Alphabet blames the Biden administration for its moderation decisions. It’s not exactly hard to find politically conservative content on YouTube, but the platform may soon skew even further to the right. YouTube parent Alphabet has confirmed that it will restore channels that were banned in recent years for spreading…
An interesting iPhone despite throttling, worse battery, and single-lens camera. If you’ll indulge me for a moment, here’s some ancient history. In 2008, when Apple took the very first MacBook Air out of a manila envelope, it was not positioned as Apple’s new entry-level Mac laptop. The innovative but…
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…
The reins of the Internet are handed over to ordinary users—with uneven results. Larry Page and Sergey Brin met each other at a graduate student orientation at Stanford in 1996. Both were studying for their PhDs in computer science, and both were interested in analyzing large sets of data.…
It’s an investment, certainly of money, but also in long, fast rides. Two things about the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon are hard to fathom: One is how light and lithe it feels as an e-bike, even with the battery off; the other is how hard it…
Change only affects 32-bit Windows 10; Windows 7 and 8 lost support years ago. Valve’s Steam client is pretty widely compatible with all kinds of newer and older operating systems—that’s what you do when you want as many people as possible spending their money in your store. But nothing…
Use the magic of emulation to see a different kind of computer design. In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and adaptable to the natural frailties…
Chrome’s future as an AI browser starts today. Now that it’s looking like Chrome will remain in the Google fold, the browser is undergoing a Gemini-infused rebirth. Google claims the browser will see its most significant upgrade ever in the next few weeks as AI permeates every part of…
