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A new report claims that Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of American firms that are providing various web services to Chinese surveillance firms accused of human rights abuses and which are now on a U.S. blacklist. Top10VPN, a site that reviews virtual private network (VPN) services and researches topics on privacy, said in a report that it had identified U.S. technology giants...

Apple and Google have released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus

Google has developed a tool that it says can protect people from online scams, which have dramatically risen now that so much of life has moved into the virtual realm during the coronavirus pandemic.

Google is making its video conferencing tool, Meet, available for free to everyone, the Mountain View-based search giant announced Wednesday and detailed in a blog post.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai began discussing the company’s plans to allow workers back into the office, according to an email sent to employees Monday that was viewed CNBC. In the email, Pichai said that workers can expect a “staggered” and “incremental” return to the office, but nothing will happen until at least June 1. Alphabet, the parent company of Google,...

Google wants you to stay at home and doodle. On Monday, the company revealed it was launching a series of its classic popular interactive games from its archives.

Tech giants Apple and Google are teaming up to let you know through smartphones if you’ve been in close contact with someone who has coronavirus symptoms. The so-called “exposure notification” is set to push out through new software to IOS and Android phones, the companies said. The system sends out bluetooth codes to phones, which Apple and Google said...

Facebook, Google and other platforms are taking unprecedented steps to protect public health as potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation spreads around the world

Tech companies and universities are developing apps to help slow the spread of coronavirus, but some advocates warn the pandemic is pushing to the forefront the delicate balance between technology and privacy protections. Unacast, a data mining company, made headlines last week with its “Social Distancing Scorecard.” The company uses anonymous GPS location information from mobile phones to track the…

A look around Chicago on what would otherwise be a busy day shows how seriously Chicagoans are taking Illinois’ stay-at-home order. But how much have we cut back? NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Google has launched a new website that uses anonymous location data collected from users of Google products and services to show the level of social distancing taking place in various locations.

In the last week, a group of thirty volunteers from tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Alphabet put together a website called “covidnearyou” that aims to track the coronavirus as it spreads.

Airlines and retailers are pleading for aid as Congress and the White House continue to negotiate a rescue package

A former engineer in Google’s self-driving division who became the focus of a criminal investigation that rocked Silicon Valley has pleaded guilty to a count of trade secrets theft, NBC News reports.

The Trump administration scrambled Friday to broaden testing for the coronavirus with a flurry of new measures, and public confusion persisted over who should be tested and how to get checked for the disease. Declaring a national emergency, President Donald Trump and senior staffers laid out a new testing strategy designed to screen hundreds of thousands of Americans at drive-thru…

Google is canceling in-person attendance for one of its most important events, Google I/O, due to the spreading of the coronavirus, a company spokesperson confirmed. The company said in an email to attendees that it will refund those who bought tickets. The company also confirmed that it has halted international employee travel and is advising currently traveling employees to...

Google’s Earth View has released 1,000 new, and very colorful, photos of Earth’s landscape, Google Earth Product Manager Gopdal Shah announced Tuesday.

Google on Tuesday confirmed that some people recently received private videos from strangers that were uploaded to Google Photos.

Facebook is reaffirming its freewheeling policy on political ads, saying it won’t ban them, won’t fact-check them and won’t limit how they can be targeted to specific groups of people. Instead, Facebook will offer users slightly more control over how many political ads they see and make its online library of such ads easier to use.

A wristband that will help you say “no” to junk food. A machine that will mix drinks for you. These were among the gadgets showcased this week at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas. The four-day show, which opened Tuesday, is a place for companies to unveil their products and services for the coming year, though Apple, Google and other...