While Google and Microsoft go head-to-head over Chrome versus Edge and Google Search versus Bing, the much bigger spat is over AI. Google has now taken Gemini to its next level, causing consternation across some users at the difficulties in disabling the features on platforms such as Gmail.

Microsoft has suddenly backtracked after being caught “ tricking ” users, with a homepage designed to look and feel like Google’s own when Windows users searched for Google itself. The head of Chrome accused the Windows-maker of a “new year, new low,” criticizing its “long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice.”

Microsoft is trying out another new tactic to stop people from switching to Google products -- and it's even dodgier than the last one.

Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like popups to get people to ditch Google. Microsoft has even previously had to reverse pop-up ads inside Google Chrome to address “unintended behavior.”

In a blog post Thursday, Microsoft said it’s increasing the price of its Microsoft 365 bundle for consumers by $3 a month.

Microsoft has silently discontinued their faked Google UI, which was used to fool Bing users into thinking they were using

DeepSeek could face hurdles that might stifle its growth, particularly due to China’s data policies and Chinese startups’ history of misleading consumers and at times entire countries about the true n

Google accused Microsoft of attempting to deceive people recently with a Bing interface that looks like the UI of Google. Microsoft appears to have rolled back the interface.

This, to me, makes even more sense. The asterisk on that statement is that it makes sense if the value is there. That is, if Google’s price hikes on each Workspace tier are reasonable, then it’s fine. $20 or $30 per month per user is too much. And, Google’s price hikes are reasonable. So we’re good on that one.

There's a new year upon us, with 2025 capping off a quarter-century of the modern Apple and its definitive role in personal computing innovation. In particular, 2025 marks 25 years of Apple's intuitive experience that turns elements of hardware and software into a magical coherence.

The open source software license of these iterations enabled Google to put its browser together quickly, which is partly why Chrome has an open source variant called Chromium. Oth

The 'violence-obsessed' teenager deleted his internet browsing history minutes before getting a taxi to the Taylor Swift-themed summer club and launching his mass murder bid.