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Google says its powerful new chatbot Gemini can supercharge your creativity. But who is really providing the creative spark?

Mark Zuckerberg celebrated Facebook’s birthday with a grilling from senators demanding more protections for children. New laws to regulate social platforms don't seem any closer.

Beloved women’s website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead to churn out AI clickbait. Its fate is a warning to all digital publications.

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

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.

Medical data companies aren’t doing all they can to protect your most private information. When they get hacked and patient data is stolen, it’s the patients who suffer.

Amazon, Discord, Duolingo, and Google all started 2024 with layoffs. But the tech job market isn’t facing the same trouble it did last year.

It's a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.