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Facing an increasing number of requests for its users’ information, Google began charging law enforcement and other government agencies this month for legal demands seeking data such as emails, location tracking information and search queries. Google’s fees range from $45 for a subpoena and $60 for a wiretap to $245 for a search warrant, according […]

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, Davey Alba here. I’m a fairly new member of the tech reporting team, and I cover online disinformation and the harm it does around the world. I’m here to give you the tech news highlights of

London’s police department said on Friday that it would begin using facial recognition technology in the city to identify people in real time, becoming one of the largest Western police forces to deploy software that has been criticized for its questionable effectiveness and violation of privacy. The Metropolitan Police provided few details about when and

HONG KONG — While China’s state-run media has urged calm and praised the official response to the coronavirus outbreak, a different story is playing out across the country’s tightly controlled social media networks. In the digital world, China’s citizens are expressing panic and frustration. They are overcoming a lack of reporting in the official media

BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Saudi Arabia has been accused of hacking the phone of Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos – the kingdom’s US embassy has denied the story Researchers at Stanford University have built a robot bird using real pigeon feathers. The team believe their

The company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting it up for sale, and nonprofits are raising concerns about the move By ANICK JESDANUN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press January 24, 2020, 6:04 AM 4 min read LOS ANGELES — The company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting the registry of domain

SEATTLE — When Jeff Bezos and his former wife, MacKenzie, celebrated what would be their last anniversary together around Labor Day 2018, they arrived at a Miami nightclub with no fanfare. His table was booked online, which is “totally what tourists do” and “totally dorky,” the club’s celebrity liaison said in an interview at the

American Media has said that it obtained information about the affair from Ms. Sanchez’s brother, Michael Sanchez, a Hollywood talent agent whom people at The Enquirer have described as a longtime source of information and tips. Mr. Sanchez and American Media executed a nondisclosure agreement on Oct. 18, 2018, “concerning certain information, photographs and text

Xerox plans to nominate 11 people to replace HP’s board, a company that it is targeting for a takeover January 23, 2020, 9:02 PM 1 min read NEW YORK — Xerox will nominate 11 people to replace HP’s board, a company that it is targeting for a takeover. In November, the computer and printer maker

As it approaches its 52nd birthday, “2001: A Space Odyssey” remains one of the most inventive and enduring of all movies. But from the vantage point of 2020, it can be difficult to appreciate the sheer breadth of imagination involved in its making. Enter “Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey,” a new exhibit at the