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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

A family's tragedy leads to US Supreme Court social media showdown

Arguments in Supreme Court scheduled for today. The case puts online giant's $168 billion in ad revenue at risk

Gmail update: Admins can now disable spam filters, hide warning banners

Google announced that it is rolling out a new feature in Gmail, which will allow admins to disable spam filters and hide warning banners for all users or for "a specific allowlist of senders".

Google Contacts' new feature let users add, edit contacts from sidebar

Google announced that it is rolling out a new feature to its contact management service 'Google Contacts', which will allow users to create new contacts and edit existing contacts from the "Sidebar"

Supreme Court weighs liability shield for internet giants like Google

Islamic State gunmen killed American college student Nohemi Gonzalez as she sat with friends in a Paris bistro in 2015, one of several attacks on a Friday night in the French capital that left 130 people dead. Her family's lawsuit claiming YouTube's recommendations helped the Islamic State group's recruitment is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday about how broadly a law written in 1996 shields tech companies from liability. The law, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is credited with helping create today's internet. A related case, set for arguments Wednesday, involves a terrorist attack at a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2017 that killed 39 people and prompted a suit against Twitter, Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube. The tech industry is facing criticism from the left for not doing enough to remove harmful content from the internet and from the right for censoring conservative speech. Now, the high court is .

Google rolls out memory, energy saver modes for Chrome on Mac, Windows

Chrome's Memory Saver automatically "frees up memory from inactive tabs" to give other pages and apps on users' computers more resources

Google Meet users gets new 360-degree video backgrounds on mobile

Google has launched several new 360-degree video backgrounds for Meet users on Mobile for both iOS and Android.

Google to soon migrate Calendar, Assistant Reminders to 'Google Tasks'

With the change, users will be able to see and manage all of their to-dos in one place - Tasks