Category: Technology

A federal court has ruled that Google will not be required to break up its advertising technology business, handing the company a significant victory in one of the most closely watched antitrust cases of the past decade. The decision concerns the remedies phase of the Justice Department’s ad tech lawsuit against Google, a case that…

Apple has entered one of the most closely watched transitions in modern corporate history: a change at the top of the world’s most valuable consumer technology company. The handover marks the end of an era defined by steady operational discipline and the beginning of a period in which Apple’s new chief executive must perform a…

There is a particular kind of daydream that belongs to adolescence: the one where you are powerful, unbothered, and permanently entertained. Where the rules are for other people, the girls look like video game characters, and every problem yields to a bigger gun, a faster car, or a cleverer hack. It is a harmless enough…

Does Computer Science Need Computers? It sounds like a riddle, or maybe a provocation: does computer science actually need computers? The question, explored in a recent piece from Quanta Magazine, gets at something that surprises many people outside the field. A large and influential part of computer science has almost nothing to do with machines.…

For the past few years, the story of artificial intelligence has been told in software. Bigger models, longer context windows, cleverer training runs. But as AI moves off the screen and into the world — into humanoid robots, warehouse arms, delivery machines and autonomous factory equipment — the bottleneck is shifting somewhere far less glamorous:…

Police in Manvel are pushing back on questions raised by the city’s mayor about the department’s use of Flock Safety cameras, defending the license plate reading technology as a valuable investigative tool while acknowledging that concerns about privacy and data handling deserve a serious answer. The dispute puts the fast-growing Brazoria County suburb at the…

The loneliness economy comes of age Loneliness used to be a private ache. Now it is a market category. Over the past few years, a growing cluster of startups has begun to treat social disconnection the way earlier generations of founders treated transportation, food delivery, or dating: as a widespread, painful, monetizable problem. Some sell…