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Google sued for 'hiring discrimination' against white, Asian males

San Francisco: Google has been sued by a former YouTube employee for allegedly pressuring recruiters to only look for female and Latina applicants and that the video-sharing platform had last year stopped hiring White and Asian males for technical positions. The lawsuit claims that the tech giant would only hire people from historically under-represented groups […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google introduces Machine Learning education available for all

New Delhi: Google on Thursday introduced “Learn with Google AI” — a set of educational resources developed by Machine Learning (ML) experts at the company, for people to learn about concepts, develop skills and apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to real-world problems. “Learn with Google AI” comes with existing content as well as the new Machine Learning […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google's rise helps Alphabet post $32.32 bn in revenue

San Francisco: Riding on Google’s growing ad business, Alphabet Inc posted $32.32 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2017 — up 24 per cent (year-on-year) from $26.06 billion during the same quarter in 2016. After deducting its traffic acquisition costs, Google’s revenue alone was $25.87 billion. Overall, Alphabet posted revenues of $110.9 billion […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google removed 7 lakh malicious apps from Play Store in 2017

San Francisco: Google removed over seven lakh malicious apps from Play Store in 2017 that violated its policies – 70 per cent more than the apps it took down in 2016 — the company said on Wednesday. “Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify and take action against them […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google, Facebook bad for innovation, democracy: Soros

Davos: Calling Internet “monopolies” such as Google and Facebook an obstacle to innovation, billionaire investor George Soros has warned that social media companies can have adverse consequences on the functioning of democracy. Delivering his remarks at the annual World Economic Forum here on Thursday, the Hungarian-born American billionaire declared that the days of the US-based […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google remembers Soviet filmmaker, montage-master Eisenstein

New Delhi: Google on Monday honoured Soviet film director and father of montage in filmmaking Sergei Eisenstein on his 120th birth anniversary with a doodle. The doodle shows a series of film rolls in movement depicting iconic imagery in some of Eisenstein’s films. It is a reminder of his enduring contributions to cinema. A closer […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Less than 10% of Gmail users enable two-factor authentication: Google

San Francisco: Despite the growth of sophisticated cyber threats globally, Google has said that less than 10 per cent of active Gmail users have enabled two-factor authentication making the remaining 90 per cent more vulnerable to cyber attacks. According to Google engineers, compromised passwords are the top way hackers gain access to accounts and all […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google Play Store shuns 60 games infected with porn malware

San Francisco: Google has kicked out nearly 60 games, many of which were for children, from its Play Store after a security research firm found they were infected with a pornographic malware. Researchers from Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies reported that the malware, dubbed as “AdultSwine”, displayed pornographic images that looked like advertisements designed to prompt […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google loses nearly 250 employee bicycles a week: Report

San Francisco:Technology giant Google loses between 100 and 250 of its colourful employee bicycles a week from its campus, the media reported. Google maintains roughly 1,100 free, two-wheelers with yellow frames, red baskets and green and blue wheels, known as Gbikes, for its employees to get around its sprawling campus. However, according to company estimates, […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Reliance Energy offers Google TEZ payment platform

Mumbai: Reliance Energy announced on Friday it has become the first utility to link up with Google for its Google TEZ, a Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based payment platform. Customers can now download the TEZ app and identify their bank account through their registered phone banking mobile number which would be mapped to the bank account […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Google withdraws YouTube app from Amazon Fire TV

London: Google has blocked YouTube on Amazon’s Fire TV earlier than expected amid growing rivalry between the two tech giants as their businesses continue to overlap. The move is in retaliation for Amazon’s refusal to sell some Google products that compete with the retailer’s gadgets, and Fire TV devices now encourage people to access YouTube […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Bollywood is globally famous: Sundar Pichai

Mumbai: India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who will be seen on Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khans TV show “TED Talks India Nayi Soch”, said the Hindi film industry is famous worldwide. In the upcoming episode, titled “Tomorrow’s World”, Pichai will appear through video conference, read a statement. “Bollywood is globally famous. Everyone knows Shah Rukh, […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Google celebrate Mirza Ghalib's 220th birthday

New Delhi: Search engine Google on Wednesday celebrated one of Urdu literature’s most iconic poets, Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, popularly known as Ghalib (meaning conqueror). Mirza Ghalib, who would have turned 220 this year, is shown standing on a balcony of a building of his era, with a pen and paper, and the sun and a […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Google releases its annual Santa Tracker

San Francisco: Google’s Santa Tracker, which has been around for the past 13 years, is back to help children follow Santa Clause’s location and destination of next delivery. It showed Santa and his reindeer Rudolph’s movements beginning on Sunday through web browsers, mobile web browsers, the Android app, the Android TV and and Chromecast, Time.com […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Google to introduce native ad-blocking in Chrome browser from Feb 15

San Francisco: Search engine giant Google will introduce a built-in ad blocker in the Chrome browser to block “annoying” advertisements from February 15. “This date does not appear to be tied to a specific Chrome version. Chrome 64 is currently scheduled to arrive on January 23 and Chrome 65 is slated to launch on March […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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