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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, Yvonne Felix, of Canada, wears eSight electronic glasses and walks through Union Square during a visit to San Francisco. The glasses enable the legally blind to see. Felix was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease after being hit by a car at the age of seven. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Seeing the World With Fresh Eyes

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterApril 2, 2017

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, a man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is enabling users of its digital mapping service to allow their movements to be tracked by friends and family in the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing. The location-monitoring feature will begin rolling out Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in an update to the Google Maps mobile app that’s already on most of the world’s smartphones. It will also be available on personal computers. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterMarch 26, 2017

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks in this video made available Thursday March 9, 2017. Assange said his group will work with technology companies to help defeat the Central Intelligence Agency's hacking tools. Assange says "we have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed out." (WikiLeaks via AP)

WikiLeaks Aid a Mixed Blessing

by Anick Jesdanun AP Technology Writers, and Michael Liedtke AP Technology WritersMarch 9, 2017

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference, in San Francisco. Yahoo is punishing Mayer and jettisoning its top lawyer for the mishandling of two security breaches that exposed the personal information of more than 1 billion users and already have cost the company $350 million so far. Mayer won't be paid her annual bonus nor receive a potentially lucrative stock award because a Yahoo investigation concluded her management team reacted too slowly to one breach discovered in 2014. General counsel Ronald Bell resigned without severance pay. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Yahoo Punishes CEO in Latest Fallout From Security Breach

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterMarch 1, 2017

FILE - This Tuesday, July 19, 2016 photo shows a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. On Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, Yahoo said it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Yahoo Suffers World’s Largest Hack Affecting 1 Billion Users

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterDecember 14, 2016

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2014, file photo, Renaud Laplanche, third from right, Founder & CEO of Lending Club, embraces company CFO Carrie Dolan during opening bell ceremonies of the New York Stock Exchange, to mark Lending Club's IPO. Silicon Valley is pressuring banks to change their ways or risk becoming the latest industry overtaken by technology. Hundreds of startups are offering easier and cheaper ways to save, borrow, spend and invest. Few of the startups have ever posted a profit, and one of the biggest, the Lending Club, is trying to recover from a breakdown that triggered Laplanche's resignation as CEO earlier in 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Tech Startups Targeting Financial Services

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterDecember 11, 2016

This photo provided by Google shows windmills at a wind farm in Minco, Okla., that provides Google with some of its renewable energy. Google says it believes that beginning in 2017, it will have amassed enough renewable energy to meet all of its electricity needs throughout the world. (Tim Boyles Photography/Google via AP)

Google Hits Renewable Energy Goal in Quest to Pare Pollution

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterDecember 6, 2016

FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, reports financial results Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

YouTube Is Key To Google’s Success

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterNovember 6, 2016

FILE - This Wednesday, May 9, 2012, file photo, shows an exterior view of Cisco Systems Inc. headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Cisco Systems Inc. reported Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, that it will lay off 5,500 employees as the internet gear maker scrambles to adapt to technology changes that have reduced demand for its main products. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Cisco Systems Laying Off Thousands of Employees

by Michael Liedtke AP Technology WriterAugust 17, 2016

FILE - In this April 7, 2013, file photo, the Verizon studio booth at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Verizon has agreed to buy online portal Yahoo Inc. for roughly $5 billion, according to multiple media reports sourcing unnamed sources. The deal is expected to be announced formally on Monday, July 25, 2016, before markets open. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Report: Verizon to Buy Yahoo Today

by Ken Sweet The Associated Press, and Michael Liedtke The Associated PressJuly 24, 2016