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According to a recent Quartz report, Android smartphone users may be sharing significant amounts of data with Google when they enable "location history." Quartz reporter David Yanofsky joins CBSN to explain what information Google is tracking and how you can change what data you're sharing.
The couple accused of keeping their 13 children captive, were barred from having any contact with the children Wednesday. Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon spent a combined $50 million on lobbying.
Google removed a feature from its viral Arts & Culture app for users in Texas and Illinois, two states that have tough laws on biometric identification. But are security concerns being blown out of proportion? CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports.
As the autonomous cars race heats up, some are predicting free rides for everyone. But at what cost? Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, explains more to CBSN's Meg Oliver.
An organization called Consumer Watchdog says in the future, you may want to watch what you say around voice-activated assistants sold by Google and Amazon. The group says patent applications reveal the smart devices may one day record your conversations, to sell you things. Jamie Yuccas reports.
NASA is celebrating after groundbreaking artificial intelligence helped discover a new planet. NASA researchers used advanced machine learning technology from Google to help find the planet thousands of light-years away. Michelle Miller reports.
Our solar system may have a twin: a sun, with at least eight planets orbiting, just like ours. This new discovery was made by a Google artificial intelligence program that was trained to recognize subtle clues from NASA's space telescope that eluded human astronomers.
For many months, we have heard about Russian efforts to divide Americans and disrupt the 2016 election by flooding social media with provocative ads. Congress released a sample of those ads Wednesday. Julianna Goldman reports.
Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google returned to Capitol Hill for a second day of hearings Wednesday. Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, joins CBSN to discuss the latest on the testimony about Russia's use of social media to influence opinion in the U.S.
Lawyers for social media companies say Russia continued to spread false information online even after the 2016 election. A Senate judiciary subcommittee questioned representatives of Google, Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday. Lawmakers wanted to know how Russian-backed propaganda spread unnoticed to millions of Americans. Nancy Cordes reports.
Social media executives told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that Russian-linked accounts began trying to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election in 2015, and they kept at it long after the voting ended. Nancy Cordes reports.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today on Russian interference on the 2016 election. Adam Sharp, former head of news, government and elections at Twitter, joined CBSN to discuss.
Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google will testify in Congress about how Russia used social media to influence the 2016 presidential election. CBSN political contributor and Associated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller talks to CBSN about what to expect.
November's issue of "Car and Driver" looks into the race to get self-driving cars on the streets. Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell edited the issue as well as contributed two articles. He joined CBSN to discuss the new technology.
Lawyers from Twitter, Facebook and Google will meet with congressional investigators to talk about the role they played in Russia's attempt to influence last year's election. Heather Timmons, White House correspondent for Quartz, talks about what we should expect in the Nov. 1 hearing.
Lawmakers are taking steps to force Facebook and other online platforms to disclose who buys political ads on their sites. A new bipartisan bill called the Honest Ads Act would make online advertisers disclose who pay for ads, just like TV and radio. Wired editor-in-chief and CBS News contributor Nicholas Thompson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss whether the act will make a difference in preventing political influence operations, who is likely to oppose the bill, and why fake accounts are the real problem platforms face.
Self-driving cars, delivery drones and internet service delivered through floating balloons are just some of the projects that have come out of X, the secretive Google lab tasked with imagining and developing futuristic technologies. Atlantic magazine senior editor Derek Thompson went inside the lab and joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss what else the company's exceptional minds are envisioning.
Chief of Staff John Kelly tells reporters, "develop some better sources"; What's at stake for Facebook in Russia investigations?
In an interview Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the company is not a media company, and that it is "fully cooperating" with investigations into Russian meddling. WIRED magazine editor-in-chief and CBS News contributor Nick Thompson joins "Red & Blue" to discuss what's at stake for the company when it comes to these investigations.
Executives from Google, Facebook and Twitter have all been asked to testify before Congress next month, as we learn new details about how Russian operatives used social media to influence the election. Have these companies become to powerful to bee regulated? Scott Galloway, author of "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google," joins CBSN to discuss.
Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google have been invited to a public hearing of the House Intelligence Committee next month. They will answer questions about Russia's influence on social media sites. CBSN's Reena Ninan reports.
The Facebook Oversight Board is upholding the social media giant's suspension of former President Trump following the January 6 Capitol riot. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who exposed the Facebook data privacy scandal in 2018, joins CBSN to discuss his view on Wednesday's ruling and why he thinks social media algorithms need to be regulated to prevent further harm.
In our Issues That Matter series, we take a closer look at discrimination in the workplace. Tech investor Ellen Pao made headlines during her 2015 gender discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. It became one of the most prominent lawsuits of its kind in Silicon Valley. She reveals her story for the first time in a new memoir called "Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change." Pao joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss why she thinks Silicon Valley isn't changing and to offer tips for workers encountering discrimination.
Investigations by ProPublica and BuzzFeed found that the two online advertising behemoths permitted ad buyers to target categories of users with phrases like "Jew hater," "Jewish parasite" and "black people ruin everything."
A new class action lawsuit filed by three former Google employees Thursday accuses the company of pay discrimination against women. Google says it avoids gender bias through rigorous hiring and promotion committees. CBS News contributor and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Nicholas Thompson, joins "CBS This Morning" from San Francisco to discuss the significance of the lawsuit and the company's response.
President Trump said that he is deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and that the federal government has taken control of the D.C. police.
President Trump announced E.J. Antoni as his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday, after he fired the former commissioner earlier this month and blamed her for a weaker-than-expected jobs report
Two workers died and at least 10 people were injured after multiple explosions at the U.S. Steel Clairton plant.
President Trump has extended a temporary truce in the U.S.-China trade war, preventing tariffs on China from leaping to at least 80%.
Three people were killed and a suspect was arrested after a shooting at a Target store parking lot in North Austin, police said.
Tropical Storm Erin could strengthen to become the Atlantic's first hurricane of the season.
President Trump says he expects to know quickly if a deal can be made with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine.
A federal judge on Monday denied a request from the Trump administration to unseal grand jury material in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Israel's military targeted and killed five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza on Sunday, including Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif.