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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has unveiled Bard, Google’s conversational AI and answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Pichai previously signaled a company “code red” in response to ChatGPT’s popularity. Executives were so concerned about ChatGPT that founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin came...

Congress, in a political payoff to unions, have again introduced legislation to effectively make gig economy jobs like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. illegal. The difference this time is that since they now control the House, Senate, and the Presidency it could very well pass. The...

Bing has added a new set of decorations to their search results for the holidays. If you search for [christmas] at Bing, you will see a new wintery top area that counts down to Christmas day, lets you swap out different snowmen and also sends you to the Santa Tracker. Here is a...

Google is working on a major new Chrome feature, one that would translate text directly within pictures and images. Chrome already has robust translations abilities, but that only works with standard text. The translation doesn’t work when the text is part of an image, unless you...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is targeting “corporate surveillance,” wherein companies profit from the data they collect on consumers. Corporate surveillance has become a growing problem, with companies collecting vast quantities of consumer data — often without the...

Google defuses miserable failure, plus: Topics API replaces FloC, value-based bidding, average search ranking position and more. Google defuses ‘miserable failure’ Google bomb In 2007, Google finally defused a “Google Bomb” that had returned U.S. President George W. Bush as its...

Baidu reportedly is planning to launch its AI chatbot as a standalone app before incorporating it gradually into search by March. First Microsoft Bing. Then Google. Now Baidu is reportedly planning on bringing ChatGPT-style AI to its search results. Why we care. All the major...

Fairphone 4 owners are finally getting a major update, with Android 12 coming to the device on February 1. The Fairphone is a different kind of smartphone, one manufactured with sustainability in mind. When the Fairphone 4 was launched in 2021, the device came pre-loaded with...

Consumer Reports has ranked the top automated driving systems, and Ford has come out on top, beating Tesla by a wide margin. Tesla is often in the news for its automated driving tech, and not always for the right reasons. To see which manufacturer is currently winning the battle...

With opening ceremonies just two days away, Bing is upping its search game for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Now when Bing users search on specific sports and athletes the search engine will include Olympic-related schedules and content in its search results. The...