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Kerry Wan/ZDNETWelcome to ZDNET’s Innovation Index, which identifies the most innovative developments in tech from the past week and ranks the top four, based on votes from our panel of editors and experts. Our mission is to help you identify the trends that will have the biggest impact on the future.Not really an innovation, per se, but: our top spot this week goes to Google, which has been found in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act for monopolizing search by a US District Court judge. Of course, the company has already announced it plans to appeal the decision. In the interim, the ruling won’t really affect the search giant’s position (or how users browse the web). And as ZDNET contributor Steven Vaughan-Nichols points out, if we use US versus Microsoft as a reference, it’s unlikely Google will be hit that hard by the decision anyway. At the same time, however, search is evolving — OpenAI has finally revealed SearchGPT, if preliminarily, and other AI-powered engines are springing up all over the place. Especially after the company’s AI Overview feature flopped, Google’s future may not be as secure as it might think.  More

John Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates to your Windows 10 PC unless you’re willing to pay an exorbitant price to join the Extended Security Updates program.  If you try to upgrade to Windows 11 on a PC over a few years old, you’ll be told, in […] More

June Wan/ZDNETiPhones have a lot of built-in mechanisms to help prevent you from damaging the device or even just the battery. For example, your iPhone will stop charging if it’s too hot or if it detects water in the charging port.Also: How to transfer data from Android to an iPhoneHere’s the message displayed when you try to charge an iPhone when there is moisture in the charging port: More

Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images Verizon reports that accidental cuts from third-party companies or homeowners doing construction damage thousands of the company’s fiber internet lines. Verizon techs can resolve some of these incidents in as little as a few hours, but some issues can last as long as several days.  In both instances, the resulting internet […] More

Image: Garmin Regular readers know I love my Garmin watches: I always have a Garmin on one wrist with the latest smartwatch on the other. For years I have been visiting the Garmin Connect IQ Store on my watches and phones to find apps like Starbucks, loads of free watch faces, and full-featured data fields […] More

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VIEW press/Getty Images The AI drive-thru revolution strikes again — and this time it’s bilingual. Just a week after Taco Bell announced plans to roll out AI order-taking in drive-thrus at hundreds of its restaurants across the US, Wendy’s is bringing Spanish AI order-taking to 28 drive-thru locations in Florida and Ohio. Also: AI will […] More

Maria Diaz Anytime you create a new email account using Google, you get 15GB of storage, which is generous for coming with no price tag. But that 15GB can fill up quickly, especially because that chunk of data storage includes any videos and pictures you download to Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox […] More