smartphones

The Eiffel Tower is 330 meters tall, and the nearest pizza parlor is 1.3 miles from my house. These facts were astoundingly easy to ascertain. All I had to do was type some words into Google, and I didn’t even have to spell them right.For…

Before Orkut launched in January 2004, Büyükkökten warned the team that the platform he’d built it on could handle only 200,000 users. It wouldn't be able to scale. “They said, let's just launch and see what happens,” he explains. The rest…

Disclosure of ads has been an issue on Copilot as well. Though Microsoft says it labels all ads, Marcus Pratt, senior vice president for insights and technology at the ad-buying agency Mediasmith, says he’s encountered at least two searches…

This trend bears out in secondary market data: Shipments of used smartphones increased nearly 10 percent, to 309.4 million shipments, in 2023, up from 282.6 million units the year prior, according to research firm IDC. For a lot of people,…

The first notable feature is Help Me Write, which works in any text box. Select text in any text box and right-click—you'll see a box next to the standard right-click context menu. You can ask Google's AI to rewrite the selected text,…

Social media firms should be forced almost immediately to stop children seeing harmful content, voters have demanded.A Mirror poll has revealed the public want rapid action to prevent algorithms bombarding kids with material relating to…

Children under 16 should be banned from having smartphones and going on social media, MPs have suggested.The Commons Education Committee has warned the next government must introduce stronger guidance and controls to curb kids’ time online.…

Nearly a decade ago, Google showed off a feature called Now on Tap in Android Marshmallow—tap and hold the home button and Google will surface helpful contextual information related to what’s on the screen. Talking about a movie with a…

With children continuing to be put at risk of harm and abuse online, campaigners, parents and politicians are rightly demanding more.We must listen to children themselves. Their voices have been glaringly absent from the debate about how to…

Teenagers should not be punished with smartphone and social media bans because of the failings of tech firms, the NSPCC has warned. The charity’s chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said children’s voices have been “glaringly absent” from…