Tag: Google

San Francisco: Google has decided to “permanently remove” the feature that led its smart speaker ‘Home Mini’ accidentally record several times a day without being given any command from the user. The company said that it has made the decision because it wants people to have complete peace of mind while using Google Home Mini. The […]

San Francisco: After Facebook and Twitter admitting the presence of Russian operatives on their platforms to influence the 2016 US presidential election, Google has reportedly discovered that millions were spent on ads by Russian agents who aimed to spread disinformation across Google’s platforms, including YouTube. According to a report in The Washington Post on Monday, […]

San Francisco: Google’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based “Clips” camera has not impressed Tesla founder Elon Musk, a famed critic of AI. “Clips” does image recognition and AI processing on-device, deploying machine learning to automatically click best pictures for you. Musk, who thinks AI could trigger World War III and poses a far greater threat than North […]

New Delhi: Google marked the 103rd birth anniversary of “Mallika-e-Ghazal” Begum Akhtar on Saturday by dedicating a special doodle to her. Born as Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, the ghazal queen is seen in the doodle sitting gracefully with a sitar with a few admirers around her. She was born in 1914 in Faizabad in what is now […]

San Francisco: Betting big on the best combination of artificial intelligence (AI), software and hardware, Google on Wednesday launched Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones, smaller smart speaker “Home Mini”, a larger version called “Home Max”, high-performance convertible Chromebook called PixelBook and “Google Clips” action camera. The devices are available for pre-order in the […]

San Francisco: After Twitter deleted over 200 fake Russian accounts used to meddle the 2016 US presidential election, Google has now launched a probe into the role its services could have played in the Russian interference, reports said. “Google is conducting a broad internal investigation to determine whether Russian-linked entities used its ads or services […]

New Delhi: The number of requests that Google received from India in the first half of 2017 for disclosing user data was at an all-time high, reveals the latest biannual transparency report from the search engine giant. Between January 1 and June 30 this year, Google received 3,843 requests for data from 6,343 accounts from […]

San Francisco: Google’s parental control app for Android devices “Family Link” has completed the beta testing period and is now available to public to download for free in the US. The app, which lets parents manage apps, set screen time limits and more, can be used from either an iOS or Android device, but is designed […]

San Francisco: In a bid to keep up with the growing smart home market, Google is building a tabletop smart screen code-named “Manhattan”, similar to Amazon’s “Echo Show”. The device will offer YouTube, Google Assistant, Google Photos, video calling and also act as a smart hub that can control “Nest” and other smart home devices, […]

San Francisco: As Twitter announced to double its 140-character limit to 280, many Apple Watch users across the world were left disappointed on Thursday when they realised that the app has disappeared. According to a report in TechCrunch, Twitter’s iTunes App Store page no longer notes compatibility with the Apple Watch. With the rollout of […]

New Delhi: Building more digital content in regional languages will give a major boost to India’s bid to become a $1 trillion digital economy, Google India said here on Wednesday. “If we do not allow Internet to build local language elements, I think the story could go completely haywire. There are 400 million Internet users […]

New Delhi: Google is celebrating its 19th birthday on Wednesday with a “surprise” spinner Doodle that allows users to explore 19 games it has launched over the years – including a new version of the snake game. The reason Google is celebrating surprises is because it believes the search engine came into being because of […]

Bengaluru: Technology giant Google’s India cloud centre, slated to become operational in Mumbai by the end of 2017, will spur economic activity in the country, a top executive from the company said on Tuesday. “We believe that the India cloud centre will spur a whole of economic activity across a lot of startups, partner organisations,” […]

San Francisco: Apple has switched the default provider of its web searches for Siri on iOS and Spotlight on the Mac to Google from Microsoft’s Bing. Now if you ask Siri to search something on the internet, you will get Google results instead of Bing on iOS and Spotlight — a system-wide desktop search feature of […]

New Delhi: Google on Saturday honoured Asima Chatterjee, the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Science in India with a Doodle. When the doyenne of chemistry was growing up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the 1920s and 1930s, it was almost unheard of for a woman to study chemistry. But that did not stop […]