A woman wins $3.8 million verdict after SWAT team searches wrong home based on Find My iPhone app

DENVER (AP) — A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.76 million jury verdict under a new Colorado law that allows people to sue police over violations of their state constitutional rights. A jury in state … Read more

Google Chrome packs more searches into the Search Bar

First off, the Google Search box on Chrome will now display suggested queries based on your previous searches before you’ve started typing. In Google’s example, a user who had previously searched for the Korean noodle dish japchae would see images of similar Korean dishes beside the search box under the heading “People also search for.” … Read more

‘Hot Ones’ Sean Evans’ Ex Melissa Stratton’s Pornhub Searches Surge After Split

Sean Evans’ “Hot Ones” crown has been handed over to his ex-girlfriend Melissa Stratton … ’cause searches for the porn star have spiked like crazy following their short-lived romance. Pornhub tells TMZ that while Melissa was dumped on Valentine’s Day, her popularity surged online … with those looking for some X-rated entertainment flocking to the … Read more

NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future

Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton. Today, NASA launched its Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, to unravel their mysteries. The mission’s findings could be a key to understanding how … Read more

Taylor Swift Searches Restored on X After AI-Generated Explicit Images Scandal

Swifties searching for Taylor Swift content on X are back on after a temporary block over the weekend. The pop star’s name was briefly unsearchable on the social media platform amid a scandal involving AI-generated explicit photos.  X reinstated searches for “Taylor Swift” on Monday evening. The ability to search the pop star’s name “has been re-enabled … Read more

X appears to block Taylor Swift searches… barely

X appears to have blocked searches for Taylor Swift as a reaction to a recent trend of graphic AI fakes of the world-famous recording artist being posted to the site. Right now, if you search “Taylor Swift” or “Taylor Swift AI” on X, formerly Twitter, you may see a “Something went wrong” message. After Platformer’s … Read more

Cryptographers Are Getting Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We all know to be careful about the details we share online, but the information we seek can also be revealing. Search for driving directions, and our location becomes far easier to guess. Check for a password in a trove of compromised data, and we … Read more

‘Taylor’ & ‘Travis’ Baby Name Searches Skyrocket as Romance Heats Up

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce might not be anywhere near the baby-making stage of their relationship, but that doesn’t mean others aren’t … and it sounds like folks like their names. A rep for BabyNames.com — one of the premiere destinations for digital baby name sifting online — tells TMZ … it’s them, they’re the … Read more

Google Unveils the 10 Actors With Top Trending Searches in 2023 | 2023 Year in Review, EG, Extended, Google, Slideshow, Year in Searches | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Google has released their 2023 Year in Searches results and we now know which actors have made the top trending searches list for the year! Most of the stars on this list had something major happen in their lives: injuries, illness, criminal charges, allegations, and more. Please note: The data reflects top trending searches, which … Read more

These were the top beauty products of 2023, according to Google searches

A person’s Google search history can tell a lot about them: Their interests, their problems, their darkest secrets. (Come on, you know it’s true.) But when properly curated, the nation’s Google search history can answer life’s biggest question — what to buy friends and family for the holidays. Introducing the Google Holiday 100. The Google … Read more