The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre.

A lot people think Google searches are getting worse.

A daughter was finally reunited with her mother’s ashes after they were lost in the mail last year.

A Jacksonville woman said she was left heartbroken after the United States Postal Service (USPS) never delivered her mother’s ashes. Now she wants answers and closure.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing.

Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.

Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet.

Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence.

A Walmart employee who survived the mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company.

A witness says that the Walmart supervisor who shot and killed six coworkers in Virginia seemed to target people and shot some victims after they were already hit and appeared to be dead.

Authorities investigating the fatal shootings of six people at a Walmart said that the shooter bought the gun just hours before and left a note on his phone listing grievances against coworkers.

Microsoft Corp. blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine briefly not showing image results for the search term “tank man” on the anniversary of the bloody military crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

China’s internet watchdog has said it found Bytedance’s Douyin, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and 102 other apps were engaged in improper data collection and usage.

Microsoft says it supports Australia's plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)CANBERRA – Microsoft said on Wednesday it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. Morrison this week confirmed he had spoken to Nadella about Bing replacing Google in Australia. There are no plans to make smaller search engines such as Bing pay for linking users to Australian news, but the government has not ruled that option out. AdBut Google is resisting the Australian plan because it would have less control over how much it would have to pay.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Nearly two weeks after four teenagers escaped after staging a fight at a Juvenile Justice detention center on Jacksonville's Northside, the last of the escapees was recaptured in Avon Park, south of Orlando. The three other inmates who escaped in Jacksonville, Davionne Baldwin, Tyjuan Monroe and Marcus Ledbetter were all located within 24 hours. Baldwin, 17, was arrested for escape and battery on detention facility staff. Ledbetter, 17, was charged with burglary, escape and battery on a detention facility staff. At this time, admissions to the Jacksonville Youth Academy program, have been suspended.

Investigators said Tajah Bing, 16, and three other inmates escaped from the Jacksonville Youth Academy on Saturday night. When staff members responded, the four attacked, fighting employees of the facility in the control room. Investigators believe the four took off in a staff member's personal vehicle. The report also said a staff member's purse was emptied of its belongings. The Department of Juvenile Justice said it's investigating, and if it discovers failures of policies and procedures, it said it will take action as necessary.

Anti-virus software McAfee conducted a study to determine the number of risky websites searched on Google, Bing and Yahoo that included a celebrity name. Here's the top 10 for 2019. Hide Caption

While we may not all be getting our recommended eight hours of sleep each night, there are some cities that get more than others. Click on to see which major American cities are getting the most sleep, according to data culled by Bing. With many Americans using technology such as smartphones and tablets shortly before going to sleep and first thing in the morning, the search engine was able to estimate bedtimes and waking times for the 25 largest markets in the country. Hide Caption