Category Archives: Business

Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules

The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.

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How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads.

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The One Part of Apple Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature.

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Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” cable lobby says.

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ChatGPT’s Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

With AI projects booming and the physical limits of silicon looming, some startups are challenging Nvidia’s dominance and say it’s time to reinvent the computer chip entirely.

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Apple Turned Its Epic Defeat Into Another App Store Victory

Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business.

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An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.

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Google Circle to Search and AI-Powered Multi-Search Coming to Mobile

Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.

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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise

Idaho’s capital city is seeing an influx of young people as they apply for tech jobs away from big coastal cities amid massive layoffs and a disillusion with Big Tech.

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How to Launch a Custom Chatbot on OpenAI’s GPT Store

You can now publish a bespoke version of ChatGPT that you’ve trained yourself. The marketplace for these custom GPTs is open to the public and works in a way that’s similar to Apple’s App Store.

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