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Image: Michael Homnick/IDG Despite what some of my professional colleagues will tell you, ChromeOS is fine. While it basically started as a browser with a Start menu on top of it, Google has spent years diligently improving it and updating its capabilities. If it could only run my rusty old…

The US Google Store has brought back a spate of deals on the Pixel 6a, 7, and 7 Pro, as well as both the cellular Pixel Watch. Update 2/12: The week-long $50 discount for a $299 Wi-Fi Pixel Watch (Amazon, Best Buy) and $349 LTE model (Amazon, Best Buy) ends…

As soon as ChatGPT launched last fall, the internet started asking questions about whether or not OpenAI’s chatbot would be the downfall of Google. The creator of Gmail even predicted ChatGPT was just a year or two away from putting Google out of business once and for all. But as…

Feb. 11, 2023 12:00 am ET Seeing the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbots touted in dueling announcements this past week by Microsoft and Google drives home two major takeaways. First, the feeling of “wow, this definitely could change everything.” And second, the realization that for chat-based search and related AI technologies…

Android 14 has revealed a few clues about the direction of Wear OS. (Image source: NotebookCheck)Google's Material You design language appears destined for Wear OS, which remains based on Android 11. Material You should bring greater customisation options to Wear OS with tweaks like system-wide colours, among other changes. The…

Welcome to wild and wacky Godley, Texas, which derives its name not from the Almighty, but from a lumber merchant who donated eight acres for its future site in 1886. Since then, Godley has grown into a municipality of about 2,000 that was outwardly much like many others—until late last…

Generative AI is the biggest thing happening in tech right now, with ChatGPT and its new rivals dominating the news. Google announced its ChatGPT competitor called Bard which will be available in Search. Then, Microsoft said its Bing Search engine will incorporate the actual ChatGPT product from OpenAI. Chinese companies…

An article from Do you know how to Google like a pro? I mean, maybe you won’t need to for much longer, what with all the generative AI tools that are rolling out. But if you want to make the most of Google, and find the exact things that you’re…

Image: Mark Hachman / IDG AI-powered chat and search apps are smoking hot right now, but there’s a small problem: They run in a browser, and that requires navigating to each site individually. But what if you didn’t have to? The new AI-powered Bing, ChatGPT, and (eventually) Google’s Bard search…

Thursday 09 February 2023 2:06 pm Alphabet shares plummeted yesterday after its brand new chatbot answered a question wrong during a promotional event.   Google’s parent company Alphabet’s shares plummeted yesterday after its brand new AI chatbot answered a question wrong during a promotional video. The owner of Google saw shares…