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Google recently found itself in hot water for the AI Overviews feature after it reportedly began showing incorrect and unhelpful answers for searched queries. The tech giant also issued a statement claiming it was working to address the issues. Now, a new report has found that the visibility of AI Overviews has dropped drastically and is appearing ...

Microsoft Copilot is now available on the popular messaging app Telegram. The tech giant integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with Telegram on Tuesday, extending its capabilities within the app. Telegram users can now converse with, ask questions, and search the internet with the Copilot. Currently, the feature is released in beta, a...

Google is planning to test ads on its recently launched artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search experience dubbed AI Overviews. Notably, AI Overviews is a rebranded Search Generative Experience (SGE) which was released as an experimental feature to beta testers in May 2023. Now that the feature has been made generally available in the US, the t...

Tech giants Microsoft and Google have moved the Delhi High Court against its single-judge bench's order directing search engines to proactively remove non-consensual intimate images (NCII) from the internet without requiring specific URLs.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday ordered a probe into Google amidst an ongoing dispute with companies in India over the former's in-app billing system. The antitrust body has said that the search giant implemented its policies in a "discriminatory manner".

Google Drive is getting a couple of updates that will improve the usability of the cloud-based storage platform. The tech giant is adding a new transcode to improve the playback speed and rebuffering of videos played within the Drive. It is also improving the search functionality on iOS and adding query filters to help users quickly get to the desi...

Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said. The contract with Alphabet-owned Google is worth about $60 million (roughly Rs. 497 crore) per year, according to one of the sources.

Google on Wednesday announced that it was laying off hundreds of employees across its Google Assistant team while a similar number of users were laid off from its Devices and Services team, according to the company. The majority of the layoffs from the latter will comprise its 1P augmented reality (AR) teams, according to the search giant.

Google is reportedly considering development of new AI-powered chatbot that uses the photos and search history of a user to understand and tell their life story. The search giant reportedly wanted its purported Project Ellman chatbot to be "Your Life Story Teller".

The Fallout TV show trailer is out, offering a glimpse at its irradiated post-apocalyptic world and its retro-futuristic vibe. The series largely follows a young Vault dweller Lucy, who heads out into the nuclear wasteland in search of answers, in addition to a mutated cowboy and a wannabe soldier Maximus. HBO’s Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan ...

Google allowed Spotify to bypass the company's mandatory Play Store fees, according to a company executive. During the ongoing Epic vs Google trial, the search giant's head of partnership testified that Spotify did not pay the company any fees when it processed customer payments on its own. If customers chose to pay Spotify via Google's in-app bill...

Google paid Samsung $8 billion in order to make the Play Store, Google Search, and Google Assistant the default options on the South Korean company's smartphones, according to information that has emerged during the ongoing Google vs Epic trial. Meanwhile, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai also testified that the search giant pays Apple 36 percent of Safa...

Google launched its generative AI-infused Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the US earlier this year and expanded the AI search tool to India and Japan in August. Now, Google is expanding SGE to more than 120 new countries and territories, the search engine giant said in blog post Wednesday.

Google has announced new shopping features and tools that it says will help customers find the best deals on products. Just in time for the holiday season, the search engine giant’s new tools will allow buyers to save products, track prices and get price insights in Google Chrome and Google Search. They will also be able to see the best deals fro...

Google is rolling out passkey support for personal accounts, months after the company added support for the secure login mechanism. The search giant aims to move to the 'passwordless' but secure alternative to allows users to login to their apps and services using biometric authentication on their devices. Passkeys can also keep users safer online,...

Google recently found itself in hot water for the AI Overviews feature after it reportedly began showing incorrect and unhelpful answers for searched queries. The tech giant also issued a statement claiming it was working to address the issues. Now, a new report has found that the visibility of AI Overviews has dropped drastically and is appearing ...

Microsoft Copilot is now available on the popular messaging app Telegram. The tech giant integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with Telegram on Tuesday, extending its capabilities within the app. Telegram users can now converse with, ask questions, and search the internet with the Copilot. Currently, the feature is released in beta, a...

Google is planning to test ads on its recently launched artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search experience dubbed AI Overviews. Notably, AI Overviews is a rebranded Search Generative Experience (SGE) which was released as an experimental feature to beta testers in May 2023. Now that the feature has been made generally available in the US, the t...

Tech giants Microsoft and Google have moved the Delhi High Court against its single-judge bench's order directing search engines to proactively remove non-consensual intimate images (NCII) from the internet without requiring specific URLs.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday ordered a probe into Google amidst an ongoing dispute with companies in India over the former's in-app billing system. The antitrust body has said that the search giant implemented its policies in a "discriminatory manner".

Google Drive is getting a couple of updates that will improve the usability of the cloud-based storage platform. The tech giant is adding a new transcode to improve the playback speed and rebuffering of videos played within the Drive. It is also improving the search functionality on iOS and adding query filters to help users quickly get to the desi...

Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said. The contract with Alphabet-owned Google is worth about $60 million (roughly Rs. 497 crore) per year, according to one of the sources.

Google on Wednesday announced that it was laying off hundreds of employees across its Google Assistant team while a similar number of users were laid off from its Devices and Services team, according to the company. The majority of the layoffs from the latter will comprise its 1P augmented reality (AR) teams, according to the search giant.

Google is reportedly considering development of new AI-powered chatbot that uses the photos and search history of a user to understand and tell their life story. The search giant reportedly wanted its purported Project Ellman chatbot to be "Your Life Story Teller".

The Fallout TV show trailer is out, offering a glimpse at its irradiated post-apocalyptic world and its retro-futuristic vibe. The series largely follows a young Vault dweller Lucy, who heads out into the nuclear wasteland in search of answers, in addition to a mutated cowboy and a wannabe soldier Maximus. HBO’s Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan ...

Google allowed Spotify to bypass the company's mandatory Play Store fees, according to a company executive. During the ongoing Epic vs Google trial, the search giant's head of partnership testified that Spotify did not pay the company any fees when it processed customer payments on its own. If customers chose to pay Spotify via Google's in-app bill...

Google paid Samsung $8 billion in order to make the Play Store, Google Search, and Google Assistant the default options on the South Korean company's smartphones, according to information that has emerged during the ongoing Google vs Epic trial. Meanwhile, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai also testified that the search giant pays Apple 36 percent of Safa...

Google launched its generative AI-infused Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the US earlier this year and expanded the AI search tool to India and Japan in August. Now, Google is expanding SGE to more than 120 new countries and territories, the search engine giant said in blog post Wednesday.

Google has announced new shopping features and tools that it says will help customers find the best deals on products. Just in time for the holiday season, the search engine giant’s new tools will allow buyers to save products, track prices and get price insights in Google Chrome and Google Search. They will also be able to see the best deals fro...

Google is rolling out passkey support for personal accounts, months after the company added support for the secure login mechanism. The search giant aims to move to the 'passwordless' but secure alternative to allows users to login to their apps and services using biometric authentication on their devices. Passkeys can also keep users safer online,...