The company closed the waitlist for its “prototype” generative search product, sending out emails like the one below to signed-up users who weren’t chosen to test it.
The company has said only 10,000 users will get access at first, which could help it if its searchbot gives bad recommendations like gluing slippery cheese to pizza.
At the moment, if you type “from:realdonaldtrump” followed by a specific term in X’s search bar, you’ll get the same set of results, seemingly no matter what you type, according to a Mediaite story spotted by Engadget.
I experienced the same thing when I tried it, but could still search other accounts this way. X responded with an auto-reply when reached for comment.
Finally, a legal ruling on whether TikTok is a real search engine. (It’s not.)
You may need to close and reopen the app to see it, but according to Android expert Mishaal Rahman, Gemini is showing up for non-Google Workspace users.
Gemini can do things like summarize emails, suggest next steps, or draft replies. Before now, you’ve needed a Google AI premium subscription or a Workspace account for access to the AI assistant.
The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking Holdings on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
Over 300 high school students converged on Congress to urge lawmakers to vote against KOSA. The bill passed in a landslide.
A new Canary test build of the Chrome browser (I see it in version 128.0.6611.0 in macOS) has a new performance alert to tell you when a tab is hogging resources, Windows Report spotted.
To try it, open the Canary Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://flags/#performance-intervention-ui, enable “performance intervention suggestions,” and restart. Now Chrome can complain about Chrome’s memory usage, too!
In the old days, running Disk Defragmenter in Windows took forever but was a welcome, meditative reminder that you can’t control everything.
I’m kidding, it was awful. Here’s a website that simulates it, hard drive sounds and all, from developer Dennis Morello. It’s nicer when it’s not keeping you from playing Starcraft.
Software engineer Robert Heaton wrote a tool that gives him “free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi” on planes, by... repeatedly updating fields in his Air Miles account without paying for in-flight Wi-Fi.
Go read this blog recounting how his PySkyWiFi tool uses data tunneled through the limited space of his Air Miles account information to a proxy computer on the ground. It’s apparently very slow. And it sounds a little familiar.
The FCC’s new broadband labels make it easier to compare internet plans, if you’re lucky enough to have options.
Microsoft announced an update to Edge’s clipboard allowing SVG files — space efficient vector images — to be copy and pasted into web apps without any complicated workarounds.
The company also contributed the updates to the open-source Chromium project so that other Chromium-based browsers can add streamlined SVG copying and pasting. Maybe Chrome will be next?
CEO Nicholas Thompson discusses the deal: ‘AI is coming. It is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens.’
Here’s what the SCOTUS decision might mean for everything from kids online safety laws to the TikTok ‘ban.’
If you have a large collection of hardcover and paperback books, it can be hard to get rid of them — but not impossible.
To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe’s.
Moving often means downsizing, and fast. Enter: Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing.
