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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will face congressional questioning about whether tech has too much power. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Evan Vucci, Jeff Chiu, Jens Meyer/AP hide caption

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Technology

Big Tech In Washington's Hot Seat: What You Need To Know

The heads of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will face lawmakers' questions about whether they are using their power to squash competition.

"People are not very good with large numbers," says Elke Weber, a professor of psychology at Princeton University. "We don't discriminate between 150,000 or 300,000 or 3 million." Malte Mueller/Getty Images/fStop hide caption

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Why We Grow Numb To Staggering Statistics — And What We Can Do About It

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Protesters hold signs at a rally supporting the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the DACA program on June 18. The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to continue its rollback of the program, despite court rulings. Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Trump Administration Refuses To Accept New DACA Applicants Despite Court Rulings

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Maria Sherman's new book gives critical consideration to a too-often maligned phenomenon within pop music: the boy band. Alex Fine/Courtesy of Black Dog & Leventhal hide caption

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A New Book Traces The History Of Boy Bands, The Pop Phenomenon 'Larger Than Life'

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A New Book Traces The History Of Boy Bands, The Pop Phenomenon 'Larger Than Life'

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, seen here in 2018, has called for mandatory mask wearing in her city. Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence hide caption

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Atlanta Mayor Defends Legal Face-Off With Georgia's Governor Over Masks

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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will face congressional questioning about whether tech has too much power. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Evan Vucci, Jeff Chiu, Jens Meyer/AP hide caption

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Big Tech In Washington's Hot Seat: What You Need To Know

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Big Tech In Washington's Hot Seat: What You Need To Know

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When it comes to climate change, "you can see these vast changes in the future, and you can be worried about them, but you can still continue to do good and work in the moment for small things," says Zach St. George. Above, a sequoia in California's Giant Sequoia National Monument in July 2002. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption

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Believe It Or Not, Forests Migrate — But Not Fast Enough For Climate Change

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