Google Opens Safety Engineering Centre in Hyderabad
Telangana has partnered with Google to establish the Google Safety Engineering Centre (GSEC) in Hyderabad, which marks India’s first GSEC and the fifth globally. The centre’s focus is on enhancing security and online safety products for the Indian market. Location ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2024
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Who is Geoffrey Hinton? Why he has quit Google?
Geoffrey Hinton is a renowned computer scientist and one of the pioneers of deep learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that involves training artificial neural networks to learn from data. He is widely considered the “Godfather of AI” and ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2023
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Google tests blocking news content
The tech giant Google recently announced that it is to block news content to at least 4% of Canadians. Google is doing this as a response to a new Canadian Law. However, Google has announced that it will be temporary. ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2023
Category: International / World Current Affairs • Legal & Constitution Current Affairs
Google introduces Chat-GPT rival Bard
Microsoft launched Chat-GPT in November 2022. Technologists believe that Chat GPT is well advanced and might kill Google’s business. In just five days, the number of ChatGPT users increased to one million. To counter the chat GPT, Google recently launched ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • International / World Current Affairs
Google Policy Change In line with CCI direction
Our smartphones come with pre–installed apps like Gmaps, Gmail, Google search engines, etc. We cannot uninstall these apps even if we do use them. Apart from Google apps some smartphones also come with third-party apps (supported by Google). Google uses ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Legal & Constitution Current Affairs
Who was Fatima Sheikh?
Fatima Sheikh was an Indian educator and social reformer, who was a colleague of the social reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule. She was born on 9 January 1831, and passed away on 9 October 1900. Sheikh is widely considered ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News
Google- CCI Row- Update
Within days of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) denying Google’s request for a stay on the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) ruling in the Android case, the tech giant filed an appeal with the Supreme Court (SC) against ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Project Vaani
Project Vaani will be implemented jointly by the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), ARTPARK (AI and Robotics Technology Park), and Google to gather speech data from across India for the creation of an AI-based language model that can understand diverse ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2022
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs