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YouTube is rethinking its approach to colorful language after an uproar. In a statement to The Verge, the Google brand says it's "making some adjustments" to a profanity policy it unveiled in November after receiving blowback from creators. The rule limits or removes ads on videos where someone swears within…

One of the great things about Google Chrome is the browser’s support for extensions that can improve your internet browsing experience. Maybe you need a password manager add-on for Chrome, or an ad-blocker. But the functionality can be abused, and extensions might be hiding malicious capabilities. Or they could break…

As Google encourages Android developers to update their apps for large-screen form factors, the Play Store today is highlighting TikTok’s new landscape mode for tablets. At the very top of the Play Store’s Apps tab, you’ll find a “Flip your tablet for TikTok” banner that promotes how “Landscape mode is…

Image: PCWorld / AMD Earlier this week, an alert went out on a popular PC subreddit, warning AMD graphics card owners of a malicious website. The way you would stumble onto the site? Clicking on the first search result in Google for “amd driver.” The link of course was not…

Generative AI is already being used to write academic essays, blogs and letters. It is being used to develop graphic illustrations for corporates and could threaten companies such as Canva. Microsoft’s move to back OpenAI is risky because there is no guarantee that consumers wedded to Google’s search engine will…

Before you can confidently say you’re tired of Nigeria and want to japa, you should at least have a basic knowledge of other countries. Let this European geography quiz be the judge. If You Can Correctly Match the Capitals to These European Countries, Japa Is in Your Future I got…

Berlin, Germany and Sunnyvale, California, USA, January 11, 2023 – Bayer AG and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to drive early drug discovery that will apply Google Cloud’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are custom-developed accelerators designed to run cutting-edge machine learning models and computationally-intensive workloads, to help accelerate…

The growing popularity of OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, has attracted a lot of developers. This comes as a lot of fraudsters are creating apps representing the chatbot to defraud people. ChatGPT which understands human messages and provides human-like responses has been duplicated both on the App Store and the Play Store.…

Here are a few things that I have Googled in the nine months or so since I bought a Victorian terrace home in Philadelphia: Does a crack in the lintel mean my house is going to collapse? Ways to tell if your house is about to fall down How to…

Google is kicking off the new year with a fresh version of the Chrome browser. Chrome 109—released on January 10, 2023—includes a new Secure Payment Confirmation for Android, Material You support on the desktop, and video conferencing tools. Secure Payment Confirmation on Android Google is proposing a new web standard…