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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced that its music streaming app YouTube Music for Wear OS can now let users stream content over Wi-Fi and LTE. The company said that starting this week users will be able to stream music over LTE or WiFi, so they can listen to their favourite playlists wherever they […]

London: Google is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK for allegedly using confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 million individuals for its artificial intelligence (AI) division called DeepMind. DeepMind allegedly passed data on patients for a smartphone app called ‘Streams’ that it received from the Royal Free NHS Trust in London, without the patients’ […]

New Delhi: Google and Samsung have joined hands to give developer an opportunity to sync users’ health and fitness data between Android apps and their devices. Called ‘Health Connect’, the platform and API (application programming interface) is for Android app developers to securely access users’ health data. With user permission, developers can use a single […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google is preparing to purge nearly 900,000 apps, which have been abandoned or not been updated, from the Play Store. According to Android Authority, the Google Play Store could see the number of available apps drop by nearly a third. Google and Apple have both unveiled measures to deal with abandoned […]

San Francisco: Google which took a dig at Apple for removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack has now announced to ditch it in its own new device – Pixel 6a. Google even created a two-minute ad celebrating the headphone jack in the Pixel 5A that parodied Apple’s elaborate design videos. That video was titled, in […]