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Google announces new AI technology to combat online child sexual abuse

Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material online.

September 4, 2018

Google removing 100 ‘bad’ ads every second

Google is removing over 100 scam advertisements every second for violating its policies and will soon implement a verification programme to further weed out bad actors from its platform.

September 2, 2018

Prasad meets Pichai, seeks Google’s involvement in empowering Indians

"Asked them to work for creating more awareness among India's farmers about weather & scientific farming," the minister added.

August 31, 2018

Google announces Rs 7 crore for Kerala, Karnataka rebuilding

Google and its employees will donate Rs 7 crore towards relief and restoration work in Kerala as well as Karnataka, the company’s vice president, Southeast Asia and India, Rajan Anandan said at an event on Tuesday.

August 28, 2018

Google celebrates Don Bradman’s 110th birth anniversary

The doodle displays an animated image of Bradman, who played 52 Tests amassing scoring 6,996 runs at an unmatched average of 99.94.

August 27, 2018

Google remembers renowned Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai with a doodle

Many of her writings including “Lihaaf” and “Angarey”, were banned in South Asia due to their feminist and reformist point of views. Her stories have now become classics for her female protagonists depict the real emotions and the real world.

August 21, 2018

Punjab CM seeks help of Facebook, Google to fight drug menace

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has sought technical support from Facebook and Google to combat the drug menace prevalent among the youth of the state.

August 16, 2018

Google takes new measures to increase transparency on political ads

Google said the addition of the political advertising report and the new Ad Library are new transparency features aimed at implementing new requirements for any advertiser purchasing election ads on Google in the US

August 16, 2018

Google celebrates Independence Day with ‘truck art’ doodle

Google Doodle features a couple of peacocks crossing their beaks at the centre, and the national birds are flanked on both sides by a Bengal tiger and an elephant.

August 15, 2018

If Aadhaar helpline number stored automatically, delete it: Maharashtra police

The numbers can be manually deleted from the phones, Google said, promising to fix the issue in future editions of its setup wizard.

August 4, 2018

It was Google! Tech giant owns up to mysterious entry of UIDAI number into phone contacts

Google apologised for “any concern that this might have caused”, and said it “would like to assure everyone that this is not a situation of an unauthorised access of their Android devices”.

August 4, 2018

Google hires Sony’s VR expert Richard Marks

According to a report in The Information, Google was working on a service, codenamed 'Yeti', to stream games Chromecast style to a Google-made game console

July 31, 2018

US President Donald Trump attacks EU over fine on Google

A White House spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

July 19, 2018

Google faces record 4.3-bn-euro EU fine over Android, Pichai says will appeal

The EU ordered Apple in 2016 to pay Ireland 13 billion euros in back taxes that the iconic maker of iPhones and iPads had avoided by a tax deal with Dublin.

July 18, 2018

Google honours Georges Lemaitre, the Belgian cosmologist, physicist and priest behind Big Bang theory

In 1927, Lemaitre propounded for the first time ever that universe is constantly expanding, which proved to be a premise to the Big Bang theory.

July 17, 2018

Google brings peer-to-peer payments service to ‘Google Pay’

Google has integrated its peer-to-peer payments service "Google Pay Send" into its digital payments solution "Google Pay."

July 11, 2018

YouTube to invest $25mn in countering fake news

Video sharing platform YouTube has announced that it will invest $25 million to fight against fake news, especially for the urgent coverage of breaking news. YouTube, which is owned by Google, said on Monday that this investment will be part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), first introduced in March by the tech giant to …

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July 10, 2018