2024-12-31

Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they [...]

2025-03-05

AI Mode adds a dedicated search chatbot to Google

Google is shaking up Search. Again. Nearly a year after the company rolled out AI Overviews to everyone in the US, it's preparing to add a dedicated AI tab to its search engine. AI Mode is powere [...]

2025-02-19

Google Lens for iPhone now lets you draw to do visual searches

Google is introducing two small but meaningful enhancements to its Lens technology. To start, Chrome and Google app users on iPhone can now draw, highlight or tap on text and images to carry out a vis [...]

2025-03-08

Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said

Google will have to break up its business, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a federal judge ruled last year that the company illegal [...]

2025-01-03

Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams

Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok Liv [...]

2025-02-25

Chegg sues Google, explores sale after AI search summaries hit revenues

Company's CEO says Google AI overviews serve to keep users on Google. [...]

2025-02-20

Why OpenAI is trying to untangle its 'bespoke' corporate structure

On the Friday after Christmas, OpenAI published a blog post titled "Why OpenAI's structure must evolve to advance our mission." In it, the company detailed a plan to reorganize its for- [...]

2025-02-12

X will pay ‘about $10 million’ to settle lawsuit over Donald Trump’s Twitter suspension

X has reached a settlement with President Donald Trump in a lawsuit over the president’s 2021 suspension from Twitter. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Elon Musk-owned company has agreed to [...]

2025-02-04

How to use your Google TV or Chromecast to stream via a VPN

Google is notorious for killing off initiatives in both its hardware and services divisions. And, indeed, the announcement of the Google TV streaming box was effectively seen as an epitaph for the mor [...]