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Users can also share an app's current state with the same app on another device and start the app on a secondary device without having to keep the app running in background.
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San Francisco: Google-owned wearable brand Fitbit has unveiled its latest-generation fitness wearables — Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2 — that offer several health features, including heart rate, oxygen saturation (SpO2), sleep trends, among others. The company said that Inspire 3 is a fun, easy-to-use tracker that helps users stay on top of their health […]
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New Delhi: Google has admitted that its TV software is slow for users and after hearing their feedback, the company is rolling out some major updates to improve performance and manage storage on both Chromecast with Google TV and other smart TVs. The company said that via CPU optimisations and improvements to cache management, “we’ve […]
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New Delhi: Google has blocked the largest-ever web distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attack on a customer that peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS). This is the largest ‘Layer 7 DDoS’ reported to date — at least 76 per cent larger than the previously reported record, according to the company. “To give a sense of […]
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New Delhi: Google is rolling out new updates to cut low-quality and unoriginal content in Search results, making it easier for people to find helpful content. A search ranking update called the “Helpful Content Update” will start rolling out globally to English language users on August 22. “We know people don’t find content helpful if it […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google has started rolling out Android 13 with many new features, including improved privacy controls, language settings and more, starting with Pixel devices. Google said Android 13 will roll out to Samsung Galaxy, ASUS, HMD (Nokia phones), iQOO, Motorola, OnePlus, OPPO, Realme, Sharp, Sony, Tecno, vivo, Xiaomi and more later this […]
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New Delhi: More than six in 10 people, including in India, think they see false or misleading information on at least a weekly basis, a survey with participation from Google has revealed. Roughly 50 per cent of all Gen X, Millennial and Gen Z respondents (ages 18 to 57) said they’re concerned about their family being […]
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San Francisco: As Big Tech companies begin to lay off employees in the global economic downturn, Google executives have reportedly warned workers to either boost performance or prepare to leave as “there will be blood on the streets” if the next quarterly earnings are not good. In a company message viewed by Insider, Google Cloud sales […]
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New Delhi: Google has announced to expand content advisories to searches where its AI systems don’t have high confidence in the overall quality of the results available for the search. Pandu Nayak, Google Fellow and Vice President, Search, said that this doesn’t mean that no helpful information is available, or that a particular result is low-quality. […]
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San Francisco: Google has received a go-ahead from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the US to keep politician campaign emails from being marked as spam. Google will now allow candidates and political party committees to apply for its programme that would make their messages exempt from Gmail’s spam detection systems, reports The Verge. “I have […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google has introduced a new website — Read Along — to help kids learn to read independently with the help of an animated reading assistant named “Diya”. Read Along has been an Android app so far, which was first released as Bolo in India in 2019 and released globally as Read Along […]
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San Francisco: Google has launched a new campaign to put pressure on Apple to adopt RCS (rich communication services) and improve texting between Android and iOS users. RCS is a next generation SMS protocol that upgrades text messaging across Android and iMessages. “It’s time for Apple to fix texting. It’s not about the color of […]
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Hyderabad: Do you know that you can watch 3D animals in your living spaces through your phone? Well, for the unversed, Google’s one of a kind feature in its search allows you to watch augmented reality (AR) animals right at home, or wherever you are. A variety of animals, including fish, snakes, bears, cats, cheetahs, […]
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New Delhi: Capturing the milestones the country has achieved in its 75-year journey since independence, software major Google has unveiled an online project, drawing from rich archives and featuring artistic illustrations to tell the story of India. The project — “India ki Udaan” — executed by Google Arts and Culture celebrates the achievements of the […]
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New Delhi: Capturing the milestones India has achieved in its journey of 75 years since Independence, software giant Google on Friday unveiled a vibrant online project drawing from rich archives and featuring artistic illustrations to tell the story of the country. Named ‘India ki Udaan’, the project executed by Google Arts & Culture celebrates the […]
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Bengaluru: Payment solutions platform Twid on Wednesday announced its Series-A funding of $12 million led by Rakuten Capital and backed by Google and Sequoia India. Founded in 2020 by Amit Koshal, Rishi Batra, and Amit Sharma, Twid combines multiple loyalty/reward points across issuers such as banks, fintech firms, and retail/e-commerce brands. It allows consumers to pay […]
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India’s new IT Rules, 2021 appear to be having a major impact on social media in the country, with the compliance reports of various social media platforms saying that several lakhs of accounts from platforms like Twitter and WhatsApp were banned while search engine Google too removed over a lakh pieces of ‘bad content’ in […]
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New Delhi: Google removed 1,11,493 pieces of bad content based on user complaints in June this year in compliance with the new India IT Rules, 2021. Most of the content it removed were related to copyright violations, while other categories included trademark, court order, graphic sexual content, circumvention, and others. The tech giant received 32,717 […]
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New Delhi: Google is cracking down on unexpected, annoying ads that users face while playing Android games, along with several other new ads guidelines to ensure high-quality experiences for users on Play Store. Effective from September 30, developers cannot show full-screen ads of all formats (video, GIF, static, etc.) that show unexpectedly, typically when the user […]
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New Delhi: Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) game developer Krafton said on Friday that it is clarifying how Apple and Google app stores removed the BGMI app from their respective app stores in the country. Google and Apple on Thursday pulled popular battle royale game BGMI from their respective app stores, following a government order. In a […]
