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Three of Microsoft’s Office apps are now available on Meta’s Quest headsets, and while they aren’t optimized for VR, they work in a pinch.

A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a...

Google’s latest update to Maps protects users’ locations from law enforcement.

Threads will use ActivityPub, the same technology that other networks such as Mastodon have embraced as a way to make social media more open.

Amazon.com Inc., which launched its first internet satellites in October, says it will use space lasers to ensure reliable broadband coverage even in the middle of the ocean....

A US court ruling against Google’s app store policies has shaken the layout of these gardens a bit, but they’ll stay in place—for now....

Quantum computing could shred the encryption that guards digital information. Great powers are sprinting to master this technology to crack their adversaries’ codes.

Google’s cookie-killing “Privacy Sandbox” project is finally set to begin.

Intel has finally revealed the details on the Core Ultra 9.

Months after its launch in over 100 other countries.

YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit most from the platform.

Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is on track to bring in roughly $2.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2023 — a significant slump from prior years, according to people familiar with the matter.

Designed to study Pluto, the spacecraft’s instruments are being repurposed.

Some experts think xAI used OpenAI model outputs to fine-tune Grok.

A U.S. judge on Monday upheld Texas' ban on state employees', including public university employees, using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on state-owned devices or networks....

A recent study found that websites and applications that use AI tools to undress people are receiving unprecedented traction.

Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly....

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Critics say Fraser Samson hiring is ‘outrageous conflict of interest’ as monitoring technology is rolled out in UK high streets

The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.

The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....

The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life is, to date, the most extensive technosignature search of nearby celestial objects. We present a radio technosignature search of the centers of 97 nearby galaxies, observed by Breakthrough Listen at the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. We performed a narrowband Doppler...

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday....

QuEra gets ready for error correction, runs operations with over 40 logical qubits.

Google let OpenAI take the lead in the AI race — now, it’s mounting a comeback.