Apple is on the cusp of becoming the world’s leading ecosystem for personal productivity AI, with the software features introduced at WWDC soon to be accompanied by the world’s most computationally powerful (yet efficient) Macs, iPads, and iPhones. This fully integrated, platform-wide approach spanning mobile, PC, and even cloud is not currently matched by anyone…
In a major setback for Google, a US District Court has declared the search engine giant a monopoly, asserting it used its dominance in the online search market to stifle competition. This ruling is likely to increase regulatory scrutiny and changes in Google’s business practices, potentially allowing more room for competitors to gain market share….
In a landmark decision, a US District Court on Monday ruled that Google is a monopoly that used its dominance in the online search market to suppress other search engines and keep them from gaining market share. The decision by the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Google’s dominance has gone unchallenged…
Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the U.S. government, which allege that the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of its competitors and the detriment of the public at large. The first lawsuit, targeting Google’s search business, kicked off in…
Apple has introduced what might seem a controversial new Safari feature to make surfing the web a lot less annoying, as it removes those overlays that sometimes gets in the way of the experience. The new feature is called Distraction Control. What is Distraction Control in Safari? Coming this fall to Safari, Distraction Control lets…
Nvidia has notified customers that its new AI chips in the Blackwell series will be at least three months late, according to The Information. The B200 chip was shown off in March, but a serious design flaw found recently needs to be fixed before they are rolled out widely, according to the site’s sources. According to The…
One of the most enticing uses for generative AI is to help you write. Anyone can get writing help from Microsoft’s Copilot genAI tool via the free Copilot web or mobile app. But Copilot becomes especially useful when it’s integrated with various Microsoft 365 apps. As you compose, edit, or view a document in Word,…
According to Bickley, anything related to an antitrust probe is “more hype than substance at this point, because, first, semiconductors are the most volatile sector in the stock market. [Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang knows full well that this wave that they’re riding at the end of the day will crest, and it will crash, and…
Hiring in the technology sector and the broader tech workforce took a step back in July with an overall slowdown in job growth, according to a US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report today and an analysis of that data. The tech industry shed an estimated 9,162 jobs last month, according to CompTIA, the nonprofit association…
Microsoft’s latest outage on Tuesday might have been amplified by its own unforced errors, the company said in an incident report. “While the initial trigger event was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial investigations suggest that an error in the implementation of our defenses amplified the impact of the…