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  • Point your camera at a flower and your phone identifies it. Walk into a store and your phone leads you to the item you're looking for. It's part of a future world blurring the virtual and the real.
  • Security forces were deployed nationwide to protect against New Year's Eve violence. The Champs Elysees in Paris was under extra watch after Yellow Vest protesters said they would join revelers.
  • Google announced a broad restructuring Monday in a blog post by CEO Larry Page. Under the new structure, Alphabet becomes the parent company atop of Google's ventures.
  • NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Ben Elgin of Business Week about the company behind the Google Internet search engine as the group moves toward an initial public offering. They discuss Google's business model and how to assign a value to the company.
  • NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about Google's initial public offering and the "Dutch auction" of company shares.
  • Sanmay Ved was browsing the web when he came across a site for sale — google.com for $12. He owned it for about a minute before he received a cancellation email. Google later offered him a reward.
  • China's government goes to great lengths to censor its citizens' access to information on the Internet. Google pulled its search service out of China in 2010 over censorship concerns.
  • Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains what the "Dutch" means in "Dutch auction." The term is all over the news, thanks to Google's initial public offering of stock.
  • In an announcement, the company said Glass is not dead, it's just going through a "transition.
  • Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Beijing Tuesday, where he is expected to highlight U.S. concerns that the recent growth of China's military could affect the balance of power in Asia. Washington is also concerned about China's enormous trade surplus with the United States. In the second of a four-part series, we look at the economic issues' impact.
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