Lauren Goode

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Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai still loves the web. He wakes up every morning and reads Techmeme, a news aggregator resplendent with links, accessible only via the web. The web is dynamic and...

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

Apple’s new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset goes on sale tomorrow, and the hype cycle has officially begun. The pricey product, which could be a giant bust or mark the beginning of a...

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

In recent years Google has used the word “helpful” to describe new features added to its search product, its voice assistant, its generative AI tool Bard, even its Pixel earbuds. A keyword-search...

OpenAI’s New App Store Could Turn ChatGPT Into an Everything App

OpenAI is an unconventional company in many ways, but last November it took a leaf from the standard tech industry playbook: It held a developer conference where CEO Sam Altman urged software...

The Fight to Unite iPhone and Android Users Is Far From Over

Is this the way the walled garden ends: not with a bang but a beep? In December, Bay Area upstart Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage—with help from a teen coder—to give Android phones full...

Apple’s Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe

The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to the agency today calling on it to launch an investigation into allegedly...

Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, ‘Go Fuck Yourself’

Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a simple message for those companies, which...

Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence

It’s 8 pm on a recent night this fall, I’m finally unwinding, and Del Harvey is texting me. Again.This time she’s sending a screenshot of tense tweets exchanged between the supreme leader...

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