Health Google Searches For Ways To Put Artificial Intelligence To Use In Health Care The search giant's push into artificial intelligence as a tool for health improvement is a natural evolution for a company that has developed algorithms that reach deep into our lives through the Web. Richard Harris
National Man Pleads Guilty To Phishing Scheme That Fleeced Facebook, Google Of $100 Million Evaldas Rimasauskas admitted to his role in helping to orchestrate a two-year-long scam that tricked employees into wiring more than $100 million to his own company's bank accounts. Vanessa Romo
Law & Courts Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson On Privacy In Public Spaces Kate Klonick asked her law students at St. John's University to try to identify people they came across in public, based solely on what they said and wore. It was surprisingly easy. Francesca Paris Scott Simon
Technology Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men For Some Jobs The tech company disbursed almost $10 million to more than 10,000 employees to try to standardize pay. Google says it will continue studying structural issues to ensure compensation is fair. Matthew S. Schwartz
National This City Told Amazon And Google: No Incentives For You Amazon canceled plans for a New York City HQ after meeting stiff opposition over big tax breaks and other incentives. A California mayor refused to offer similar incentives but landed Google anyway. Jasmine Garsd
Technology Why We Can't Break Up With Big Tech Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill spent six weeks trying to cut Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple out of her life completely. "Spoiler," she says. "It's not possible." Lulu Garcia-Navarro Francesca Paris
National Google Talks Up Vets In Super Bowl Ad. Does It Walk The Walk? Google advertised its new job search tool for veterans during the Super Bowl. The goal is to help vets get hired. But how many veterans work at Google? Daniella Cheslow
Politics Google CEO Says He Leads 'Without Political Bias' In Congressional Testimony Sundar Pichai, in his public debut in Congress, is expected to address privacy, allegations of anti-conservative bias, a censored search tool for China and a scuttled Pentagon contract. Alina Selyukh
Technology Google Accelerates Google+ Shutdown After 52.5 Million Users' Data Exposed Users' names, birth dates, email addresses, work history and other data were exposed for nearly a week in November, Google says. It will now close the social network four months earlier than planned. Bill Chappell
Technology Google Tweaks Email Program That Assumed An Investor Was Male When Google saw that one of its predictive text technologies assumed someone's gender based on occupation, it blocked the technology from using all gender-based pronouns. Ruben Kimmelman
