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The legendary hip-hop artist and rising singer-songwriter join *The New Yorker’s* Kelefa Sanneh live onstage. Plus, Roger Federer talks with David Remnick about retiring from tennis.

Attorneys estimate payouts between $200 and $400 per person.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at this week's all-hands meeting as he sought to clarify and defend cost cuts and address employee concerns.

DocuSign shares rose more than 3% in extended trading after the electronic signature software maker announced it has hired an Alphabet executive, Allan Thygesen, to be its next CEO. The announcement comes three month after DocuSign said its CEO for the past five years, Dan Springer, was stepping down. Notwithstanding the after-hours move, DocuSign shares have fallen 64% so far this year. On Oct. 10 Thygesen will replace DocuSign's chair and interim CEO, Maggie Wilderotter, and join the company's board. Earlier this month DocuSign reported 22% revenue growth in the quarter that ended July 31, compared with 58% growth in 2021.

What a political stunt by Ron DeSantis involving vulnerable people tells us about the current politics of U.S. immigration policy.

The bill stalled in committee two weeks ago after an amendment introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz to prohibit censorship “collusion” narrowly passed, sharply dividing the bipartisan sponsors of the bill.

The bill stalled in committee two weeks ago after an amendment introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz to prohibit censorship “collusion” narrowly passed, sharply dividing the bipartisan sponsors of the bill.

Ofcom, the U.K. media watchdog, is set to launch a study examining the role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the cloud services market.

Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced Wednesday.

Most people are visiting virtual worlds through plain old screens. Mark Zuckerberg needs to plan accordingly.

Most people are visiting virtual worlds through plain old screens. Mark Zuckerberg needs to plan accordingly.

The attorney Marc Elias is working on two critical Supreme Court cases challenging voter suppression. He talks with The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern about the battle ahead.

One-third of U.S. workers are concerned about Covid exposure at work. Here's how you can keep yourself healthy as companies push for a return to the office.

The author reads his story from the September 26, 2022, issue of the magazine.

In the search for next steps on the government's loan forgiveness plan, some borrowers are finding fake emails and texts instead of real answers.

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers in the world. There are easy ways to get even more out of the user experience with some simple tricks

D. T. Max introduces us to a passionate hunter of invasive fish. Plus, Andy Borowitz on the power of ignorance in our modern age, and Sue Halpern on the legal fight for voting rights.

Searcher, beware: That Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo ad might be ‘malvertising’ — phishing campaigns and malware hiding behind legit-looking links

After Queen Elizabeth II passed away, questions about how wealthy she really was and what will happen with her assets now have been raised.

Sam Curry, a self-described hacker, was puzzled by the payment. A Google spokesperson says the company paid "the wrong party as the result of human error" and was working to correct it.

The passing of the beloved Queen Elizabeth II raises serious questions about the future of the Royal Family.

The future of artificial intelligence is neither utopian nor dystopian—it’s something much more interesting.

An EU court has largely upheld a £3.5bn fine against Google over its Android platform.

The European Union's General Court on Wednesday upheld an antitrust ruling against Google's parent company Alphabet.

One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld a huge fine issued to Google by the bloc’s antitrust enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system.

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won ($72 million) for tracking consumers' online behavior without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements.

By some measures, New York City has the most segregated school system in the country. Four high schools in Brooklyn are focussing their hopes for change on an unlikely target: sports.

Apple released the iOS 16 update Friday, which means anyone with an iPhone 8 or newer can install the big software update for the iPhone 14.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok are bringing back familiar strategies from 2020 to fight the spread of disinformation in the 2022 midterm elections.

By some measures, New York City has the most segregated school system in the country. Four high schools in Brooklyn are focussing their hopes for change on an unlikely target: sports.

The new Prime Minister inherits a nation facing skyrocketing energy costs and a looming recession. Sam Knight discusses how she will respond.

Proposed legislation that would force Big Tech to pay publishers for aggregating news content online stalled in the Judiciary Committee

Proposed legislation that would force Big Tech to pay publishers for aggregating news content online stalled in the Judiciary Committee

Ireland's economic growth might be outpacing the euro zone's, but the country is still grappling with the same crises as its neighbours.

Sundar Pichai said the company's realignment efforts come as the business faces economic challenges and evaluates its rapid headcount growth.

The German government announced its plans to keep the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim nuclear power plants on a kind of backup status.

Google is expected to talk more about its Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro phones, and its first smartwatch ever, the Pixel Watch.

Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.

Apple's digital ad business is gaining momentum, while Facebook and Google appear to be losing steam, according to Appsumer.

The people who work in Google's famous cafeterias are contract workers, excluded from the tech giant’s high wages and benefits. Over the past few years, 4,000 of them quietly unionized.

The author reads her story from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine.

The Foo Fighters front man tells stories from a life of rock and roll. And Mann, a singer-songwriter, discusses her latest album, “Queens of the Summer Hotel.”

The Harvard scholar puts the President’s recent accomplishments in historical context, and discusses the “dangerous necessity” of prosecuting Donald Trump over January 6th.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Truth and Fiction,” which was published in a 1961 issue of the magazine.

Barbara F. Walter, who has studied political violence for the C.I.A., sees troubling signs that an anti-democratic crisis could happen here.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Ode,” by Jane Huffman, and her own poem “Gertrude Stein.”

