Venture capital firms are shoveling cash at companies building Web3. Here’s what comes next

Apple and Google’s AI wizardry promises privacy—at a cost

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known as the cloud. Mobile apps sent user data cloudward for useful tasks like transcribing speech or suggesting message replies. Now Apple and Google say smartphones are smart enough to do some […]

Global markets on autopilot as stocks climb, Bitcoin stumbles

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Microsoft backs Australian law forcing Google to pay for news links

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (credit: Microsoft) Google has portrayed itself as a defender of the open Internet as it battles an Australian proposal to force Google and Facebook to pay Australian news organizations to link to their articles. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has argued that the ability to link to […]