Search giant Google has an annual tradition of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin penning letter to employees on the company’s progress and priorities during the year. The custom dates back to the year 2004 when Page and Brin wrote the famous letter titled “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” This year Google’s new CEO Sundar Pichai got to write the letter. This […]
City boy Sumesh Dugar has developed a software that can recognize emotions. Dugar, who won the top honour among 10,000 startups at Launchpad by Google, was also awarded credit worth $20,000 by Google to develop ‘TrueEmoji’ further. “Humans have allowed emotionless technology to take over their lives, which has made us robotic. My city Kolkata, which is highly emotive, made me feel this deficiency. Moreover, all over social media, there […]
Hackers affiliated to ISIS terror group who promised to take down International search engine giant Google has instead targeted a small Indian tech firm, according to a media report. Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), a hacking group affiliated to ISIS, hit www.Addgoogleonline.Com registered by Gandani K for Indian tech firm Always Say, which offers search engine optimisation (SEO) services to local clients. According to vocative.Com website, CCA had vowed on messaging […]
Google is ramping up investments in India for development of more local products, building engineering capabilities and setting up a new campus in the country as it aims to bring all Indians online. India as one of the most important markets, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, “Our focus is on bringing Internet access to everyone, making sure our products are working for them in a meaningful way and then ensure […]
Sundar Pichai may be top dog at Google, but he can’t make you snap your finger and control a smartwatch. Or rub on a cloth to turn on a light bulb. That is the specialty of Hakim Raja, the lead hardware engineer for Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, the team that works on some of the coolest projects at the company. Raja, in his early 30s, is a relative […]
The body of a man missing for almost a decade has been found inside a sunken car – which has been visible on Google Maps for years. Davie Lee Niles was 72-years-old when he disappeared in 2006 after being diagnosed with cancer and depression. He told WOOD-TV: “All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘Whoah, there’s a car out there’. “No one could ever see it. It was murky and things […]
Anmol Tukrel, a 16-year-old Indian-origin Canadian citizen, has designed a personalised search engine which he claims is 47 percent more accurate than Google. The young student designed the search engine as part of a high school project and also to submit to the Google Science Fair, pressexaminer.com reported. Tukrel came across the idea of a personalised search engine during an internship stint in India at Bengaluru-based adtech firm IceCream Labs. […]
We’ve seen oddly partisan answers on Google before (remember its answer to “What killed the dinosaurs?”), but this one will really rile up the Republicans. Ask Google “Who’ll be the next president?” and you’ll be given this reply: It’s not the result of dirty tricks by Hillary’s campaign, but due to Google offering up a card that draws on a paragraph from this Huffington Post article giving reasons why it […]
Google India on Friday launched a range of new and affordable Chromebooks and Chromebox targeted at education and businesses. “The Chromebook was launched in India a year ago. Now we are launching three new Chromebooks,” Smita Hashim, global product manager, Chrome OS, said here. Two Chromebooks, from Xolo and Nexian and priced at Rs. 12,999, will be available from Amazon and Snapdeal and the pre-order booking will start from Friday. […]
The innovative minds behind Google have repeatedly declared immortality is not a fantasy but a certainty. Bill Maris, the president and managing partner of Google Ventures, suggested the means to combat all diseases and age-related conditions could be available within his lifetime. Maris said, We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough […]
