The best thing a company can do for its product—especially for its sales numbers—is to convince the users that it’s essential to living. Google is certainly leaning into that narrative with the Pixel Watch 3. This week, Google’s third-gen smartwatch received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Loss of Pulse […]
PSA: Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Your Personal Information From Search Results
If you ever Google yourself and don’t like what you see, you have some recourse. Google’s Results About You tool, which it first introduced in 2022, just got an update that makes it easier for you to request the removal of search results that contain your personal information, including outdated search results that are no […]
Chegg Sues Google, Says AI Search Results Are Killing Its Business
Chegg is sort of on its last dying breath at this point, but it will go out fighting. The online education company, which started out renting textbooks and later expanded into online homework help, sued Google on Monday for anticompetitive practices, saying it is unfairly scraping material from Chegg for its AI-powered search results. The […]
USAID Workers Reportedly Believe They Were Recorded by Google’s Gemini AI
As if the employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) weren’t under enough scrutiny from Elon Musk and his team of edgelord posters, it turns out another set of unwelcome eyes seem to be on the department. According to a report from IT Brew, USAID staffers were warned by leadership that Google’s […]
Google Had to Fix an AI Mistake in Its Super Bowl Ad
In attempting to advertise the functionality of it’s AI model Gemini, Google accidentally create an advertisement for the greatest flaw of AI tools: their affinity for just making stuff up. The Verge recently caught that Google had to fix its planned Super Bowl Sunday ad promoting Gemini because the text of an answer provided by […]
Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. It turns out that if you include any expletives in your search query, Google will not return an AI Overview, as they are called, at the top of the results page. For […]
AI-Generated Junk Science Is a Big Problem on Google Scholar, Research Suggests
AI-generated scientific research is polluting the online academic information ecosystem, according to a worrying report published in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review. A team of researchers investigated the prevalence of research articles with evidence of artificially generated text on Google Scholar, an academic search engine that makes it easy to search for research published historically in […]
Big Tech Mafia Spotted in Church With Trump as New Era of Oligarchy Begins
U.S. oligarchs like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Apple CEO Tim Cook were all spotted sitting behind Donald Trump’s family at church Monday morning, just hours before the incoming president will be inaugurated. And it’s a great reminder that the U.S. is about to enter a frightening new era that begins […]