indica News Bureau- A team led by Indian American Yale undergraduate student, Keshav Raghavan, has been chosen for the first time by NASA to launch miniature satellites called CubeSats for space research. Raghavan 21, is a part of a team called the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association (YUAA.) The project they are working on is called […]
IANS- Global IT spending is projected to total $3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2018, the latest forecast by Gartner Inc. said on Wednesday. The data centre systems segment will experience the largest decline in 2019 with a decrease of 2.8 per cent primarily due to expected lower average selling prices […]
IANS- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg discussed for years plans to sell access to users’ data to fight rivals, NBC News reported on Tuesday, citing leaked documents. “Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly […]
indica News Bureau- Google introduced Anthos, a new integrated cloud services tool at the opening keynote of Google’s annual Cloud Next 2019 conference in San Francisco. “We have always had the ambition to use technology to improve the lives of as many people as possible. Enterprise gives us an opportunity to approach this in a […]
IANS- With the first phase of Lok Sabha polls just days away, Facebook on Monday said it is removing or blocking about one million abusive accounts a day with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools. “We are absolutely committed to maintaining the integrity of the elections in India and will […]
IANS- Facebook, already facing the election heat in India, is busy doing something never heard of: Sending its representatives to users’ home to verify if the post with political content was actually written by them. IANS has contacted one such Facebook user in New Delhi who was recently visited by a Facebook representative for the […]
IANS- Rajan Anandan, Google’s Vice President for South East Asia and India, has quit the company and joined Sequoia Capital India as a Managing Director. Anandan will continue at Google till the end of April and Vikas Agnihotri, Country Director, Sales will take on the responsibility in the interim for Google India, the company said […]
IANS- Google’s email service Gmail that has nearly 1.5 billion monthly active users turned 15 on Monday. Created by Paul Buchheit on April 1, 2004, Gmail started with an initial storage capacity of one gigabyte per user. Today, Gmail allows 15GB free storage. Users can receive emails up to 50MB in size, including attachments, while […]
IANS- The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that has charged Facebook for housing discrimination via its advertising policies, is also probing Google and Twitter’s housing ad policies. According to The Washington Post, the department officials told Twitter and Google about a probe into their advertising policies and a review is still ongoing. […]
IANS- After mentioning Kashmir separately along with India and a few other countries in a blog post, Facebook on Wednesday apologized for the “mistake”. Reacting to an IANS story that said that Kashmir had been mentioned separately along with India in a violation of the country’s territorial integrity, Facebook deleted the reference to Kashmir from […]
