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COVID19 Fight: Google Raises Rs 33 Cr In Internal Donations For COVID-Hit India
COVID19 Fight: Google Raises Rs 33 Cr In Internal Donations For COVID-Hit India

Google on Monday said it has raised over $4.6 million (Rs 33 crore) to date under its internal donation campaign to raise funds for nonprofit organisations in India which are helping the needy during the lethal second Covid wave.

  • Monday, 10 May 2021
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Google Photos Storage Reduced, To Offer Only 15GB Free Space From June 1

Google Photos, which currently offers unlimited free storage for "high quality" photos for all users, will only offer 15GB of free storage space for new photos and videos starting next month.

  • Saturday, 08 May 2021
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Google Is Turning On Two-Factor Authentication By Default

To secure users from online security threats, Google is reportedly enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) on Google accounts by default for users.

  • Friday, 07 May 2021
Google testing new features on Gmail for Android

San Francisco: Google is reportedly testing a set of new inbox features like pinned messages, reminders and category bundles for the new Gmail for Android. “A screenshot shared by a redditor today claims to show an internal build of the revamped Gmail for Android with the new features,” 9T05Google reported on Saturday. In September 2018, […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Google deletes 29 apps that steal users' information

San Francisco: Google has deleted 29 malicious “beauty camera” apps that were sharing pornographic content and forwarding users, particularly in India, to phishing websites to steal their information. Some of these Android apps have been downloaded millions of times and a large number of the download counts originated from Asia — particularly in India, said […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Google announces new encryption solution for cheaper Android smartphones

San Francisco: Google has created a special encryption method for cheaper entry-level smartphones called Adiantum which would be an optional part of Android distributions going forward. To ensure that all devices are encrypted, Adiantum is an innovation in cryptography, designed to make storage encryption more efficient for devices without cryptographic acceleration, Google wrote in a […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Google slammed for risking Android with infected PNG images

San Francisco: Google is reportedly being slammed by security experts following the disclosure of a vulnerability that has exposed Android to the risk of being compromised by infected images. Revealed in Google’s February security update, the flaw leaves Android systems compromised with a modified Portable Network Graphics (PNG) that could trick users into viewing an […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Google adds new right click options to Gmail

San Francisco: Revamping Gmail, Google has added options like easy label adding, moving, muting and snooze emails to the right-click context menu of its emailing platform. The options would enable users to reply to or forward an email directly from a message while opening multiple emails in multiple new windows, Google wrote in a G […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Google celebrates quintessential Madhubala

New Delhi: On Valentine’s Day, Google doodled the star-crossed iconic character from “Mughal-E-Azam”, Anarkali, made indelible in movie lovers’ mind by the effervescent Madhubala who would have been 86 on Thursday. “The Marilyn Monroe of Bollywood” as the Google blogpost said was raised in the slums of Bombay. She started supporting her family as a […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Google to invest $13 bn in the US this year

San Francisco: Google will invest $13 billion in building new data centres and offices in over a dozen states in the US in 2019, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has said. In a blog post late on Wednesday, Pichai said the investment would create tens of thousands of new jobs. “Last year, we hired more […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Google shows Pakistan flag when searched for 'toilet paper'

New Delhi: Google has been showing Pakistani flag when searched for the “best toilet paper in the world”, the “best China-made toilet paper” or just “toilet paper”. The glitch on Google Search results was noticed a couple of days after the February 14 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district that left 49 Central […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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YouTube revamps Strike rules, intensifies punitive action

San Francisco: Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has revamped its community guidelines and after almost a decade, updated its Strike rules. “Starting February 25, all channels will receive a one-time warning the first time they post content that crosses the line, with no penalties to their channel except for the removal of that content,” the […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Google to train Indian journalists in fair election coverage

New Delhi: As India’s elections inch closer, Google on Thursday announced to train journalists in online verification and fact-checking, digital safety and security and YouTube for election coverage and data visualization. The Google News Initiative, in partnership with independent, third-party organisations DataLeads and Internews would host training sessions in 30 cities between February 26 and […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Google rolls outs AI grammar checker for G Suite users

San Francisco: US Internet giant Google has said its artificial intelligence (AI)-based grammar checker, corporate web tools and services are available for all users of G Suite, to help them improve writing. Unlike standard spellcheck in Google Docs, Google applies Machine Learning technology to grammar checker as one of the AI tools that can let […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
Google announces first price auction method for 'Ad Manager'

San Francisco: In a bid to create a fair and transparent market for its partners, Google is incorporating the first price auction method on its online advertisement service brand “Ad Manager”, specifically concerning ad sales for display and video inventory products. Launched in June 2018, “Ad Manager” worked on second price auction method until now […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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