AI-driven drones appear to have attacked humans without authorization, according to a new report by the U.N. Many critics view AI technology as an existential threat to humanity, seeing some variation of the Terminator franchise’s Skynet wiping humanity out. Those critics may…
Qualcomm has expressed interest in buying a stake in chipmaker Arm Holdings, should the NVIDIA deal fall through. Arm Holdings designs semiconductors used in mobile devices, computers and servers. Unlike other chipmakers, which design and manufacture their chips, Arm licenses…
Bing Tags, which launched two years ago as Bing Linked Pages and then renamed and did an expansion about a year ago, has hung up the project and shut down the feature. Bing closed down Bing Tags on June 14,…
General Motors has made its OnStar Guardian software available for non-GM vehicles. OnStar Guardian is the company’s mobile app, designed to improve safety. For example, OnStar Guarding uses smartphone sensors to detect a crash and alert an Emergency-Certified OnStar Advisor4.…
Apple may be delaying production of the highly-anticipated MacBook Pro and iPad Pro amid a global semiconductor shortage. The coronavirus pandemic sparked a series of events that have led to a severe shortages of chips. At the outset, production was…
Columnist Marcus Miller explains how to make the most of your website redesign so that you not only preserve your SEO efforts but embrace the new opportunities that come with relaunching a site. A new website should be an opportunity…
Google has rolled out expanded text ads to all advertisers, so how does this new ad format compare to standard text ads? Columnist Andy Taylor shares some data from a recent Merkle study. Since July 26, 2016, expanded text ads (ETAs)…
PC World reports that Microsoft Bing has added a way to search for music available within Xbox Music. Now, if you search for a song, for example [U2 all that you can’t leave behind] on Bing, on the right hand…
Google’s Martin Splitt provides a simple summary of the processes that pave the way for ranking search results. The crawling and indexing processes lay the groundwork for search engines to rank results. Despite being fundamental aspects of how search engines…
According to numerous reports Amazon is very close to a deal to buy MGM Studios and its film library for nearly $9 billion with debt. This would significantly alter the streaming wars and give Amazon a huge base of over…
