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The President has been a public figure for decades. How did his father’s scandalous past remain unknown?

I came for their looks. I stayed for their all-day comfort and all-terrain performance.

Employees want parent company Alphabet to strengthen privacy for Google users searching for abortion information.

A letter signed by more than 650 employees calls for the inclusion of contractors in benefits for employees seeking an out-of-state abortion.

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.

It comes as abortion bans start to go into effect in some states.

After a few months of public testing, the latest version of Google’s Android operating system — Android 13 — is now available. Well, to some people, anyway.

Developer Trammell Crow Co. paid about $77 million for a pair of sites just west of Google’s Fulton Market complex, county records show

Blumenthal said his staff found the same type of deceptive ads violating Google's policies that it said it removed after a 2021 investigation by The Markup.

In a drab Google office park in Silicon Valley, robots are going to school, using AI algorithms to learn how to play ping pong and clean up after humans.

Google says it wants to make it simpler to access different apps — like Chat, Spaces and Meet — from your Gmail inbox.

Google researchers are using results from large language models and A.I. studies to teach simple robots to make decisions and perform more complicated tasks.

The Inflation Reduction Act is a huge victory for Democrats. The New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert assesses its possible environmental impact and whether it truly reflects changing attitudes about the climate crisis.

The author reads his story from the August 22, 2022, issue of the magazine.

Electric cars are nearly silent; that’s a problem sound designers can fix. Plus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist on what the Inflation Reduction Act means for the planet.

The Inflation Reduction Act. The F.B.I. search at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, new reporting on Trump’s antagonism toward the military before January 6th.

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.

Google, the developer of the Android operating system, has increased its pressure on Apple to adopt RCS, a next-generation standard for text messaging.

Three Google employees were injured and taken to a nearby hospital after an apparent electrical explosion.

Users around the world are reporting outages on search engine Google, according to DownDetector.com.

How does a swing state go extreme? The reporter took a deep dive into Ohio statehouse politics to diagnose why American democracy itself is now “on life support.”

The author reads her story from the August 15, 2022, issue of the magazine.

A chronicler of urban Chicago seeks solace in Minnesota. Plus, Susan Orlean on Ivana Trump, and Jane Mayer on Ohio’s lurch to the right. How does a swing state go hard red?

There’s currently a high correlation between declining consumer confidence and the rising appearance of the word “recession” in internet searches.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Waiting for Death in a Hotel,” which was published in a 2006 issue of the magazine.

A lawyer talks about a path forward on gun control that wouldn’t require Congress or the Supreme Court.

Restaurants across the country are reporting similar extortion threats — a barrage of bad reviews and a demand for money, in the form of a gift card, to stop them.

In an all-hands meeting last week, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said employees need to be more productive and figure out where to cut distractions.

The biggest companies in America — including Apple and Walmart — are beginning to see cracks forming in consumers' willingness to spend.

Dhruv Khullar reports on the heat wave in India, and Daniel Sherrell puts the enormity of the climate crisis in context. Plus, David Remnick talks January 6th with Congressman Raskin.

The physician and writer Dhruv Khullar on the fumbling government response to the monkeypox outbreak and what can be done now.

The state’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, talks about likely battles with neighboring states over abortion access. The Supreme Court, she said, has “teed up” conflicts.

As fundraising slows, the GOP is blaming Gmail’s spam filter. The tech giant rejects claims of bias but is moving to placate Republicans anyway.

A stock split is not uncommon for big names like Amazon, Apple and Tesla. CNBC's Emily Lorsch explains what happens when a company splits its stock.

The online retail giant is muscling in on the parents of Google and Facebook in digital advertising. It would be helpful to know more.

See how the Google Pixel 6a compares to other Google Pixel models, plus learn how to get a free $50 gift card.

The Google Pixel Buds Pro headphones go on sale Thursday. CNBC's Sofia Pitt reviews them against Apple's AirPods Pro.

Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.

Shares of Alphabet's Google were up more than 6% on Wednesday, a day after the company delivered better-than-feared earnings for the second quarter.

Google will be moving into the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago's Loop in a revamped deal of the state's sale of the Helmut Jahn-designed building to a developer.

A Florida police sergeant has been charged with felony battery after being caught on bodycam video grabbing a female officer by the neck during an arrest when she pulled him away from a handcuffed suspect. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports.

Google receives tens of thousands of requests to remove personal information, such as addresses and Social Security numbers from web pages found on their search results every year.

Alphabet executives blamed tough comparisons and economic challenges for YouTube's slowing growth rate.

As we have written repeatedly, Alphabet is a completely different from Snap and the two companies should not be lumped together.

Alphabet reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.

Tech workers are giving up jobs at places like Google for opportunities to put their skill set to work fighting climate change.

