In Brief: Startpage search engine launches the Starpage Privacy Protection browser extension as free download for Chrome and Firefox
The browser automatically blocks first- and third-party trackers.
The browser automatically blocks first- and third-party trackers.
Google commits to improve enforcement of its age-based ad policy after Reuters found ads for sex toys and liquor among postings on its search engine that kids could see.
Do you miss those innocent days when every product announcement breathlessly reported the new system or feature was “AI-based”? If so, here’s a whiff of remembrance from AI infrastructure provider SambaNova Systems, who found that 78% of large companies rate AI and Machine Learning as important revenue drivers. Yet even they have a curiously mixed attitude, citing (in their press release) a NewVantage Partners study that found only a quarter of top companies have scaled AI/ML across their organization.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.