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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

Security update: Google warns users to quickly update Chrome to avoid hacking risk

Google has advised its users to immediately install a security update in its Chrome browser to safeguard themselves against a serious bug being actively exploited by hackers.

Sep 6, 2022

India users shoot 37,173 complaints to Google in July, up 13%; Mostly copyright violation

"The complaints consist of various categories. Some requests may allege infringement of intellectual property rights, while others claim violation of local laws prohibiting types of content on grounds such as defamation," Google said in a statement.

Sep 3, 2022

US Department of Justice likely to probe Apple over anti-market practices

After taking on Meta (Facebook) and Google with antitrust lawsuits, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly drafting an antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the company "abused its market power to stifle smaller tech companies, including app developers and competing hardware makers".

Aug 27, 2022

Parliamentary panel on finance to submit report on competitive laws in Digital Market

The Standing Committee on Finance headed by BJP MP and former Union minister Jayant Sinha will submit its report to the Parliament in September on how competition laws that regulate competitive conduct should evolve to deal with competitive behavioural issues in digital markets.

Aug 24, 2022

iOS VPN app security "broken": cybersecurity researcher; Apple says issue fixed

Apple insists it has offered a fix since 2019, while ProtonVPN says that it's only a partial solution, reports 9to5Mac.

Aug 20, 2022

Google blocks largest ever web DDoS cyber attack on single customer; Equivalent to Wikipedia's one-day visits

DDoS cyber-attacks are increasing in frequency and growing in size exponentially.

Aug 20, 2022

Google Play to hide app permissions; makes developers responsible for data collection [details]

Google is set to no longer show permissions it automatically gathers from apps on its Play Store, giving developers control over what they wish to disclose to users on data collection.

Jul 18, 2022