Google: News

23 Jul 2018

iOS

Google Assistant now shows a 'visual overview' of your day

Virtual assistants are already making our lives easier, and it seems like Google is pushing the frontiers even further.

21 Jul 2018

Android

Google reportedly working on Fuchsia, that would replace Android

Over the last couple of years, a team of engineers within Google have been working on a stealth project dubbed Fuchsia.

21 Jul 2018

Gmail

Google's Move Mirror AI experiment matches your moves with photos

Google loves Artificial Intelligence (AI) and uses it to power its Gmail, smart Assistant and even advertising business.

20 Jul 2018

India

12 'much-needed' features we want to see in WhatsApp

WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most popular instant messaging app with over 1.5bn users worldwide.

18 Jul 2018

YouTube

This is how you can become 'anonymous' on Internet

Of late, it has come to light that huge amounts of our data are stored and used without our knowledge by tech giants.

17 Jul 2018

Android

WhatsApp Android beta gets 'Mute' button for notifications panel

Following reports that WhatsApp was testing two new features to be incorporated into the notifications panel, the Facebook-owned messaging service has now rolled out the 'Mute' option on the notification panel for all users having the latest WhatsApp beta version on their Android devices.

17 Jul 2018

Android

#WorldEmojiDay: The woman who decides how Google's emojis look like

Jennifer Daniel is the director of Android emojis at Google, or more loosely, the company's emoji interpreter.

16 Jul 2018

Google Chrome

#TechBytes: A guide to using Google Chrome extensions safely

With nearly 60% of market share across all platforms as of June 2018, Google Chrome sits on the throne of internet browsers.

16 Jul 2018

Hyderabad

Google engineer lynching: 'He was sophisticated,couldn't be mistaken for child-lifter'

The family of the Google engineer lynched in Bidar Friday has demanded a strict investigation into the incident, expressing disbelief that rumors about 'child-lifters' triggered the attack.

16 Jul 2018

Android

#CareerBytes: These 6 online-courses will make you an Android developer

Android is the world's most popular operating system. While it is found mostly on smartphones, Android is used on many other smart devices like intelligent speakers, televisions, watches, etc.

15 Jul 2018

Truecaller

Google's Phone app can now filter spam calls

Google has updated its Phone app to add a feature that will detect spam calls and filter them out.

15 Jul 2018

Karnataka

Google engineer beaten to death over WhatsApp rumors in Karnataka

In yet another disturbing case of lynching, a Google engineer was assaulted to death in Bidar of Karnataka on suspicion of him being a 'child-lifter.'

12 Jul 2018

Android

After Android, iOS devices to get Gboard's Morse code option

Months after it released the feature for Android, Google has now announced that it's bringing Morse code as an input option on Gboard for iOS devices.

11 Jul 2018

Dark Web

What is Dark Web and how can you access it?

Believe it or not, not all of the internet is visible to everyone. In fact, a major part of it is "hidden," and cannot be accessed through browsers like Chrome.

10 Jul 2018

iOS

Google Pay now supports peer-to-peer payments, mobile ticketing

Google is rolling out a bunch of updates on its Google Pay platform.

10 Jul 2018

Android

How to get Android P features on any Android phone

If your phone is not compliant with the developer preview of Android P, there is still a way you can experience the several new features of Google's latest operating system.

10 Jul 2018

Google Chrome

Google might face a record penalty in the EU

Google might be facing a record penalty this month from European regulators over what they hold to be an unfair trade practice.

09 Jul 2018

Google Maps

7 Google products you didn't know existed

Google has not only become synonymous with web searches, but it has also become well known for providing other indispensable services like Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, and YouTube.

08 Jul 2018

Technology

Itty bitty sites are entirely contained within their own links

Nicholas Jitkoff, former designer at Google and current vice president of design at Dropbox, has developed a new web tool called "itty bitty site."

08 Jul 2018

Smartphones

The woman who decides how Google's emojis look like

Jennifer Daniel is the director of Android emojis at Google, or more loosely, the company's emoji interpreter.

