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Panipuri: Google doodle celebrates India’s beloved street food
New Delhi: Search giant Google on Wednesday celebrated ‘Pani Puri’, the much-loved Indian street snack, by introducing an interactive doodle game around it. It was on this day in 2015 that a…
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Google dropped plans for AI chatbot app targetting Gen Z: Report
San Francisco: Google has dropped plans to launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mobile chatbot application specifically designed for Gen Z users, featuring interactive digital characters. The company was working on ‘Bubble Characters’…
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Google sued for allegedly stealing user data to train its AI models
San Francisco: Google has been sued in a class-action lawsuit that alleged that the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent using its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The…
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Google’s AR software leader quits over company’s ‘unstable commitment’
San Francisco: Mark Lucovsky, Google’s Senior Director of Engineering responsible for the operating system (OS) and software platform’for augmented reality (AR) and extended reality (XR) devices, has resigned over the company’s “unstable…
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YouTube testing AI-generated quizzes to enhance learning
San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube is testing artificial intelligence (AI)-generated quizzes on the mobile app Home feed. This feature aims to help users learn about topics they’re interested in, the company said on…
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Google rolling out feature to set working locations in Calendar
San Francisco: Google has announced that it is rolling out a feature to set working locations in Calendar. Since 2021, users have been able to indicate where they are working from directly…
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Global public cloud revenue crosses $500 bn, Microsoft leads
New Delhi: Led by Microsoft, global revenue for the public cloud services market reached $545.8 billion last year, an increase of 22.9 per cent over 2021, according to a new report. Top…
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Google to use public data for AI training, says its updated privacy policy
San Francisco: Google has updated its privacy policy in which it stated that it can use publicly available data to help train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The tech giant changed the…
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Google’s mental health & wellbeing manager loses job
New Delhi: Ironic it may read but a mental health and wellbeing manager working at Google for the last 10 years, is among 12,000 people who were handed out pink slips in…
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Twitter changes impact tweet search results on Google
San Francisco: Twitter’s recent changes have affected Google’s ability to display tweets and Twitter pages in search results. “We’re aware that our ability to crawl Twitter.com has been limited, affecting our ability…
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Google ‘killed’ plans for AR glasses: Report
San Francisco: Tech giant Google has reportedly killed its plans for the augmented reality (AR) glasses codenamed ‘Project Iris’. The company unveiled its translation glasses last year, and if the rumour is…
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Google-owned navigation platform Waze lays off employees
San Francisco: Google is reportedly laying off employees from its navigation and mapping company Waze, as it aims to merge mapping products. The tech giant is moving Waze over to Google’s ads…
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Google Search rolls out ‘Perspectives’ filter
San Francisco: Google has announced that it is rolling out the ‘Perspectives’ filter on Search, which shows users a page of results with advice from other people. The company tweeted on Saturday,…
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Google to set up global fintech operation centre in Gujarat: Pichai
Washington: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced the company will open its global fintech operation centre at GIFT City in Gujarat. After meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday…