Variety

‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Review: It’s SpongeBob on a Pirate Adventure, but With Most of the Joy Squeezed Out

In this overly mild outing, you can feel SpongeBob sliding into the zone of a harebrained yet rote elder statesman of high-energy juvenilia. In “Search for SquarePants,” our cheerfully oblivious hero ...
Rolling Stone

Feuds, Fame, and Father Figures: Key Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Taylor Swift’s anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl is finally here — and it’s a glittering spectacle, filled with a cast of characters that includes close friends, rumored foes, and her ...
The New York Times

The Message for Big Tech in the Google Ruling: Play Nice, but Play On

A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has covered Big ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Wizard of Oz’ at Las Vegas’ Sphere feels more like a ride than a movie (with Disneyland-level pricing)

“The Wizard of Oz” is certainly the right movie to face the great and powerful ambitions of Sphere, the most expensive entertainment venue in Las Vegas history. Since 1939, the treasured classic has ...
Wired

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. United States Custom and ...
Forbes

Google Celebrates Taylor Swift With ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Search Page Easter Egg

If you Google “Taylor Swift,” you’re in for a showgirl-themed surprise this week. Swift announced the coming of her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Tuesday. A day later, she talked about the ...
collider

10 Biggest 'House of the Dragon' Dragons, Ranked by Size

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...
TechCrunch

Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine

With search today so full of AI slop and sites spamming SEO tricks, it’s not unusual for people to append “reddit” to their queries in hopes of finding useful answers to their questions. Google has ...
Search Engine Land

AI search is booming, but SEO is still not dead

AI search tools are on the rise, but SEO fundamentals remain critical. Learn how the two intersect and what it means for your strategy. The explosive rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has ...
The Economist

To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model

This week Hollywood released details of a new film about Sam Altman and the rise of OpenAI, whose launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 has brought high drama to the tech world. One of the most important ...
Carscoops

Mercedes Gave Its New EV A Grille Inspired By A 1960s Muscle Monster

We’re only two months out from the electric GLC’s debut at the Munich Auto Show and Mercedes is on the teaser offensive. As he did with the CLA and electric G-Class, CEO Ola Källenius has taken a ...