Imagine you’ve just been handed the best map to navigate the world — a map so exceptional that everyone chooses to use it. But instead of celebrating this achievement, the government steps in, accuses the mapmaker of unfairly dominating the…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — During a visit last week to British Columbia, I was scanning Facebook and tried to link to a news article. Instead of accessing the story, I received an advisory informing me that Facebook no longer allowed access to…
A federal judge ruled on Monday that Google was acting illegally by holding a monopoly in search and text advertising. The tech giant was found guilty of paying billions of dollars to tech companies to make Google the default search…
Over the past two years, reports of generative AI (GenAI) abuse have become commonplace. It’s rather less common for these reports to come from Google, whose GenAI Gemini has repeatedly earned notoriety. To its credit, though, the software giant has…
Everyone knows that artificial intelligence is likely to be woke, but Google’s newest launch made that fact inescapable. Want an image of George Washington, a doctor, or a teacher? Gemini is sure to give you the most woke, diverse version…
The future is never as you imagined it. We’re supposed to be in it. At least that’s what the cartoons said when I was a kid. Reality is nothing like those childhood predictions. It’s 2024, cars still don’t fly, and…
If there’s one theme emerging this year in Washington, D.C., it’s the full-on bipartisan rampage against American tech firms. In a courthouse just blocks away from the Capitol, Google is defending its search engine against the Justice Department, while down…
How often do you question the world around you and think, “I’ll just Google it?” For most Americans, the answer is “most of the time.” That’s because Google is responsible for processing about 90 percent of all internet search queries…
Nine fingers? Weird shadows? Too many teeth? Artificial intelligence currently struggles with some fairly mundane details when it comes to generating images, but there’s no doubt it’s rapidly improving. Like it or not, it’s inevitable that AI will eventually discover…
