87 posts tagged ‘Google’
CES 2024: All the News From Las Vegas
Gizmodo,
Now that CES 2024 is done and gone. I think it’s safe to say that there was a lot of news out of Las Vegas this year. Thankfully, we’ve got all the important announcements listed below. Read more...
Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair
The right-to-repair movement continues to gain steam as another big tech company shows its support for letting people fix their own broken devices. Read more...
Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says
One week ago today, Google disabled tracking cookies for 30 million Chrome users, amounting to just 1% of the 3 billion people who use the internet’s most popular browser. By the end of the year, Google will block these cookies entirely and replace them with a new tracking system that’s a bit more private called “Priva… Read more...
Google Assistant Is About to Lose a Ton of Features
Google Assistant is about to lose 17 different features that the company says are “underutilized.” The changes come as the tech giant is in the midst of firing large amounts of staff, including many from its Google Assistant team, according to CNBC. Read more...
Google Settles Incognito Lawsuit
mjtsai,
Simon Sharwood: A US court filing [PDF] dated December 26 records that Google and the plaintiffs have agreed to a term sheet that, if approved by the judge, will conclude the matter. Those terms of the proposed settlement weren’t disclosed. But the parties seem sufficiently confident a deal will be done that another filing vacates […]
Cool, Don Lemon Has a New Show on X
Jezebel,
It was only a matter of time before Don Lemon began publicly sharing his bad takes again. And, folks, after less than a year of blessed silence, that time has arrived. Read more...
How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now
Nick Heer: If you measure your level of optimism by how much course-correction has been working, then 2023 was a pretty hopeful year. In the span of about a decade, a handful of U.S. technology firms have solidified their place among the biggest and most powerful corporations in the world, so nobody should be surprised […]
I Did the Vanderpump Rules Bar Crawl So You Don’t Have To
Thanks to #Scandoval, 2023 will be remembered as the year of Vanderpump Rules. The Bravo reality TV series about a gaggle of hot, young, wannabe actors who work in one of several Los Angeles restaurants owned by Bravolebrity Lisa Vanderpump became the network’s biggest draw this year after Tom Sandoval finally proved… Read more...