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Beyond the legal ramifications, how does one find websites where the pills are sold? How do you make sure you get them quickly? What is the pain like? Dozens of women are exchanging advice, tips and notes about their experiences in the abortion forum on the popular social network Reddit.

Women in US forced to depend on online pharmacies, googled...

Abortions using mifepristone and misoprostol pills are safe but the real concern about self-managed abortion aren't...

10 May 2020 8:53 PM IST

Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Googles parent company Alphabet, had been proposing to turn a rundown part of Torontos waterfront into a wired community but the project is no longer financially viable. (Illustration | Sidewalk Toronto)

Google abandons plan to build tech city where smart streets would melt...

Uncertainty in the real estate market of Toronto where it was planned has made the project unviable, Google affiliate...

8 May 2020 7:12 PM IST

The initiative aims to serve an estimated 1.7 billion people who lack access to digital financial services.

Google ties up with Gates Foundation on digital payments for the...

The open source software, Mojaloop, first established by Gates Foundation in 2017, is being tweaked for use by...

7 May 2020 2:03 PM IST

China-based Huawei and Europe-based Nokia and Ericsson are major 5G equipment suppliers. (Photo | Flickr - Christoph Scholz)

With Huawei ostracised in US, alliance of 30 firms including Google,...

The group, including telecom operators Vodafone, AT&T and Verizon, says it wants to avoid depending on any single...

6 May 2020 10:07 PM IST

The report alleged that major US-based technology firms that hire H-1B workers directly had significant shares of their certified H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2, the two lowest wage levels in fiscal 2019, both of which are below the local median wage.

Thought H-1B workers had made it? Turns out Google, Microsoft, other...

Report says 500,000 migrant workers in firms like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, Qualcomm and Uber are paid salaries...

6 May 2020 3:52 PM IST

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they use a phone app to scan a code required to prove their health and travel status before being allowed to enter a shopping mall in Beijing on May 2, 2020, the second day of a five-day national holiday. The debate on privacy protection while using such apps is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. Eastern nations are less likely to adhere to privacy protection norms followed in the West. (Photo | AFP)

Location tracking not allowed on apps using Google, Apple APIs but...

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy...

5 May 2020 8:32 PM IST

Deep-pocketed companies such as Intel, which is sitting on USD 11.4 billion cash, are expected to forge ahead with their investments in fields they believe will turn into gold mines. After Intel bought Mobileye, the self-driving car startups revenue has ballooned from $210 million in 2017 to $879 million last year. Thats a reflection of the big bets being placed on automated driving by both major technology companies, such as Google spinoff Waymo and Apple, and automakers such as General Motors and Toyota. (Photo | Mobileye)

Intel buys Moovit app to boost its self-driving car business in an age...

The chip maker plans to combine Moovit with Mobileye, a self-driving car specialist that Intel bought for about USD 15...

5 May 2020 3:20 PM IST

Trump calls the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post fake news, and a lot of scrutiny that Amazon comes into is attributed to this. However, the US House Judiciary Committee has been investigating Big Tech Companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple on anti-trust and data privacy issues. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has testified in such hearings earlier. Now it is Jeff Bezos turn. (Photo | AFP)

Jeff Bezos may be forced to testify in US House about Amazon's alleged...

US lawmakers on Friday wrote to Bezos saying they would use legal means to force him to appear if he didn't do so...

2 May 2020 3:30 PM IST

While Google makes revenues from its products too, Facebook and Twitter mainly depend on income from ad sales.

Users added aplenty but Google, Facebook, and Twitter lose ad revenues...

As travel and shopping shut down, advertising on the three platforms plummeted, but now as lockdown curbs begin to ease,...

1 May 2020 8:01 PM IST

A technology analyst said Zoox has one of the better autonomous driving offerings but is currently suffering from its inability to forecast market readiness and demand for its product. (Photo | Zoox)

Amazon enters ride-hailing space with purchase of self-driving taxi...

Amazon and Zoox will compete with robotaxi offerings from Waymo, Cruise, Uber and Mobileye.

26 Jun 2020 8:40 PM IST

We believe that products should keep your information for only as long as its useful and helpful to you, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post, adding that the changes were designed to keep less data by default. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Nguyen Hung Vu)

Now, new users on Google have auto-delete already activated to wipe...

Current users can already opt in to auto-delete their data every three or 18 monthsa setting that has not changed.

25 Jun 2020 5:29 PM IST

Brad Bender, Googles vice-president of product management, said they had been in discussions with partnered publishersincluding the Spiegel Group in Germany, Schwartz media in Australia and Brazils Diarios Associadosfor several months, with more to come. (Representative Image)

Google gives up resistance, says it's ready to pay publishers for high...

Google said in a blog post that it would launch a licensing program to pay publishers

25 Jun 2020 4:51 PM IST