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WASHINGTON – Of all the tech tycoons who were brought before Congress on Wednesday to defend their business practices, perhaps the most anticipated appearance was that of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. But as lawmakers raided the heads of Google, Apple, and Facebook about how patriotic they felt and whether they …

Photo: Google While Chrome OS users can connect their Android phones to their computers to send text messages and use their phone as an automatic wi-fi access point, certain features are missing. Compared to the Windows 10 Your Phone app, it doesn’t integrate as deeply with your phone with features …

Hello Kari Paul, ready to guide you through today’s antitrust hearing, in which Congress will question top Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook executives about their business practices.. Much of the testimony has been published in advance, so we know the main talking points about what the executives will say. Here …

Photo: Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo Apparently Google and Samsung are working on a deal that would boost Google products on Samsung smartphones, according to a Bloomberg report. That means Google could gain greater access to Samsung users, while the Samsung ecosystem is affected. Samsung is the world’s largest smartphone maker, …

Now, the CEOs of those companies will testify before lawmakers on Wednesday at the largest hearing of their kind since Microsoft’s Bill Gates went to Washington in 1998. While most executives have appeared before Congress previously, they have never been Faced with a situation quite like this, the four will …