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Earlier this week, Google introduced a suite of new search features that will hopefully reduce some anxiety around travel planning. These tools, which promise to help make looking for places to stay and things to do more convenient, also include a “price guarantee” through the “Book with Google” option for…

NurPhoto/Getty ImagesGoogle has established its rightful place at the top of the search engine hierarchy as the most used search engine in the world. Consequently, the expectations for Google's AI chatbot were high. The results, sadly, fell flat.  Google Bard was released four months after OpenAI's extremely capable and powerful…

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots seem a little bit like magic sometimes. But they’re not, especially when asked to do a fairly basic computational task that you’d think they could handle with relative ease—like generate a Windows 95 license key. From our AI shootout of ChatGPT versus Microsoft Bing versus…

Huawei Health is no longer available in the Google Play Store and now you can get the app only through an unsecure sideload or by getting Huawei's App Gallery first. The last version of the app was from 2020 and it ran until October of last year. It didn't have…

Introduction Watts are the new megapixels - the numbers race is going at full speed in the field of fast charging on smartphones. While some choose not to partake (Apple and Samsung, but also Google and Sony), others are pumping out power figures unthinkable until recently. We only just got…

Electric Blazer starts from US$44,995 before subsidies (image: Chevrolet)Most electric vehicles from General Motors, save for the expensive Hummer, will now qualify for the full US$7,500 federal tax credit amount. GM also said that will replace Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in its EVs with Android Automotive and 8 years…

GM will get rid of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto starting with the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer General Motors (GM) has provided an update on its in-vehicle infotainment strategy. The Detroit-based automobile company plans to phase out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its future electric vehicles (EVs). The first GM…

General Motors plans to phase out both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of a new built-in infotainment system developed with Google for future electric vehicles, reports Reuters. GM’s decision will start with the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer car and “could help the automaker capture more data on how consumers…

Photo Credit: Kevin Bhagat The British government may force Google & Amazon smart speakers to offer UK radio stations for free amid new broadcasting legislation.Under draft legislation published today, the biggest broadcasters in the UK will receive additional privileges, like ensuring their on-demand services are easy to discover to encourage competition with…

If you wanted to get some perspective on the scope of content enforcement that large digital platforms deal with day-to-day, this will help. Today, Google has published its 2022 Ads Safety Report, which outlines all of the ads and websites that Google took action against over the last year. And…