After struggling for years to wring profit from the mobile boom, Google is benefiting from a surge in clicks on ads on smartphones. Capitalising on consumers’ shift toward handsets and away from
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A surge in after-hours trading for Amazon.com added US$3,3bn to the fortune of Jeff Bezos, putting him less than $5bn away from becoming the world’s richest person. Bezos saw his fortune surpass $80bn for the first time
Larry Page has his flying cars. Sergey Brin shall have an airship. Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside Hangar 2 at the Nasa Ames Research Centre, according to four people
After almost a decade of research, Google’s autonomous car project is close to becoming a real service. Now known as Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car unit is letting residents of Phoenix in the US sign up to use its
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his strategy for augmented reality on Tuesday, saying the social network will use smartphone cameras to overlay virtual items on the real world rather than waiting for AR glasses to be technically possible. People will
It’s time for the humans to have another Go. An artificial intelligence program romped to a lopsided victory over South Korean Go master Lee Sedol in 2016. Now, Google DeepMind’s AI software is heading to the
First fact-checking came to Facebook. Now it’s coming to Google. The world’s largest search engine is rolling out a new feature that places “Fact Check” tags on snippets of articles in its News results. The company had already run limited tests. On Friday, it extended the
Last week, Montblanc became the first brand in the Richemont family of luxury companies to put out a smartwatch. The Montblanc Summit, based on Google’s Android Wear 2 platform, aims to
Google’s advertising crisis went global after some of the biggest marketers including AT&T and Johnson & Johnson halted spending on YouTube and the Internet company’s display network, citing concern their ads
Research on the so-called productivity paradox – declining productivity despite the ongoing technological revolution – abounds in explanations ranging from statistical error to theories