9 great reads from CNET this week

What a week! Google has busy us with a wide range of product announcements of its annual conference of I / O developers. A co-founder of Facebook has made a very public case of rupture the social network, and some politicians are in agreement. And Jeff Bezos unveiled the Blue Moon Lunar Landing and Blue Origin's plans for huge space colonies.

And that only scratches the surface. Here are the stories not to be missed:

An employee at the warehouse told her manager that she was pregnant. Less than two months later, she was fired. Several lawsuits against Amazon show a similar pattern.

Some Southern Texans say they prefer to live with constant surveillance on the part of the Border Patrol than a physical barrier.

After three years, the voice-activated assistant gets its biggest update to date. And that shows how much Google already knows about you.

Critics want Instagram and WhatsApp to separate from Facebook. We break down how that could happen.

You can delete voice recordings so that Amazon can no longer listen to your conversations with Alexa, but the text records are a different story.

Commentary on the duel: The expectations of the fans are transforming the biggest show in the world into a real disappointment.

Exclusive: While waiting for technology to appear in smart glasses, Google makes the AR much more useful for phones.

At Tribeca Immersive, we tried VR, AR and everything else, porcelain dolls owned by alien pets. Here's how you can catch them too.

The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence is science fiction, but it turns out that true scientists are also invested.