Google invented Google Maps. Apple gave us the iPod. Microsoft introduced PowerPoint. In each case, these technologies began elsewhere—as an idea generated by a startup that was perfected by a new owner with greater resources.
Corporate America is full of fat piles of cash being dropped to snatch up the next game-changing idea, but a new study suggests we may not have enough appreciation for how asymmetrical the dynamic is: in which tech startups, not corporate R&D labs, crea
Google-parent Alphabet’s fourth-quarter advertising revenue fell below Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, as high interest rates pressure marketing budgets, sending its shares down 4% in extended trading.
Alphabet has been seeing tough competition for ad budgets, amid mixed economic signals in the United States, from other online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Amazon.
The company recorded ad revenue of $65.52 billion in the fourth quarter, comp
Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as new AI features helped attract customers to its cloud and Windows services.
Microsoft shares fell 1% in after-hours trading. They climbed 57% last year. Along with a rally in other tech stocks, including Alphabet and Nvidia, Microsoft helped fuel a 24% surge in the S&P 500 in 2023.
Revenue grew 18% to $62 billion in the quarter ended December 31, compared with the average analyst estimate of $61
As a 21-year-old college senior, Zamaan Qureshi is part of a generation that grew up with social media. Like so many of his peers, Qureshi has spent hours staring at social media platforms designed to feed users an endless stream of algorithm-fueled content—some of it potentially harmful—in a bid to retain their attention for as long as possible.
“Whether it’s unwanted sexual advances, endless scrolling, or harmful nudges that are keeping you on a platfor
In the early days of the pandemic, as courts across the country shut down and people awaiting trial for criminal charges languished in jail, Iman Freeman got a phone call from a local attorney that stunned her.
At the time, Freeman’s nonprofit, the Baltimore Action Legal Team or BALT, was running a bail fund for people in the city who couldn’t afford to post bail on their own. But the attorney didn’t need help bailing his client out of jail. Instead, he told Fre
The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well, the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk said.
“Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Musk said in a post on the social media platform X on Monday.
Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institute of Health describes as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the
Face recognition technologies help identify and apprehend criminal suspects, enhance airport security, and streamline entrances to workplaces. As such, they’re some of the most useful and promising video surveillance applications available today.
The technology will become even more widespread as advancements in cloud computing and AI continue to enhance its accuracy and usability.
Despite its advantages, privacy concerns inevitably surround face recognition technol
If you ever installed a new app on your streaming device or smart TV, you may have run into this: Entering email addresses and passwords with your TV remote can be painful—especially for those secure passwords with lots of capital letters, numbers, and special characters.
App publishers know this as well, and many of them have been looking for easier ways to authenticate their users. One approach, known as rendezvous linking, asks people to visit the publisher’s websit
George Carlin’s comedy was both ahead of its time and timeless. Why else would we keep hearing about it more than 15 years after his death in 2008, at age 71?
The pantheon-level comic’s political philosophy, as expressed in a 2005 special, fueled a viral anti-Trump ad during the 2020 election. His material on abortion, from 1996, made the rounds a couple summers ago, after the Dobbs decision imperiled Americans’ right to choose. Now, Carlin’s words are sh
We’ve been here many times before: a new technology paradigm shift happens and brings on an urgency to familiarize ourselves with the skills necessary to not only be knowledgeable but proficient. It also divides people into two categories: those who embrace the new technology, and those who get left behind. Past technology innovations like mobile and the web happened over many years and most people were able to adapt to change, modernize their skills, and adjust to new patterns and eve