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WhatsApp on Thursday announced an update to its terms and privacy policy -- the first in four years. ...

Sony plans to roll out a slimmed-down standard version of its popular PlayStation 4 video game console next month, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. ...

Uber on Thursday announced plans to begin testing semi-autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh later this month. Its first partially self-driving Volvo XC90 vehicles will be assigned at random to customers who use the company's app, according to a Bloomberg report. ...

GV founder Bill Maris on Wednesday announced that he was departing the company after an eight-year tenure, and that his replacement would be David Krane, a managing partner and one of his chief deputies at the Alphabet-owned venture capital firm. Krane is a 17-year Google veteran. ...

AMD on Monday introduced its budget-priced Radeon RX 460 graphics card designed for e-sports gamers. It delivers the high frame rates DirectX 9-based shooters and action games demand, but also handles the more robust next-generation DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs. ...

Tesla Motors on Monday announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase SolarCity. The deal could create the world's first vertically integrated sustainable energy company. ...

Verizon Communications on Monday announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Yahoo's operating business for approximately US$4.83 billion in cash. The deal, which comes on the heels of Verizon's $4.4 billion AOL purchase last year, will allow it to expand its digital advertising business. ...

Elon Musk on Wednesday introduced a second master plan for Tesla, a follow-up to the vision he shared 10 years ago. ...

Nintendo on Thursday unveiled its latest gaming console: the NES Classic Edition, a mini replica of the original home console that can connect directly to a TV via an HDMI cable ...

Twitter will stream CBS News' live coverage of the Republication and Democratic National Conventions, the companies announced Monday. Twitter and CBS previously partnered on two presidential primary debates -- a Democratic debate last fall and a GOP debate early this year ...

CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday accused Fortune magazine of incorrectly reporting Tesla Motors' handling of a fatal accident that involved a Tesla Model S. The incident took place in May. Musk's online post is the latest salvo in a war of wars between Fortune and Tesla ...

Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest investment in long-haul undersea fiber optic cabling. Dubbed the "Faster Cable System," it is the highest-capacity undersea cable built to date, providing 60-Tbps (terabits per second) bandwidth between the United States and Japan. ...

Anki on Monday introduced Cozmo, a little robot powered by an advanced artificial intelligence. Cozmo promises to be far more interactive than any toy robot that has been released to date. ...

C-SPAN cameras in the U.S. House of Representatives were shut off Wednesday morning during a sit-in over gun control legislation, but the cable network soon began broadcasting social media streams from legislators taking part in the event. ...

Nintendo on Tuesday offered E3 attendees a preview of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the latest title in the action-adventure franchise. This time the story involves much more than rescuing a princess. The game actually has been years in the making, and at E3 Nintendo pulled out all stops, devoting much of its booth to the game ...

Elon Musk fleshed out his vision for establishing the first colony on Mars in an interview published Friday in The Washington Post ...

Google cofounder Larry Page is working with two Silicon Valley startups to develop a flying car, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Thursday. One is Zee.Aero, which Page personally has funded since its launch in 2010, when it set up shop next to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm reportedly has filed a patent application for a small, all-electric vehicle that could take off and land vertically...

After two years of declining customer satisfaction, thetelecommunications sector has halted the slide, according to the ACSI Telecommunications Report 2016, released Wednesday. ...

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this week granted Google a patent for "Adhesive Vehicle Front End For Mitigation of Secondary Pedestrian Impact." The patent application, filed a year and a half ago, credits Google employees Alex Khaykin and Daniel Lynn Larner as the inventors of the new technology. ...