Like in other parts of the world, Canada is working out what the right to repair means for its people. The federal government said in its 2023 budget released Tuesday that it will bring the right to r...
As soon as Lars Ruiter steps out of his car, he is confronted by a Microsoft security guard, who is already seething with anger. Ruiter, a local councillor, has parked in the rain outside a half-finis...
Microsoft has spent a lot of time and energy over the last few months adding generative AI features to all its products, particularly its long-standing, long-struggling Bing search engine. And now the...
Of all the films due for release this spring, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was one of my most anticipated premieres, solely on the strength of those killer trailers. The film does not dis...
A long while back, Toyota told me it didn't want to give up interior real estate to Apple's CarPlay. The automaker felt that losing that space to the tech company would be a huge mistake. Fast forward...
In this article, I'll kick things off by explaining what mobile SEO is and why it's important. I'll then get to the core focus of this article, sharing my top 10 tips for effective mobile optimization...
A nonprofit AI research group wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI, Inc. and halt releases of GPT-4.OpenAI "has released a product GPT-4 for the consumer market that is biased, dec...
Meta has just unveiled new inventory filters for Facebook and Instagram Feeds, now accessible to advertisers in English- and Spanish-speaking markets. In partnership with Zefr, the third-party verific...
US Senator Joe Manchin was instrumental in rewriting the nation's electric vehicle incentives, but now the West Virginia Democrat says he wants to sue the federal government "if I'm allowed to" in ord...
By now, you'll have seen it. Pope Francis walks across the frame, his focus on the mid-distance. He's brightly lit as though it's early morning. A silver cross hangs from his neck, dangling over his s...
Microsoft is beginning a pilot program to allow advertising by delegated or authorized providers of certain government services with review and pre-approval.The pilot will be limited to the Microsoft ...
With more and more information being delivered via audio sources like voice assistants, the Wikimedia Foundation thought it was time to adopt a so-called "sound logo" for Wikipedia and its other proje...
Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in an IBM file-exchange application in hacks that install ransomware on servers, security researchers have warned.The IBM Aspera Faspex is a centr...
At the start of the pandemic, researchers and wearables makers rushed to see whether smartwatches and fitness trackers could detect covid-19. It's now 2023, and while wearables show promise in detecti...
Google plans to roll out new alerts in search for extreme heat events, the company announced in a blog post today. Eventually, users should be able to find important information about extreme temperat...
Twitter has obtained a subpoena compelling GitHub to provide identifying information on a user who posted portions of Twitter's source code.Twitter on Friday asked the US District Court for the Northe...
Google's plans for a security system are starting to take shape. Google invested $450 million in ADT in 2020, buying a 6.6 percent stake in the security monitoring company. Two months later Google kil...
A year after Reddit updated its policy on non-consensual intimate image (NCII) sharing--a category that includes everything from revenge porn to voyeurism and accidental nip slips--the social media pl...
On Wednesday, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter on its website calling on AI labs to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." ...
Something many of us can agree on is that there are too many touchscreens in modern cars. They're distracting to use, particularly when it's for often-used things like the car's climate controls. Cons...