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Wednesday December 24, 2025. 05:15 PM
A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030”, replacing it with Rust — but alas for fans of the memory-safe programming language, it turns out this is a personal goal, not a...
Google is launching Disco, a new experiment for the Chrome browser built on Gemini 3. The tool allows users to turn open tabs into interactive web apps, known as “GenTabs”, which can be used for study or travel planning, for example. The user describes in natural...
Apple will be 50 years old on April 1, 2026. What can we expect from the company in the year ahead? This is actually the first of two important milestones for Apple; the next anniversary comes in 2027, which will mark 20 years since the introduction of the world-changing...
This has been a pivotal 12 months for Microsoft, a year in which it faced increasing competition that threatened to knock the company off its perch as the world’s leader in AI. Even so, Microsoft managed to add about $400 billion to its valuation this year, pushing it to...
Tuesday December 23, 2025. 03:39 PM
Google is suing SerpApi, a web-scraping company that provides its customers with an API that mimics human searching, the latest salvo in the battle over access to data for training and operating AI large language models. Many of the large language models powering AI services ...
The Italian competition authority, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, has fined Apple more than $116 million (€98.6 million) for abusing its dominant position in the market for app distribution to iOS users. The authority considers that Apple’s App...
In March, Computer Sweden reported that Google Assistant would be replaced by the AI tool Gemini in Android-based mobile phones before the new year. With just over a week to go until the end of the year, it is clear that this will not be the case. In a message on the Gemini...
Ah, the holidays. No matter what manner of winter celebration you prefer (I’m a Festivus man myself), late December is a fine time for kickin’ back and collecting your thoughts for the coming year. That means it’s also a fine time for contemplating that crazy little...
Monday December 22, 2025. 05:36 PM
Something that appears to have started earlier than ever before, Apple is allegedly already test manufacturing of the next model of its basic smartphone, the iPhone 18. This news follows speculation from multiple sources, including legendary Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who ...
Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search results, Reuters reports. According to the lawsuit, Serpapi then resold the ...
Recently, Mozilla’s new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo promised that Firefox will be a “modern AI browser,” which attracted a lot of attention. Fortunately, users who are not interested in the AI features will be able to turn it all off. – There will be an option in Firefox ...
When Austria’s Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism set out to replace Skype for Business as its virtual meeting platform, Microsoft Teams was the obvious choice. The newer collaboration app is already used across other ministries, and it was widely assumed that the...
Friday December 19, 2025. 06:21 PM
Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software...
Earlier this year, Omdia told us the MacBook Air had become the world’s most popular business laptop. With that in mind, I spoke with Apple Director for Mac Product Marketing Colleen Novielli, about why she thinks this is the case. The move in recent years to Apple...
Remember newspapers? Or, more specifically, remember when everybody kept up with current events by reading newspapers and news magazines? I started reading The New York Times every day when I was in college. The paper was usually delivered to my door by 10:30 pm the...
Thursday December 18, 2025. 06:48 PM
A warning for WhatsApp users: cybercriminals have discovered an alarmingly simple way to access a user’s conversations in real time by manipulating the app’s device pairing or linking routine. Termed ‘GhostPairing’ by researchers at security company Gen Digital...
Imagine it’s possible to balance regulatory desires to limit Apple’s market power with the welfare of the company’s existing customer base. Imagine a regulatory environment characterized by mutual respect and a willingness to collaborate on solutions, a place where...
The need to train people in AI at a faster pace is driving the multibillion-dollar merger between tech education giants Udemy and Coursera. The merger, announced this week, is valued at $2.5 billion and will close in the second half of 2026, subject to approval by...
A few weeks ago, Google launched the powerful AI model Gemini 3 and now it’s time for a faster variant called Gemini 3 Flash. In addition to speed, Gemini 3 Flash is said to offer improved intelligence, at least compared to its predecessor, Gemini 2.5 Flash. According to...
Your smartphone’s home screen is the heart and soul of your mobile tech experience — the launching pad for nearly everything you do on your device. And since you use Android, you’ve got a unique advantage over your iPhone-totin’ associates in that your home screen...
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