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Leaked documents provide a glimpse into the inner workings of Google Search—and contradict the company’s public claims.

OpenAI’s snafu over its “Her”-like voice assistant might be funny if it didn’t portend a larger crisis in the integrity of digital information.

The tech giant is a monopoly that harms consumers and merchants, according to a federal lawsuit. Plus, the director Emerald Fennell discusses her latest film, “Saltburn.”

As chatbots threaten their own best sources of data, they will have to find new kinds of knowledge.

So much of the current Web was designed around aggregation. What value will legacy sites have when bots can do the aggregation for us?

In Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, the Court considers whether the Web’s most foundational law still makes sense.

Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?

A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?

The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.

The company’s purchase of St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion is the biggest single-building commercial-real-estate deal in the city since the pandemic began.

June 9th, 12:17 P.M. “Could lightning strike make man very handsome?”

The imperfect, scattershot search tool delivers just enough usefulness and serendipity to keep one hooked.

As we teach computers to use natural language, we are bumping into the inescapable biases of human communication.

On your smartphone, go to “Settings.” Scroll down to Google Maps. Beneath that is a secret category that only a pure-hearted child can see.

A judge recently dismissed two antitrust cases against Facebook. But what appeared to be a setback for the effort may actually provide a road map for how it can succeed.

At a time when we have been staring out windows at the same stretch of street, it can be cathartic to get dropped on another patch of road—somewhere else, but not so different after all.

When the Dutch politician Marietje Schaake arrived in Silicon Valley, she realized just how bizarre American thinking about the industry had become.

“Can eating too much banana bread cause potassium hangover,” “Historical origin of bangs,” and other searches.

Ross LaJeunesse, who is running for the U.S. Senate, discusses how Big Tech companies have changed over the past decade and how they should deal with authoritarian governments.

7:09 P.M. “What can I give my partner as a thank you for somehow locating a buche de noel at 7 P.M. in a small town not a sex thing”