San Francisco: Google’s “Smart Compose” feature on Gmail would now help users with email subject line suggestions, letting them draft their emails even faster. The new ability arrived on Gmail on Thursday, moving us slightly closer to a future where we just use bots to replace our more mundane communications,[Read More…]
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After Pixel devices, Google Duplex reaching iOS users in US cities
San Francisco: Moving on from Pixel devices, iOS users in the US are getting Google’s voice-calling “Duplex” — that lets Artificial Intelligence (AI) mimic a human voice to make appointments and book tables through phone calls. The support site for Duplex lists the iPhone as being part of this rollout,[Read More…]
Rajan Anandan steps down as Google India head; to join Sequoia India as MD
Rajan Anandan, vice president for Google India and South East Asia, has stepped down from his post after an eight-year stint at Google. He will be continuing in his position till the end of April. Rajan will now be joining Sequoia Capital India as Managing Director. Sequoia India, in a LinkedIn post, announced that Rajan[Read More…]
Not an IITian! Here’s how Mumbai lad bagged Rs 1.2 Cr job at Google
Abdullah Khan, engineering student but not from IIT has stood out from the obvious and made its place into Google
Happy Holi 2019 WhatsApp Stickers, Images: How to send, share Holi-theme stickers
The festival of Holi is here and people are celebrating the day with splash of water and colours. A festival which is full of colours, joy and jubilation creates much enthusiasm amongst those who celebrate this joyous day and people have already started exchanging Holi greetings and best wishes. Holika[Read More…]
What is Spring Equinox? Google Doodle marks the beginning of spring
New Delhi: Google on Wednesday celebrated the spring equinox with an animated doodle of a flower on the surface of the earth. The Spring Equinox doodle’s reach extended to all of Europe, Asia and North America, including India, almost all of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the first day[Read More…]
IPRS, Google sign music licensing deal for India
New Delhi: Mumbai-based Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) that represents composers, lyricists and music publishers on Tuesday granted a license to Google to utilise the group members work in India across Google-owned YouTube and related services. “The IPRS-Google agreement is a historic milestone for Indian authors and music composers[Read More…]
Google banned 2.3 bn misleading, inappropriate ads in 2018
New Delhi: Aiming to make the web a better place by protecting users from misleading and inappropriate ads, Google on Thursday announced it banned 2.3 billion misleading ads that violated its advertising policies in 2018 and introduced 31 new policies. In its 2018 “Bad Ads Report”, the Internet giant said[Read More…]
Google releases Android Q beta on Pixel phones
San Francisco: Google has released the first beta version of Android’s next major update “Q” on Pixel phones with developer-focused tools as well as compatibility features for foldable phones. “In Android Q, we’ve made more enhancements to protect our users. The operating system (OS) would give users more control over[Read More…]
Google tells hardware workers to find new roles
San Francisco: Raising questions over its future plans in the hardware business, Google has reportedly told several employees in its laptop and tablet division to find other roles at the company. According to the Business Insider, the move is aimed at trimming Google’s “Create” division which manufactures the Pixelbook laptop[Read More…]
Google rolls out Chrome Lite web browser
San Francisco: Google has introduced new Lite pages for its web browser Chrome that would load pages faster and work better with Android’s data saver feature. “To show users when a page has been optimised, Chrome now shows in the URL bar that a Lite version of the page is[Read More…]
Google probing Gmail, Maps global outages
San Francisco: Several Google users on Wednesday reported problems with accessing Gmail and other services in large parts of the world. The company said it was investigating the problem. Many users in Australia, the US, Europe and Asia reported outages with Gmail, Google Maps and Google Drive, The Guardian reported.[Read More…]
World Wide Web turns 30: Interesting facts about Tim Berners-Lee’ invention
As many as 3.9 billion people use internet today, more than half of world’s population and though, internet has been in development since 1960s, March 12, 1989 is a landmark date. On this day Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for WWW. The roots of the for the World Wide Web[Read More…]
Can Google Translate be trusted for medical advice?
New York: Google can aptly translate doctor’s orders into Spanish and Chinese albeit with a few significant errors, finds a study. A team from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) analysed 100 sets of emergency discharge instructions translated by Google’s machine learning algorithm that was rolled out in 2017. The[Read More…]
Google celebrates ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin’s birthday with a doodle
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates and explores the life and legacy of wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin, who inherited a love of large reptiles early on in life and shared it with the world through his work at the Australia Zoo and his popular TV series The Crocodile Hunter. Irwin and[Read More…]
Google shows Pakistan flag ‘the best toilet paper in the world’
Pakistan flag is Google’s answer to “best toilet paper in the world”. That’s right, image search results for the query “best toilet paper in the world” shows pictures of the Pakistan national flag. Several people have shared the screenshots of the Google image result on Twitter, making the hashtag #besttoiletpaperintheworld[Read More…]
Google celebrates Madhubala’s 86th Birthday with a doodle
Google dedicated a doodle to legendary Bollywood actress Madhubala on her 86th birth anniversary. The Doodle remembers Madhubala in her classic pose from the iconic film Mughal-E-Azam starring her and Dileep Kumar in the lead role. Madhubala an icon of Indian cinema who was also widely known as “The Marilyn[Read More…]
Google paid Apple nearly $9.5 bn in 2018, estimates Goldman Sachs
San Francisco: To remain the default search engine on iOS devices, Google paid Apple nearly $9.5 bn in traffic acquisition costs (TAC) in 2018, thereby contributing massively to the iPhone maker’s services revenue, estimates Goldman Sachs. Apple is focusing on services revenue amid slowing iPhone sales in emerging markets like[Read More…]
Google celebrates life and work of actor, playwright Molière with a doodle
Molière is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and literature of any language.
Cyber Crime: Trusting a Google Ad costs huge money to a hospital worker over Google Pay
A New Ashok Nagar, Delhi, resident has lost his hard-earned money to an online-fraud
Lessons for India as Twitter refuses to attend House panel hearing
New Delhi: When Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to attend a US Senate hearing on September 5 last year and instead let an empty chair and a nameplate represent him, the gesture left many lawmakers fuming. Google instead sent a letter to the Senate Intelligent Committee on why the company[Read More…]
Google seeks ‘Vice President of Hardware Engineering for Wearables’; sparks speculation
San Francisco: A new opening listed on Google Careers site for the position of “Vice President (VP) of Hardware Engineering for Wearables” has sparked speculation that the company could actually be building its own wearable devices, Android Police reported on Friday. “As the VP of Hardware Engineering for Wearables, you’ll[Read More…]
Google celebrates German analytical chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge with a doodle
German analytical chemist best known for identifying the active ingredient caffeine Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge remembered by Google with a Doodle on Friday, a chemist whose place in history resulted in large part from an accident followed by a chance encounter. Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge was born outside of Hamburg on this[Read More…]
Google launches chrome extension to tell if your password has been compromised
San Francisco, As part of the “Safer Internet Day” celebrations, Google introduced two updates — “Password Checkup” Chrome extension and a “Cross Account Protection” — to protect apps, websites and user-accounts from possible third-party data breaches. “We’re always working to make sure your data is protected, whether you’re using Google[Read More…]
Google expands ‘Instant Tethering’ to more Chromebooks, Android phones
San Francisco, Google is releasing its “Instant Tethering” feature to 15 more Chromebooks and over 30 more smartphones after testing it for a few weeks behind the Chrome Operating System (OS) flag. “Instant Tethering” allows users to share a mobile device’s Internet connection with other devices using their mobile-data hotspots[Read More…]