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Search giant Google petitioned the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday for permission to separately report the number of requests it receives from the court, such as requests tied to the National Security Agency's Prism program, claiming protections from the First Amendment right to free speech.

Google recently paid more than a billion dollars to partner with Waze , a company unfamiliar to most people.

Digg Reader, Digg's RSS reader replacement for Google Reader, has been in the works for the past three months - really ever since Google announced that they'd be shutting down their own reader on July 1st.

It used information from utility companies to identify which buildings lost power after a storm; data from sprinkler systems to find those most vulnerable to fire; geospatial data from sewers to figure out which restaurants were clogging pipes with illegally dumped grease.

So, what's the reason for all this? Well, there are billions of people on Earth without Internet.

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history, Edward Snowden.

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.

It's hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Dean Johnson. Like other applicants to Google's #ifihadglass scheme providing early access to its Glass eyewear, he was eager to test out the new gadget, and delighted when he was selected to take part.

A science-fiction-style project -- which could bring internet access to five billion people across the planet -- is being tested out in New Zealand.

When most people think about Google Inc the first thing that comes to mind is its search engine dominance.

Lemu K. Coker, age 31, was born in Hartford and was raised in the Blue Hills section of the city.

Google has launched a network of balloons over the southern hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable internet access to the world's most remote regions, the company said.

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The South Central Asian nation of Pakistan may be a bit schizophrenic when it comes to active homosexuals, executing those drug before their increasingly Islamic-based court system, but leading the globe in gay Google searches, as reported by the New York Post on June 14, 2013.

Harley Davidson motorcycles riders park their motorcycles in Via della Conciliazione leading to the Vatican, seen at top, as they wait for Pope Francis to drive by to bless them ahead of mass in St. A group of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia are preparing to smile and strut their way toward the 62th Miss USA ... (more)

A recent Associated Press-WE tv poll found more than 8 in 10 men said they have always wanted to be... In this May 2013 photo provided by Google, Daniel Orellana of the Charles Darwin Foundation collects seashore imagery with the Street View Trekker at the Los Humedales wetland area on Isabela Island in the Galapagos.

A solar-powered plane bidding to fly across the U.S. has landed at Dulles International Airport near the nation's capital, with one leg to New York left.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.

Google's Plan to Use Balloons to Blanket the World in Bandwidth. Console Makers at E3 Weigh the Impact of Casual, Mobile Games.

Two years after a mob burned her car at the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver, Sarah Edmondson still gets emotional about the mentality of the people who would resort to such an act.