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The European Union has fined Google $2.7 billion over what it calls anti-competitive practices. Steve Inskeep talks with Adrianne Jeffries of The Outline.

Google Inc., the company behind the Internet's most popular search engine, files its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering. The prospect of a Google IPO has kept Silicon Valley abuzz all year. Google said it expects to raise $2.7 billion through the stock sale, but the first day of trading is likely months away. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

Google Trends shows that this was the second-searched EU-related question in the United Kingdom after polls closed. The first was "What does it mean to leave the EU?"

Google just got hit with a multibillion-dollar antitrust fine. Here's what it tells us about competition, market power, and the biggest corporations on the planet.

Noctilucent clouds, high-altitude clouds that appear to glow in the sky at night, usually show up in the Southern Hemisphere summer. Satellite images showed them covering Antarctica in early November.

Experts warn the multiple military probes into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison will produce much information but few answers about who is ultimately responsible. Critics worry the Bush administration hopes to bury responsibility in mountains of data. Others say documents already leaked point the finger of blame at Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Hear NPR's Jackie Northam.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former Google engineer Kathryn Spiers about her firing after she posted an internal message about employee rights in the workplace.

The ruling highlights the constraints of a court system trying to keep up with rapidly evolving innovations like AI.

This past week, the Justice Department asked the Internet company Google to turn over its search records, which prosecutors say would help them defend a controversial child pornography law. Google refused.

Virtually all major car and tech companies are pursuing self-driving technology as the future of transportation. But Tesla and Google are the earliest innovators, taking very different approaches.