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• Alphabet's drone service takes flight in Canberra

  ​Google parent Alphabet's drone service made its first air delivery in North Canberra, Australia, on Tuesday after getting approval from the country's civil aviation authority.

• Activists urge Indian lawmakers to summon tech giants

  Indian activists have petitioned a parliamentary panel to summon the heads of U.S. tech firms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google and question them on issues ranging from tax compliance to data privacy.

• Google wants Oracle copyright case to end

  ​Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that resurrected a billion-dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp that dates to 2010.

• Alphabet accused of covering up sexual misconduct

  Two shareholder lawsuits filed this week accused the board of Google parent Alphabet Inc of playing a direct role in covering up sexual misconduct claims against two former executives over the last five years.

• White House launches strategy to lead world in quantum

  The White House yesterday launched a national strategy for Quantum Information Science (QIS) in a bid to secure global leadership in “the next technological revolution”.

• Apple self-driving car hit from behind during Silicon Valley test

  ​An Apple self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company's Silicon Valley headquarters this month, the company said in an accident report posted on Friday that confirmed the iPhone maker is still in the race to build autonomous vehicles.

• Toyota to invest $500M in Uber

  ​Toyota Motor Corp will invest $500 million in Uber to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday, a bid by both companies to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business.

• Apple and Alphabet grilled by US senators on data privacy practices

  Four senior U.S. House Republicans sent letters on Monday to the chief executives of Apple and Google parent Alphabet asking questions about location data and mobile phone privacy practices and the handling of customer data.

• CA staff get three months parental leave

  CA Technologies is dishing out three months paid leave to men and women during the first 12 months following the birth or adoption of their child.

• Self-driving car industry under pressure to prove technology is safe

  The fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car cranks up pressure on the self-driving vehicle industry to prove its software and sensors are safe in the absence of strong government standards, experts in the field said.

• Amazon leading race to $1 trillion market cap

  Amazon.com became the second most valuable publicly listed U.S. company on Tuesday, surpassing Google parent Alphabet for the first time.

• Self-driving car kills woman crossing road in Arizona

  An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, police said on Monday, marking the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle and a potential blow to the technology expected to transform transportation.

• Google's machine learning helps NASA find two new planets

  ​Alphabet's Google and NASA said on Thursday that advanced computer analysis identified two new planets around distant stars, including one that is part of the first star system with as many planets as Earth's solar system.

• Global tech stocks soar as big brands report gains

  Soaring shares of Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc and Tencent Holdings Ltd this year have made technology a top global performer, with few signs that investors are worried that rising valuations might be increasing the risk of a downturn.

• Google reports strong profit, says it's 'rethinking everything' around machine learning

  Reporting its third-quarter earnings, Google also talked about how vital machine learning will be to its future.