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Google starts to roll out ‘Quick Phrases’ feature

Washington: Google Assistant will soon be able to respond to certain phrases without requiring that you say the wake phrase “Hey, Google”. As per GSM Arena, ‘Quick Phrases’ is now rolling out to a Google Pixel 3 XL that was running the Android 12 Beta. It’s not known whether Android 12 is a requirement for […]

Google Meet can now turn live speech into translated captions

Washington: International teams that use Google Meet a lot have a new tool in their arsenal — the app can now generate live translated captions. According to Mashable, on Monday, Google announced the rollout of live translated captions in Meet. When the feature is on, the app will automatically translate spoken language into another language, […]

Google removes 95,680 content pieces in July in India: Compliance report

New Delhi: Google received 36,934 complaints from users and removed 95,680 pieces of content based on those complaints in July, the tech giant company said in its monthly transparency reports released on Tuesday. In addition to reports from users, Google also removed 5,76,892 pieces of content in July as a result of automated detection. The […]

Google updates Meet app to warn users causing echo

Washington: Seems like Google has finally realised that it’s high time to make meetings more convenient by updating its video-communication service app that will now warn users with an alert message if it thinks they are creating an echo. The company announced the news in a blog post on Monday that the Google Meet app […]

Google removes nearly 1.5 Lakh content peices in May-June in India

New Delhi: Google removed 71,132 pieces of content in May and took 83,613 removal actions in June following user complaints, the company said in its monthly transparency reports released on Friday. In addition to reports from users, Google also removed 6,34,357 pieces of content in May and 5,26,866 in June as a result of automated […]

Google Meet to cap group video calls at 60 minutes for free users

Washington: Tech giant Google has brought an end to its unlimited group video calls in Meet for free Gmail accounts. Now users with free accounts logging on to the service will have group calls capped at an hour rather than the previous 24-hour meeting duration. As per Mashable, Google Meet calls with three or more […]

Google parent agrees to $310M settlement for suit on sexual misconduct of executives

New York: Google’s parent company has reached a $310 million settlement in a shareholder lawsuit over its treatment of allegations of executives’ sexual misconduct. Alphabet Inc. said Friday that it will prohibit severance packages for anyone fired for misconduct or is the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation. A special team will investigate any allegations […]

New Russian do-it-all tech giant Sberbank to rival Google, Facebook, Amazon

New Delhi/ Moscow: Russia’s biggest bank Sberbank on Thursday announced a major makeover to transform itself into a technology giant with the launch of a host of products and services in the digital space which will be first rolled out in its home market and taken abroad later, including to India. However, the expansion would […]

US Justice department to bring antitrust case against Google, says report

US Attorney General William P Barr plans to bring an antitrust case against Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and has dismissed lawyers’ request for more time to build a strong case, the New York Times reported. Most of the more than 40-member team of lawyers who have been investigating the tech giant were opposed to orders […]

Australia unveils law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news content

Sydney/Canberra: Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the “mandatory code of conduct” to govern relations between the struggling news industry and the tech firms after 18 […]

Black video artists sue YouTube for discrimination

San Francisco: A lawsuit filed this week in federal court accuses YouTube of discriminating against African American video makers and viewers by factoring in race when it comes to filtering or monetising content. The suit filed in a courthouse in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose on Tuesday seeks class action status and names […]

France calls out US’ bully stance on taxing Big Tech

Paris: France and the US locked horns Thursday over taxing digital giants such as Google and Facebook, after Washington said it was breaking off talks aimed at establishing a global framework for making the companies pay larger levies where they operate. “This letter is a provocation,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, confirming receipt […]

What’s being done about fake news? EU wants Google, Facebook monthly reports

Brussels: A senior European Union official warned online platforms like Google and Facebook on Wednesday to step up the fight against fake news, coming notably from countries like China and Russia, but she praised the approach of Twitter for fact-checking a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump. Unveiling a plan to fight disinformation linked to […]

No way we gonna pay: Google snubs Australia government demand to pay news publishers

Sydney: Google has rejected demands it pay hundreds of millions of dollars per year in compensation to Australian news media under a government-imposed revenue sharing deal. The company’s top executive in Australia said Google made barely Aus$10 million (US$6.7 million) per year from news-linked advertising, a fraction of a government watchdog’s estimates for the sector. […]

Sundar Pichai says Google stands with black community; had opposed Muslim ban earlier

Washington: Google stands in support of racial equality, the tech giant’s Indian-American CEO Sunder Pichai has said, expressing solidarity with the African-American community in the US in wake of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd. Floyd, a 46-year-old African American restaurant worker, died in Minneapolis on Monday after a […]