Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

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This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

The big picture: In 2019, Google's Sycamore chip achieved quantum supremacy by solving a random number problem that would have taken the fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. Although that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The calendar says August but the holiday season is top of mind for the Downtown Dayton Partnership as the organization begins its search for the perfect tree to be the centerpiece of the 2025 Dayton ...

AI upstarts were supposed to lay siege to Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, the defense is winning. Google’s ubiquitous search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from the ...

KITSAP COUNTY, Wash. — A man who fell from a tree was rescued Saturday morning after being “stuck in the woods” alone for days, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. Search and rescue teams ...

AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...