Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion
Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion Downdetector and Speedtest – the free platforms that allow people on the web to quickly check internet speeds or see if an online platform may be down – will soon have a new owner. On Tuesday, the consulting and IT services provider Accenture announced that it […]
Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media
Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later this March. (Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.) The deal hasn’t yet been publicly announced, but […]
Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search
Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search Yahoo’s big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company’s roots. Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as “Jerry’s guide to the world wide web,” and was designed as a sort of all-encompassing portal to help people find good stuff […]
Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
Google won't stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI This headline is false, and it’s not PCMag’s fault — Google planted this atop its story (and others). In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content […]
Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors
Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors It’s been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it’s come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 […]
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results 'at an astonishing scale' Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google’s search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using “deceptive means” to automatically access and take Google’s search results […]
Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway
Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative AI boom had tons of impact on all sorts of companies, it immediately upended everything […]
A new old idea about video stores
A new old idea about video stores Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 109, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying warm, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Google Maps […]
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
'Jmail' is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein's emails The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender and the people around him, like former Harvard president and OpenAI […]
The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon
The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon Let’s talk about AI and what I’ve been calling the “DoorDash problem.” This is about to define the next battle in AI, and it might completely transform not only how you order a sandwich — but also how the entire internet economy works […]