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
Microsoft President Brad Smith says governments need to set rules for big technology companies. "Almost no technology has gone so entirely unregulated, for so long, as digital technology," he says. Gary He/Reuters hide caption
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, on a video link in Moscow, speaks to the crowd on a giant screen at festival in Roskilde, Denmark, in 2016. "You are being watched all the time and you have no privacy," Snowden said. Melissa Kuhn Hjerrild/AP hide caption
Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by the ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu on Feb. 14, 2015. Marco Garcia/AP hide caption
Lyft is under growing pressure to strengthen background checks and adopt better security measures for passengers after dozens of women reported that they had been sexually assaulted by drivers. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez speaks at a July rally for independent contractors in Sacramento, Calif. The measure that passed Tuesday in the state Senate requires companies such as Lyft and Uber to turn many contract workers into employees. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces details of the company's new Apple TV+ video-streaming service Tuesday in Cupertino, Calif. Tony Avelar/AP hide caption
The headquarters of the military intelligence agency GRU in Moscow. The FBI and other U.S. agencies want to stop more interference like that launched from here against the U.S. in 2016. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption
Dr. Abdul Subhan, a psychiatrist, at Meridian Health Services in Indiana, connects with patients over the Internet. Yuki Noguchi/NPR hide caption
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine (left) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speak Monday about the launch of an antitrust investigation into Google outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since 2016 to make election practices at every level of government more secure. Mark Ralston /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A laptop displays a message after being infected with ransomware. Rob Engelaar/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have launched a probe into Facebook and its market dominance. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
UK Biobank has granted 10,000 qualified scientists access to its large database of genetic sequences and other medical data, but other organizations with databases have been far more restrictive in giving access. KTSDESIGN/Getty Images/Science Photo Library hide caption
Facebook confirmed that it met with other tech companies and U.S. national security officials to discuss aligning efforts to safeguard the 2020 presidential election. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption
According to a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission, YouTube marketed itself as a top destination for kids in presentations to the makers of popular children's products and brands. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption