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Iconic 'Two Women at a Window' celebrates 400 years of Murillo

New Delhi: Google on Thursday marked the 400th birth anniversary of Spanish Baroque painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo with a doodle depicting his iconic “Two Women at a Window” painting. A series of major exhibitions celebrating his work is opening at Seville’s Museum of Fine Arts in Spain. It will bring home Murillo’s work from renowned […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Google inks pact with Disney to run online ads

San Francisco: Google has said it will now power advertising for Disney’s collection of brands and properties — including Disney, ABC, ESPN, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars — across multiple channels, including live streaming and direct-to-consumer content offerings. As part of a global strategic relationship with Google, Disney will bring its entire global digital video […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Google experimenting Fuchsia OS with Honor smartphone: Report

San Francisco: After coming together to create Google’s popular “Nexus 6P” smartphone, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has become the first test-bed for Google’s in-development operating system (OS) Fuchsia. Google is developing the high-end Fuchsia OS for the next generation of smartphones. In a post, an engineer from Huawei directly revealed that the company […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Google to scrutinise political ads before EU polls

San Francisco: In the run-up to European Union (EU) elections in May 2019, Google will introduce a EU-specific Election Ads Transparency Report and searchable ad library to provide more information about who is purchasing election ads, whom they’re targeted to and how much money is being spent. In May 2019, up to 350 million voters […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Google halts project to build glucose-sensing contact lens

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 through detection of glucose level in […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google to allow users to comment on search results

San Francisco: Google is planning to launch a new feature that will enable users to leave in search results comments that could be seen by others. While the feature has not yet gone live, an official Google help document has described how it would work, the Search Engine Journal reported on Saturday. The feature will […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google's drone delivery project set to 'take off' in Australia

Canberra: Australia is set to become “the most advanced country in the world” in drone delivery when the first commercial service starts operations in 2019. Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, on Thursday announced that its commercial drone home-delivery service would launch in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) next year, reports Xinhua news […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Mumbai girl wins 'Doodle for Google 2018' contest

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday declared 13-year-old Pingla Rahul More from Mumbai the national winner of its “Doodle for Google” competition where art-loving students brought their imaginations to life for the search engine giant’s logo. Over 75,000 contestants participated in the contest from around the country and displayed doodles in response to this year’s theme […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google inspires kids to explore space on Children's Day

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday celebrated Children’s Day in India with a doodle inspiring children to explore space. This year, the search engine’s theme for the day’s doodle was “What Inspires You”. A student from Mumbai, who won the 2018 Doodle 4 Google competition showed her fascination with space exploration. The doodle shows a child looking […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google probing 'malicious' attack on its internet traffic

San Francisco: After several users complained that they were either unable to access Google services like YouTube on Tuesday, the tech giant confirmed the root cause of this was “external” and under investigation. Internet research firm ThousandEyes, however, claimed that “traffic to certain Google destinations appears to be routed through an ISP in Russia and […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Manually backup data to Google Drive on Android soon

San Francisco: Google is rolling out the ability to initiate manual backups to Google Drive — that does not need the usually recommended Wi-Fi — on Android devices including the older ones, a media report said. Previously, for backups, a smartphone had to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and the device would have to […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google CEO unveils new policy to address sexual harassment at workplace

San Francisco: Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said the company has worked out a new comprehensive policy to address diversity and sexual harassment that became a great concern of Google employees. In an email to Google workers, Pichai on Thursday admitted that Google has “not always gotten everything right in the past,” for which he […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google employees in San Francisco join worldwide walkout

San Francisco: More than 1,000 Google employees here on Thursday joined global walkout in the city’s downtown area to protest workplace sexual harassment at the world’s top internet company. The demonstrators gathered at San Francisco’s major tourist neighbourhood at the waterfront Embarcadero in the northern part of the city, holding placards that read “Don’t Be […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google commits $25 mn to AI-powered humane projects

San Francisco: Google has pledged to give $25 million to launch projects that apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to inspiring solutions to societal problems. Google said the grant will be used to fund the Google AI Impact Challenge contest, which is part of its AI for Social Good program dedicated to “addressing some of society’s […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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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 New York Times report that […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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