I long thought of Mozilla Firefox as a good, mainstream, privacy-focused alternative to Google Chrome. I used it for quite some time, until the Google ecosystem became too all-encompassing to ignore.

Chrome dominates the browser market with extenstive site compatibility and a wealth of built-in AI features, but Firefox offers strong privacy protections and other compelling advantages. Here's how ...

Perplexity will pay Snap $400M to power AI search inside Snapchat, bringing conversational search to millions of users and ...

The Start button finally has a voice. Microsoft began rolling out a megawatt upgrade across Windows 11 machines, not just pricey Copilot+ PCs. Say "Hey Copilot," and the assistant wakes up to read ...

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Following a limited test earlier this year, Mozilla is now adding Perplexity AI as a default search engine option. Here’s how it works. In a new blog post, Mozilla confirmed the broader rollout of ...

Google Ads will change how automatically created customer conversion goals are set as account-default starting Nov. 17, aiming to reduce wasted spend from campaigns optimizing toward irrelevant goals.

WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature on iPhone that lets you set reminder alerts for specific messages that you want to come back to later. Available in version 25.25.74 of WhatsApp, the feature ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong ...

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