Jacob Ridley, senior hardware editor Jacob Ridley portrait on a blue background This week I have been: a visit to my home country of Wales in the metaverse. Oh, with all this AI stuff you forgot about the metaverse, huh? How did we get into this mess? A handful of companies claim to oversee a … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman – professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University – a small brain sample in his laboratory. Although small, the 1 cubic millimeter of tissue was large enough … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman – professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University – a small brain sample in his laboratory. Although small, the 1 cubic millimeter of tissue was large enough … Read more
Every smartphone has an expiration date. That day comes when the software updates stop coming and you start missing new apps and security measures. With most phones this happened after about three years. But things are finally starting to change. The new number is seven. I first noticed this shift when I tested Google’s $700 … Read more
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google on Tuesday introduced a redesigned search engine that often favors artificial intelligence-generated answers over website links, a shift that promises to speed up the search for information while potentially disrupting the flow of money making internet traffic. The makeover announced at Google’s annual developer conference begins this week in … Read more
Google has unveiled a range of new AI-powered products, including new video and image creation tools, and has begun rebuilding its search engine around generative AI, powered by the company’s Gemini AI model. The tech giant used the opening of its annual developer conference, Google I/O, to also preview Project Astra, which Google is calling … Read more
Every year, Google releases at least three smartphones, and more often than not they are among the best phones available today. In 2024, the best Pixel phone (and the most expensive) is the Google Pixel 8 Pro, which launched alongside the cheaper Google Pixel 8. Until now it has been the cheapest in the series, … Read more
The stakes are high as a federal judge considers whether to break up the tech giant’s search empire. This also applies to the rest of Silicon Valley. A landmark antitrust case pitting Google (GOOG, GOOGL) against the Justice Department entered its final stages this past week, as prosecutors from the federal government and 14 states … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google’s preeminence as an Internet search engine is an illegal monopoly supported by more than $20 billion the tech giant spends annually to exclude competition, Justice Department lawyers argued in the conclusion of an antitrust case with high stakes. Google, on the other hand, claims that its ubiquity stems from its excellence … Read more
Google Pixels make up some of the best phones in the world, so now that the Google Pixel 8 is over six months old, we’ve started setting our sights on the next in line. The Google Pixel 9 rumor mill is already churning with all kinds of predictions and theories about what will happen. In … Read more