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[ad_1] Washington — Kati Morton was a reluctant adopter of YouTube. A therapist working toward her license in California, it was her then-boyfriend, now-husband, who first suggested that Morton explore posting videos on the platform as a way to disseminate mental health information. The year was 2011, and Morton, like many others, thought YouTube primarily consisted of videos of cats playing the piano and make-up tutorials. But after seeing other content posted on the site, Morton decided to give it a shot. Her audience started small, with her videos garnering a handful of views. But in the more than a decade since then, Morton's YouTube channel has grown to more than 1.2 million subscribers. Crucial to the growth of Morton's audience is YouTube's system for recommending content to users, which the company began building in 2008. It relies on a highly complex algorithm to predict what videos will interest viewers and keep ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a setback to Google, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ( NCLAT ) on Wednesday declined to grant interim relief to the tech giant seeking a stay on competition watchdog CCI 's Rs 936.44-crore penalty on it for abuse of dominant position with respect to its Play Store policies. The appellate tribunal has directed Google to deposit 10 per cent of the fine before its registry in the next four weeks. A two-member bench comprising Justice Rakesh Kumar and Alok Srivastava issued notices to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and other respondents and posted the matter for hearing on April 17, 2023. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea of Google against a recent order of NCLAT refusing an interim stay on Rs 1,337 crore fine imposed by CCI on the company for anti-competitive practices in relation to Android mobile devices. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha took note of the submi...

[ad_1] Last Updated: April 26, 2023, 03:05 IST Rise in profit show that search engine behemoth Google is regaining its footing. (File Photo) Its quarterly revenue came in at nearly $70 billion, a billion better than expected by analysts Google parent company Alphabet beat market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion, the company said on Tuesday, in a sign that the search engine behemoth is regaining its footing. The tech titan has found itself under pressure due to a general slowdown in advertising spending, over-hiring during a Covid-era boom and a major challenge by Microsoft on artificial intelligence. Its quarterly revenue came in at nearly $70 billion, a billion better than expected by analysts, and in the same three-month period that the company said it would lay off 12,000 staff, or six percent of its workforce. In its results, Google announced a $2 billion charge for expected costs for the sackings. Google became a focus of worry when M...

[ad_1] The data released is valid for full-time employees in America. Salary reports of Google employees have been leaked, which is currently garnering everyone's attention. American tech giant Google’s name is known to all. The company focuses on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. It is referred to as the ‘most powerful company in the world’. It is also one of the world’s most valuable brands, known for its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence. Being a software giant, Google also provides the best pay packages to its employees. Recently, salary reports of Google employees have been leaked, which is currently garnering everyone’s attention. The report revealed details about how much its employees got paid in 2022. The data released is only valid for full-time employees in America. Let’s take a look at the salary packages of Google employe...

[ad_1] Google was working on an AI-powered mobile chatbot app for Gen Z users that features interactive digital characters, CNBC has learned. However, the company recently "deprioritized" those efforts amid an internal reorganization, according to materials seen by CNBC. Typically, when a product is deprioritized at Google, work on it ceases. Called "Bubble Characters," the app featured a choice of a talking digital character that would interact in conversations with Gen Z users, according to internal documentation viewed by CNBC. The company had been working on it since Q4 2021. Google declined comment to CNBC. The app's description states that it featured "human-like" conversations that "take action" and are "interesting for GenZ." The conversations were powered by large language models, which are massive data sets used to understand and generate human-like text. "What started out as something from a science fiction nov...