Taken in aggregate, the billions of online searches we make every day say a lot about our most private thoughts and biases. Lee Woodgate/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at an Uber products launch in San Francisco on Sept. 26. The company is launching its Uber Works app in Chicago, aiming to make it easier for workers to find temporary shifts. Philip Pacheco /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, speaks about the social media platform's anti-bullying efforts at the F8 developers conference in San Jose, Calif., on April 30. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Left: Volunteers take part in a "mapathon" organized by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Right: OpenStreetMap contributors pinpoint dump sites along rivers and waterways in Dar es Salaam in an effort to predict and prevent flooding in the Tanzanian city. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team hide caption
Neil stands in a room with military cyber operators from Joint Task Force ARES to launch an operation that would become one of the largest and longest offensive cyber operations in U.S. military history. Josh Kramer for NPR hide caption
Chief executive Devin Wenig is leaving eBay amid the online shopping company's corporate overhaul. Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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President Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he will unveil the unredacted text of his much-discussed July phone conversation with Ukraine's leader. Above, Trump speaks to the media at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Google only has to remove search results from its EU sites if European citizens have requested the move — not from all its search engine sites globally, a new court ruling says. Dado Ruvic/Reuters hide caption
Tawanda Kanhema in 2018 wearing Google Street View camera gear at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Casey Curry hide caption
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In 2018, Twitter released an archive of thousands of accounts that the platform determined were involved in potentially state-backed information campaigns. Since then, it has continued to make announcements of its efforts to remove accounts spreading disinformation. Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A man holds a ballot card with bar codes during a voting machine demonstration in Raleigh, N.C., last month. Allen G. Breed/AP hide caption
Adrian Lamo (center) walks out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., where Chelsea Manning's court-martial was held, on Dec. 20, 2011. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the company's climate initiative Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon hide caption
China isn't just the biggest trading partner of the United States. The head of the Justice Department's National Security Division says it's also the biggest counterintelligence threat. Andy Wong/AP hide caption
Richard Stallman, pictured in 2015, resigned from his posts as president of the Free Software Foundation and visiting scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
NASA's Dragonfly mission will hop across Saturn's moon Titan, taking samples and photos. Johns Hopkins APL hide caption
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MuralNet CEO Mariel Triggs installs broadband equipment on the Havasupai reservation. Tribal members Travis Hamibreek and Ophelia Watahomigie-Corliss can see the Wi-Fi signal on their phones. Laurel Morales/KJZZ hide caption
Philip Connors has spent 17 summers as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest. Lookouts are the eyes in the forest, even as the forests they watch have changed, shaped by developers, shifting land management policies and climate change. Nathan Rott/NPR hide caption
Uber is withdrawing its Jump electric bike rentals from Atlanta and San Diego. Mike Blake/Reuters hide caption