Latest News
Google says it has saved users over 10,000 years of waiting for web pages to load, so you should be thankful
According to a new Chromium blog post, one of Google‘s central web products has saved users more than 10,000 years of waiting for pages to load this year alone. The product in question – Core Web Vitals – was launched three years ago to provide metrics about the performance and…
Read More
YouTube pages are getting a TikTok-like For You feed
YouTube is debuting a new For You section for creators’ channels, personalized to whoever opens the page. It will start showing up on November 20th, according to a post from YouTube’s support account, which says the section will recommend “a mix of content from your channel to viewers based on…
Read More
What do you get when you cross a laptop docking station and a power supply unit? A precursor of what future notebook chargers may look like…
A new device – essentially a docking station with a built-in power supply – may give some indication as to what the chargers for the best laptops of the future may be. The Sparkle TC-9321L docking station is fitted with two USB-C ports (one 3.2 and one 2.0), two USB-A…
Read More
Apple’s second-gen AirPods are nearly half off
Black Friday may not be for another two weeks, but it doesn’t seem like most retailers care about that. Amazon and Walmart are both currently selling the second-generation AirPods for $69 ($60 off), the lowest price we’ve ever seen on what is already Apple’s cheapest pair of earbuds. Note, however,…
Read More
Google workers publish letter criticizing company’s Israel-Palestine ‘double standard’
A group of Google employees has published an open letter on Medium calling out an alleged double standard in the company related to freedom of expression surrounding the Israel-Palestine war. The essay condemns “hate, abuse and retaliation” within the company against Muslim, Arab and Palestinian workers. The employees who penned…
Read More
Google is bringing its AI-powered search to more than 120 new countries and territories
Google is bringing its Search Generative Experience (SGE) to more than 120 new countries, including Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa, according to a blog post from Google’s Hema Budaraju. SGE will also support four new languages, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Indonesian, which add to its…
Read More