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Google services like Gmail, Workspace suffers brief outage globally

Around 60 per cent people on downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages, reported problems with Google website while 35 per cent had issues with login

Centre invites Big Tech, start-ups to discuss digital competition law

Big Tech companies have been asked to come separately on March 11 to make suggestions on the digital competition law

How Google sunsetting Optimize is an opportunity for Indian tech startups

With Google announcing the sunset clause, several players are gearing up to take its market share

Google achieves quantum error correction milestone: Sundar Pichai

"Instead of working on the physical qubits on our quantum processor one by one, we are treating a group of them as one logical qubit," said Pichai

Tech giant Google announces two-pane view for Gmail on Android foldables

"As part of our mission to provide a top-class user experience on large screen devices, Android foldable-device users have been able to access a 2-pane view for Google Meet and Gmail," the giant said

Google may integrate AI text-to-image generator to Gboard for Android

This Imagen feature will appear in the shortcuts strip/page, like Clipboard, Translate, and One-handed

Google awards record $12 mn to 700 bug researchers in 2022, Indian leads

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company awarded a record $12 mn in bug bounties to more than 700 researchers in 2022, including the largest award in its bug bounty programme history

Google lays off 100 robot workers used to clean its cafeterias, says report

Alphabet, Google's parent company, recently laid off 12,000 workers and even 100 robots that cleaned its cafeterias at its headquarters

Regulators now gear up to probe Google Maps in potential anti-trust case

After facing an intense scrutiny of its Search and advertising businesses, Google is reportedly facing another potential probe from the US Department of Justice (DoJ)

Google disobeying CCI orders blatantly: Digital start-up thinktank

The CCI in October 2022 directed Google to make significant changes to its Play Store policies after it found several anti-competitive practices on the platform

Android case: CCI's Rs 1,337 crore fine unreasonable, Google tells NCLAT

The tech giant also said CCI itself had recognised that Google's Mobile Application Distribution Agreement (MADA) was beneficial to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)

Google blatantly disobeying CCI orders, charges app developers 11-26%: ADIF

The change claimed by Google is in response to regulatory developments in India, which refers to the CCI orders

Google fixes Gmail IMAP sync issue that was affecting Outlook users

"The Gmail sync issue with Microsoft servers when using IMAP is now resolved. Thank you for your patience while we resolved the problem," the company said in its status page

Google to now start calling 'Chat' as 'RCS' on Messages app: Report

Users will also see the 'Chatting with X' changed to 'RCS chat with X' while they are in an end-to-end encrypted conversation, the report said

YouTube Music now let users create artist-based customise radio stations

Users can choose up to 30 artist when creating a custom station, and can also specify whether they want to hear music just from those artists or from artists that are similar to those they have chosen

Vodafone inks new deal with Google on RCS messaging, Pixel devices

The agreement will allow Vodafone customers to enjoy rich new messaging experiences by leveraging Google Jibe Cloud to power Vodafone's use of Rich Communications Services (RCS)

Supreme Court takes 1st case on federal law that shields internet firms

The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet by shielding Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites by others. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday about whether the family of an American college student killed in a terrorist attack in Paris can sue Google for helping extremists spread their message and attract new recruits. The case is the court's first look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, adopted early in the internet age, in 1996, to protect companies from being sued over information their users post online. Lower courts have broadly interpreted the law to protect the industry, which the companies and their allies say has fuelled the meteoric growth of the internet and encouraged the removal of harmful content. But critics argue that the companies have not done nearly enough and that the law should not block lawsuits over the

Google working on new shortcut to quickly close tabs on Chrome: Report

The new shortcut is expected to be a mouse input, which will allow users to close the active tab with a double-click action