Tag: Internet & Networking Technology
The Morning After: US Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok’s ban appeal
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok owner ByteDance’s appeal of a law that could ban the app. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is set to go into effect on January 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. ByteDance claimed the law violates…
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The Morning After: What to expect at CES 2025
The holidays haven’t even kicked off, but we’re already looking to next year when, almost immediately, some of the Engadget team will head to Las Vegas for tech’s biggest annual conference. The pitches from companies, both legit and unhinged, are already filling our inboxes and spam tabs, so what are…
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ChatGPT Search will do the legwork for you
ChatGPT Search is here to try to combine the best of chatbots and web searches. OpenAI’s latest feature searches the web in response to your natural language queries, delivering “fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.” When using ChatGPT, the bot will search the web depending on what…
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NVIDIA is reportedly in the spotlight of the DoJ’s AI antitrust probe
Update, September 4, 5:15PM ET: NVIDIA has denied Bloomberg‘s report. Speaking to CNBC, the chipmaker said that it had inquired with the US Department of Justice and has not been subpoenaed. It added that it was “happy to answer any questions regulators” have about its business. The headline of this…
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Lyft’s new price lock feature caps the cost of rides, even during peak hours
Lyft is rolling out a new price lock feature that caps the cost of rides, in an attempt to solve the problem of cost unpredictability for those who rely on the platform for daily commutes. The company says this tool will even work during peak hours, when rides are usually…
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Online publishers face a dilemma: Allow AI scraping from Google or lose search visibility
As the US government weighs its options following a landmark “monopolist” ruling against Google last week, online publications increasingly face a bleak future. (And this time, it’s not just because of severely diminished ad revenue.) Bloomberg reports that their choice now boils down to allowing Google to use their published…
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