This article features an interview with Nick Foster, former Head of Design for Google X. Foster will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amsterdam. If you want to exper...
Following up on Google's rollout of passkey support for consumer Google accounts in May, Google has now extended password-less login to Google Workspace business accounts. Google calls the Workspace r...
Blockchain is frequently derided as a solution in search of a problem. But buried beneath the crypto scams and Web3 utopianism hide some intriguing use cases.Some of the most powerful applications are...
Instacart is adding generative AI to its search experience. Called Ask Instacart, the new search feature is designed to help answer shoppers' grocery-related questions and give a boost to sponsored pr...
Plant-based foods can have a lot of health benefits--but one that may be overlooked is that they can help squash outbreaks.Such was the case in a small Salmonella outbreak from late 2020 to early 2021...
In 2020, Ars tested the then-new Cadillac Escalade. The big SUV is Cadillac's best-seller, and while we might not have enjoyed the way it drove, or its thirst, it did feature some interesting driver a...
Last September, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella identified an issue that was eating away at managers: productivity paranoia.This was on the back of Microsoft research spanning 20,000 people across 11 coun...
Goodbye Merchant Center, hello Merchant Center Next.Today at Google Marketing Live, Google officially unveiled a new, simplified version of Merchant Center, called Merchant Center Next. More than just...
That Google I/O show sure was something, wasn't it? It was a rip-roaring two hours of nonstop AI talk without a break. Bard, Palm, Duet, Unicorn, Gecko, Gemini, Tailwind, Oter--there were so many cryp...
Hanging on to your favorite wireless mouse just got a little easier thanks to a new partnership between Logitech and DIY repair specialists iFixit. The two companies are working together to reduce unn...
On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already use...
For daily productivity, work, web browsing, and entertainment, eReaders can't compete with the crisp colors and high refresh rates of LCD displays. LCDs (and increasingly OLEDs) have and will be cente...
A panel of independent medical experts for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in favor of allowing the hormonal birth control pill Opill (norgestrel) to be sold over the c...
The concept of affiliate marketing involves advertising and promoting other people's products or services and receiving a commission for each sale. The key is to build a website that can be an authori...
Germany's Infineon has broken ground on its new EUR5bn semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dresden, less than six months since announcing the project. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony yesterda...
As of today, thousands of Hollywood television and movie writers are going on strike for the first time in 15 years. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted unanimously to strike on Tuesday after con...
Whether you've sailed through Q1 and early Q2 with optimism intact or battling challenges exacerbated by macro turbulence, there's plenty of opportunity to stretch yourself and find competitive gains ...
IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna has revealed plans to pause hiring for about 7,800 positions that could be replaced by artificial intelligence systems over time, according to a Bloomberg ne...
Barcelona's food tech startup Heura has unveiled its new patent-pending technology aimed at producing meat substitutes without the lengthy and sometimes off-putting ingredients list. The company says ...
The ongoing collapse of Twitter has lots of folks wondering when an all-consuming new social app will rise up to take its place. This week, I want to talk about how things are going at one such upstar...