When Google Home could not recognise Jesus

San Francisco, Jan 28 : Google Home’s incapability to answering questions about Jesus has led the company to bar the device from answering questions about all religious figures, the media reported. When people asked their speaker ‘Who is Jesus?’ the general response from Google Home seems to be “I’m not sure how to help you with […]

Google deploys patch for security flaws in chips

San Francisco, Jan 5 : To safeguard its customers from potential security bugs in chips, Google has deployed a novel chip-level patch across its entire infrastructure, resulting in only minor declines in performance in most cases. “In response to the vulnerabilities that were discovered, we developed a novel mitigation called ‘Retpoline’ — a binary modification technique […]

Google starts testing its Fuchsia OS on Pixelbook

San Francisco, Jan 3 : Google has started testing its Fuchsia Operating System (OS) on the $1000 Pixelbook hybrid laptop that was unveiled alongside the second-generation Pixel smartphone and Google Home Mini smart speaker at the company’s 2017 hardware event in California, reports said. “This isn’t your typical developer operating system, and you’ll need two […]

You can’t negatively review past jobs on Google

London, Dec 30 (IANS) Google has updated its review policies according to which people are now banned from reviewing their former place of work negatively on its business tool. The move will also make more accurate the reviews that people post on Google My Business — a tool behind the rating that appears on-screen when […]