India is facing a data obesity epidemic—as storage in phones fails to keep up with people’s voracious appetite for visualsIndia’s growing use of smartphones, AI tools and social media is driving a surge in demand for digital storage, with experts warning of a “...
10 May, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
Ancient fossils and shifting continents reveal a rewritten Earth storyPaleolatitude.org has been upgraded, allowing users to track continental drift and Earth's pole shifts over 320 million years. This tool, b...
08 May, 2026, 11.58 AM IST
AI platform NudgeBee raises $3 million in funding from Kalaari CapitalNudgeBee has raised $3 million in a funding round led by Kalaari Capital, betting on rising demand for AI-led automation in enterprise clou...
21 Apr, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Enterprise AI firm C5i buys UK’s Datavid in $45-50 million all-cash dealC5i has acquired Datavid for an undisclosed sum, marking its third acquisition. Sources aware of the deal said the all-cash transaction was...
19 Mar, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Italy probes Google over alleged unfair user data practicesItaly's antitrust authority stated that Google's method of obtaining user consent could restrict their freedom of choice. By prompting user...
21 Jul, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Google-backed Cropin Sage’s grid-based agricultural map launched to help seed manufacturers, food processors, govtsAs the global population rapidly increases and concerns over food security grow, generative AI and large language models hold the promise o...
17 Jul, 2024, 02.33 PM IST
Google solves issue of Churchill photo missing from search list, says it was not 'purposeful'The tech giant noted that the issue only applied to its "knowledge graph" listing.
15 Jun, 2020, 03.39 PM IST
IISc researchers developing machine that can understand 'worldview'Automating decisions could save cos huge amounts of money and reduce man power, wh ich can be instead used for more critical tasks
24 Feb, 2017, 10.45 AM IST
Google updates mobile app to answer complex questions soon"Google is now seeking to understand the meaning of questions, rather than simply understanding each component of a phrase individually."
18 Nov, 2015, 12.42 PM IST
Google announces Indian Language Internet Alliance, aims for 500 million internet users by 2017Google voice search and Knowledge Graph suggestions will be available in Hindi with the option of multiple Hindi fonts available at Google....
03 Nov, 2014, 02.18 PM IST
Google aims to store all human knowledgeThe search giant is building Knowledge Vault, a type of knowledge base - a system that stores information so that machines as well as peopl...
24 Aug, 2014, 02.06 PM IST
Google will show restaurant menu, prices in searchGoogle says it is working to show menu of a restaurant, complete with the prices, on the first page of the Google search when a web user lo...
03 Mar, 2014, 10.46 PM IST
Google eating into Wikipedia page views?Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia used by millions around the world, lost nearly 10 per cent of its page-views last year.
20 Jan, 2014, 10.53 AM IST
Indian-Singapore start-up to launch consumer 'Taste Graph'The Taste Graph would provide simple data on specific requirements of consumers to marketing businesses, giving them more knowledge to prov...
21 Oct, 2013, 12.13 PM IST
- We need a web that reflects societies: Stefan Weitz, Bing Search
The future of search is grounded in how we break away from the past in which the web was a topical graph of documents and pages.
09 Jul, 2012, 05.22 AM IST
Google's Knowledge Graph a bold attempt to answering specific search queriesGoogle's Knowledge Graph is closest the search giant has got to giving out relevant information, without the user leaving the search page o...
27 May, 2012, 07.37 AM IST
- Twitter, Facebook don't want to work with us: Amit Singhal of Google
In an interview, Amit Singhal , Google's global head for search engine technology, talks about the competition from Microsoft and Knowledge...
17 May, 2012, 05.44 AM IST