Waymo Doubles Range of Its Self-Driving Taxi Service in Phoenix
The robot takeover may not be as exciting as promised, but it is expanding to a wider array of city streets. Waymo’s driverless taxis are coming to more parts of…
The FTC Is Trying to Ban Meta From Using Kids’ Data
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a “blanket prohibition” that would ban Meta from monetizing children’s data Wednesday. The FTC says Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—failed to comply with an…
Whoops! YouTube Shares Profits With Climate Liars Two Years After It Promised to Stop
People like to tell lies about climate change on YouTube. That’s bad enough, but worse is the fact that Google makes money by running ads for major brands against those…
Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser
Microsoft issued a Windows update that broke a Chrome feature, making it harder to change your default browser and annoying Chrome users with popups, Gizmodo has learned. Video Chat –…
This Windows 12 concept makes me excited for a full redesign
As Microsoft users anticipate Windows 12, an enthusiast has drafted up ideas of a dream concept for the upcoming operating system — and I have to admit, it gets me…
How to Make ChatGPT Your New Siri
It’s been quite a few months for ChatGPT: The AI chatbot has gone from relative obscurity to powering web searches and passing medical exams and plenty more besides, and it’s…
Social Media Scatters Your Brain, and Then You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need
Image: 1st footage (Shutterstock) Instagram is Testing Adding Songs to Your Profile Off English Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be…
The NYC Subway Will Stop Tweeting Because Twitter ‘Isn’t Reliable’
Twitter became less useful on Thursday after New York City’s transit operator said it would stop tweeting about service outages because “the reliability of the platform can no longer be…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Has Been More Compliant with Government Requests, Not Less
After castigating OG Twitter for its cooperation with government content requests, it turns out that Elon Musk’s version of the platform hasn’t been doing much better since he took over…
How to Access Your TikTok Watch History
We’ve all been there: You’re in a conversation with friends, and you desperately try to find a TikTok that you had scrolled past that could serve as a funny contribution…