08 Jul 2018

India

How IIIT-B student turned 'learning opportunity' to Rs. 1.2cr Google-package!

For 22-year-old Mumbaikar Aditya Paliwal, what began as a learning opportunity resulted in a job offer from Google's prestigious New York-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) team, at a bumper package of Rs. 1.2cr!

08 Jul 2018

Sundar Pichai

Google confirms its human-sounding AI won't take away call-center jobs

Ever since Google CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled its human-sounding Duplex AI at the I/O developers conference earlier this year, there had been growing apprehension that Duplex might replace human labor in call centers.

08 Jul 2018

X

What will happen to your digital personality when you die?

It's important to think about what happens to our digital selves after we die.

07 Jul 2018

Android

#CareerBytes: These 6 online-courses will make you an Android developer

Android is the world's most popular operating system. While it is found mostly on smartphones, Android is used on many other smart devices like intelligent speakers, televisions, watches, etc.

04 Jul 2018

Android

Google Android P Beta 3 released: Here are the details

Google has now released the third beta version of Android P, also known as Android P Developer Preview 4/Android P Beta 3.

03 Jul 2018

India

How Android Go can be a game-changer for Google

The Android Go operating system (OS) by Google is an optimized version of the latest Android Oreo OS which is specially designed for low-configuration smartphones.

03 Jul 2018

YouTube

What'll happen to your Google account after you pass away?

If you haven't already, you might want to think about what will happen to your Google account once you pass away.

03 Jul 2018

LG

Reportedly, Google will release its own smartwatch this year

According to the Business Insider, 2018 might finally turn out to be the year when Google releases its own smartwatch.

01 Jul 2018

Netflix

After Netflix, and Snapchat, Google set to enter gaming industry

Going by this week's announcements, the gaming industry is set to see a bunch of new players soon.

01 Jul 2018

Android

#CareerBytes: These 6 online-courses will make you an Android developer

Android is the world's most popular operating system. While it is found mostly on smartphones, Android is used on many other smart devices like intelligent speakers, televisions, watches, etc.

Google's DeepMind AI can create 3D models of 2D images

Google's UK-based sister company DeepMind has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can create scenes in 3D after having observed them in the form of 2D images.

29 Jun 2018

India

All the apps you can now use on JioPhone

The JioPhone, is a smart feature phone, that doesn't have a touchscreen but comes with 4G connectivity.

29 Jun 2018

WhatsApp

Android Messages: WhatsApp competitor or glorified SMS app?

On Tuesday, Google announced that it had rolled out Android Messages for Web to all its users around the world.

28 Jun 2018

India

Google leads $22 million investment in KaiOS (that powers JioPhone)

KaiOS, the company that has built an operating system (OS) for the unique category of smart feature phones and powers the popular Reliance JioPhone, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Google.

28 Jun 2018

Smartphones

Leaked: Here's how Google's Pixel 3 devices will look like

We already know that Google's new 2018 flagship phones, the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL, are going to be big and expensive.

27 Jun 2018

Google Chrome

Google's biggest-ever rebranding of its ad lineup

Google's is rebranding its complex lineup of ad products and categorizing all of them into three major brands. With this, Google is retiring the DoubleClick and AdWords brand names.

27 Jun 2018

Android

Send texts directly from computer with Android Messages for Web

Google has announced that the global roll-out of the web version of its Android Messages app is now complete. The feature had started rolling out last week.

27 Jun 2018

Google Maps

Google Maps becomes personalized, helps explore restaurants and events

Google had announced several major updates to Google Maps at its I/O 2018 annual developer conference last month.

27 Jun 2018

Flipkart

Flipkart's Grand Gadget Days sale: All details here

E-commerce giant Flipkart is hosting the 'Great Gadget Days' sale, that started yesterday and will go on till June 28.

26 Jun 2018

India

Google honors India's first recording-artist Gauhar Jaan with a doodle

Google today remembered the legendary music and dance exponent Gauhar Jaan. It commemorated her 145th birth anniversary with a doodle.