Reddit is rolling out a new artificial intelligence feature designed to help people quickly find answers based on user posts, the company said Monday. A small portion of Reddit’s U.S. user base will have access to the Reddit Answers feature as part of an initial test before the company rolls the feature out more broadly. … Read more
Shares of Google parent Alphabet plunged more than 6% on Thursday after the Justice Department asked a federal judge to order a selloff of Google’s Chrome web browser – one of several remedies aimed at breaking up the Big Tech firm’s monopoly over online search. The stock drop signaled anxiety on Wall Street about Google’s future after … Read more
Google’s Chrome browser would be worth $20 billion on the open market if the Justice Department succeeds in convincing a federal judge to order divestment, according to a report. The DOJ will recommend in a Wednesday filing that US District Judge Amit Mehta order Chrome to be sold as part of a suite of changes … Read more
The Justice Department will ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the plans. The DOJ will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system, the report said. … Read more
Narendra Modi | (Photo: Shutterstock) 3 min read Last Updated : Sep 22 2024 | 3:59 PM IST India has announced a new initiative to award fifty Quad scholarships, worth $500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific. These scholarships will enable students to pursue a four-year undergraduate engineering programme at a Government of India-funded … Read more
Chinese internet search giant Baidu appears to have started blocking the online search engines of Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing from scraping content derived out of the mainland firm’s Wikipedia-style service, a Post survey found. A recent update of Baidu Baike’s robots.txt – a file that tells search engine crawlers which uniform resource locators, commonly … Read more
Former President Trump slammed Meta and Google on Tuesday for allegedly censoring searches related to the failed attempt on his life, urging his supporters to “go after” the two Big Tech companies. The Republican presidential candidate took issue with a string of bizarre incidents that included Meta’s AI software calling the assassination attempt “fictional,” Meta-owned … Read more
Miss something this week? Don’t panic. CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplace newsletter every Friday. Would you sign a gag order to get compensation from your bank? Guanghu Cui of Oakville, Ont., refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get financial compensation in a dispute with his … Read more
Google Following the controversial moves to have AI further encroach into Google Search, the company is now adding a way to remove those elements entirely from your results. In a thread on X (formerly Twitter), Google SearchLiaison announced a new filter called Web. The new filter option will only show old-school text-based links and is … Read more
SEO entrepreneur Joe Davies is sharing nuggets of wisdom about how to become a millionaire — now that he’s lovin’ his career path. After years of working dead-end jobs, including at McDonald’s, Davies longed to make a name for himself — an aspiration he shared with his childhood friend, Joe Taylor. “I didn’t go to university … Read more
