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Google's Gemini new update enables users to directly query PDFs on mobile

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

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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai announces 10% job cuts in managerial roles

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

Google releases second developer preview of Android 16: Check new features

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

Google contract staff reach union deal banning keystroke monitoring

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

Google goes after OpenAI with Veo 2 video generation AI model: Details here

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

Google releases Android 15 QPR2 beta 2 for eligible Pixel devices: Details

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

Google appoints Preeti Lobana as new country manager, VP for India

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

US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores on Jan 19

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

Google Pixel 9a could launch in March with these specifications: Details

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

Australia to tax digital platforms, search engines that don't pay for news

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 ...

Google's Willow milestone may revolutionise AI, quantum computing

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

Google eyeing big AI opportunity in Vizag: Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu

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 ...

Google's biggest bet is AI for search, says investment chief Ruth Porat

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

Google asks FTC to break up Microsoft's cloud deal with OpenAI: Report

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

Google Maps expands free usage for developers worldwide on all products

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

Quantum computing is closer to reality after another Google breakthrough

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

Google's 2024 search trends: IPL to K-dramas, what Indians searched most

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

Google announces Willow quantum computing chip: All you need to know

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

Google says it has cracked quantum computing challenge with a new chip

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