It chose a restaurant, but then couldn’t complete the process as the spot it chose required a credit card to confirm a reservation, at which point the user had to take over. You can be flexible in your query—in another example, asking it to book a “highly rated” restaurant meantContinue Reading
Pour out a little liquor. Microsoft has announced that Skype, the popular video-calling app of the early 2010s, will finally be laid to rest on May 5. Microsoft acquired the app in 2011 for a staggering $8.5 billion—some 40 percent higher than its internal valuation and the largest acquisition byContinue Reading
Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” known as X, has long cultivated craziness in its edgy projects. Perhaps the most outlandish was Loon, which aimed to deliver internet via hundreds of high-flying balloons. Loon eventually “graduated” from X as a separate Alphabet division, before its parent company determined that the business model simplyContinue Reading
Startup founder Tara Langdale-Schmidt says her company’s devices, known as VuVa, are designed to soothe the pelvic and vaginal pain and discomfort that she and millions of other women have experienced. But over the past decade, Langdale-Schmidt alleges Amazon has repeatedly shut down VuVatech’s product listings—sometimes she says for violatingContinue Reading
Between September and January, six Google Pixel smartphones hitched free rides on four New York City subway cars. Specifically, they took the A train, as it ping-ponged the 32 miles between the northern tip of Manhattan and the southern reaches of Queens. The phones weren’t stowaways or strays, and anContinue Reading
A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem reveals that a wealth of sensitive information on Americans is being openly served up to some of the world’s largest brands despite the company’s own rules against it. Experts say that when combined with other data, this information couldContinue Reading
While software makers and app developers continue to make their wares safer and less open to attack, you can never get complacent with digital security—and you need to be aware of all the different methods of attack that bad actors use to get at your accounts. Those methods include targetingContinue Reading
Plus: The OnePlus Watch 3 has big battery claims, Ninja’s Swirl can make ice cream and soft-serve, Google sets a date for I/O, and more Source linkContinue Reading
Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to the iOS App Store and Google Play store. Apple and Google brought back the Chinese-owned video app after receiving a letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi assuring the companies they would not be fined forContinue Reading
If you search map websites for information about the Gulf of Mexico this week in the United States, you will see that, depending on which service you use, the familiar body of water might have a new name—or not. These search results exemplify the complications stemming from technology companies’ varyingContinue Reading
