- Business
Samsung partners with Qualcomm, Google to build XR ecosystem
San Francisco: Samsung Electronics Co has announced that it has partnered with Qualcomm and Google to build an ecosystem for extended reality (XR). The South Korean tech giant announced the partnership at…
- Technology
Google testing ChatGPT-like products, including chatbot Apprentice Bard
San Francisco: Google is testing ChatGPT-like products, which use its LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) technology, media reports said. Under new AI-powered chat products, the tech giant is testing a chatbot…
- Technology
Google terminates thousands of accounts pushing Chinese disinformation
San Francisco: Google’s Threat Analysis Group has terminated thousands of accounts associated with a group known as “Dragonbridge” or “Spamouflage Dragon” that disseminated pro-Chinese disinformation on various platforms. According to the tech…
- Technology
Blocked out of system in the middle of call: Sacked Google recruiter
New Delhi: Among the 12,000 workers laid off by Google, an employee who worked as a recruiter said he got sacked by the company in the middle of an interview. Dan Lanigan…
- Technology
Google introduces AI system that generates music from text descriptions
San Francisco: Google has introduced a new AI system called – “MusicLM” that can generate high-fidelity music in any genre given a text description. However, the company is fearing the risks, and…
- Business
Google may release Pixel Tablet Pro with Tensor G2 chip
San Francisco: Tech giant Google will reportedly release a Pro version of its upcoming Pixel Tablet, which will feature a Tensor G2 chip. According to leaker Kuba Wojciechowski, the tech giant initially…
- Technology
Google Search now allows US car dealerships to show vehicle inventory
San Francisco: Google is reportedly rolling out a new feature that will allow car dealerships to add their vehicle inventory directly to search listings via Google My Business in the US. Although…
- Technology
‘Should I keep working hard?’: Google layoff survivors ask top bosses
New York: Employees, who survived the recent layoffs at Google, are worried and have demanded assurances that their jobs are not next to be axed by the company during a recent all-hands…
- Jobs
Get prepared for deeper layoffs in 2023, predict business economists
San Francisco: Deeper layoffs are coming in 2023 as most business economists have predicted that their companies will cut payrolls in the coming months, media reports said. According to a report in…
- Technology
Techies earning up to USD 1 mn a year laid off at Big Tech firms
San Francisco: As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and…
- World
Jobless Indian IT professionals scramble for options to stay in US
Washington: Thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, who have lost their jobs due to the series of recent layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, are now struggling to…
- Technology
Waited 6 months to join Google: Sacked Indian-origin techie
New Delhi: As Google started laying off its 12,000 employees, affected employees are beginning to look for new jobs on LinkedIn, and among those affected is an Indian-origin worker who says “he…
- World
How Google’s layoff announcement different from other companies
Google’s parent company Alphabet recently announced layoffs of 12,000 employees, or about 6 percent of its workforce, globally. After the announcement, it joined the Big Tech league of Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft…
- World
16 years at Google, this employee was sacked at 3 am
New Delhi: As Google announced job cuts of 12,000 workers, one of its employees, who worked at the company for 16 years, was fired at 3 a.m. following an automated account deactivation.…
- Technology
Google may introduce ChatGPT competitor in May
San Francisco: Tech giant Google is preparing to introduce at least 20 artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools and a search chatbot during its annual developer conference in May this year, amid pressure from…
