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President-elect Donald Trump speaks with technology leaders at Trump Tower in New York. Albin Lohr-Jones/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., as seen in 2015. Alison Yin/Invision for Nintendo/Facebook hide caption
A car drives by a Switch data center in Las Vegas on Sept. 9, 2015. In 2013, data centers consumed 2 percent of all U.S. power — triple what they used in 2000. John Locher/AP hide caption
Making The Cloud Green: Tech Firms Push For Renewable Energy Sources
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Making The Cloud Green: Tech Firms Push For Renewable Energy Sources
Microsoft is asking a judge to declare part of a federal law unconstitutional under both the First and Fourth Amendments. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
The Twitter profile for Tay.ai, Microsoft's short-lived chatbot. Microsoft/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Smartphone assistants like Siri will give you a national help line to call when you bring up suicide. But they have trouble recognizing other things, like rape or physical abuse. Michael Nagle/Getty Images hide caption
From the Apple and FBI dispute in the U.S. to a legal case in Brazil involving the WhatsApp messaging service, U.S. tech companies are finding themselves subject to widely varying laws for cooperating with local police. William Volcov/Brazil Photo Press/LatinContent/Getty Images hide caption
For U.S. Tech Firms Abroad And Data In The Cloud, Whose Laws Apply?
Last month, Microsoft released its first major update to its operating system since 2012. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption
Netflix's Parental Leave Plan Is Groundbreaking — And Unlikely To Spread
With Windows 10, Microsoft is more closely uniting its operating systems that run tablets, phones and desktops. Microsoft hide caption
The logo of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the Web browser due to be phased out in the next version of Windows. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
The metaphoric shadow of Microsoft passes, less hopeful than when it came. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption