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Google’s Chrome browser to block some ads starting next year

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Google Fiber starts serving customers in north Alabama

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This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows Google's web address, in Philadelphia. Google is keeping an eye on what you’re buying offline in addition to monitoring your online shopping in its latest attempt to sell more digital advertising. The offline tracking of most credit and debit card transactions will help Google to automatically inform merchants when digital ads appearing on its vast marketing network translate into sales at a brick-and-mortar store. Google plans to unveil the store-sales measurement tool Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in San Francisco at an annual conference it hosts for its advertisers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Google helps advertisers track spending in physical stores

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

In this Thursday, May 18, 2017, photo provided by Harry McCracken, shows a fire inside a concession at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif. Authorities say several people were injured after a fire broke out during Google's I/O developer conference in Northern California. (Harry McCracken via AP)

3 injured after fire breaks out at Google conference

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This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows a Google icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. Google is about to provide the latest peek at its digital services and gadgets as it seeks to become an even more influential force in people’s lives. The overview will come Wednesday, May 17, 2017, during Google’s annual conference for thousands of computer programmers. Updates to the next version of Google’s Android software for mobile devices and its voice-controlled digital assistant are among the items expected to be on the agenda. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Google unveils latest tech tricks as computers get smarter

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Uber chases GrabTaxi in Myanmar, expanding in Southeast Asia

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, shows a sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google is warning users Wednesday, May 3, 2017, to beware of a phishing scam spread by a fraudulent invitation to share a Google Doc. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google warns of email scam that impersonates Google Docs

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This photo provided by Microsoft shows the company's Surface Laptop, aimed at students. The Surface Laptop is the first Surface device without a detachable keyboard. (Courtesy of Microsoft via AP)

Microsoft takes aim at Google with laptop, slim Windows

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

Google Fiber coming to Louisville, no timetable announced

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Alphabet paid Google CEO Sundar Pichai $200M in 2016

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FILE - This Tuesday, May 6, 2014, file photo shows a sign outside Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. Fiat Chrysler and Google said Tuesday, April 25, 2017, for the first time will offer rides to the public in the self-driving automobiles they are building under an expanding partnership. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FCA, Google begin offering rides in self-driving cars

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

Google targets ‘fake news,’ offensive search suggestions

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, Google Home, right, sits on display near a Pixel phone following a product event, in San Francisco. Google’s voice-activated assistant can now recognize who’s talking to it on the Google’s Home speaker. An update coming out Thursday, April 20, 2017, will enable Home’s built-in assistant to learn the different voices of up to six people, although they can’t all be talking to the internet-connected speaker at the same time. The feature will allow Home to be more personal in some responses and give it a potential advantage over Amazon.com’s Echo. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Google Home’s assistant can now recognize different voices

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Lilian Pintea, chief scientist with the Jane Goodall Institute, demonstrates features on Google Earth, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in New York. Google Earth is getting a revival, with the mapping service becoming more of a tool for adventure and exploration. Google has partnered with such groups as the BBC, NASA and the producers of &quot;Sesame Street&quot; to mix in video clips, photos and text narratives. The Jane Goodall Institute, for instance, lets you journey to spots in Tanzania that inspired the chimpanzee expert. (AP Photo/Anick Jesdanun)

Google Earth invites you to ‘get lost’ exploring the planet

By ANICK JESDANUN - Associated Press

Google search of town turns up gun-toting wedding photo

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

FILE - This Monday, July 25, 2016, file photo shows signage in a Verizon store in North Andover, Mass. The telecom industry’s lobbying muscle pushed a consumer privacy measure to a swift death in Congress. Republicans struck down Obama-era rules that would have imposed tight restrictions on what broadband companies such as Verizon, AT&amp;T and Comcast could do with their customers’ personal data. Digital-rights and consumer-advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation supported keeping the rules. But they were outmatched by telecom trade groups and lobbyists. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

INFLUENCE GAME: Telecom lobbying muscle kills privacy rules

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Michigan State $62M expansion inspired by Google

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This undated driver license photo released by the Worcester County District Attorney's Office shows Vanessa Marcotte, of New York, whose body was found Sunday night, Aug. 7, 2016, in the woods about a half-mile from her mother's home in the town of Princeton, Mass., about 40 miles west of Boston. (Worcester County District Attorney's Office via AP, File)

Angel Cordero-Ortiz arrested in connection with killing Vanessa Marcotte, slain Google exec

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, shows a sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google says it is &quot;taken aback&quot; by the Labor Department’s claim that it does not compensate women fairly. The company says it conducts &quot;rigorous analyses&quot; that its pay practices are gender-blind and analysts who calculate suggested pay do not have access to an employee’s gender data. The company says it analyzed 52 major job categories in 2016 and found &quot;no gender pay gap.&quot; (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google refutes charges, says there is no gender pay gap

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, Alix Tichelman, left, of Folsom, Calif., confers with public defender Diane August during her arraignment in Santa Cruz Superior Court in Santa Cruz, Calif. Federal immigration officials are deporting a California prostitute to Canada after she completed a jail sentence for involuntary manslaughter for giving a fatal heroin shot to a Google executive she was entertaining aboard his yacht. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman says Friday, April 7, 2017, that a judge ordered Alix Tichelman deported because of the felony convictions connected to the accidental overdose death of Forrest Hayes in November 2013. (AP Photo/Santa Cruz Sentinel, Shmuel Thaler, File)

Prostitute who gave Google exec fatal drug shot is deported

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press