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The U.S. Justice Department does not plan to target software developers that create decentralized platforms for transmitting cryptocurrencies without criminal intent, a Justice official said on Thursday.

Fresh off the UK's retreat from its iCloud surveillance demand, the FTC is telling US big tech that data security isn't up for negotiation.

The duo made August smart locks a smash hit, and now their new startup Doma aspires to fulfill the dream of the intelligent home.

Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate projects.

Denmark's PostNord will end centuries of letter delivery as digitalization and high postage costs make physical mail nearly obsolete. The BBC reports: The steep decline in letter volumes has been driven largely by digitalization, and PostNord announced in March that it will cease letter services at...

Google’s new Pixel 10 lineup presented Gemini AI as the core feature, not just another spec

There have been more border device searches than ever before, per new data, despite the constitutionality of whether these searches are legal.

Google unveiled its new lineup of Pixel phones, watches and earbuds on Wednesday, touting new AI and camera capabilities in a creator-studded lineup hosted by the comedian Jimmy Fallon. The standout new feature was “Magic Cue,” which uses Google AI to draw information from different apps on a user’s device and offer proactive suggestions in text messages. For example, if a friend texts about

AI-generated people are making it to editorial pages in magazines. This will become the new normal.

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Bloomberg has published a deep dive into operations at Oracle, chronicling its rise in cloud computing and current push into powering AI projects.

Hey Google, meet Gemini.

A new report shows Perplexity's agentic AI falling for obvious phishing sites and executing malicious prompts.

Masimo found out about restoration of pulse oximetry to the Apple Watch the same way that the rest of the world did, and is suing US Customs and Border Protection to stop the process.

Two Harvard dropouts are launching Halo X, a $249 pair of AI-powered smart glasses that continuously listen, record, and transcribe conversations while displaying real-time information to the wearer. "Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on," said AnhPh...

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Last week, following a recent U.S. Customs ruling, Apple reintroduced blood oxygen monitoring to certain Apple Watch models in the U.S., sidestepping an ITC import ban stemming from its legal dispute with medical device maker Masimo. Today, Masimo fired back with a new lawsuit against the U.S. Custo...

From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that resembled a perfume commercial, Runway AI’s film festival selections did little to convince me of AI’s artistry.

A sharp drop in technology stocks, and even comments by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, suggest investors are getting too exuberant about artificial intelligence.

Deepfakes are getting more realistic, and more difficult to stop. Congress needs to take steps now.

Last year, the cost for businesses to purchase state-of-the-art artificial intelligence was plummeting. Top AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google had slashed the price of their flagship AI models by more than 90% compared to prior years, while DeepSeek and other open-source ...

As its Appstore for Android dies today, Amazon is reportedly preparing to completely revamp its Fire Tablet lineup with a...

Apple's biggest iPhone factory is swelling with new workers as Foxconn throws money at recruits to keep production on track for the iPhone 17.

Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecurity.

Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, that also makes the URL indexable by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.

An analysis of Rotten Tomatoes data reveals average Tomatometer scores have climbed steadily since Fandango's 2016 acquisition of the review aggregation platform. The average number of reviewers per mainstream film release increased by 40 to 70 critics following the purchase. New additions to the cr...

Electricity prices have increased at more than double the inflation rate over the past year, according to NPR reporting. Florida Power & Light customers face monthly bills exceeding $400 during summer months, prompting the utility to seek a 13% rate increase over four years that drew tens of tho...

Even though Apple was meant to air "Friday Night Baseball" until 2029, a new report suggests the company will give up on the sport early, giving NBC/Peacock rights to both Friday and Sunday games.