The name Google is synonymous with online searches, but over the years the company has grown beyond search and now builds multiple consumer products, including software like Gmail, Chrome, Maps, Android, and hardware like the Pixel smartphones, Google Home, and Chromebooks. Its name can also be found on internet services such as Google Fi, Flights, Checkout, and Google Fiber. Here is all of the latest news about one of the most influential tech companies in the world.

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Tech is reshaping the world — and not always for the better. Whether it’s the rules for Apple’s App Store or Facebook’s plan for fighting misinformation, tech platform policies can have enormous ripple effects on the rest of society. They’re so powerful that, increasingly, companies aren’t setting them alone but sharing the fight with government regulators, civil society groups, and internal standards bodies like Meta’s Oversight Board. The result is an ongoing political struggle over harassment, free speech, copyright, and dozens of other issues, all mediated through some of the largest and most chaotic electronic spaces the world has ever seen.

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Oracle and Google made their closing arguments today in the copyright phase of the Java / Android infringement trial. Here are select slides from Oracle's presentation.

Select slides from Oracle's closing argument

Select slides from Oracle's closing argument

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Select slides from Oracle's closing argument

Select slides from Oracle's closing argument

Oracle and Google made their closing arguments today in the copyright phase of the Java / Android infringement trial. Here are select slides from Oracle's presentation.

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Select slides from Oracle's closing argument

Select slides from Oracle's closing argument

Oracle and Google made their closing arguments today in the copyright phase of the Java / Android infringement trial. Here are select slides from Oracle's presentation.

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The new Microsoft Teams is here with big performance improvements and UI changes

Sonos Era 300 review: too ahead of its time

The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality

The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet

Sonos Era 100 review: the new default smart speaker

More from Policy

Police take down ChipMixer service tied to stolen crypto from FTX, Axie Infinity hacks

The Silicon Valley Bank fallout is just beginning

California’s gig worker-focused Prop 22 isn’t overturned after all

The tech industry moved fast and broke its most prestigious bank