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Oct 22, 2018
Musk says he will soon open a test tunnel to the public to demonstrate the viability of an ambitious underground high-speed transportation system.
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Oct 22, 2018
The White House plans to convene tech giants including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM on Monday and urge them to make it easier for their workers to leave behind their big paychecks and snazzy office perks and do brief tours of duty in government.
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Oct 20, 2018
Two of the country's largest e-scooter companies have been accused of gross negligence and a series of assaults stemming from hit-and-run incidents involving pedestrians, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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Oct 20, 2018
A self-driving ride-hailing company has launched in Arlington, Tex., where a fleet of robot-driven vans ferry people between downtown landmarks, restaurants and sporting events.
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Oct 19, 2018
Name the subject, and Russian disinformation operatives had a playbook on how to pass themselves off as politically active Americans to manipulate U.S. voters. The same tactics honed during the 2016 election carried over into the run-up to the midterms.
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Oct 19, 2018
Amazon released an Alexa skill for its Echo on Oct. 18 that allows it to whisper to U.S. users for life's quieter moments.
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Oct 19, 2018
Name the subject, and Russian disinformation operatives had a playbook on how to pass themselves off as politically active Americans as they secretly sought to manipulate U.S. voters online -- on both the right and the left -- with incendiary phrases, glib putdowns and appeals to pre-existing political biases. And the same tactics honed during the 2016 presidential election carried over into the runup toward the 2018 midterm congressional vote.
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Oct 19, 2018
Name the subject, and Russian disinformation operatives had a playbook on how to pass themselves off as politically active Americans as they secretly sought to manipulate U.S. voters online -- on both the right and the left -- with incendiary phrases, glib putdowns and appeals to pre-existing political biases. And the same tactics honed during the 2016 presidential election carried over into the runup toward the 2018 midterm congressional vote.
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Oct 19, 2018
The financial ties between the Saudi government and the tech industry underscore the delusion of an enlightened tech sector, says Giridharadas.
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Oct 19, 2018
"Paul deserved more time in life. He would have made the most of it," Gates wrote in an essay in the Wall Street Journal.
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Oct 19, 2018
Clegg will take over from Elliot Schrage and could put the company on a stronger footing in Europe.
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Oct 18, 2018
The move signals an attempt for the all-electric automaker to get back to business after months of controversy.
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Oct 18, 2018
Everyone now knows the Web is filled with lies. So then how do fake Facebook posts, YouTube videos and tweets keep making suckers of us?
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Oct 18, 2018
After years of self-driving hype, companies are taking a more subdued approach to addressing the tough realities of the most complicated robotic system ever built.
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Oct 17, 2018
Twitter accounts originating in Iran masqueraded as foreign journalists and concerned U.S. citizens in an attempt to push political messages, according to new research.
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Oct 17, 2018
Twitter accounts originating in Iran masqueraded as foreign journalists and concerned U.S. citizens in their attempt to push political messages on the social media site until they were suspended earlier this year, according to new research published Wednesday.
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Oct 16, 2018
Chairman Ajit Pai slammed carriers such as AT&T and Verizon for their "completely unacceptable" response to the storm.
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Oct 16, 2018
Google is ending a controversial practice in Europe whereby it required smartphone makers seeking to pre-install Google's app store to also add other Google apps, such as search and Chrome.
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Oct 16, 2018
Google is ending a controversial practice in Europe whereby it required smartphone makers seeking to pre-install Google's app store to also add other Google apps, such as search and Chrome.
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Oct 16, 2018
Facebook's former security chief plans to launch an institute at Stanford University to help technology companies and the public work together to solve the negative effects technology can have on society.
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Oct 16, 2018
Given Chinese censorship issues, the project has led to employee backlash at the search engine giant.
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Oct 16, 2018
The app launched last week and already has thousands of downloads, its founder says.
