Google is embedding AI into Search, Gmail, Maps, and Gemini to simplify how people browse, create, and work online.

Google has made it much easier to find the answers we seek without navigating to various websites, but that has made it much harder to do business for media companies and other creators. And this new ...

Selena Deckelmann, chief product and technology officer at Wikimedia Foundation, says AI crawlers have been scraping their sites and collecting content and data, straining the organization's internet ...

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The Technical Committee will be made up of three members, Tammy Savage, Gerry Campbell and Professor John Abowd, with Savage ...

Experience a random pain in the 21st century and an internet search usually comes before a call to the doctor. Googling “chest pain,” “high fever,” or “skin rash” calls up a series of blue links ...

AI slop and enshittification are making the public social commons unbearable. The alternative pathways are more accessible than you think.

People’s views are becoming more and more polarized, with “echo chambers”—social bubbles that reinforce existing beliefs—exacerbating differences in opinion. This divergence doesn’t just apply to ...

As we reach the tail end of 2025, the next must-have silhouette, handbag or even eyeliner shape does not reach us from the runways of Paris or Milan; it reaches us more quietly through a creator’s ...

An average internet user doing a search on an unencrypted browser, such as Google, has no enforceable expectation of privacy, ...

On Windows 11, it's possible to turn off the web search results that appear on the home page of the Windows Search experience, but through the Settings app. In this guide, I'll show you the steps to ...