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Photo of the Day: Michael J. Fox Emmy 1987

AP Photo/Nick Ut Actor Michael. J. Fox reacts after receiving his Emmy for best actor in a comedy series. Fox, star of NBC television “Family Ties,” received the honor during the 19th Annual Emmy Awards, Sept. 23, 1987, in Pasadena, Calif.

Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location data

Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ Web & App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they’ve been with their mobile phones. Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and ...

World leaders in New York to grapple with climate. Fuel prices, AI and disasters complicate things

NEW YORK (AP) — World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and catastrophic Nepal flood. Every year as top government officials come to the United Nations General Assembly and business executives flock to New York City Climate Week sessions, global warming generates lots of talk but little action. This time two new forces — the rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence and data ...