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Oct 15, 2018
Mr. Allen, who in 1975 set up with Bill Gates the company that became known as Microsoft, died Monday from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Seattle, according to a statement from his family. He also used his Microsoft stock as collateral to invest in entities including sports teams, buying the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail […]
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Oct 15, 2018
Google's move to cut developers off from scanning people's Gmail for ad targeting might go unnoticed by most users -- but it could upend a whole segment of apps, highlighting the outsized power and influence Google wields as a gatekeeper of data.
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Oct 15, 2018
Google's move to cut developers off from scanning people's Gmail for ad targeting might go unnoticed by most users -- but it could upend a whole segment of apps, highlighting the outsized power and influence Google wields as a gatekeeper of data.
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Oct 15, 2018
Alexander Reben trained artificial intelligence to create restaurant-style fortune-cookie fortunes. The roboticist didn't expect that the AI would start producing strange and ominous messages, many of them tinged with absurdist humor.
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Oct 12, 2018
An online attack that forced Facebook to log out 90 million users last month directly affected 29 million people on the social network, the company said Friday as it released new details about the scope of an incident that has regulators and law enforcement on high alert.
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Oct 12, 2018
An online attack that forced Facebook to log out 90 million users last month directly affected 29 million people on the social network, the company said Friday as it released new details about the scope of an incident that has regulators and law enforcement on high alert.
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Oct 12, 2018
Boston Dynamics has riveted YouTubers with videos showing their robots performing physical feats. The tech company's latest teaser video shows their popular robot, Atlas, doing tricks worthy of a gymnastic competition.
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Oct 11, 2018
The Federal Communications Commission told a federal court on Thursday that it acted properly when it eliminated the U.S. government's net neutrality rules, marking its first legal salvo in a campaign to battle back 22 states and tech companies including Mozilla, Facebook and Google that contend the agency's repeal was illegal.
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Oct 11, 2018
Facebook cracked down on over 800 accounts and publishers on Thursday, saying that the politically-oriented accounts violated its policies against spam.
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Oct 11, 2018
Facebook cracked down on over 800 accounts and publishers on Thursday, saying that the politically-oriented accounts violated its policies against spam.
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Oct 10, 2018
The contracts went to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin.
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Oct 10, 2018
The contracts went to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin.
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Oct 10, 2018
A growing number of simulations are helping audiences understand the consequences of ignoring hurricane evacuation warnings.
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Oct 10, 2018
The powerful new rocket NASA has been developing for years in its quest to get to the moon and Mars will require a massive amount of additional funding that would double the initial cost of the projec...
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Oct 10, 2018
The merger will allow CVS to turn its locations into medical hubs for more basic services.
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Oct 10, 2018
The merger will allow CVS to turn its locations into medical hubs for more basic services.
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Oct 10, 2018
The merger will allow CVS to turn its locations into medical hubs for more basic services.
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Oct 10, 2018
Snap announced a series of 12 scripted shows on Snapchat Wednesday in an effort to spark a renewed interest in the app as it hemorrhages users and money.
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Oct 09, 2018
Google argues that, since all phones are starting to look the same, what matters is what a phone is capable of doing. The Post's Geoffrey A. Fowler examines the new artificial intelligence upgrades to Google's newest phones, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.
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Oct 09, 2018
Google's new smartphone can screen calls and take its own photos using artificial intelligence. Is that enough to overcome data worries, and win converts from Samsung and Apple?
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Oct 09, 2018
A few months after another successful test flight over the Mojave Desert, billionaire Richard Branson says his space company, Virgin Galactic, might be out among the stars in a matter of weeks.
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Oct 09, 2018
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the tech industry shouldn't shy away from the problems that have confronted the industry this year. "Having the scrutiny is actually good," he said.
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Oct 08, 2018
Google 's unpopularity is a distraction. Don't fall for it.
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Oct 08, 2018
Google will close most of its failing social media platform, Google , after discovering that hundreds of thousands of users potentially had their personal data exposed because of a previously undisclosed software bug.
