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Admitting it was not possible to identify the gender of a person by appearance, Google said its image classification service Cloud Vision API would stop categorising people under gender labels (Photo | Pixabay - Elchinator)

Microsoft, IBM may have to tweak AI to drop gender labels, following...

Research showed that the AI tools used by Microsoft and IBM were more likely to misidentify the gender of dark-skinned...

1 March 2020 9:28 PM IST

$Google said, \We have seen new activity from hack-for-hire firms, many based in India, that have been creating Gmail accounts spoofing the WHO\. \The accounts have largely targeted business leaders in financial services, consulting, and healthcare corporations within numerous countries including the US, Slovenia, Canada, India, Bahrain, Cyprus, and the UK,\ Google said in a recent blogpost.$ Technology

Google detects coronavirus-themed phishing attacks by firms in India...

The sites typically feature fake login pages that prompt potential victims to give up their Google account credentials...

31 May 2020 7:11 PM IST

IBM has struggled to compete with top cloud rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

IBM's new CEO Arvind Krishna, on a path to sharpen focus of company,...

The company will eliminate software and services that don't align with its top two focus areas: cloud computing and...

23 May 2020 7:35 PM IST

Google said it will honour all existing contracts with its customers, but didnt specify what companies. Greenpeaces report says Microsoft appears to be leading the way with the most oil and contracts, offering AI capabilities in all phases of oil production. Amazons contracts are more focused on pipelines, shipping and fuel storage, according to the report. (Photo | Flicker)

Reminded of its climate change pledge, Google says it will stop...

Greenpeace report said Amazon, Microsoft, Google undermining their own climate pledges by partnering with Shell, BP,...

20 May 2020 7:45 PM IST

More than 200 million copies of the building and exploration game Minecraft have been sold as online play surges during the coronavirus pandemic.

11-year-old Minecraft one of the most popular games amid pandemic, has...

Video games and online viewing of matches on platforms such as Twitch, YouTube and Facebook have been seeing huge growth...

19 May 2020 6:36 PM IST

Technology will play a stronger role than ever before - enabling economic recovery and helping each one of us achieve more, , Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari says.

Investments in cloud, AI and cybersecurity being accelerated by the...

Technology is playing a key role in education, health and public distribution as movement restrictions become the norm.

16 May 2020 4:29 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

In this file photo taken on June 2, 2020 A looted and boarded up Microsoft store is seen after a night of protest over the death of an African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in Manhattan in New York City. Microsofts physical stores, which sold Surface tablets, laptops and XBox gaming gear, never gained the momentum of rival Apple. Its retail team members will serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely provide sales, training, and support, the company said. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft products will now be sold solely online, all 80 retail...

It will keep four locations as Microsoft Experience Centers in London, New York, Sydney and the company's Redmond,...

27 Jun 2020 5:36 PM IST

While Trump has argued the temporary freeze was aimed at helping US workers facing high unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, critics said the move would backfire and hurt one of the key segments of the American economy. In this picture, a view of Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto, which is part of the San Francisco Bay Area, considered part of Silicon Valley in the United States. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Tumbenhaur)

Key segment of US economy, tech firms will be hit by Trump's ban on...

Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech firms have long relied on skilled immigrants to fill key positions of engineers...

24 Jun 2020 7:38 PM IST

Gamers will be encouraged to transition to Facebook Gaming, which has some 700 million people who play or watch games every month.

Can't keep up with Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft gives up livestreaming...

Microsoft Mixer will be shuttered on July 22, the tech giant said in a statement.

24 Jun 2020 7:10 PM IST

A Black man who says he was unjustly arrested because facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter is calling for a public apology from Detroit police, and for the department to abandon its use of the controversial technology. Several cities, led by San Francisco last year, have banned the use of facial recognition. (Photo | bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

Calls to abandon facial recognition use as wrongly identified Black...

The Detroit police has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias, especially as it is prone to errors...

24 Jun 2020 6:44 PM IST