The author reads her story from the August 1, 2022, issue of the magazine.

Big Tech has soared for the past decade. But hiring freezes, slowing revenue growth and lay-offs show Silicon Valley is preparing for a recession.

Blake Lemoine went public with his believes that Google's breakthrough Lamda technology is sentient.

Blake Lemoine, who claimed Google’s chatbot generator LaMDA was sentient, has been fired.

Evan Osnos, Jane Mayer, and Susan B. Glasser break down the remarkable findings from the House select committee’s last prime-time hearing of the summer.

The acclaimed songwriter, in a conversation and performance from The New Yorker Festival. And the governor of New Mexico talks about battles between states on abortion access.

Google wants to liberate campaign messages from the junk folder. The FEC is giving users until August to make their (very angry) views known.

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.

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 enabling the collection and sale of 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.

Consumer Reports is here with some easy tips to tame your inbox while also getting rid of some other digital clutter.

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 would have to comply with tough British rules under a new digital watchdog aimed at giving consumers more choice online.

Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches.

Google’s corporate parent has posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth since 2020, the latest sign that the huge gains enjoyed by technology companies during the pandemic are fading into the rear-view mirror.

The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online.

European Union officials are nearing agreement on a sweeping new law aimed at protecting internet users by forcing big tech companies like Google and Facebook to step up their efforts to curb the spread of hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content.

With Earth Day 2021 rapidly approaching, Google Earth has released a feature that might really open some eyes when it comes to how certain parts of the globe have changed in recent decades.

YouTube has taken down the campaign channel of Hong Kong’s sole candidate to become its next leader, John Lee, citing compliance with U.S. sanctions imposed against the former No. 2 official.

Conservative group Project Veritas says the Justice Department had secretly obtained from Apple and Google personal information as part of an ongoing investigation into how the organization received a diary purported to belong to President Joe Biden’s daughter.

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a warrant that used Google location history to find people near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery violated the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches.

When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the tech industry’s approach to artificial intelligence.

The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the deal Friday during Biden’s stop in Brussels while on a European tour amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The European Union set the stage for a stepped-up crackdown on tech companies with an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online “gatekeepers” such as Google and Facebook parent Meta.

A former Google employee sued the tech giant saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of racial discrimination against its Black workers, steering them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjecting them to a hostile work environment if they speak out.

British and European regulators have threatened to crack down on an agreement between Google and Facebook parent Meta for online display advertising services, saying the deal may breach the bloc’s rules on fair competition.

You've likely heard a lot about cryptocurrency in the last year and a half. And the Better Business Bureau says scammers are taking advantage of that interest.

Fresh Prints Pet Resort and Day Lodge has been named Jacksonville’s best pet boarding in 2022.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is forcing big tech companies to decide how to handle Russian state media that spread propaganda and misinformation.

Go ahead — Google yourself. You may be surprised just how much personal information pops up on the screen. So the News4JAX I-TEAM teamed up with Consumer Reports to help you wipe your name from the net.

This Lenovo smart tablet has what you need to make your life easier and more fun

Google is joining Ford Motor Co.'s effort to transform a once-dilapidated Detroit train station into a research hub focused on electric and self-driving vehicles.

Google’s digital advertising empire turned in another strong performance during the holiday shopping season, propelling a 36% increase in its corporate parent’s profit during the final three months of 2021.

Google plans to invest up to $1 billion in partnership with India’s Airtel for providing affordable access to smartphones to over a billion Indians and accelerating the cloud ecosystem for businesses.

An art installation inspired by Vice President Kamala Harris, The New York Times’ “The 1619 Project” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” as well as charitable programs from Airbnb, Google, PayPal and the National Football League, are among the finalists for the inaugural Anthem Awards announced Tuesday.

The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google.

Congress has taken a new step toward reining in the market dominance of Big Tech. Bipartisan legislation advanced by a Senate panel would bar the dominant online platforms from favoring their own goods and services over those of rivals on the platforms.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

French regulators have fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros for not making it as easy for users to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it.

Germany’s antitrust watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount significance.”.

The year 2021 shared some similarities with 2020 -- one that was difficult for the whole world.

A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook's parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law.

Google parent company Alphabet is folding one of its subsidiaries back into Google as the startup’s founder steps down to confront a neurological disease.

A group of lawmakers say proposed British rules aimed at cracking down on harmful online content should be beefed up with tougher measures.

Three ocean drones were launched from Rhode Island to travel along the Gulf Stream, collecting data in tough winter conditions that would be challenging for traditional ships with crews.

News4Jax launched the V4RSITY newsletter and podcast this season, allowing its audience to read, listen (or do both) to high school news in the area.

A top European Union court has rejected Google’s appeal of a 2.4 billion euro fine from regulators who found the tech giant gave its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage in search results.