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Microsoft to use Oracle’s OCI Supercluster for Bing conversational searches
Microsoft and Oracle have entered into a multiyear agreement to support inferencing of AI models that are being optimized to power Bing’s conversational searches.
6 fantastic forgotten features in Google’s Chrome Android browser
Save time and work smarter with these excellent out-of-sight options for Chrome on Android.
Google antitrust trial: Pichai concedes that default search boosts market share
Google' star witness in its US antitrust trial, CEO Sundar Pichai, defended the company's business practices but drew attention to the importance of default search contracts as a driver of its market share.
How to activate Chrome's fancy new Android reading enhancer
Who knew the web could look so good?!
Microsoft addresses three zero-days for October’s Patch Tuesday
Microsoft this week rolled out 103 security updates, including for three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Edge.
How to replace Edge as the default browser in Windows — and why you shouldn’t
Here’s how to make Chrome, Firefox, or another browser the primary one in Windows 10 or 11. (But are you sure you want to?)
Microsoft’s Nadella: Google could lock up AI-enabled search
As a witness for the prosecution in the Google antitrust trial, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that Google’s monopoly profits could lock in publishers as AI-enabled search arrives.
Meta challenges ChatGPT with chatbot, OpenAI fires back with new features
Meta this week unveiled a new chatbot connected to the Bing search engine that can have a conversation with a user and create images based on textual inputs.
‘We hoped not to use WebKit at all,' says Vivaldi CEO, as iOS browser ships
With Europe's DMA in place, “the gatekeeper is no longer going to be able to dictate what you use or try to force you to use software you do not like," says Vivaldi chief Jon von Tetzchner.
Google defends search business in biggest US antitrust case of the century so far
Shadows of the Internet Explorer trial of the ’90s loom as the government opens its trial against Google today, accusing the internet giant of illegally maintaining a monopoly on search.
EU lists ‘gatekeepers’ to be regulated, opens iMessage and Bing investigations
The day after it was reported that Apple and Microsoft were contesting the proposed "gatekeeper" status of iMessage and Bing, the European Commission leaves them off the list of services to be regulated by the DMA but announces...
4 secret settings for a smarter Chrome Android setup
Supercharge your smartphone browsing experience with these powerful yet completely concealed options for Google's Chrome Android app.
The line-blurring brilliance of Google's new ChromeOS-Windows connection
Google's latest ChromeOS improvement brings Windows apps even closer to the heart of the operating system — with a very Googley twist.
Opera browser weaves Aria AI into iOS app
Multiplatform web browser Opera has its own AI assistant, Aria, now offered for iOS and available on all major platforms.
A whole new kind of Android browser multitasking power
More efficient multitasking? Yes, please! This handy Android browser hack will change the way you work — for the better.
DuckDuckGo launches privacy-first Windows browser in beta
Privacy-focused search engine provider DuckDuckGo has debuted its own web browser on Windows, in a public beta test.
Is your business missing out on a free Apple opportunity?
How your company appears in Apple Maps and Siri search matters when you have more than 1 billion people searching for you on iPhones.
