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Byline: MICHAEL LIEDTKE

05 Dec

Google’s robotic spinoff launches ride-hailing service

published on December 5, 2018 - 12:45 PM

(AP) – Google’s self-driving car spinoff is finally ready to try to profit from its nearly decade-old technology. Waymo is

29 Nov

Cruise control: GM’s No. 2 exec to run self-driving car unit

published on November 29, 2018 - 12:45 PM

(AP) – General Motors’ No. 2 executive is moving from Motor City to Silicon Valley to run the automaker’s self-driving

08 Nov

Google reforms sexual misconduct rules

published on November 8, 2018 - 1:08 PM

(AP) – Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week

01 Nov

Google employees walk out to protest treatment of women

published on November 1, 2018 - 12:43 PM

(AP) – Carrying signs with messages such as “Don’t be evil,” several hundred Google employees around the world briefly walked

18 Oct

Facebook’s election ‘war room’ takes aim at fake information

published on October 18, 2018 - 1:21 PM

(AP) – In an otherwise innocuous part of Facebook’s expansive Silicon Valley campus, a locked door bears a taped-on sign

17 Oct

Even tech execs fret about their kids’ smartphone addictions

published on October 17, 2018 - 12:43 PM

(AP) – Like a lot of parents, Mike Herrick occasionally sees his 13-year-old daughter getting lost in her smartphone and

10 Oct

Google’s Waze expands carpooling service throughout US

published on October 10, 2018 - 12:37 PM

(AP) – Google will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the U.S., an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that

08 Oct

Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes

published on October 8, 2018 - 1:22 PM

(AP) – Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to

05 Oct

Musk takes swipe at SEC on heels of fraud settlement

published on October 5, 2018 - 12:40 PM

(AP) – Elon Musk is taunting the government regulators who threatened to oust him as CEO of electric carmaker Tesla

03 Oct

Meet the farmers of the future: Robots

published on October 3, 2018 - 2:05 PM

(AP) – Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He’s heavyset, weighing in