GOOGLE engineers are working with U.N. child agency UNICEF to analyse data in an effort to map and anticipate the spread of the Zika virus, linked to birth defects among children in Brazil, the company said on Thursday. According to Reuters, Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said in a statement it was providing a […]
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IN support of media organisations globally, Google has said it will open its ‘Project Shield’ technology to protect news sites and portals related to human rights from attacks that threaten free expression and access to information. The move comes at a time when there is a raging debate globally about freedom of expression for media […]
Read More Google on Friday said it will be shuttering Picasa to shift its focus to the new Google Photos service launched less than a year ago. “We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across […]
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GOOGLE.COM, one of the most valuable domains on the Internet, was mistakenly sold for $12 last fall. Google paid $12,000 to get it back. The buyer was a former Googler, Sanmay Ved, who discovered Google.com on the list of domains available for sale on September 29. He bought it, charging the $12 fee to his […]
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THREE years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin’s nuclear fusion programme, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google’s Solve for X conference when a man he had never met knelt down to talk to him. They spent 20 minutes discussing how much time, money and technology separated humanity from a […]
Read More Google has fixed an “automated” error which saw its online translating tool convert “Russian Federation” into “Mordor”. Other erroneous translations included “russians” becoming “occupiers” and the name of Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, rendered as “sad little horse”. Mordor is the fictional realm in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books, also known as the […]
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