U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

How to make FOX59 a preferred source on Google

Google has a new feature that lets users prioritize new sources they trust. The search giant recently launched the “preferred sources” tool, which allows users to choose ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Valve explain why using PayPal for Steam purchases isn't currently an option in a whole bunch of countries

Update: Valve have confirmed to RPS that this withdrawal of support for Steam transactions by one of PayPal's acquiring banks "is regarding content on Steam, related to what we’ve previously commented ...
Nature

Using biobanks to boost research: a how-to guide

Jyoti Madhusoodanan is a science writer in Portland, Oregon. Rafaella Rogatto De Faria was nearing the end of her PhD when her adviser proposed a fresh project. The idea was to analyse genetic, ...
Reuters

Meta's AI leaders discuss using Google, OpenAI models in apps, The Information says

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab is considering partnerships with rivals Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab or OpenAI to enhance artificial intelligence features in its ...
Reuters

Apple in talks to use Google's Gemini AI to power revamped Siri, Bloomberg News reports

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab is in early talks to use Google's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Gemini AI to revamp the Siri voice assistant, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing ...
Ars Technica

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with ...
TechCrunch

You can now talk to Google Photos to make your edits

At Wednesday’s Made by Google event, the company announced new features in Google Photos that will allow users to ask the app to edit their pictures for them. The functionality will launch first on ...
GitHub

Command to insert '-' up to text width / margin column

VS Code snippets are almost, but not quite, powerful enough to achieve this. It doesn't appear that the cursor column is a computable value. https://code.visualstudio ...
The Verge

Google Gemini can now read your Docs aloud

You can customize Gemini’s voice and playback speed. You can customize Gemini’s voice and playback speed. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much ...
Android Police

Google Docs now uses Gemini for text-to-speech narration

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...