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ChatGPT adds shopping help, intensifying Google rivalry
AFP, Published on 29/04/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO - OpenAI announced Monday that ChatGPT is now helping users find products online, enhancing its challenge to Google amid regulatory pressure on the search giant's market dominance.
US urges curb of Google's search dominance as AI looms
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - US government attorneys urged a federal judge Monday to make Google spin off its Chrome browser, arguing artificial intelligence is poised to ramp up the tech giant's online search dominance.
RIP Internet Explorer: South Korean engineer's browser 'grave' goes viral
AFP, Published on 17/06/2022
» SEOUL - A South Korean engineer who built a grave for Internet Explorer -- photos of which quickly went viral -- told AFP Friday that the now-defunct web browser had made his life a misery.
EU negotiators agree landmark law to curb Big Tech
AFP, Published on 25/03/2022
» BRUSSELS - Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states agreed Thursday on a landmark law to curb the market dominance of US big tech giants such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple.
Benghazi bikers rev up to show another side of Libya
AFP, Published on 15/05/2021
» BENGHAZI (LIBYA) - Bikers of Libya's Mediterranean city of Benghazi, the cradle of its 2011 revolution and a one-time Islamist bastion, rev up their motors to show another side to their war-scarred country.
US senators press online giants over user data
AFP, Published on 03/04/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: A bipartisan group of US senators on Friday sent letters to major digital ad exchanges, including Google and Twitter, asking whether user data was sold to foreign entities who could use it for blackmail or other malicious ends.
Showtime for Stadia cloud gaming service
AFP, Published on 19/11/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO - Google sets out to transform the video game world with its Stadia service crafted to let people access console-quality games as easily as they do email.
Google teams with Ubisoft to test video game streaming
AFP, Published on 02/10/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Monday announced that it will test a video game streaming platform with the release of "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" by Ubisoft this week.
Fraud risk looms over Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe election
AFP, Published on 28/07/2018
» HARARE - Zimbabwe goes to the polls on Monday in its first election since authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations mounting of voter fraud and predictions of a disputed result.