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Google launches Nearby Share Beta for transfer between Windows, Android

It allows users to "quickly transfer photos, videos, documents, audio files or entire folders between your Android device and Windows PCs"

NCLAT's 'effects analysis' order on Google may hinder other big tech probes

Present competition law does not provide for effects analysis. Conducting one would mean letting anti-competitive practices continue and taking action once adverse effects have already been created

Weekend Bites: Google, Sebi, fraud accounts, and a new Space Odyssey

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

Google AI-based tiny syringe to inject gene therapy, tumour-killing drugs

The researchers thought it might be possible to modify them to deliver proteins to human cells by re-engineering the tail fibres to bind to different receptors

Indian start-ups see apex tribunal's order against Google as a win

But fees charged by Google for app purchases remain a concern

Google launches 'about this result' to evaluate source of information

International feature will also be available in 9 Indian languages to take 'more informed decision' about websites

Google rolls out persistent filters 'search chips' in Drive on web

The search chips feature will be available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers

Google starts testing generative AI features in Gmail, Docs: Report

The company will expand the availability of the generative AI features "over time", the report said

Tech sector H-1B workers' spouses can continue to work in US, says judge

The ability of H-1B holders' spouses to also get jobs in the US has been a major attraction for highly skilled foreign workers, the tech companies have argued

Google denies report of copying ChatGPT to train its own AI chatbot Bard

Bard, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, is based on a large language model (LLM)

Google gets relief on four key CCI directives, but Rs 1,338-cr fine stays

NCLAT upholds competition watchdog's observation that Google misused dominant position in Android ecosystem

NCLAT upholds Competition Commission's Rs 1,337 crore penalty on Google

The NCLAT bench comprising chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and member Alok Srivastava said that the CCI investigation was not in violation of the principles of natural justice

Google adds 'Perspectives', 'About this author' features in Search

Google has introduced new features to its Search engine -- Perspectives and About this author -- and also expanded some of its current tools, including About this result

Google 'repeatedly disobeying' CCI's orders on billing: Startup think tank

Accuses tech giant of charging an "exorbitant" commission without providing additional service, while India's entire payment industry is working on 1-5% service fees

Competition Commission conducting inquiries against big tech firms: Govt

Competition Commission is conducting inquiries against Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato, Swiggy, BookMyShow, Apple, WhatsApp, Facebook (Meta) and Google for alleged anti-competitive practices, the government said on Tuesday. To a query in the Rajya Sabha on whether the government is aware of the fact that anti-competitive practices are indulged by big tech companies like Amazon, Flipkart, Google, Meta, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google etc in the country, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman replied in the affirmative. In a written reply, the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister said the Competition Commission of India (CCI) after conducting inquiries in three different cases, passed orders in the matter related to Google on January 31, 2018, October 20, 2022, and October 25, 2022. In the matter related to MakeMyTrip-Go and OYO, the order was passed on October 19, 2022. "Appeals have been filed against these orders passed by CCI. Inquiries against Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato, Swiggy

MeitY Startup Hub, Google to support 100 Indian early to mid-stage startups

About 50 per cent of the cohort comes from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, including Varanasi, Ernakulam, Surat, Dehradun, Allahabad, and many others

NCLAT to pronounce verdict in Google Android case on Wednesday

After the apex court refused to grant interim relief to Google on January 19, the matter was sent back to NCLAT for the final order by March 31

AI search startup 'Perplexity' raises $26 mn to offer rival to Google

Perplexity is part of a growing wave of startups seeking to use AI to loosen Google's hold on online search. Among its investors are a striking number of Google's own AI researchers

Here's what Google's Artificial Intelligence-powered Bard can do

To use, or not to use, Bard? That is the Shakespearean question an Associated Press reporter sought to answer while testing out Google's artificially intelligent chatbot. The recently rolled-out bot dubbed Bard is the internet search giant's answer to the ChatGPT tool that Microsoft has been melding into its Bing search engine and other software. During several hours of interaction, the AP learned Bard is quite forthcoming about its unreliability and other shortcomings, including its potential for mischief in next year's US presidential election. Even as it occasionally warned of the problems it could unleash, Bard repeatedly emphasized its belief that it will blossom into a force for good. At one point in its recurring soliloquies about its potential upsides, Bard dreamed about living up to the legacy of the English playwright that inspired its name. Bard explained that its creators at Google thought Shakespeare would be a good role model for me, as he was a master of language an

Amazon, Google scramble to keep pace with OpenAI despite huge AI teams

The numbers underscore how seriously the world's biggest technology firms have been taking their work on artificial intelligence, but also how slow and cautious they have been to create services