San Francisco: Google’s parent company Alphabet has put on hold a project to build glucose-sensing contact lens for people living with diabetes due to unsatisfactory results from clinical work. The aim of the project was to turn contact lens into a cutting-edge medical device that could measure blood glucose levels[Read More…]
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WhatsApp to delete all chats not saved, updated via Google Drive
Madrid: The world’s most popular freeware instant messaging app confirmed its prior announcement that, as of Monday, any users who have not backed up their stored data and chats on Google Drive will lose their chat histories. WhatsApp, which is owned by tech giant Facebook, had reached an agreement with[Read More…]
Google remembers engineer Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu with a doodle
New Delhi: Google on Saturday dedicated a Doodle in honour of Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu who fought gender barriers to become one of the first woman engineers in the world. Born in the Romanian port city of Galati on November 10, 1887, Zamfirescu passed school with high marks from the Central[Read More…]
Google celebrates professor who foresaw Internet’s impact with a doodle
New Delhi: Google on Monday honoured Greek professor and computer scientist Michael Dertouzos’s 82nd birth anniversary with a doodle. Dertouzos foresaw how the Internet would impact everyday lives. He predicted the popularity of personal computers and helped to maximise their potential as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT)[Read More…]
Google sacks dozens over sexual harassment
San Francisco: Google has sacked 48 people including 13 senior managers over sexual harassment claims since 2016. In a letter to employees on Thursday, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was taking a “hard line” on inappropriate conduct, reports the BBC. The letter was in response to a[Read More…]
Google protected creator of Android Andy Rubin; paid $90M despite sexual misconduct charges
Google reportedly paid Father of Android mobile software, Andy Rubin, $90 million and praised him whereas the internet giant remained quiet about the sexual misconduct charges against him. After his resignation, Google gave him a grand farewell in October 2014. “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s[Read More…]
Pixel 3 XL: Flawless camera, great Android experience
New Delhi: Last year’s Pixel 2 was practically the best smartphone camera that Google made. However, the screen’s dreaded blue tint and other hardware issues overshadowed a capable phone. It is good to see Google taking serious note of the flaws in the Pixel 2 XL and changing vendors (from[Read More…]
Google to charge $40 per device to Android makers
San Francisco: Android manufacturers will have to pay $40 per device to Google in Europe to be featured into Google Play Store and other mobile apps. According to a report in The Verge on Friday, a confidential fee schedule shows costs as high as $40 per device to install the[Read More…]
YouTube Down! Website shows ‘503 Network Error’
Google’s video streaming platform YouTube went down on Wednesday morning, with thousands of users across the world unable to upload, download or watch online videos. ‘500 Internal Server Error’ messages and ‘503 Network Error’ messages were popping up on the screen. However, within an hour, the company restored the service and[Read More…]
Google Trends map exhibits how #MeToo shines out in every corner across India
Over the last week, Indian women have shown courage and rose to speak about what has been dirty experiences and abuses and harassment they went through in the hands of few celebrities and famous faces of India. The incidents are bound to revive the disturbing memories of being assaulted by[Read More…]
Google testing ‘Explore’ interface on Chrome
San Francisco: Google is reportedly testing a new content discovery interface in the Chrome browser’s new tab page called “Explore”, which users can access on Android by enabling an experimental flag. According to a report by tech website Android Police, the interface is in its early stages, and contains a[Read More…]
Google ends support for its experimental smart reply app: Report
San Francisco: Google is putting an end to “Reply” — its experimental smart reply app that offered responses for other third-party messaging apps like Hangouts and Messenger. Google informed the beta testers about ending the experimental app over an email, The Verge reported on Wednesday. “As you know, ‘Reply’ was[Read More…]
Google challenges European Commission’s $5 bn Android fine
San Francisco: Google has appealed against the European Commission’s nearly $5 billion fine that was imposed on the tech giant in July for illegally using Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google’s Search engine. The Commission’s ruling gave Google 90 days to end the anti-competitive behaviours or face additional[Read More…]
Apple world’s top brand, Facebook slips to 9th spot: Report
San Francisco: Apple displaced Google to become the top brand in the world in 2018 while Facebook, mired in data breach controversies, fell to ninth place in the top 100 brands globally, an annual report said on Thursday. According to global brand consultancy Interbrand’s “Best 100 Global Brands 2018” report,[Read More…]
Google launches project to preserve, digitise Indian Railways’ culture
New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) In a first-of-its-scale heritage mapping and digitisation project, Google and Ministry of Railways on Friday launched a project that aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the Indian Railways. The two-year digitisation project “The Railways-Lifeline of a Nation” is a comprehensive digital document viewable on[Read More…]
Google still allowing third-party apps read your Gmail: Report
After facing a backlash over reports in July that third-party app developers can read your Gmail, Google has once again defended its policy to allow third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts. According to a CNNMoney report on Thursday, Gmail lets third-party developers integrate services into its[Read More…]
Google’s mailing app ‘Inbox’ to discontinue from March 2019
San Francisco, Sep 13 (IANS) Google is set to shut down its alternate mailing app “Inbox” in March 2019, giving users time to shift to the traditional Gmail by then, the company has said in a blog post. Launched in 2014, “Inbox” was introduced as an innovative new email app that[Read More…]
Section 377 verdict: Google, CCD, MTV celebrate LGBT rainbow
September 6 came out as a historic day for India and its LGBT community as the Supreme Court decriminalised the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which considered gay sex a criminal offence. Following the momentous verdict by a five-judge bench, the entire nation stood in support. From activists[Read More…]
Can AI technology fight online child sexual abuse?
US tech giant Google announced on Monday that it is employing a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to combat online spreading of contents involving child sexual abuse. Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. The new tool based on the deep neural networks[Read More…]
Google admits it tracks users when location history is turned off
Google has updated a help page for customers of mobile phones to acknowledge that they still can be tracked for using its Search or Maps services, even if they turn off the phone’s tracking feature. In the help page for the Location History setting, Google clarified, “This setting does not[Read More…]
Ad firms suffer 21% fall as Google, Facebook dominate digital dollars: Reports
The dominance of Google and Facebook of digital advertising has led to the number of independent and smaller ad tech companies falling 21 per cent since 2013 to 185 in the second quarter of 2018, the media reported. According to a report in The New York Times on Sunday, venture capital[Read More…]
Google launches AI-packed Android 9 Pie
San Francisco:– Google has released its latest version of Android Operating System — Android 9 Pie, which harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict how users would like to experience their devices while offering a smoother navigation system and an easier way to track and limit usage of[Read More…]
Google works on tabular data search to assist ‘data journalism’
If asked, do you find Google results relevant? Majority would say a ‘Yes’. We often opt for a Google search for any image, video or textual information. Now Google moves ahead to make the tabular data search results more relevant. This progress was mapped out in the wake of the[Read More…]
Google to place AI-powered virtual agents in call centres
Google has announced it is working with several partners like Cisco and Genesys to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that will replace some of the work in call centres. The software is called Contact Center AI which will install virtual agents that will be the first to pick up the[Read More…]
WhatsApp rumours kill 32 year old Google techie
Karnataka :A 32-year-old software engineer was beaten to death and four others including a Qatar national were seriously injured over WhatsApp rumours of a child kidnapping in Karnataka’s Bidar. The police said that it all started after the man from Qatar was seen distributing chocolates to local children. The police have[Read More…]