politics and elections, plus all manner of conspiracy theories and hate speech, including harassment and bullying. Social media platf

If you want to invest in AI, a thematic exchange-traded fund could come in handy. Here's how to decide which one may be right for you.

Reports of odd behavior led Microsoft to curtail AI chatbot's use of strong emotional language in its response to questions.

Big Tech is finally being held accountable beginning with these subpoenas, hearings. Congress has found a way to fight back against Big Tech censorship.

Legal phrase tucked into 1996 law protects companies Facebook, Twitter and Google from being sued into oblivion for libel.

At issue in the case is a 1996 law that shields internet platforms from being sued for material that appears on their sites.

Microsoft restores some functionality to its new Bing chatbot.

Justices across the ideological spectrum expressed concern with breaking the delicate balance set by Section 230 in their ruling.

The justices expressed concerns about the ramifications of a potential decision that could change the current landscape of the internet.

During Supreme Court arguments, justices wary of allowing lawsuits over algorithms that social media companies use to direct users to related content.

The case focuses on a law known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, written years before creation of Google and most modern tech giants.

Tech companies and many free speech experts warn that changing Section 230 will have broad implications for how the internet operates.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez vs. Google, a lawsuit that argues tech companies’ should be legally liable for harmful content.

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.

In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter who was killed in a terrorist attack.

The legal shield known as Section 230 launched Big Tech and was largely unchallenged in the Supreme Court — until now.

As layoffs rave the tech industry, algorithms once used to help hire could now be helping to lay people off.

Oral arguments begin in Gonzalez v. Google, a landmark case tackling whether tech companies should be liable for harmful content their algorithms surface

Scientists in China have created a new drone that can function both in water and the air and can operate between the two surfaces, Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson has the details.

Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains what facial recognition is, how Google uses it and how you can turn it off to protect your security.

TikTok is planning two more European data centers, as the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app seeks to allay growing concerns about data privacy for its users in the West.

Microsoft’s new AI chatbot is calling itself "Sydney" and acting unhinged. It learned from us.

Americans are concerned about the rapid takeover of bots in every day life. Where do we draw the line?

A longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation is stepping down as YouTube’s CEO.

Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo is teaming up with his brothers once again on All-Star Saturday.

Google is expanding an initiative that shows promise in fighting online misinformation.

Twitter has failed to provide a full report to the European Union on its efforts to combat online disinformation, drawing a rebuke from top officials of the 27-nation bloc.

Google is a company built on finding quick answers to people’s questions.

Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence.

Big name advertisers from T-Mobile to Google are paying as much as $7 million for a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl.

Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with “Bard.”.

Startup OpenAI released its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool into the wild late last year with great fanfare.

The Justice Department and eight states have filed an antitrust suit against Google.

Music streaming service Spotify says it’s cutting 6% of its workforce, becoming yet another tech company resorting to layoffs as the economic outlook worsens.

Google is laying off 12,000 workers, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs.

CES in Las Vegas gives us a glimpse of where automakers believe vehicles are headed in the future.

Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show.

State Attorney General Todd Rokita announces that Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices.

These unauthorized streams are pirated reproductions of copyrighted sports events, and they’re just a Google search away. But as Consumer Reports explains, some of those free streams can create big problems for fans.

Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, will soon know how much water Google’s data centers there have been using to cool the computers.

The European Union’s top court says Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong.

Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon’s $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network.

Google is challenging a record European Union antitrust fine that took aim at the Android operating system’s role in restricting mobile competition and consumer choice.

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations.

A delivery driver charged with killing a Google employee from New York who went missing while out for a run near her mother’s Massachusetts home six years ago has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Summertime revenue growth at Google’s corporate parent slipped to its slowest pace since the pandemic jarred the economy more than two years ago.

The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November’s midterm elections.

TikTok’s algorithms are very good at finding videos to keep people glued to their phone screens for hours on end.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear two cases seeking to hold social media companies financially responsible for terrorist attacks.

Google has discontinued its Google Translate services in mainland China, removing one of the company’s few remaining services that it had provided in a country where most Western social media platforms are blocked.

One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld a huge fine issued to Google by the bloc’s antitrust enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system.

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won ($72 million) for tracking consumers' online behavior without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements.

Google and a team of university researchers have hit on what they say could be an effective way to make people more impervious to the harmful impact of online misinformation.

Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online.

Whether it's the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.

YouTube will begin removing misleading videos about abortion in response to falsehoods being spread about the procedure that is being banned or restricted across a broad swath of the U.S. The move announced Thursday by the Google-owned video site comes about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had protected the legality of abortion in the country for nearly 50 years.

Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in certain abortion-related search results.

Google receives tens of thousands of requests to remove personal information, such as addresses and social security numbers from webpages found on their search results every year. But only about 13 percent of requests get approved. Now google is expanding its removal policy.

Netflix has picked Microsoft help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of its video streaming service expected to launch later this year with a pledge to minimize the intrusions into personal privacy that often accompany digital ads.

Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics and other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies.

Four Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving mobile phone users by collecting and selling their personal data.

A Google executive is warning the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that cyberattacks, disinformation and other forms of information warfare being waged in Ukraine are a “crystal ball” for future problems elsewhere.

An Australian court has ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos.

More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of peoples' location data.

About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the lingua franca of the Inca Empire was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service Wednesday.

Google on Wednesday took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting phones, tablets and watches.

Google says it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced European Union copyright law.

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta would have to comply with tough British rules under a new digital watchdog aimed at giving consumers more choice online.