Two tech companies have decided to eliminate a combined 180 Bay Area jobs, adding to a growing tally of layoffs affecting the region, new state labor reports show. Hitachi Vantara announced it would ...

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Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Supermajor Shell has become a renewable energy supply manager for Google in the UK, aiming to assist the global IT giant in fulfilling its long-running and successful drive to match its hourly ...

I’m what you might call the “Pixel guy” around here. When the Google Pixel 10 series launched, I was, as you can imagine, pretty excited. And for good reason! These are fantastic phones. From the ...

A judge has handed down penalties to Google in the landmark antitrust case brought by the DOJ. Ultimately, the remedies present a best-case scenario for Google, with some caveats. Google's search ...

“Oyez” means “hear ye” in French. Town criers and court officers traditionally use it to call for silence before a judge enters the courtroom and proceedings officially begin. In the courtroom of ...

Google is reportedly having trouble securing revenue from its Google TV platform. It has now resorted to lowering its commissions on ad spaces to incentivize advertisers. Google is facing heat from ...

Five years ago this week, a devastating wind storm called a derecho blasted across Iowa and several other states, causing catastrophic damage to structures, crops and trees. The Iowa Department of ...

After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that ...

Back in 2020, Google kicked off a project to crowdsource signals from Android phones that an earthquake might be imminent. The system leveraged the accelerometers inside these devices to gather ...

The Sackler family has agreed to relinquish control of its longtime company, Purdue Pharma, and cease all sales of opioids in the United States as part of an historic $7.4 billion settlement that has ...