In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once have naturally flowed to the iconic search box to social networks, Prabhakar Raghavan said at a Forbes conference. Take the example of where... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. A doctor walks into a bar… What does the setup for a likely bad joke have to do with image bias in DALL-E? DALL-E is an artificial intelligence... Read more

Not every truism is true, but there’s one for the ad industry that is pretty truthy: When the economy goes south, the ad market is the first thing to go. The idea behind this one is pretty straightforward. If a company needs to cut costs, it’s much easier to... Read more

matrix.org Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol are releasing an update on Thursday to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key to the platform’s meteoric rise. Matrix is a sprawling ecosystem of open source and proprietary chat and... Read more

Apple TV Plus doesn’t have a movie library as deep as Netflix or other streaming rivals. Still, it’s got A-listers like Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Bill Murray on board — and even collected Oscar wins for the movie CODA and noms for The Tragedy of Macbeth. Here’s a look at some of... Read more

There’s a uniquely bitter rage that comes from being asked to click every box that contains a parking meter only to then be told that you missed one because of a tiny sliver of gray that barely floated into the periphery of an otherwise empty, adjacent square. It’s a... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. The volume, velocity and variety of data are all growing at unprecedented rates, and tech professionals have front-row seats to the rise of hyperscale datasets — those comprising... Read more

In a single day, we interact with hundreds of computer chips, most no larger than a penny. These tiny circuits power everything from smartphones and laptops to medical devices and electric vehicles, and they’re largely responsible for our increasingly computerized lives. But in recent months, the world’s dependence on... Read more

Episode 4 of Star Wars series Andor hit Disney Plus on Wednesday, revealing Cassian’s early steps into the rebellion against the totalitarian Galactic Empire after abandoning his family, friends and home in last week’s three-episode premiere. The fourth episode also introduces a familiar face in one of the rebellion’s... Read more

Using the chatbot is more direct and maybe more engaging, says Donald Findlater, the director of the Stop It Now help line run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. After the chatbot appeared more than 170,000 times in March, 158 people clicked through to the help line’s website. While the... Read more