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Oct 08, 2018
A software bug prompted Google to announce it will shutter the social platform.
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Oct 08, 2018
Government officials managing dot-gov websites will soon have to use the Google Authenticator app on their smartphones for two-factor verification.
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Oct 08, 2018
Google will close most of its failing social media platform Google after discovering that hundreds of thousands of users potentially had their personal data exposed because of a previously undisclosed software bug.
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Oct 08, 2018
After the myriad of privacy issues Facebook's endured the past few years, should you be concerned about their latest smart device? The Post's Geoff Fowler takes you through it.
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Oct 08, 2018
The first consumer hardware from the social network is a $200 smart speaker with a video camera that tracks your movements. Would you put one in your living room?
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Oct 05, 2018
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai quietly paid the Pentagon a visit during his trip to Washington last week, seeking to smooth over tensions roughly four months after employee outrage prompted the tech giant to sever a defense contract to analyze drone video, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
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Oct 05, 2018
In photos, it looks like an upscale Manhattan penthouse for a lucky owner. In reality, the $15,000 a month home appearing on Instagram is a place for select "influencers" to create the illusion of a curated lifestyle.
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Oct 05, 2018
A list of consumer protection calls for network neutrality, consumer choice for Internet service providers, greater transparency into data collection practices and opt-in consent.
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Oct 04, 2018
The erratic CEO has a new name for the federal agency.
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Oct 04, 2018
The erratic CEO has a new name for the federal agency.
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Oct 04, 2018
The Chinese government, Apple, Amazon and other involved companies dispute the report.
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Oct 04, 2018
But the Chinese government, Apple, Amazon and other involved companies dispute the report.
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Oct 04, 2018
Many of the Facebook groups that seem to advocate for Brett M. Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court -- and some of those defending Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexual assault in the 1980s -- actually amassed their followers months or years before Washington's most politically charged controversy unfolded, according to Facebook's records, offering yet another sign that public outcry on social media isn't exactly what it appears to be.
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Oct 04, 2018
The report found that 80 percent of the Twitter accounts that frequently shared links to phony news reports during the 2016 election remain active and, as a group, publish more than a million tweets in a typical day.
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Oct 03, 2018
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent an alert aimed at tens of millions of mobile phones Oct. 3 to test a system that would warn the public in the event of a national emergency.
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Oct 03, 2018
Cable and telecom companies are widening the argument against the legislation.
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Oct 03, 2018
The Washington Post found many gay and LGBT ads that the company erroneously blocked as political.
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Oct 03, 2018
Some researchers say the ads placed on partisan sites is financing the spread of divisive and conspiratorial content without the advertisers' knowledge.
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Oct 03, 2018
Honda will invest $2.75 billion into Cruise's autonomous vehicle operations over the next 12 years.
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Oct 03, 2018
The Federal Emergency Management Agency explains what that alert on your phone was about.
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Oct 03, 2018
Apple's chief executive said 'some level of government regulation is important to come out' on data privacy.
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Oct 03, 2018
We asked seniors to help review the new Apple Watch Series 4, which can detect hard falls and run an electrocardiogram. They were hard to impress.
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Oct 03, 2018
We asked seniors to help review the new Apple Watch Series 4, which can detect hard falls and run an electrocardiogram. They were hard to impress.
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Oct 03, 2018
Wednesday's test of the Wireless Emergency Alert system will mark the first time that emergency management officials will have used the nationwide alerting capabilities reserved for the office of the president.
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Oct 03, 2018
Wednesday's test of the Wireless Emergency Alert system will mark the first time that emergency management officials will have used the nationwide alerting capabilities reserved for the office of the president.
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Oct 02, 2018
Dana Deasy, the Pentagon's new Chief Information Officer, defends the department's approach in what's become a controversial bidding war.
