Google has built an enormously successful business around the idea of putting ads in search results. Its most recent quarterly results showed the company made more than $50 billion from search ads, but what happens if AI becomes the dominant form of finding information? Google is preparing for that possibility by testing chatbot ads, but…
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Apple’s salad days are over. The company sits on the precipice of reinvention, and may become even more inward-facing in response to a damning US court judgement that may yet see it face criminal charges for contempt of court. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that Apple wilfully violated a 2021 court injunction…
Microsoft had an early software hit when it released Office for Windows 3.0 nearly 35 years ago. The graphical user interface got users away from command-line interfaces and into a new world of productivity. Since then, the company has kept up with the changing way people work. Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) was its adaptation…
Microsoft on Wednesday released a statement aimed at convincing global IT leaders, and particularly those in Europe, that it can still be trusted, but analysts in Europe said its statement was not persuasive. Much of the European nervousness comes from American tariffs and the inevitable responding tariffs from the European Union (EU). But the fears…
Color E Ink in its current state requires a whole lot of compromises, as we’ve found when reviewing devices like reMarkable’s Paper Pro or Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, including washed-out color, low refresh rates, and a grainy look that you don’t get with regular black-and-white E Ink. But that isn’t stopping device manufacturers from exploring the…
Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole soldering was also a pain for a firm that has made more than 60 million products with it. Raspberry Pi boards have a combination…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) rested its case in Google’s search remedy trial earlier this week, giving Google a chance to push back on the government’s attempt to break up the search giant. Today is arguably Google’s best chance to make the case that it should not be harshly penalized in the ongoing search antitrust…
From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol in Windows that allows people to log in to machines using passwords that have been revoked. Password changes are among the first steps people should take in the event that a password has…
Zoho on Wednesday announced the addition of 10 AI-centric services and features within Zoho Creator, the company’s low code application development platform, that it said are part of its pledge to invest only in “AI capabilities that drive real-time, practical and secure benefits to business users.” The expanded offerings include CoCreator, the firm’s new AI…