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Financial support is pouring in for the Los Angeles wildfire victims as renowned celebrities, leading technology firms, and billionaires come together to lend a helping hand. Federal and local aid programs are working to compensate survivors with temporary shelter and funding for essentials during this difficult time. However, the additional…

TikTok warned late Friday it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless President Joe Biden's administration provides assurances to companies like Apple and Google that they will not face enforcement actions when a ban takes effect. The statement came hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning…

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After Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant is opting out of a new EU law that requires fact checks. While tech companies might feel emboldened now to make such policy decisions in…

Image: Matthew Smith / IDG If you’re looking for an affordable laptop that’s fast enough for personal use and office work, you’ve come to the right place–as long as you don’t mind working in Google’s ecosystem. Chromebooks offer reliable performance and they’re largely virus-free. You can even play the latest…

Chrome 132 started rolling out this week as Google’s first major browser update of 2025, and one new feature the company is finally making official is the ability to customize the toolbar on desktop.  On Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux, go to the New Tab Page and click “Customize…

Mashle tops anime search, "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born" song tops "humming" search © 甲本 一／集英社・マッシュル製作委員会 We're halfway through the first month of 2025, but it is never too late to look back to the year that was, particularly the top Google searches in Japan in 2024. It's a double win for Mashle: Magic…

Latest The solar PV plants will be sited to support Google’s data centre operations in the US state of Oklahoma. Image: Leeward Renewable Energy. Solar developer Leeward Renewable Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech giant Google, which will support over 700MW of solar PV in…

​Ironically, cybercriminals now use Google search advertisements to promote phishing sites that steal advertisers' credentials for the Google Ads platform. The attackers are running ads on Google Search impersonating Google Ads, showing as sponsored results that redirect potential victims to fake login pages hosted on Google Sites but looking like…

Home » Artificial intelligence » What Would an AI Einstein Be Like ? A Google Deep Mind researcher and physics expert, Adam Brown, discusses what an AI Einstein would be like. Einstein coming up with General Relativity required coming up with new notation. Einstein’s discovery of general relativity was a…