Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

This much is known: “Walk My Walk,” a song by an artist called Breaking Rust, entered its second week Wednesday as the top song on Billboard’s country music digital sales chart. After that, everything ...

Look, I get it. Every time a new search technology appears, we try to map it to what we already know. I’ve been doing SEO for years. I know how Google works – or at least I thought I did. Then I ...

Sinking their teeth into a single theme for nearly 35 minutes, weaving minimalist jazz with strands of dub and dance music, Joshua Abrams and his bandmates have never sounded more focused—or more ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

Maggie Wachter, a mother of two in Philadelphia, has heard every rinse-and-repeat excuse in the book to skip a bath. Recently, Wachter’s 11-year-old son declared that no shower was necessary after a ...

Deciding which robotic vacuum or mop is right for your home can be hard. You read through all of their features and find that they all kind of offer the same things, with some exceptions, for vastly ...

Google announced a new multi-vector retrieval algorithm called MUVERA that speeds up retrieval and ranking, and improves accuracy. The algorithm can be used for search, recommender systems (like ...

Chart Industries and Flowserve recently agreed to merge in an all-stock deal. The two companies outlined significant revenue and cost synergies. Strangely, both bargain-priced stocks fell after the ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...