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Indian American Digital Video Pioneer Arun Netravali awarded 2017 Marconi Prize
NEW JERSEY (TIP): The Marconi Society, dedicated to furthering scientific achievements in communications and related technologies, announced that it will present the 2017 Marconi Prize to Dr. Arun Netravali. Dr. Netravali is the former President […]
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Uber in US court to fight on possible shutdown of self-driving program
SAN FRANSISCO (TIP): Uber Technologies Inc goes before a U.S. judge on Wednesday to fight for the right to continue work on its self-driving car program, the latest phase in a courtroom battle over trade […]
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Trump signs bill blocking online privacy regulation
WASHINGTON (TIP): After his press secretary blasted it as an example of rampant government overreach, President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that could eventually allow internet providers to sell information about their […]
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Business & Economics
Google’s case against Uber just took an unexpected turn
SAN JOSE, CA (TIP): In an unexpected twist to the Uber vs Google case, lawyers for Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer at the center of the trade-secret dispute, have advised him to exercise his fifth […]
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GOOGLE KNOWS IF YOU’RE WATCHING TOO MUCH PORN
Whilst originally designed as a way for people to buy secret presents for their partners or to Google things they were too embarrassed for anyone to know, incognito windows are used by a vast array […]
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SAP to offer its business apps on Google Cloud
FRANKFURT (TIP): Germany’s SAP is teaming up with Silicon Valley giant Google to allow customers to run SAP’s big business applications on Google’s cloud while offering Google’s suite of web-based desktop apps to users, the […]
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Google vows fix for ‘inappropriate’ search results
WASHINGTON (TIP): Google said on Monday that it was working to fix a search algorithm glitch that produced “inappropriate and misleading” results from its search engine and connected speaker. The internet giant reacted after a […]
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Indian Americans raise pitch against ‘travel ban’
According to a study at California State University San Bernardino’s Center for Study for Hate and Extremism, the anti-Muslim hate crimes in the US rose sharply in 2015 to the highest levels since the aftermath […]
India
NRI wants his name delinked from Google search, court says no
There is no reason for creation of a separate legal framework under ‘right to be forgotten’ to delink ‘irrelevant information’ from the Internet, Google Inc told Delhi High Court on Thursday. The submission was made […]
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‘GOOGLE ASSISTANT WILL LEAD SMART SPEAKERS, VIRTUAL ASSISTANT SPACE’
Internet giant Google’s virtual assistant, Google Assistant, is expected to lead the smart speakers and virtual assistant space leaving products such as Amazon’s Alexa trailing behind, an analysis by market research firm IHS said. “Despite […]
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2 killed, 100 wounded in suicide attack on German consulate in northern Afghanistan
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (TIP): A powerful Taliban truck bomb struck the German consulate in Afghanistan’s northern Mazar-i-Sharif city late on Nov 10, killing at least two people and wounding more than 100 in a major militant assault […]
Education
How to fast track your IT Career – You don’t have to be an IITian to get to Google
The IIT tag has helped many a student in India bag coveted jobs at Google, but many non-IITians too have made it to the company straight out of college on the back of their skills rather […]