About 4 in 10 mobile phones use Google's Android platform, which may keep millions from joining Donald Trump's service.

Companies are making another push to bring workers back to offices after Labor Day. But employees are ready to fight for flexible work.

With the Justice Department investigation of his handling of classified documents pressing forward, former President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning posting dozens of messages to Truth Social, his financially troubled social media platform, and sharing content from QAnon-linked conspiracy theory accounts and 4chan message boards.

In her Medium post, Ariel Koren said Google weaponizes its DEI and ERG systems to silence workers "who support Palestinian freedom."

Truth Social's CEO said that its debut was "up to Google." But Google says it told the platform to fix its content moderation before it could go live.

Truth Social, the Twitter competitor created by Trump Media and Technology Group, remains unavailable on the Google Play store.

Google and a team of university researchers have hit on what they say could be an effective way to make people more impervious to the harmful impact of online misinformation.

Unlike its cars, Tesla shares are about to get less expensive.

Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online.

Whether it's the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.

YouTube will begin removing misleading videos about abortion in response to falsehoods being spread about the procedure that is being banned or restricted across a broad swath of the U.S. The move announced Thursday by the Google-owned video site comes about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had protected the legality of abortion in the country for nearly 50 years.

Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in certain abortion-related search results.

Netflix has picked Microsoft to help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of its video streaming service expected to launch later this year with a pledge to minimize the intrusions into personal privacy that often accompany digital ads.

Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics and other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies.

Four Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving mobile phone users by collecting and selling their personal data.

A Google executive is warning the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that cyberattacks, disinformation and other forms of information warfare being waged in Ukraine are a “crystal ball” for future problems elsewhere.

Google is pushing back against claims that one of its artificial intelligence (AI) programs has become so advanced that it has gained consciousness.

An Australian court has ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos.

More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of peoples' location data.

About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the lingua franca of the Inca Empire was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service Wednesday.

Google on Wednesday took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting phones, tablets and watches.

Google says it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced European Union copyright law.

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta would have to comply with tough British rules under a new digital watchdog aimed at giving consumers more choice online.

Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches.

Google’s corporate parent has posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth since 2020, the latest sign that the huge gains enjoyed by technology companies during the pandemic are fading into the rear-view mirror.

The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online.

European Union officials are nearing agreement on a sweeping new law aimed at protecting internet users by forcing big tech companies like Google and Facebook to step up their efforts to curb the spread of hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content.

With Earth Day 2021 rapidly approaching, Google Earth has released a feature that might really open some eyes when it comes to how certain parts of the globe have changed in recent decades.

Conservative group Project Veritas says the Justice Department had secretly obtained from Apple and Google personal information as part of an ongoing investigation into how the organization received a diary purported to belong to President Joe Biden’s daughter.

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a warrant that used Google location history to find people near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery violated the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches.

When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the tech industry’s approach to artificial intelligence.

The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the deal Friday during Biden’s stop in Brussels while on a European tour amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The European Union set the stage for a stepped-up crackdown on tech companies with an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online “gatekeepers” such as Google and Facebook parent Meta.

A former Google employee sued the tech giant saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of racial discrimination against its Black workers, steering them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjecting them to a hostile work environment if they speak out.

The European Union has threatened to crack down on an agreement between Google and Facebook parent Meta for online display advertising services, saying the deal may breach the bloc’s rules on fair competition.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is forcing big tech companies to decide how to handle Russian state media that spread propaganda and misinformation.

As of: February 10, 2022

Google is joining Ford Motor Co.'s effort to transform a once-dilapidated Detroit train station into a research hub focused on electric and self-driving vehicles.

Google’s digital advertising empire turned in another strong performance during the holiday shopping season, propelling a 36% increase in its corporate parent’s profit during the final three months of 2021.

Google plans to invest up to $1 billion in partnership with India’s Airtel for providing affordable access to smartphones to over a billion Indians and accelerating the cloud ecosystem for businesses.

An art installation inspired by Vice President Kamala Harris, The New York Times’ “The 1619 Project” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” as well as charitable programs from Airbnb, Google, PayPal and the National Football League, are among the finalists for the inaugural Anthem Awards announced Tuesday.

The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google.

Congress has taken a new step toward reining in the market dominance of Big Tech. Bipartisan legislation advanced by a Senate panel would bar the dominant online platforms from favoring their own goods and services over those of rivals on the platforms.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

French regulators have fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros for not making it as easy for users to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it.

Germany’s antitrust watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount significance.”.

The year 2021 shared some similarities with 2020 -- one that was difficult for the whole world.

A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook's parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law.

Google parent company Alphabet is folding one of its subsidiaries back into Google as the startup’s founder steps down to confront a neurological disease.

A group of lawmakers say proposed British rules aimed at cracking down on harmful online content should be beefed up with tougher measures.

Three ocean drones will be launched from Rhode Island to travel along the Gulf Stream, collecting data in tough winter conditions that would be challenging for traditional ships with crews.

A top European Union court has rejected Google’s appeal of a 2.4 billion euro fine from regulators who found the tech giant gave its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage in search results.

British lawmakers are grilling Facebook and other tech giants over how they handle online safety as European efforts to regulate social media companies gain momentum.

A rebound in digital ad spending at Google continues to lift its parent company's profit.