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Google to invest $140mn to expand LatAm data center

Santiago: Google will invest around $140 million to expand its data center in Chile, the company’s only infrastructure of its kind in Latin America, which houses the information of millions of its users, the tech giant announced on Wednesday. The complex, built in the Santiago suburb of Quilicura, is part of a group of 15 […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google launches new Search engine for scientific community

San Francisco: Google on Thursday launched a new search engine for the scientific community that will help them make sense of millions of datasets present online. The service, called Dataset Search, will help scientists, data journalists and geeks find the data required for their work and their stories — or simply to satisfy their intellectual […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google wishes India Happy Teachers' Day

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday celebrated Teachers’ Day with an animated doodle as a tribute to every teacher around the globe. The doodle showed a spinning globe with spectacles surrounded by many subjects. Some of the subjects depicted were sports, music, astronomy and chemistry — showing that knowledge need not be just bookish. Teachers’ Day […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google announces new AI technology to fight online child sexual abuse

San Francisco: 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 […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google removing 100 'bad' ads every second

San Francisco: Google is removing over 100 scam advertisements every second for violating its policies and will soon implement a verification programme to further weed out bad actors from its platform. After The Wall Street Journal reported that scammers were purchasing search ads and “masquerading as authorised service agents for companies such as Apple Inc”, […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Harvard-Google AI model to predict quake aftershock sites

San Francisco: The Harvard University has teamed up with Google to develop a machine learning-based model to predict aftershock locations post a quake. It may help in the deployment of emergency services and assist in evacuation plans, a researcher said. “We teamed up with machine learning experts at Google to see if we could apply […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google launches new tools to make Internet work for more Indians

New Delhi: With the aim of helping more users in India leverage the power of the Internet irrespective of their English language proficiency, Google on Tuesday announced several new tools including one to make more content in Indian languages go online. At present, the amount of online content in Indian languages is only one per […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google pledges Rs 7 cr for Kerala relief work

New Delhi: Google will contribute $1 million (nearly Rs 7 crore) to the relief and restoration work in Kerala which has been battered by severe floods, a top company official said here on Tuesday. “Google.org and Googlers will contribute $1 million to the relief work in Kerala,” Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Southeast Asia and India, […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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More non-skippable ads coming to YouTube

San Francisco: Google-owned Youtube is expanding the concept of non-skippable advertisements on its platform for the creators to monetise their content and earn more revenue. The change will begin rolling out from next week and eligible creators will get a notification in their dashboard, company officials said in a video uploaded on YouTube’s Creator Insider […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Users are being tracked on smartphones despite disabled feature: Google

San Franciso: 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 affect other location […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google storing location data has strong potential for abuse: Experts

New Delhi: A day after reports surfaced that certain Google apps track your whereabouts even when you turn off location data, experts on Tuesday expressed concerns about the practice, stressing that location and identity data can be used for both good and bad. The Associated Press on Monday ran a story saying an investigation found […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Experts express concerns over Google apps' data tracking ability

New Delhi: A day after reports surfaced that certain Google apps track your whereabouts even when you turn off location data, experts on Tuesday expressed concerns about the practice, stressing that location and identity data can be used for both good and bad. The Associated Press on Monday ran a story saying an investigation found […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google releases 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 apps. It comes with features […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google Maps Returns To Apple's iPhone
Google Maps location sharing now adds phone's battery life

San Francisco: Google has announced adding a nifty feature to its Google Maps users that includes the battery level (of the user’s phone) in the set of information that they share. “When you share your location with someone in the Google Maps app, it shows up on your friend’s map, which they can use to […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google makes it easier to find relevant data in Search

San Francisco: When it comes to text, videos or images, millions of people around the world rely on Google Search to get the relevant results. Now Google has identified ways to make the results of even tabular data search more relevant. The advancement is important in view of the fact that the importance of data […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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