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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be a "de facto" divestiture of the company's search engine. From a report: If Google were required to share both its search data and the information on how it ranks results, rivals could reverse engineer "every aspect of our technology," Pichai testified on Wednesday. "The proposal on data sharing is so far reaching, so extraordinary," Pichai said. It "feels like de facto divestiture of search" and its entire intellectual property and technology over 25 years of research, he said. During testimony in federal court in Washington, Pichai asserted that a package of antitrust remedies proposed by the government is too extreme and will undermine Google's ability to compete in the market.

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A career armed robber who personally bound Kim Kardashian at gunpoint before stealing $10million of jewellery from her today said his life since had been 'horrible' because of 'mistreatment in prison'.

Severe vandalism has damaged part of this serene nature reserve

MIKE KEEGAN: After spending the majority of the season with a blank space on the front of their jerseys Chelsea have concluded a deal with a Dubai-based developer.

We'll see if messaging client can keep up with sibling browser

Mozilla has lobbed out Firefox 138, and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 138 isn't far behind. The venerable messaging client is picking up the pace and finally syncing its stride with the browser that spawned it.…

Traffic was reportedly building behind the incident this afternoon

There has been no explanation as to what caused the power cut. But all sorts of possibilities have been put forward - including that an 'electromagnetic pulse' was to blame.

The Chinese-American architect, who now lives in Chelsea, was revealed by the Daily Mail's Richard Eden to be dating London-based financier Filippos Kodellas de la Morena in 2020.

Shabana Mahmood defended the Government's decision to launch a review of the use of the controversial 'right to private and family life' - under Article 8 of the human rights convention

Rebekah, 43, is in talks along with husband Jamie Vardy, 38 (both pictured), about a documentary on his amazing football career, from non-league football to Premier League champion.

Former Formula One Jenson Button driver and wife Brittny Button, were in romantic bliss after a brief getaway to Paris, but tragedy soon struck when they arrived back in St Pancras, London.

Measuring less than an inch, the jet black charm was likely handcrafted in the fourth century AD, about 300 years after the Romans invaded Britain.

The hamlet of Brithdir is just outside the village of Rhydlewis in Ceredigion, West Wales, in the lush green valleys near to the coast.

In a survey of 10,000 high schoolers, they found nearly twice as many admitted to using this weight loss fix in just one year. (stock image)

Erin Patterson , 50, allegedly killed her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, with death cap mushrooms .

The 'bird test', which has grown in popularity on platforms like TikTok across the US and UK, sounds exceedingly simple but provides some telling results.

Wikipedia will employ AI to enhance the work of its editors and volunteers, it said Wednesday, also asserting that it has no plans to replace those human roles. The Wikimedia Foundation plans to implement AI specifically for automating tedious tasks, improving information discovery, facilitating translations, and supporting new volunteer onboarding, it said.

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Sean Pfeffer, 45, shared a chilling post on Facebook a day before he and 52-year-old Colter White's bodies were discovered in the back of an abandoned pickup truck in Boulder Creek, California.

Louis "Gus" Serbeck, 54, died defending his daughter Brooke against her alleged attacker and his father, Eric Hannah, 54. Hannah and his son face criminal charges related to Serbeck's death.

Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt raised the threshold at which the government starts to claw back child benefit from £50,000 to £60,000, last year.