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LOS ANGELES — In a move that heightens the growing tension between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Wikipedia and other websites went dark Wednesday in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

NEW YORK — The organization behind the International Consumer Electronics Show says the event held last week in Las Vegas was the largest ever, with more than 153,000 attendees.

NEW YORK — The last time I relied on email software for personal messaging, George W. Bush was starting his second term, Pluto was still a planet and the Motorola Razr was America's most popular mobile phone.

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian American Art Museum is announcing details of its first major exhibit exploring the art and evolution of video games.

NEW YORK — A Russian man accused of teaming with his son in a cyber ID theft assault on the bank accounts of Americans has pleaded not guilty in New York City.

NEW YORK — Jessica Alba has another new baby. She's launched an e-commerce company at Honest.com (named after her 3-year-old daughter Honor) to sell eco-friendly and toxic-free baby products and household items for a monthly subscription.

NEW YORK — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work.

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.

BOWING OUT: Jerry Yang is leaving Yahoo 17 years after he co-founded the company. His departure, announced Tuesday, comes two weeks after Yahoo Inc. hired former PayPal executive Scott Thompson as its CEO.

NAME: Jerry Yang

GENEVA — Internet giants including Yahoo, Facebook and AT&T will start using a new system of numerical addresses to connect users to websites from June 6.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has passed up a pair of cases for the online age — whether schools may censor students who are at home when they create online attacks against school officials and other students.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is focusing on the importance of protecting personal information in an unusual marketing campaign for a company that has been blasted for its own online privacy lapses and practices.

Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia said in a statement Monday night.

Wikipedia may black out its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress.