The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum. Continue reading Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
Microsoft’s new 13-inch Surface Laptop is an odd one. It’s inarguably a step down in every respect from last year’s 13.8-inch Surface Laptop. But it’s also too good (and too expensive) to be considered a replacement for the Surface Laptop Go, the company’s perennially overpriced and underspecced entry-level laptop. It’s cheaper than last year’s Surfaces, but mostly because Microsoft gave those devices a de facto … Continue reading 13-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop review: A slightly worse version of a year-old PC
Over the past year, Google has transformed its web search experience with AI, driving toward a zero-click experience. Now, the same AI focus is coming to YouTube, and Premium subscribers can get a preview of the new search regime. Select searches on the video platform will now produce an AI-generated results carousel with a collection of relevant videos. Even if you don’t pay for YouTube, … Continue reading Google begins rolling out AI search in YouTube
Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was announced in a recorded video. Continue reading Tanner Martin Announces His Own Death
Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process. Continue reading A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
The Trump phone was announced last week with a claim that the device would be made entirely in America, and people were rightly skeptical. Trump Mobile’s $500 T1 Phone “is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier,” the Trump Organization said in a press release. But … Continue reading After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is “made in the USA”
Bluetooth trackers have existed for quite a while, but Apple made them worthwhile when it enlisted every iPhone to support AirTags. The tracking was so reliable that Apple had to add anti-stalking features, and there are just as many Android phones out there. However, Google’s version of mobile device tracking, known as Find Hub, has been comparatively spotty. Now, Google is about to offer users … Continue reading Google’s spotty Find Hub network could get better thanks to a small setup tweak
For the past five years, we’ve been paying a lot of attention to Framework, the upstart PC company focused on modular, repairable, upgradeable, and customizable laptop designs. So far, Framework has done a solid job of offering a steady stream of hardware upgrades for its systems, particularly the original Framework Laptop 13. But the company’s track record on software support—including BIOS updates and driver updates … Continue reading Looking at Framework’s progress on software support for its repairable laptops
Some developers prefer to live in the command line interface (CLI), eschewing the flashy graphics and file management features of IDEs. Google’s latest AI tool is for those terminal lovers. It’s called Gemini CLI, and it shares a lot with Gemini Code Assist, but it works in your terminal environment instead of integrating with an IDE. And perhaps best of all, it’s free and open … Continue reading Gemini CLI is a free, open source coding agent that brings AI to your terminal
Ads for consumer A.I. are struggling to imagine how the product could improve your day — unless you’re a barely functioning idiot. Continue reading Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?
