Tag: Google

San Francisco: Google has so far provided $39.5 million in funding to more than 5,600 publishers in 115 countries who are facing financial hardship as a result of the economic and advertising downturn in the pandemic. India’s digital-only news organisation East Mojo and Tamil language publication Minnambalam are among the small and medium local newsrooms […]

San Francisco: With the Covid-19 pandemic hardly showing any sign of slowing down, Google on Monday said it would allow employees to work from home till the middle of next year if their roles permit. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June […]

San Francisco: Google is reportedly planning to launch Pixel 4a, the next series smartphone, on August 3, according to reports. Tipster John Prosser, who also predicted the correct launch date of the iPhone SE, tweeted that the Google Pixel 4a launch date is going to be August 3. “Finally happy to give a final update […]

New York: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, says that the future success of tech behemoth Google is not guaranteed in a fast-changing world as it faces competition in all areas where it now operates. “Google operates in highly competitive and dynamic global markets, in which prices are free or falling, and products are constantly […]

San Francisco: Google said it has built the worlds fastest machine learning (ML) training supercomputer that broke AI performance records in six out of eight industry-leading MLPerf benchmarks. Using this supercomputer, as well as the latest Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chip, Google has set new performance records. “We achieved these results with ML model implementations […]

San Francisco: Google in collaboration with Stanford University has launched a global Covid-19 map that makes it possible for journalists to embed up-to-date visualisations of the pandemic on their sites for readers. Unlike other coronavirus case maps, the ‘Covid-19 Global Case Mapper’ allows local reporters to embed a map of their area or even a […]

San Francisco: Google on Tuesday announced an Android-based earthquake detection feature that will alert smartphone users when the earth is about to shake. The Android phone will become a mini seismometer, joining millions of other Android phones out there to form the world’s largest earthquake detection network. Google said they are starting with earthquake alerts […]

New Delhi: As millions of students navigate learning from home, Google has announced a new initiative called The Anywhere School, bringing over 50 new features across Meet, Classroom, G Suite and other products to hundreds of thousands of viewers in more than 250 countries around the world. In September, the video-calling app Google Meet will […]

New Delhi: Google has launched a new website to help developers build Android apps for its Linux-based operating system as it saw massive demand for its Chromebooks in the second quarter. With ChromeOS.dev which is available in English and Spanish for now, the tech giant has also made it easier to build and test Android […]

San Francisco: Google is rolling out new visual improvements which would add more detail and colourful update to Maps service, making it easier to understand what an area looks like. The update will be available worldwide and will cover a variety of natural and manmade features. “Whether you are exploring a new place or gearing […]

New Delhi: Google has removed thousands of apps for engaging in deceptive behaviour, distributing misleading information such as altering media clips or sending fake text messages in the run-up to November presidential election in the US. The company said that as mobile apps disseminate voting information and increasingly support voting activity, it is on the […]

New Delhi: Soon after Google services especially Gmail and Drive suffered a major outage across the world including in India on Thursday morning, the tech giant issued a short statement confirming the disruption. “We are investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly,” read the statement on Google Apps status […]

San Francisco: Google has introduced several features including tabs that load faster and let you organise and find them easily in Chrome browser as you work or study from home. To start with, Google has made tabs 10 per cent faster in Chrome via under-the-hood performance improvements. Now the users can collapse and expand tab […]

San Francisco: In a bid to make people safe from spam and scam calls, Google has announced a new feature named Verified Calls on its Phone app. It comes pre-loaded on several Android phones and will be available for download later this week on more Android devices in select countries, including India. The ‘Verified Calls’ […]

New Delhi: In order to provide reliable information faster for people everywhere, Google is conducting more than 1,000 tests per day on an average to maintain quality in its Search and News platforms. Since 2017, the company has done more than one million quality tests to deliver high-quality information to billions of Search users, informed […]