Google’s Latest Updates Helps Root Out AI Deepfakes
Google offers a few new ways to figure out where the hell that photo of Pope Francis in Balenciaga actually came from. The company’s latest updates to Android, Search, and…
Google Has Your Back If Its AI Lands You in Copyright Trouble
Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) Google says it will defend users in a legal setting if copyright issues arise with their generative artificial intelligence. It joins the ranks of other big tech…
Zoom Is Launching Its Own Google Docs Competitor
Zoom is setting out to compete with Google and Microsoft by introducing Zoom Docs at its annual Zoomtopia 2023 event on Tuesday. Zoom Docs is the company’s own version of…
A YouTube Bug Is Allowing Users to Upload Hardcore Porn
A new investigation shows that YouTube has a bug that allows users to upload hardcore pornography to its platform. To make matters funnier, it isn’t exactly clear that YouTube knows…
Google Sued After Maps Allegedly Directed a Man to Drive Off a Collapsed Bridge
A North Carolina man’s family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off…
Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners
Illustration: Moor Studio / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Google quietly removed the suggestion that the text of a website should be “written by people” from its guidance for site owners who want…
9 Tips and Hacks To Get More out of Notion
Notion combines note taking with project management, and has earned many fans because of its intuitive, open, flexible interface—it can essentially be anything you want it to be, giving you…
Google Chrome’s New Tool Lets You Copy and Paste Screenshots From Videos
The new ability will show up when you right-click on a paused video. Image: Google Students, teachers, and vintage TV screencappers, the Chrome browser has a new feature that makes…
‘Benefits of Slavery:’ Google’s AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers
Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google…
11 Cool Tricks You Can Do With the Google Search Box
Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there’s a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world’s most-visited website. You…