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Google has announced a new policy regarding inactive accounts, stating that if users have not logged into their accounts for a period of two years, their accounts and associated content will be permanently deleted. This change comes as a departure from Google’s previous practice of only removing content from inactive accounts in order to free […]
Geoffrey Hinton, a renowned artificial intelligence pioneer, who worked at Google for over a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, has now quit his job at Google to freely speak out about the risks of AI. He has officially joined the growing number of critics who say the tech […]
Harry Potter fans woke up to a pleasant surprise from Google on Sunday morning. The search engine paid tribute to British actor Alan Rickman with a beautiful Google Doodle. Fans took to social media to share it and remember the late beloved actor. However, April 30 marks the day in 1987 when performed in Les […]
Despite massive employee layoffs, Google did not reduce the pay of Sundar Pichai, its CEO. Pichai’s extravagant salary package also included stock awards worth nearly $218 million, according to the most recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Notably, Google recently let rid of close to 12,000 employees as a cost-cutting strategy. […]
The NCLAT on Wednesday upheld the CCI’s order penalising Internet giant Google with a fine of Rs 1,337.76 crore. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) two-member bench ordered Google to follow the instruction and deposit the amount within 30 days. The CCI order was modified by the NCLAT panel, which also included Member Alok […]
Google India has reportedly fired 453 employees across various departments. Employees were reportedly informed of their termination through mail by Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, Google India. Earlier in January, the company had announced its plans to cut more than 12,000 jobs, joining other tech giants including Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon Inc. and […]
With the rapid advancement of technology and the growing popularity of ChatGPT- an Artificial Intelligence bot that generates human-like responses using Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, several companies have integrated its capabilities into their web apps and services. This has given rise to a new trend of ChatGPT extensions for Chrome. To add an extension […]
Google’s Mumbai office received a threat call on Monday claiming that a bomb was placed at google’s Pune office, according to police. One person has been arrested in Hyderabad. Google’s Pune office was put on alert following the threat call that turned out to be a hoax, police said Pune police and the bomb detection […]
Google has marked the 120th birthday of PK Rosy, the first female lead in the history of Malayalam cinema, with a special doodle. Born on February 10, 1903, in Thiruvananthapuram, PK Rosy made her debut in JC Daniel’s groundbreaking film, “Vigathakumaran.” The animated caricature of PK Rosy was shared on Twitter by Google, with the […]
The market value of Google’s parent company’s shares dropped by more than $100 billion on Wednesday as a result of the Bard chatbot advertisement providing incorrect information and the AI search event’s lack of information regarding how it will respond to Microsoft’s ChatGPT challenge, according to analysts. The mistake in Google’s advertising, which aired on […]
Google, on Monday, unveiled its artificial intelligence enabled chatbot to rival Microsoft backed ChatGPT, a hugely popular conversational AI that mimics human writing. Bard leverages Google’s own Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA). Google’s move comes as ChatGPT, created by San Francisco company OpenAI, has become hugely popular due to its ability to write […]
Parth Kothekar, an artist based in Ahmedabad, created a Google doodle today to commemorate India’s 74th Republic Day. The Republic Day parade, a CRPF marching unit, and motorbike riders near the India Gate were all depicted in the doodle art. Rashtrapati Bhavan in India was also depicted in the meticulously hand-cut paper doodle artwork. India […]
CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday that Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe , becoming the latest tech giant to retrench staff en mass amid the global economic downturn. In an email to employees, the Indian-origin CEO said that ‘I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce […]
According to two individuals acquainted with Google’s strategy, the firm is getting ready to file a petition with the Supreme Court in the coming days to challenge a decision made by the nation’s antitrust agency that will require it to alter the way it promotes its Android platform. In October, the Competition Commission of India […]
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai holds that India can be an example of creating open stacks using technologies such as the UPI and Aadhaar. He was speaking at a “Google For India 2022” event in the capital on Tuesday. “Look at what India has accomplished with the UPI, Aadhaar, and the payments stack, and […]
Now, a cellular data connection is required for Google Voice to automatically convert to Wi-Fi access. Better call quality will result from using this specific network type, the tech giant revealed on Friday. The internet giant Google has added a new “clever network switching” function to its phone service Google Voice with the purpose of […]
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) fined US company Google Rs 936.44 crore on Tuesday for the second time in less than a week, taking the total penalty to ₹ 2,274 core, for “misusing its dominant position” about Play Store policy. The CCI asked the tech giant to “stop engaging in unfair commercial practices”. After […]
Sources said on Friday that Alphabet Inc’s Google unit was ordered by the country’s Federal Court to pay A4 60 million in penalties because of misleading users on collection of their personal data. The court found that Google had misled some customers about personal location data collected through their Android mobile devices between January 2017 […]
Celebrating the 113th birth anniversary of famous Malayalam poet Balamani Amma, Google illustrated a Doodle by Kerela-based artist Devika Ramachandran. The Doodle showcases Balamani Amma composing a poem and sitting by a window, with several books around her. Balamani published more than twenty anthologies of prose, translations, and poetry. She received many accolades, including Padma […]
It is not for nothing that Google has emerged a verb in itself! To mark the ARMY’s ninth anniversary, the browser has made a huge change to the “BTS” search page. Onwards July 9, you get to see a shower of purple hearts on your browser each time you “google” the K-Pop craze. There is […]