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Oct 02, 2018
Chief executive Elon Musk has said the company is close to becoming profitable
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Oct 02, 2018
If the sensors detect a sudden change in motion and force indicating that the user has been involved in an accident, the app alerts 911 without the user's prompting.
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Oct 01, 2018
The in-home broadband service marks the company's first foray into a next-gen technology.
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Oct 01, 2018
The Trump administration is suing to block California's new law. Here's what to expect.
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Oct 01, 2018
A stock boost this week may be short lived, as the company continues to face fundamental business challenges.
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Sep 30, 2018
The Trump administration said it would sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law ever written in the United States, setting up a high-stakes legal showdown over the future of the internet.
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Sep 29, 2018
The Security and Exchange Commission reached an agreement with Elon Musk. He will pay a $20 million fine and step down as board chairman of Tesla.
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Sep 28, 2018
As Elon Musk prepares for war, some in Silicon Valley ride to his defense: "Maybe putting up with random tweeting is the price of saving the human race."
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Sep 28, 2018
Sundar Pichai on Friday sought to assure top advisors to President Trump and leading lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the search giant isn't trying to silence conservatives online, an accusation that is set to take center stage when Pichai testifies at a high-profile, high-stakes congressional hearing in the coming months.
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Sep 28, 2018
NASA stands by its contractor, as Musk faces lawsuits and scrutiny
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Sep 28, 2018
Sundar Pichai on Friday sought to assure top advisors to President Trump and leading lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the search giant isn't trying to silence conservatives online, an accusation that is set to take center stage when Pichai testifies at a high-profile, high-stakes congressional hearing in the coming months.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sundar Pichai on Friday sought to assure top advisors to President Trump and leading lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the search giant isn't trying to silence conservatives online, an accusation that is set to take center stage when Pichai testifies at a high-profile, high-stakes congressional hearing in the coming months.
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Sep 28, 2018
Facebook said Friday that hackers had stolen information associated with tens of millions of user accounts.
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Sep 28, 2018
The incident is prompting the company to force the owners of 90 million accounts to log back in.
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Sep 28, 2018
As many as 90 million Facebook users will have to log back into their accounts after the social network admitted on Friday that hackers had stolen the security tokens associated with 50 million user p...
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Sep 28, 2018
The Security and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk, claiming he lied to investors about securing funding necessary for the carmaker to go private.
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Sep 28, 2018
Makan Delrahim warns the public 'about the power of big companies in a democracy.'
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Sep 27, 2018
Federal regulators allege Musk misled investors when he claimed that he had secured funding to take Tesla private.
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Sep 27, 2018
Technology is being designed to help survivors of sexual assault move beyond one of the biggest hurdles they face after abuse: reporting their assailant to authorities.
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Sep 27, 2018
Technology is being designed to help survivors of sexual assault move beyond one of the biggest hurdles they face after abuse: reporting their assailant to authorities.
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Sep 27, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Tesla chief Elon Musk on Thursday, saying he lied to investors when he claimed he had secured the funding to take the automaker private. In a complaint file...
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Sep 27, 2018
Children ages 8 to 11 who use smartphones and other devices in their free time for fewer than two hours a day performed better on cognition tests, the study found.
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Sep 27, 2018
The contract is a significant victory for Blue Origin, the little-known space company that Jeffrey P. Bezos founded in 2000.
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Sep 27, 2018
The contract is a significant victory for Blue Origin, the little-known space company Bezos founded in 2000.
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Sep 26, 2018
The FCC said the telemarketer placed 200,000 unsolicited calls every day for a three month period, trying to sell health insurance.
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Sep 26, 2018
The settlement is among the biggest in company history.
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Sep 25, 2018
A meeting of the country's top federal and state law enforcement officials on Tuesday could presage a series of sweeping, new investigations of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and their tech industry...
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Sep 25, 2018
A meeting of the country's top federal and state law enforcement officials on Tuesday could presage a series of sweeping new investigations of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and their tech industry p...
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