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YouTube begins presales of NFL Sunday Ticket, costs $249 for season

Google-owned YouTube has started the presales of the National Football League (NFL) Sunday Ticket.

Apr 12, 2023

YouTube Music rolls out 'real-time lyrics' on Android, iOS to match Spotify, Apple Music

YouTube has started to roll out the 'real-time lyrics' feature to its music streaming service YouTube Music on Android and iOS.

Apr 10, 2023

Google adds contact photos to conversation threads in messages

Google has added a contact's profile photo to the top of conversations in messages for Android, following larger changes to "RCS" branding and read receipt icons in recent weeks.

Mar 20, 2023

Right to be forgotten: Delhi HC asks Google if de-indexing of publications possible

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, in a petition invoking 'Right to be forgotten' and seeking removal of news and journal articles published on various online platforms, asked Google to file reply as to whether de-indexing of publications can be done so that URLs don't appear in search engine results.

Mar 15, 2023

Google purges over 7,500 YouTube channels linked to malicious operations

Google took down more than 7,500 YouTube channels in Q1 2023 as part of its investigation into coordinated influence operations, and terminated 6,285 YouTube channels and 52 Blogger blogs alone linked to China.

Mar 3, 2023

Google rolls out AI-powered 'Magic Eraser' tool

Tech giant Google has announced that it is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered "Magic Eraser" tool in Google Photos for Google One subscribers - both Android and iOS - and all Pixel users.

Feb 24, 2023

Google India hands over pink slips to over 400 employees

Google India has terminated more than 400 employees and some of the impacted workers took to LinkedIn to share their plight.

Feb 17, 2023

AI Technology: Microsoft plans to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in MS Office

Microsoft is reportedly planning to demonstrate its new Prometheus model to its core productivity apps such as Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Feb 11, 2023

What is Bard: Google's answer to ChatGPT arrives; intensifies conversational AI race [details]

Google has unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) service 'Bard' to compete against OpenAI's ChatGPT, which is now opened up to "trusted testers" before the company makes it "more widely available to the public in the coming weeks".

Feb 7, 2023

Techies earning up to $1 mn a year laid off at Big Tech firms

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 Amazon.

Jan 23, 2023

SC ruling limited to interim relief, didn't decide merits of our appeal: Google

Google on Friday said that they are reviewing the Supreme Court's decision, after the apex court declined to entertain a plea by the tech giant challenging a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) order, which refused to stay operation of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order imposing Rs 1337.76 crore fine on the tech giant

Jan 20, 2023

Google's health-focused sister company Verily to cut 15% of staff

Verily, the health-focused company housed under Google parent Alphabet, has announced that it will lay off 15 per cent of its workforce in a restructuring move as it strives for financial independence from its parent company

Jan 12, 2023

Google Search hit highest-ever traffic in 25 yrs as Messi dazzles in FIFA world cup finals: Sundar Pichai

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday said that Google Search logged its highest-ever traffic in 25 years of its existence during the nail-biting FIFA World Cup fina

Dec 19, 2022

Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle

Ending the bitter Cloud war, the Pentagon has awarded its multi-billion dollar Cloud-computing contract to all the major players -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle - that can reach up to $9 billion in total till 2028.

Dec 8, 2022

What Indians Googled in 2022: IPL, Brahmastra, KGF 2 Top The List

The Indian Premier League has topped the list of the most googled word followed by Cowin and the Fifa World Cup in Qatar.

Dec 8, 2022

Job Cuts: Resigned at Google, this techie's job offer declined by Amazon next

Call it ironic, but a Google software engineer, who resigned to take a new job at Amazon, was told by the company that his job offer has been declined, just 3 days ahead of his first day at the e-commerce giant.

Dec 6, 2022

Google sued over 'discriminatory' spam filtering practices in US [details]

Google has been sued in the US by the Republican National Committee (RNC) for allegedly sending "millions" of campaign emails to the spam folders of users.

Oct 23, 2022

Google to soon allow people to translate local news directly in Search [details]

"In early 2023, we'll launch a new feature that will give people a simple way to find translated news coverage using machine translation," said the company.

Sep 29, 2022

Google makes it simpler, provides new option to remove personal info from search directly

Google's "Results about you" tool, announced during its annual developer conference earlier this year, is now rolling out to some users, reports 9to5Google.

Sep 22, 2022

NASA, Google to help track air pollution at local level with AI

NASA and Google will develop advanced machine learning-based algorithms that link space data with Google Earth Engine data streams to generate high-resolution air quality maps in near real-time.

Sep 16, 2022