17 February 2023
Moves by Google, Microsoft and Baidu to bring AI chatbots into their search engines may bring big advantages, but they could also damage many industries and change the very way we interact with the web
7 February 2023
Google Bard and Baidu's Ernie Bot are set to go head-to-head with OpenAI's ChatGPT as tech giants race to combine AI chatbots with search engines
25 January 2023
A new US government lawsuit alleges that Google has harmed innovation and raised costs for internet users by attempting to monopolise the digital advertising industry
27 January 2022
Google has a new plan to replace cookies, the files that track us when we browse the internet, but it is controversial with advertisers and privacy campaigners
20 July 2021
Spyware sold for use in anti-terror investigations is reportedly being misused by governments to watch journalists and politicians – Silicon Valley firms are battling to end it
11 December 2019
Our increased reliance on the internet and smart tech means we are watched more than ever before. Is that something to fight – or is our concept of privacy just outdated?
13 November 2019
Dan Russell studies our Google search patterns and tries to understand how we think about knowledge. He reveals a search tip 90 per cent of users don't know
30 October 2019
The claim that a quantum computer has done something a classical machine can't has generated plenty of excitement, but true quantum computing will take time to appear
25 April 2018
Russia has unintentionally knocked out several major cloud services in ongoing efforts to cut access to secure messaging app Telegram
7 February 2018
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google’s success relies on our attention – here are the key innovations that ensured they kept us grabbed by the eyeballs
