By Hera Rizwan Google, on Tuesday, announced its decision to temporarily restore all previously suspended Indian apps on the Play Store, contingent on developers adhering to the platform's policies. This decision follows a meeting between Google executives, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, and a collective of Indian founders—the first joint meeting since the apps were suspended last Friday. Following the discussions, the minister acknowledged Google's contributions to building India's digital ecosystem. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology expressed its commitment to colla...
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By Hera Rizwan The phrase "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" has become symbolic of the way people interact with major social media corporations that primarily operate by collecting data and capturing user attention, which are then made available to advertisers. A recent research by The Money Mongers found that 76% of the top 100 apps on the Apple App store collect and share their user data in some or the other form. The report found that over half of these companies share their users’ data with third parties while nearly three-quarters collect data for their own benef...
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By Hera Rizwan Google has announced that passkeys will now be the default sign-in method for all users, marking the beginning of the end for passwords. The company announced, on Tuesday, that people will no more need a password to securely sign in to accounts. Passkeys enable users to log in to apps and websites using a biometric sensor (such as facial recognition or fingerprint) or a PIN. In contrast to passwords, they are resilient to online threats such as phishing, rendering them a more secure option than methods like SMS one-time codes. The search engine giant said that the move is being ...
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By Sana Fazili It all unfolded on live television. Gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were talking to the media when three assailants opened fire at them on Saturday evening in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj. They fell on the ground as everyone around them ran for cover, hearing bullets. Atiq and Ashraf were being taken for medical examination on Saturday evening when three shooters, reportedly posing as media persons, shot them dead. The assassins, identified as Sunny Singh, Lovekesh Tewari and Arun Maurya, were apprehended immediately. The police said they carried ...
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By BOOM Team In a bid to quell misinformation on the internet in India, Google has announced an "About this result" feature to help users know the sources of particular information on Google search results. Noting that search trends on misinformation in India were at an all-time high in 2023, Google said that this search feature will be available internationally, including in nine Indian languages--Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu or Punjabi. To counter misrepresentation, impersonation, or health disinformation, Google said they are working to enforce their ...
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By The Conversation Hamza Mudassir, Cambridge Judge Business School and Kamal A Munir, Cambridge Judge Business SchoolGoogle’s parent company Alphabet has lost a hefty US$100 billion (£83 billion) or nearly a tenth of its market value after its new AI chatbot, Bard, botched an answer to a query on an ad promoting its launch. It claimed that the James Webb space telescope took the first pictures of planets outside the Earth’s solar system when in fact it was the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. At the same time, Microsoft saw its shares rise 3% on announcing that it would b...
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By Saurav Das In 2017, while delivering the landmark Right to Privacy judgement, a Supreme Court of India judge said, "Humans forget, the Internet does not, and does not let humans forget." Justice SK Kaul ruled that the right of an individual to exercise control over personal data and to be able to control their life would also encompass the right to control their existence on the Internet. The court found the ‘right to be forgotten’ an aspect of the right to privacy. Since then, courts across India have received several petitions seeking the deletion of personal information from search engin...
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By BOOM Team Several reports in the last week suggested that Google Chrome will stop working on certain Windows PCs since the beginning of January. Headlines claimed that people would need to upgrade to Windows 11 for users to be able to work on Google Chrome. The reports said that Microsoft and Google Chrome updates would mean that older PCs may not be able to support the updates and one would need to upgrade to new computer systems or upgrade their old ones to Windows 11. Here's what Microsoft and Google have said about these upgrades: Windows 7 and 8.1 users will indeed be affected Microsof...
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By Sana Fazili It has been over three months since Congress, led by MP Rahul Gandhi, began itsBharat Jodo Yatra. The march on foot began on September 7, 2022 from Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the country, and will culminate in Kashmir around the time of Republic Day in 2023. Gandhi has been marching through several states, flanked by party leaders as he meets people on the way. Pictures and videos of the yatra have been shared widely on social media as activists and celebrities also joined him to show support. As the grand old party strives to amplify its stand against the ruling BJP, ...
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By BOOM Team With just two weeks left for the year 2022 to end, Google released its most trending search terms of the year. Things like CoWin, the Indian government's web portal for vaccine registration, was among the top searches on Google. People also wanted to know how to download vaccination certificates and also how to link PAN with Aadhaar. Newsmakers like Rishi Sunak, Nupur Sharma, Lalit Modi and Eknath Shinde also dominated the searches. Sunak became the UK's first non-white prime minister of Indian origin, while BJP's Sharma stirred controversy with her disparaging remarks on Prophet ...
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