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Around 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas lies Area 51, the classified military base where new aerospace technology is tested and—depending on your appetite for conspiracy theories—a high-tech facility where extraterrestrials chill on ice as their crashed craft are reverse engineered. — Read the rest T...

Imagine trying to crack a language where every "word" is a complex pattern of clicks, whistles, and burst pulses. That's what Google's DolphinGemma AI model is tackling, running on waterproofed Pixel phones in the waters of the Bahamas. The system, announced on Google's blog, makes use of 38 years o...

Turns out grifting is harder when an entire country can Google your name. TMZ reports that Fyre Festival 2 —the sequel nobody asked for — just got bounced from its second Mexican location like a tourist trying to pay with Trump meme coins. — Read the rest The post Fyre festival scam artist is having...

Malwarebytes announced they're done with April Fools' pranks because we have enough fake crap on the internet already. The cybersecurity company points out that between AI-generated fakery, Google ad scams, and fraudsters using synthesized voices of loved ones to con families, we're already drowning...

A 21-year-old Columbia University student has turned interview cheating into a lucrative business. Chungin "Roy" Lee's company, Interview Coder, helps software engineers use AI to ace technical interviews at companies like Google and Amazon — all while remaining undetectable to interviewers. — Read ...

Trump sent his favorite failed-hillbilly-turned-professional-bootlicker JD Vance to yip and snap at the United States' former allies by dismissing the United Kingdom as "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years." Once again, our chubby cheeked VP revealed himself to be the real-life ...

If only Google had followed Jewish dietary laws regarding butchering search. These AI results are precisely the reason no one wants AI search summaries. They do raise the question of what religion the cows that Google believes Jewish people are allowed to eat are. — Read the rest The post Google on ...

While Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Bing have all caved and renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Mapquest has held fast, along with the Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica. Now, the OG online map service lets you rename the Gulf of Mexico anything you want with "Name Your Own G...

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This freaky black spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was spotted on Google Earth. Located in the South Pacific about 4,000 miles from Australia, it's just .1 square miles in size. What is it though? Armchair anomaly investigators suggest everything from a spacetime distortion to a secret passag...

This strange white object is visible on Google Earth, located in west-central New Mexico's remote mountain wilderness region of Sierra Ladrones. Some online, er, analysts have determined that it's a crashed UFO. However, others looked at historical aerial photographs dating back to the 1970s and not...

With Google and Apple renaming The Gulf of Mexico "The Gulf of America" in their mapping services to honor Donald Trump's whimsical executive order, anticipatory compliance seems to be corporate America's favored coping strategy for his second administration. But not all are following suit. — Read t...

BBC reports that Google had to scramble to fix its big Super Bowl advertising campaign for the company's Gemini AI tool. To show off the capabilities of the tool, Google used the Gemini AI to produce hyper-localized commercials highlighting each of the 50 US states. — Read the rest The post Google's...

When you log into your bank's website, you might be presented with an image showing distorted numbers and letters and asked to enter them into a field to prove you're human. These tests, called CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), are commonly used o...

This astonishing extraterrestrial face was spotted in a Google Earth satellite image of Antarctica. Visit 72°00'36.0"S, 168°34'40.0"E and pledge your allegiance to the Cosmic Rulers of Pareidolia. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! As one r/StrangeEarth commenter points out,...

One-half of the legendary YouTube musical act Garfunkle and Oates, actress Riki Lindhome wants her kid to be a little more mature before they discover her Reels. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Bonus: Previously: • Happy (early) 4/20 day: 'Weed Card' by Garfunkel and Oate...

Reddit can be an excellent source for answers, but the site's internal search is notoriously unhelpful. Users often go to Google and search for the "search term Reddit" instead. Bleeping Computer reports that hackers are exploiting this with hundreds of fake Reddit and file-sharing pages. — Read the...

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Futurism is declaring this onset of "Slopaggeddon," search rapidly becoming dominated by AI slop that doesn't answer our questions. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! AI slop and SEO have come together to ruin the credibility of Google Search. — Read the rest The post Google...

A single "yes" click on a Google prompt cost two cryptocurrency investors millions after falling victim to sophisticated phone scammers impersonating Google support, reports Brian Krebs on KrebsOnSecurity. Adam Griffin, a Seattle-area firefighter, lost $450,000 from his Exodus wallet after receiving...

Scotty Allen, a former Google engineer, successfully machined an entire iPhone housing from a solid block of aluminum — a feat that took 11 month accomplish. "This is the start of a revolution," explains Allen on his Strange Parts website. "Owning our phones shouldn't just mean being able to hold th...

Google had to shut down reviews for a McDonald's in Pennsylvania after a "rat" in the kitchen "snitched" on the New York City shooting suspect who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. After five days on the run, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was taking a deserved break at McDonald's Altoona loca...

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Google claims that "Willow", its quantum computing chip, cracks a key challenge in the experimental field. It solves, within minutes, a computing problem that standard processors cannot complete in any reasonable timeframe. — Read the rest ...

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TL;DR: Get durability, fast Wi-Fi, and Google Assistant in a compact refurbished Chromebook—check out now to grab it for just $69.97 (reg. $229) during Cyber Week. For $70, it's hard to say no to this deal—even if you don't need another laptop. — Read the rest The post A laptop for less than your ne...

Blackthorne won: Shōgun was the most-watched TV show in the last year according to Google's stats, drawn from viewership of the company's own TV service. Fallout and House of the Dragon were also big hits. Road House was the most-watched movie, with Downfall of Diddy a surprise second place. — Read ...

TL;DR: If you need a computer that can keep up, this Lenovo IdeaPad 5i with 16GB RAM is just $579.99 (reg. $1,069). I'm the type of person who has, at any given moment, at least 20 Google Chrome tabs open. Don't judge me—each one is important, okay? — Read the rest The post This powerful Lenovo lapt...

A federal judge ruled Monday that Google has no obligation to refund victims of scammers who trick them into buying Google Play gift cards. It is entitled to keep the fees and profit from the scams, too. Win-Win! The lawsuit was filed by Judy May, who lost $1,000 in 2021 when scammers tricked her in...

One of the unchallengeable rules of business is that it is impossible to abstain from doing it in foreign markets where local conditions require your company to compromise on its ethical standards. This is seen clearly in tech because of the low costs of establishing service in foreign markets: it c...

TL;DR: Ditch your tablet-sized smartphone for this ultra-mini smartphone that's the size of a credit card, now less than $95! For some reason, it seems like every time Apple or Google reveal their latest smartphones, they only get bigger and bigger. — Read the rest The post Tired of the tablet-sized...

This video is posted as Adam Savage’s “rant on laser printers” but it’s really about how dreadful Google’s search engine is nowadays. He hopped online to research his …

Blob Opera is a new Google AI experiment that uses machine learning to help you compose what’s essentially a Barbershop Quartet of pseudo Minion-like cartoons. You don’t need any musica…

When you search for “Palantir” on Google, the search engine prompts with a few people related search options. The Top 2 being: “What does Palantir do?” and “Why is Pal…

Latest update blurs ads vs. search results line

Scott Budnick (producer of the “Hangover” movies) is embroiled in a complicated feud with an LA homicide cop named Sgt. Richard Biddle; Biddle has pursued his investigation against Budn…

Google denies claim of illegal and retaliatory firing

How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control

After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations

Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid