Google Research published a study showing that modifying its Maps routing algorithm to reroute a small share of trips away from congested segments improved median driving speeds by about 2% and reduce…
The Answer Citation Protocol (ACP) is a proposed web standard that delivers content in two layers—visual summaries and structured JSON-LD data—to optimize AI retrieval by reducing token waste and infe…
Google quietly updated its privacy settings in June to automatically opt all search users into allowing the company to store uploaded media—including photos, audio, and video—for training its AI model…
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
Google's Gemini voice assistant on Android Auto continues to speak after users complete touchscreen interactions, a persistent bug that has gone unfixed for months. The issue frustrates drivers who mu…
Google offers lesser-known account settings that users can adjust to enhance privacy and convenience, including setting home and work addresses, editing public profile information, and designating rec…
Apify partnered with Coinbase to enable autonomous AI agents to pay for and run its web automation Actors via the x402 payment protocol, eliminating the need for human intervention in service payments…
In a 2016 analysis, the author argues that autonomous reinforcement-learning AIs (Agent AIs) will inevitably surpass purely computational AIs (Tool AIs) in both intelligence and economic value, making…
A new open-source Playwright CLI tool called 'brow' achieves 82% task success at approximately $0.22 per task, outperforming browser-use, playwright-mcp, and agent-browser on 22 benchmark tasks. The t…
Researchers accidentally discovered that ordinary CMOS transistors can function as artificial neurons and synapses, potentially enabling neuromorphic computing that is vastly more energy-efficient tha…
A forward-deployed engineer explains that their role is to manufacture customer-product alignment by deeply understanding customers and ensuring they feel understood, then propagating behavior change …
Google is expanding data collection from its services—including Search, Maps, Translate, and Photos—to train its Gemini AI models, with most users unaware of the practice. The company is rolling out a…
A developer open-sourced the Food Freedom Map, a pin-drop map built on Nostr that allows any store, farmer, or restaurant to list themselves and their catalog without paying for placement. The project…
A developer built K-Map Router, a tool that converts Google Maps links into Naver Map or KakaoMap deep links for use in South Korea, where Google Maps lacks walking and transit directions due to map-d…
Google announced at I/O that the Geospatial API is now available as a preview in ARCore for Jetpack XR, enabling sub-meter accurate anchoring of digital content to the physical world. The company demo…
A DevOps engineer explains AI, Machine Learning, and MLOps concepts for infrastructure professionals. The article contrasts traditional programming with ML, where models learn rules from data instead …
OpenAI's ChatGPT surpassed 1 billion global monthly active users in May, roughly three years after launch, making it the fastest app in history to reach the milestone, according to Sensor Tower estima…
A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in downtown Seattle, developed by the Tech Equity Coalition and ACLU of Washington, guides participants to identify hidden surveillance technologies such …
A developer built GMapsScraper AI, a tool that extracts business data from Google Maps at scale for lead generation. The system uses rotating proxies, randomized delays, and browser fingerprint rotati…
A new tool called Localpicks.ai claims that 98.8% of local businesses are invisible when customers ask ChatGPT for recommendations. The service offers a free 30-second audit that checks a business's v…