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According to The Verge, this feature is part of a broader rollout of context-aware capabilities in Gemini, designed to enhance the way users interact with their digital files

Updated On: 22 Dec 2024 | 4:46 PM IST

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced a 10 per cent reduction in managerial roles, aiming to improve efficiency in response to rising AI competition and economic challenges

Updated On: 20 Dec 2024 | 4:15 PM IST

Google has released the Android 16 DP2 for eligible Pixel smartphones. The second version introduces a new option for accessing the in-display fingerprint sensor even if the screen is off

Updated On: 19 Dec 2024 | 4:07 PM IST

The collective bargaining agreement between Accenture and the Alphabet Workers Union covers about 25 workers including writers and design analysts

Updated On: 19 Dec 2024 | 8:22 AM IST

Built on the model Google introduced earlier this year, Veo 2 can generate videos in 4K resolution and lengths in minutes, while OpenAI's Sora can do full-HD resolution short videos

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 2:35 PM IST

Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2 is available with the build number BP11.241121.010 for eligible Google Pixel devices enrolled in the Android 15 beta program

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 1:39 PM IST

Sanjay Gupta, President of Asia-Pacific, Google said India's vibrant digital landscape has been a source of immense inspiration and innovation for the company

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 1:18 AM IST

Apple, Alphabet and TikTok did not immediately comment. On Monday, ByteDance and TikTok made an emergency bid to temporarily block the law pending a review by the US Supreme Court

Updated On: 13 Dec 2024 | 11:39 PM IST

The Pixel 9a is expected to feature flat side rails, departing from the signature visor-style camera housing of previous Google phones

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 4:12 PM IST

The Australian government said Thursday it will tax large digital platforms and search engines unless they agree to share revenue with Australian news media organisations. The tax would apply from January 1 to tech companies that earn more than 250 million Australian dollars ($160 million) a year in revenue from Australia, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said. They include Meta, Google, Alphabet and ByteDance. The tax would be offset through money paid to Australian media organizations. The size of the tax is not clear. "The real objective ... is not to raise revenue -- we hope not to raise any revenue. The real objective is to incentivise agreement-making between platforms and news media businesses in Australia, Jones told reporters. The move comes after Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced that it would not renew three-year deals to pay Australian news publishers for their content. A previous government ...

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 11:13 AM IST

Industry players caution that it may take several years for this innovation to become commercially viable

Updated On: 11 Dec 2024 | 11:56 PM IST

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said global tech giant Google and Andhra Pradesh are eyeing a big Artificial Intelligence opportunity in Visakhapatnam. Addressing a district collectors conference at the secretariat, the CM said Google and the southern state have signed an agreement, which would catapult the port city's development. Recently when IT Minister (Nara Lokesh) went to America, he went to Google campus and requested them. And the result of that is today Google has (agreed to come to Vizag). We signed an MoU (agreement) before coming here. We are looking at a big opportunity in AI, said Naidu. After proposing Vizag as a prospective location, the CM said Google executives visited Andhra Pradesh's largest city for a firsthand survey and were totally impressed. If big firms like Google come to Visakhapatnam under strategic investment, that is a game changer, he said, adding that data centres, AI, machine learning (ML) and deep tech, along with internet sea ...

Updated On: 11 Dec 2024 | 3:43 PM IST

Applying artificial intelligence to the search business that made Google a household name remains the largest gambit for the company, CIO Ruth Porat said

Updated On: 11 Dec 2024 | 9:07 AM IST

The conversation happened after the US Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation

Updated On: 11 Dec 2024 | 8:13 AM IST

The move is aimed at encouraging developers, so they can build more for free

Updated On: 10 Dec 2024 | 11:29 PM IST

Some scientists disputed the claim. In the years since, as traditional supercomputers grew more powerful, they matched the feats of Google's quantum computer

Updated On: 10 Dec 2024 | 10:46 PM IST

Google says that globally, there are billions of searches a day on Google-and 15 per cent of them are brand new

Updated On: 10 Dec 2024 | 6:53 PM IST

Google claims its new Willow chip completed a task in under 5 minutes, a calculation the fastest supercomputer would take 10 septillion years to perform

Updated On: 10 Dec 2024 | 10:59 AM IST

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Google said that it has found a way to string together the Willow chip's qubits so that error rates go down as the number of qubits goes up

Updated On: 10 Dec 2024 | 10:28 AM IST