Here comes another screen overlay. The era of Google’s Play’s unrivaled dominance may be coming to an end in the wake of the company’s antitrust loss, but Google’s app store isn’t going anywhere. In fact, the Play Store experience is getting a massive update with more personalization, content, and…
EU looks at Big Tech groups over handling of fake apps and search results. The EU is set to scrutinize if Apple, Google, and Microsoft are failing to adequately police financial fraud online, as it steps up efforts to police how Big Tech operates online. The EU’s tech chief…
The Ridgeville plant will add a new hybrid by 2030 in addition to next year’s XC60. Volvo is undergoing something of a restructuring. The automaker wants to be fully electric by 2040, but for that to happen, it needs to remain in business until then. Earlier this year, that…
Design that puts the logic board at the top helps stave off a second Bendgate. As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone—this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as Apple settled into a…
The remedy phase of Google’s adtech antitrust case begins. Google is back in court, hoping to avoid a painful breakup of its advertising business. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has already ruled that Google operated an illegal monopoly in digital advertising, and now it’s time to learn the consequences…
DeepMind releases version 3.0 of its AI Frontier Safety Framework with new tips to stop bad bots. Generative AI models are far from perfect, but that hasn’t stopped businesses and even governments from giving these robots important tasks. But what happens when AI goes bad? Researchers at Google DeepMind…
LastPass warns it’s one of the latest to see its well-known brand impersonated. Ads prominently displayed on search engines are impersonating a wide range of online services in a bid to infect Macs with a potent credential stealer, security companies have warned. The latest reported target is users of…
Tesla’s crash rate is orders of magnitude worse than Waymo’s. These days, Austin, Texas feels like ground zero for autonomous cars. Although California was the early test bed for autonomous driving tech, the much more permissive regulatory environment in the Lone Star State, plus lots of wide, straight roads…
Baku is a mashup of Monaco and Monza, 90 feet below sea level. Almost a decade old now, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix is part of the modern breed of Formula 1 street circuits. Set on the shores of the Caspian Sea, the anti-clockwise layout manages to combine some of…
Top producers are planning to mine and drill even more of the fuels in 2030. The last two years have witnessed the hottest one in history, some of the worst wildfire seasons across Canada, Europe and South America and deadly flooding and heat waves throughout the globe. Over that…
