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AS VEGAS (AP) — The CES gadget show, which officially opens at 9:00 a.m. today in Las Vegas, has begun catering more heavily to startups hoping to break through the noise. The sprawling show has sections for wearable fitness gadgets, drones, autonomous vehicles, education, virtual reality, video games, robots, 3-D printers and smart homes...

NEW YORK (AP) — "I don't know, but I can alphabet it to find out." No, you won't have to ditch Google as a verb — at least not yet anyway. But you should know that if you want to buy or sell stock in the company, it has officially changed its name...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google is looking to expand its high-speed Internet service. The company has announced preliminary plans to put its "Google Fiber" service into areas of southern California and Kentucky. The specific areas targeted are San Diego, Irvine; California and Louisville, Kentucky...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google often changes its logo — for stuff like holidays or to mark certain occasions. Now, it's making a change in the basic logo that appears on its site and corporate signage. The new design features the same mix of blue, red, yellow and green Google has used throughout its 17-year history...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is expanding its Internet empire. It is creating a new company — one that will oversee its Internet business as well as its other ventures. The new company will be called "Alphabet" — and will be the umbrella under which Google will keep its efforts that include things like cars that drive themselves and ways to prolong human life...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the Internet company isn't releasing the accident reports involving its self-driving cars to protect the privacy of the other motorists in the crashes. Brin's explanation came in response to a question posed Wednesday by a company critic during Google's annual shareholders meeting...

Today marks the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express. The Pony Express was a mail service that started in 1860. It is how our mail service got started. Google thought that it would be fun to have a game about the Pony Express when you log in. It is fun but I kinda suck at it!

Thinking each state is its own microcosm, you have to wonder what they're Googling. From alcohol in the South, to the magic of Disney encompassing Florida, to Gillette coming up as the No. 1 Googled brand in Wyoming (both for the shaving razor and the name of a popular city in that state), it should come as no surprise what the top three are in Washington state.

In an effort to highlight global censorship campaigns, Google’s biannual transparency report revealed a 70 percent increase in takedown requests by the US government and law enforcement agencies.

Today, Google is paying tribute to the late guitar pioneer Les Paul with a guitar-themed doodle that allows users to play it and record songs of their own. The doodle, which was designed by engineers Kristopher Hom and Joey Hurst and doodle team lead Ryan Germick, will be up for 24 hours, and was released to celebrate what would have been Paul's 96th birthday. (Paul, a leader in the development of