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San Francisco: Tech giant Google on Saturday paid tribute to Romanian physicist Stefania Maracineanu on her 140th birth anniversary with an artistic and quirky Doodle. On the Doodle page, the company mentioned that Maracineanu was one of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity. “Today’s Doodle celebrates the Romanian physicist’s 140th Birthday,” […]
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San Francisco: Google has sent an engineer on leave over breaching its confidentiality agreement after he made a claim that the tech giants conversation Artificial intelligence (AI) is “sentient” because it has feelings, emotions and subjective experiences. According to Google, its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) conversation technology can engage in a free-flowing way about […]
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San Francisco: Google has agreed to pay $118 million to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit in the US that includes nearly 15,500 women in 236 job titles. The plaintiffs Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, Kelli Wisuri, and Heidi Lamar worked for Google in California in a “covered position” since September 14, 2013. The class action […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google’s Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi. In 2019, she was able to calculate pi to its 31.4 trillionth digit, and now, using the same Google Cloud y-cruncher programme Iwao was able to find […]
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London: After examining Google and Apple’s “duopoly” for a year, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided that they “hold all the cards” in the mobile phone market. According to Engadget, it is now consulting on the launch of a market investigation into the tech giants’ market power in mobile browsers, as well […]
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New Delhi: With an aim to empower teachers and students, tech giant Google on Wednesday announced that it is sharing new updates to Chromebooks, Google Classroom and Google Meet. For those using the Google Workspace for Education Plus or Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Google said it is adding features focused on increasing interconnectivity, control and […]
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Canberra: An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos. John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks, also known as friendlyjordies, in the Federal Court over the videos. Justice Steven Rares found Barilaro […]
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Hyderabad: A scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google due to the pressure from employees. Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Thenmozhi to speak, resigned over the incident. The talk was scheduled in April as part of the Dalit History Month. The presentation was supposed to […]
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New Delhi: After several companies and brands abused Google Messages’ RCS (Rich Communication Services) feature in India to bombard users with multiple ads without their consent, the tech company has decided to turn off RCS ads functionality in the country. According to The Verge, Google has confirmed to disabled the feature in India. “We are […]
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San Francisco: Google TV app, which aggregates content recommendations from streaming services and lets users create a universal watchlist of their favourites, is now available on iOS. The tech giant said that it will replace the previous Google Play Movies and TV app in the App Store, so if users have already got that installed, they […]
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New Delhi: Google is seeing more and more pressure on journalists and the erosion of press freedom not only in Asia, but globally. According to Irene Jay Liu who leads Google News Lab, part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), despite this, there’s a strong sense of mission and purpose that the work needs to be […]
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San Francisco: A group of US senators have urged the tech giants Apple and Google to prohibit the apps in their app stores from collecting data that could be used to identify women seeking abortions, media reports say. The letter, signed by five Democratic and independent senators, comes in the wake of a leaked draft […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google is working on two built-in snores and cough detection features that will let it detect if users snore or cough in their sleep. The tech giant is reportedly working on these features for Pixel and Android, 9To5Google reported. The tech website spotted lines of code in the installation file of the […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google has reportedly delayed the release of its first foldable smartphone, the so-called Pixel Notepad foldable phone, until 2023. According to SamMobile, following the pushback, the first foldable phone from Google is now reportedly scheduled to hit the market next spring. As per the report, it is too early to tell, and […]
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Hyderabad: Survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault in India, looking for assistance may now have easier access to the helpline number, thanks to a new feature by Google. The Search Giant has reportedly launched a sexual assault and domestic violence helpline on Google Search in collaboration with the AKS Foundation. Search terms such as […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google has reportedly reached an interim agreement with Match Group, the dating app provider behind Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid, that will allow its apps to remain on the Google Play Store while offering alternate payment systems. Earlier this month, Match Group filed a complaint against Google, alleging the company “illegally monopolised […]
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New Delhi: Google has announced to display warning notifications in its Chat application to protect users from hackers and phishing attacks. “In Google Chat, you’ll see banners warning against potential phishing and malware messages coming from users with personal Google Accounts,” the company said in a statement. “These warning banners, which are already available in Gmail […]
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New Delhi: Several companies and brands are reportedly abusing Google Messages’ RCS (Rich Communication Services) feature in India to bombard users with multiple ads, specifically selling personal loans and life insurances, without their consent. Multiple users took to social media platforms that RCS ads in Google Messages appear to be coming from “Verified Business” accounts […]
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San Francisco: With an aim to make it more convenient for braille readers to use the platform, tech giant Google has announced that Android 13 Beta will have native support for braille displays. The company said that it is making it easier for braille readers to use Android. “Available in our next Android 13 Beta […]
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Hyderabad: Google has now banned three applications from the Google Play Store and urged android users to uninstall them on their devices as they can be unsafe. These apps reportedly bring in the Joker malware on android smartphones that are capable of stealing money. The three apps that secretly run the Joker malware on Google […]