Six months ago, Google didn’t seem remotely concerned about its search activity. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was launched and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a chatbot. At Google’s… Read More »Google I/O 2023: Google adds generative AI to search
Enlarge / Fire-damaged trees in a boreal forest near the Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. As northern forests burn, massive amounts of carbon are released.… Read More »The Far North is burning – increasing the heat on the planet
Inflation slowed for a 10th straight month in April, a closely monitored report on Wednesday found, good news for US households burdened by higher costs… Read More »Inflation in April cooled to 4.9 percent: CPI Live Updates
Mariann Hardey’s father passed away unexpectedly just over ten years ago. But he lives on through his Twitter account. It only has 42 followers and… Read More »Twitter’s deletion of old accounts will be pure chaos
On a warm spring evening in New York, dozens of people gathered on a rooftop terrace in Midtown Manhattan to drink fruit cocktails and chat.… Read More »The companies trying to make live shopping a thing in the US
Nearly two hours after the end of what appeared to be a fruitless meeting between President Biden and Republican leaders this week over raising the… Read More »How can the government prevent non-payment? Biden offers clues.
Sleep is a semi-conscious state, but there are neurons firing in the brain even when everything seems quiet. Now, brain activity during the deepest stage… Read More »“Sleep Language” could enable communication during lucid dreams
Eva Berneke describes her first year at the helm of the world’s third largest satellite company as a ‘whirlwind’. That’s an understatement. Since taking over… Read More »This European satellite giant comes before Starlink
Deep in a pine forest in Wilcox County, Ala., three workers dangled from the top of a 100-meter-tall transmission tower. They were there to remove… Read More »‘Rip and Replace’: The tech cold war is turning wireless carriers upside down
President Biden and Chairman Kevin McCarthy emerged from a critical meeting at the White House on Tuesday with no consensus on how to end their… Read More »Biden and McCarthy fail to reach a consensus on the debt ceiling as a possible default
on April 28 Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received a message from YouTube warning… Read More »Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech took off the gloves
The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have proven remarkably safe and effective against the deadly pandemic. But, like all medical procedures, they have some risks. One is… Read More »Rare myocarditis after COVID injections: study rules out some common culprits
Saudi Aramco on Tuesday reported $31.9 billion in net profit for the first quarter, down about 19 percent from the same period a year ago,… Read More »Falling oil prices cut Saudi Aramco’s profit by 19 percent
iPhone users trying to plan what to wear around the weather on Tuesday might have had some trouble relying on Apple’s weather app. Apple Weather… Read More »How to get the forecast when Apple weather is low
It’s easy to freak out about more advanced artificial intelligence – and much harder to know what to do about it. Anthropic, a startup founded… Read More »A radical plan to make AI good, not bad
