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China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
China has launched the first 12 satellites of a planned 2,800-strong orbital supercomputer satellite network, reports Space News. The satellites, created by the company ADA Space, Zhijiang Laboratory, and Neijang High-Tech Zone, will be able to process the data they collect themselves, rather than relying on terrestrial stations to do it for them, according to ADA Space’s announcement (machine-translated). The…
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Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI
Near the beginning of his opening arguments, David Dahlquist, a lawyer for the US Department of Justice, showed a slide that he described as Google’s “vicious cycle.” It goes like this: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search engine practically everywhere, thus it gets more search queries, thus it gets better data, thus it is able to…
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Google begins unifying search country domains to Google.com
Google has announced that it’s retiring separate country code top-level domain names for search, like google.co.uk or google.com.br, and unifying them under Google.com. Previously, Google used to have separate country-code domains (like google.ng or google.com.br) so people could get results that were more relevant to their local area. Over time, however, Google improved how it figures out where someone is…
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Third time lucky? Microsoft finally begins roll-out of controversial Recall feature
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 to the Release Preview Channel, including the Recall AI feature that’s caused so much controversy. The updated tool will initially be available to members of the Windows Insider program, and aims to counter the concerns over user privacy that have plagued the solution for months. It was first scheduled for launch alongside Copilot+…
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Microsoft Edge begins testing Copilot Vision
Microsoft Edge Canary has been updated with an interesting feature called Copilot Vision, but it’s still in testing. The current implementation of Copilot in Microsoft Edge is quite helpful as it allows you to quickly send content to the Copilot sidebar, but it still has certain limitations. For example, it’s not good at understanding what you’re doing on a webpage…
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Is Google a monopoly? US DoJ begins second antitrust trial, this time targeting ad tech – Computerworld
A previous US antitrust lawsuit targeted Google’s search business, with an 8-month-long trial ending in defeat for the company. In August, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the tech giant had engaged in anticompetitive behavior to protect its dominance, saying, “Google is a monopolist, and has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” The penalties resulting from the ruling are as…
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iPhone 16 mass production begins, and it’s packing a new display — here’s what we know
Apple has reportedly begun mass production on the iPhone 16 lineup which bodes well for the rumored mid-September release date. A recent supply chain report, picked up by Apple Insider, claims that while Apple’s production cycle started in June the mass manufacturing phase is now in place. This dovetails with a separate post from ET News claiming both Samsung and…
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