Best 5G Phones of 2024
Updated Jan. 1, 2024 12:09 a.m. PT Written by Andrew Lanxon Patrick Holland Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement Andrew Lanxon Editor At Large, Lead Photographer, Europe Andrew is CNET’s […]
Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion
The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable-energy deployment. At the heart of the problem are utility companies that refuse to pursue interregional transmission projects, and sometimes even impede them, because new projects threaten their profits […]
Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair
The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them inside Google’s ecosystem—an increase over the 55 percent who did so when the design Google is phasing out in Europe was tested with a smaller pool of roughly 250 people. Yelp also tested a variation […]
How Skims celebrity campaigns won the internet
Before hitting the stage at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, R&B singer Usher graced the cover of Vogue’s 2024 Winter Digital issue. It wasn’t totally obvious, though, that he was meant to be the publication’s guest of honor. The styling is tasteful enough, with Usher dressed in a cream-colored, autumnal outfit like a fashion-forward […]
Palworld hits 25M players as it co-exists with Helldivers 2
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Live service games typically compete with each other for the finite resource that is gamers’ attention. Conventional wisdom in the games industry would have you believe that most gamers only have time […]
Google introduces advanced AI capabilities to advertisers through Gemini integration
Google announced on Thursday its plans to enhance its advertising products with the integration of its Gemini artificial intelligence models, aiming to offer advanced AI capabilities to a broader range of its customers. According to a Reuters report, this move is part of Google’s broader strategy to incorporate generative AI technology, capable of producing text […]
A little US company makes history by landing on the Moon
Enlarge / Odysseus passes over the near side of the Moon following lunar orbit insertion on February 21. Intuitive Machines For the first time in more than half a century, a US-built spacecraft has made a soft landing on the Moon. There was high drama and plenty of intrigue on Thursday evening as Intuitive Machines […]