Does spending hours on social media really make kids miserable?
Researcher says the effect is actually "trivial," and warns focus on how much time young people spend on apps is "stopping people from thinking critically"
Inside Silicon Valley's surprising push to help people unplug
This week at its annual F8 Conference, Facebook announced new features for Instagram, including a de-emphasis on "likes"
Alphabet shares down 15 percent on disappointing earnings
Slowing ad sales have some analysts worried that search giant's core business is starting to sputter
Dramatic video shows deadly crane collapse in Seattle
Four people were killed, four others injured when a construction crane collapsed at the site of Google's new campus
Google hid a Thanos Easter egg in Search
Thanos is throwing down the Google gauntlet
2020 digital ad wars focus on hot-button issues
Axios reporter Sara Fisher said the biggest issues will be "emotionally driven" like gun control and abortion
YouTube had to disable "hateful" comments during hate crimes hearing
One of the channels streaming the hearing was a white nationalist account that raised money from users
Australia can now jail social media execs over violent video
Hastily passed law makes it a crime for social media platforms not to remove "abhorrent violent material" quickly
San Franciscans raise $80,000 to stop homeless shelter in wealthy area
A rival GoFundMe is raising money to support the building, saying they believe the homeless deserve a safe shelter
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for blocking advertising rivals
The EU said its investigation found Google broke the EU's antitrust rules by imposing contractual restrictions on rivals
Tech's fight against anti-vaccine content prompts free speech debate
"We're slipping ever closer to tyranny and these tech companies are the ones driving the bus," said the producer of "The Greater Good"
Google announces Stradia, its streaming video-game platform
The cloud-based gaming technology could be a breakthrough
Google to announce a new cloud-based gaming service
The search engine giant is expected to make its foray into online gaming during the 2019 Game Developers Conference
Google paid $35 million to former exec accused of sexual harassment
Amit Singhal received lucrative severance package after he left the company following sexual assault probe
Facebook restores Warren ads touting plan to break up tech companies
A Facebook spokesman says the ads were removed "because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo"
YouTube adds feature to fact-check conspiracy videos
YouTube announced a new feature to curb the spread of misinformation on its platform
France plans new tax on 30 internet giants
The likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook face a 3 percent levy on French revenue, which Paris says is "about justice"
"Brotopia" author on slow progress for women in tech
Emily Chang, author of "Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley," says the disparity is causing bias to be built into products
Google Doodle honors Steve Irwin
The doodle shows Irwin in his element – with crocodiles, and his two children and wife
Google's Nest alarm has a microphone, unknown to consumers
The tech giant says its latest privacy flub was a mistake and the mic "should have been listed in the tech specs"
Nestle pulls ads from YouTube over videos of minors
Food giant is one of several major companies that have yanked ad spending from Google's video site amid controversy
Misinformation online helps fuel measles outbreak
Tech companies like Facebook and Google are being criticized for the role false medical information may have played in the ongoing measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest
International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
The "International Grand Committee" wants to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and other industry giants
Officer shot in Dallas police ambush sues social media giants
Transit police officer Jesus Retena claims Twitter, Facebook and Google aided in radicalizing the gunman who opened fire in July 2016
Google to expand across U.S. with $13 billion investment
That would bring the number of states the search giant operates in to 24, with hiring of "tens of thousands"
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