This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Not all of Google’s projects turn out to be successful. Products like Wave, the Nexus Q, and Buzz were all relegated to the dustbin of ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The cold war between Google and Amazon appears to be heating up today. After a series of disagreements over how Amazon is accessing YouTube content, ...

One of Google’s most controversial practices over the years has been the automated scanning of email contents. Google used that data to target ads inside Gmail, which it places at the top of the list in your social and promotions ...

People expect a certain degree of privacy online, but records of your movement across the internet are stored in various repositories. Police from the Minnesota city of Edina have obtained a wide-ranging court order that grants them access to a ...

It’s fun to write about developments in artificial intelligence like they’re harbingers of an impending AIpocalypse. Jokes about our new robot overlords notwithstanding, computers are getting scary smart these days, and it’s not always flattering to compare humans with AI. The ...

For years, researchers have discussed how the “anonymizing” various companies claim to perform on the data they gather is poor and can be easily reversed. Over the last few years, we’ve seen multiple companies respond to these problems by refusing ...

For four years, Google Fiber has offered a high-speed Internet access alternative. The impact of its $ 70-for-gigabit-fiber plans has been enormous — competitors like AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner have all variously slashed prices and improved their access speeds ...

Over the past few months, Microsoft has taken potshots at Google for high power consumption under Chrome. As we’ve discussed, there’s truth to the company’s statements. Independent tests have regularly demonstrated that Chrome uses more power than Microsoft Edge, Internet ...

Pokémon Go is officially a smash hit. Nintendo’s stock has risen an eye-watering 54% since the title launched. Early fears that the game demanded access to iOS accounts have been resolved, and while we’ve seen some significant hiccups related to ...

Share This article The web today is a vastly different place from the Internet I first explored courtesy of AOL and Netscape Navigator back in 1997. One thing that hasn’t changed in two decades, however, is the use of fake ...