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Why YouTube Should Cut Off Its Thumbnails The platform is testing a ban on “egregious” clickbait titles and thumbnails. Why not go all the way?
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Nov. 19, 2024
Democrats Are Massively Outspending Republicans on Social Media It’s not even close — $182 million to just $45 million, according to one new estimate.
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Oct. 31, 2024
Why Reddit Is Blowing Up The social media site is making money and growing fast. It can thank new search traffic.
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Oct. 24, 2024
The Rise of the Self-Clicking Computer AI agents would like access to your mouse — and all of your data — please.
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Oct. 14, 2024
What If Google’s Biggest Problem Isn’t AI? While Google is scrambling to catch up on AI, Amazon is carving off a big slice of its core business.
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Oct. 1, 2024
How Tall Is J.D. Vance Really? He’s 6’2” — saved you the click.
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Sept. 12, 2024
AI Wants to Be Free Or at least very, very cheap.
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Aug. 19, 2024
How Do You Break Up a Company Like Google? A federal-court ruling has made that question real. Is it into two pieces … or into 20?
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Aug. 12, 2024
The Future Will Be Brief What happens when AI summarizes everything we do and say?
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Aug. 2, 2024
Google Pulls AI Olympics Commercial That Everyone Hated No one liked the search engine’s one weird trick to writing fan mail.
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July 30, 2024
Why Won’t Google Auto-complete ‘Trump Assassination Attempt’? Welcome to the rich tradition of politically charged questions around this search feature.
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July 28, 2024
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June 26, 2024
The Internet’s Biggest Mystery How many regular users do the likes of Facebook, Youtube, and Netflix even have anymore?
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June 11, 2024
How Siri Made Apple Cautious About AI The company is still trying to make good on a vision of a personal assistant offered in 2011.
Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face The search giant advised us to eat glue and rocks and maybe even try walking off a cliff. The gaffes are part of a much bigger story.
Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years The search giant now faces three simultaneous challenges: government regulators, real competition, and itself.
social studies
Apr. 25, 2024
How Gmail Became Our Diary Rebecca Makkai, Paul Murray, and other authors dig through their email archives on the 20th anniversary of Google’s other flagship product.
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Apr. 19, 2024
street view
Feb. 26, 2024
The Googleplex Is Growing Google’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
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Feb. 23, 2024
Can Reddit Survive Its IPO? The company wants to sell shares to users and user data to Google. Redditors might have other ideas.
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Feb. 22, 2024
AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve Google’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
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Jan. 26, 2024
Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet Less a place of words written by people, more one of words generated by bots.
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Jan. 25, 2024
The Vision Pro’s Biggest Problem Is Apple Nobody wants to lend a hand to the richest tech company on earth.
How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AI We’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
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Sept. 23, 2023
The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them? Sometimes I just want to use my computer, not tell it what to do.
How AI Will Change the News Business: 3 Theories The media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape.
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July 21, 2023
Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber? Many early users say so. But maybe the AI bot is just done with them.
office apocalypse
July 17, 2023
The Teetering Tech Office Meta and Twitter are shedding square footage, while Amazon and Google aren’t giving up the dream.
Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media? The new bot-generated content is ominous for digital publishers. But the search giant might have a reason to pull back.
The End of Search As You Know It AI is about to turn content discovery on its head.
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Mar. 31, 2023
Is AI Coming for Coders First? The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
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Mar. 26, 2023
Will ChatGPT Become Your Everything App? The announcement of an app store for the AI chat interface reveals the scale of OpenAI’s ambitions.
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Mar. 15, 2023
The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived It’ll write your emails for you and read them, too. What could go wrong?
Google and Bing Are a Mess. Will AI Solve Their Problems? This new era of search is a story about automation. But it’s also a story about corporate choices.
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Sept. 19, 2022
AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different Work, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
Is There Such a Thing As an Ethical Smart City? Josh O’Kane’s new book on Sidewalk Labs’ failed city of the future says there’s potential.
preservation watch
July 28, 2022
It’s Actually Good News That Google Bought the Thompson Center Helmut Jahn’s iconic Chicago building now has a chance at being preserved.
the economy
July 18, 2022
Apple to Slow Hiring in Latest Economic Warning As tech behemoths warn of retrenchment, Goldman Sachs predicted that the job market will slow “sharply.”
How I Found the New Roof Park at Pier 57 The city’s newest public park tries to be everything at once and ends up feeling like a private space.
getting around
June 14, 2022
the streaming wars
Mar. 23, 2022
RT America Shuts Down Amid Russian State-Media Bans RT America released a memo today announcing layoffs in New York, L.A., Miami, and D.C.
peace on earth
Dec. 19, 2021
developing
Sept. 30, 2021
With Google Moving In, Hudson Square Is Trying to Spruce Up the Place The neighborhood is now a major tech hub, so it should probably be connected to the rest of the city.
Why Subscriptions May Be the Wave of the Future In an increasingly privacy-focused world, paying a premium may look more attractive.
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