Ryan Nakashima

Associated Press

How Google Search Results Work

Results for most people look the same, but Google results are heavily impacted by location.

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook said Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, that it had removed 652 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia and Iran for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that included the sharing of political content amid stepped-up policing of its own platform ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November.

Facebook Uncovers Misinformation Operations

Social network removes 652 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia and Iran.

1,000 Google Workers Protest

Employees protest the company's secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship.

In this June 15, 2017, photo, people walk inside the Oculus, the new transit station at the World Trade Center in New York. Data collection practices of tech firms are increasingly under the microscope. An Associated Press investigation shows that using Google services on Android devices and iPhones allows the search giant to record your whereabouts as you go about your day.

Google is Tracking Your Movements

Like it or not, it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

This undated photo provided by OpenAI shows a robotic hand holding a cube at the company's research lab in San Francisco. The hand, called Dactyl, has a single job, and that’s to rotate a cube until the letter facing up matches a random selection.

Engineers Teach Robot How to Juggle

It only took about 100 years, give or take.

This photo provided by Facebook shows Yann LeCun. Facebook is announcing several academic hires in artificial intelligence, including Carnegie Mellon researcher Jessica Hodgins, who's known for her work making animated figures move in more human-like ways. Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist, says some of the best ideas for getting AI systems to learn faster and with less data are coming from the field of robotics.

Why is Facebook Keen on Robots?

It's just the future of artificial intelligence.

In this Tuesday, June 26, 2018, photo Nick Fox, VP of Assistant and Search for Google, talks about the Duplex program, which allows the user to book an appointment over the phone, at Oren's Hummus Shop in Mountain View, Calif.

Google's Phone-Calling Bot

The company is taking great pains to assure that Duplex conforms to a set of principles around artificial intelligence

In this June 1, 2018, file photo, commuters look at their phones in Los Angeles. Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon ask us to trust them with ever-more sensitive aspects of our lives, from our relationships to our private conversations. But there’s a catch: If they prove unworthy of that trust, the repercussions are scant and alternatives seem hard to find.

Skeptical Users Still Rely on Tech Giants

These companies have woven themselves into the fabric of our daily lives.

n this May 8, 2018, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. Google pledges that it will not use artificial intelligence in applications related to weapons or surveillance, part of a new set of principles designed to govern how it uses AI. Those principles, released by Pichai, commit Google to building AI applications that are 'socially beneficial,' that avoid creating or reinforcing bias and that are accountable to people.

Google: We Won't Use AI for Weapons

The company is committing to building AI applications that are "socially beneficial," and accountable to people.

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, production manager Emy Kelty, left, and senior grower Molly Kreykes scan and monitor plants growing on towers in the grow room at the Plenty, Inc. office in South San Francisco, Calif. More than 30 high-tech companies from the U.S. to Singapore hoping to turn indoor farming into a major future food source, if only they can clear a stubborn hurdle: high costs.

Indoor Farming's People, Power Costs

More than 30 high-tech companies hoping to turn indoor farming into a major future food source, if only they can clear a stubborn hurdle: high costs.

Developer Jesus Suarez wears Google Glass glasses while looking at his phone before the start of the keynote address at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 8, 2018.

How Google Plans to Simplify Your Life

Many ways are practical, like making it easier to write emails, make lists, navigate city streets and limit the digital distractions that have increasingly addled people's lives.

In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about Google Assistant during a product event in San Francisco. Google is likely to again put artificial intelligence in the spotlight at its annual developers conference, Thursday, May 10, 2018.

Google Next to Showcase A.I. Advances

Google Assistant could gain new abilities to handle tasks without human hand-holding.