In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in t...
GDPR turned five this week -- and celebrated in customary style: by slapping Meta with another eye-watering fine.At a record-breaking EUR1.2bn, the punishment was the perfect self-gift for the EU regu...
That Google I/O show sure was something, wasn't it? It was a rip-roaring two hours of nonstop AI talk without a break. Bard, Palm, Duet, Unicorn, Gecko, Gemini, Tailwind, Oter--there were so many cryp...
Ask someone to think of an animal, and chances are they'll come up with one of our relatives among the mammals. A few people might go further afield and mention other vertebrates, like birds and fish....
For over a decade, Maria Medina, an archaeologist affiliated with the University of Cordoba, has been conducting research on what she terms "smoke archaeology": trying to reconstruct Europe's prehisto...
Apple announced today that it's bringing its flagship professional creative apps to the iPad for the first time. The Logic Pro audio-editing software and Final Cut Pro video-editing software are makin...
The World Health Organization on Friday declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic while emphasizing that the health threat is not over.
Following Google's layoff of 12,000 employees and other cost-cutting moves, employees are reportedly expressing anger about CEO Sundar Pichai's $226 million pay package."In the weeks since Pichai's an...
Motorola is pumping out a new set of phones today. The most interesting is the new mid-range Moto G, and it also sounds like the flagship Motorola Edge 40 Pro is getting repackaged for the US as the M...
After a couple years of lackluster flagships, Motorola has finally released a high-end phone that makes sense. To my great surprise, it's a device geared heavily toward ThinkPad-owning business custom...
According to The New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from Google so he can "speak freely" about potential risks posed by AI. Hinton, who helped create some of the fundamental t...
Here are some cursed words: "Apple Plans AI-Powered Health Coaching Service, Mood Tracker and iPad Health App."I can see why you might say, Liz, this sounds benign and obvious. What's the big deal? An...
Evergreen content is content with a long lifespan.It is also incredibly important for search engine optimization (SEO).In this article, you'll learn everything you need to know about evergreen content...
Ellis Hamburger was a reporter for The Verge between 2012 and 2014 before leaving to work at Snapchat. After leaving Snap last year, he went to work at The Browser Company. We asked Ellis to write abo...
The New York Times has a big piece detailing Google's "shock" and "panic" when Samsung recently floated the idea of switching its smartphones from Google Search to Bing. After being the butt of jokes ...
A rowdy group of young "mallow-munchers," "bully-crushers," and "bedtime breakers" must battle a fun-hating foe intent on putting an end to their untamed revels in Bea Wolf, a new graphic novel by car...
It's been a rollercoaster ride for Korean tech conglomerates LG and Samsung. In 2021, it was reported that they were about to reach a major business deal regarding OLED panels, but in 2022 it seemed l...
The digitisation of cars has made comparisons to "data centres on wheels" so common that they've become cliched. It's also built a booming market for tech firms -- few of which have capitalised as ade...
For the first time, you can now buy or rent every single Star Trek movie in the latest 4K and HDR standards. That includes all six movies based on the original series cast, all four featuring The Next...
Last week, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 to patch two actively exploited security vulnerabilities and fix other small bugs. Today it's following those up with iOS and i...