People are increasingly calling for boycotts of the big tech companies amid a backlash. The problem is that Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google are nearly inescapable.
Traveling without easy access to wi-fi is problematic. Google has a new tool that allows users to be in a place without Internet access — whether on a sidewalk in New York City or a back road in Tuscany — and pull up a map that lets them get directions and use turn-by-turn voice navigation, as well as search for places (art galleries, restaurants, hotels, museums) and see details including hours, phone numbers and reviews.
While Google remains the dominant search engine, its grasp on the mobile market is slipping in the face of increased competition from “native” applications designed for pocket-size devices.
Phones have become the dominant portal through which people use the Internet.
Last week, Sarah Slocum, a San Francisco-based tech writer, wore Google Glass to a bar and was cursed out and assaulted by two women who ripped the Glass off her face. In Facebook post responding to the attack, Slocum called it a “hate crime,” but the media response has ranged from hostile to dismissive. Newser's Matt Cantor referred to Slocum as a "Glasshole" and New York magazine's Adam Martin called her argument an "overly fraught discussion of some idiocy that happened on the kind of drunken night you would usually want to forget.
A Facebook data scientist has laughed off recent research by Princeton University which claimed that the social network giant would lose 80% of its users in the next few years. According to the model the Princeton researchers used, Princeton University would be extinct by the end of the decade and our entire planet will vanish by 2060. That last prediction is based on declining searches for the word "air" on Google.
Wondering who that woman on your Google search page is this morning? It's Shakuntala Devi, astrologer, child prodigy and mental calculator. Who would have been 84 years old today. Devi passed away in 2013.
Book critics are divided over the quality of Dave Eggers’s highly anticipated novel “The Circle,” which has started a debate on whether technology is invading our lives.
Former self-described Google "search girl" and current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says that "the future is personalization...where you're the query." Such searches will take into account all your history and preferences.
So if Marissa Mayer says that "the future is personalization," what impact will that have on news? Will journalism start to cater to each and every individual? Will this allow more bias-filled articles to come to light, based on an individual's search preferences? Will the ever-growing divide in the media be affected by this? That's something I'll probably end up seeing as I go on in life.
"Boomers in particular like to call my generation entitled, narcissistic, and basically useless Internet addicts who are too distracted by Tumblr to get a real job (or at least, they would say that if they knew what Tumblr is). It's true that we are attached to the Internet, although so are many boomers. But the omnipresence of the Internet in many millennials' lives is shaping how we react to the world around us. And that's not necessarily a bad thing."
What did the internet look like before the dotcom bubble burst? Here's a look at the blocky, link-filled homepages of Apple, Amazon, and Geocities in 1999.
Nielsen has released their report about the most widely used mobile apps in 2016. The top 8 apps were all owned by just two corporations: Google and Facebook. And even though 88% of Americans now…
Donald Trump's Super Tuesday victories in the GOP presidential primaries means more Americans are considering moving to Canada if he actually wins the presidency in November.
In Google’s first public statement about its barges floating near California and Maine, it said they would be used as showrooms for people to learn about new technology.
To mark 151st anniversary of French composer's Claude Debussy's birth, a Google Doodle/animation on Thursday was set to Clair de lune, one of his best-known pieces.
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