Tag: software

Google asks Trump’s DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome

Google asks Trump’s DOJ…

Last year, the US Department of Justice proposed a number of remedies to address Google’s vice-like hold over search.…
YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service

YouTube raked in over…

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has handily summarised the latter’s Q4 results in a blog post this week,…
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker suspended after saying Republicans would ‘kill Rick Scott’ if they really cared about Medicare fraud

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker…

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has been banned, again, apparently for suggesting that if the Republican Party was serious about…
You might mock Microsoft’s new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that’s explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it

You might mock Microsoft’s…

PC Gamer’s staff recently had an intense debate about whether a solitary thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive or…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 3, 2025)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games:…
One-third of consumers don’t want AI on their devices, report finds, and it’s not because they don’t understand it: They just don’t need it

One-third of consumers don’t…

It’s not uncommon to hear executives at AI companies and other such boosters say that the public has been…
Meta says sorry for turning Instagram into a horror show of violence, gore, dead bodies, and other graphic content that ‘should not have been recommended’

Meta says sorry for…

Have you seen the video of the guy who, as Reddit put it, “got folded by an elephant” that’s…
Skype is being shut down in favour of Microsoft Teams, and with it dies the best ring tone in the business

Skype is being shut…

After over 22 years of being in service, Skype will be finally closing down on May 5, this year.…
Have I Been Pwned adds over 284 million compromised passwords from latest breach

Have I Been Pwned…

Data breach news is reported with such regularity now that it’s easy to feel jaded by each new leak…
‘We’re actively embracing generative AI,’ Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: ‘We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company’

‘We’re actively embracing generative…

There was a spot of consternation over Google’s new AI-powered world builder Project Genie earlier this week: In the…