Google has launched a new feature, fact check, which will add a label next to news stories in search results. Fact check will appear with other news organisations in Google News and will, Google says, “shine a light on its efforts to divide fact from fiction”. Richard Gingras, Google’s head ... Read More »
It’s hoped the feature will do a better news job than Facebook’s Trending Topics. Given what is happening in the U.S. election campaign, there has never been a more crucial time for fact-checking of news stories, and Facebook seems to be doing a fairly poor job of it. Now Google ... Read More »
Indian equity markets plunged on Thursday afternoon following the news of surgical strikes by the army across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. Both the key indices plummeted by almost one per cent each. All the 19 sub—indices of the BSE were trading in the red. The ... Read More »
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Yahoo YHOO -3.06% confirms that 500 million accounts were hacked back in 2014. From Forbes: Bob Lord, chief information security officer at Yahoo, has stated that the ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: Sony India has reduced prices of its flagship devices, Xperia X and Z5 Premium, by up to 21 per cent. The reduction, effective from September 1, will see Xperia X being sold at Rs 38,990. This is lower by Rs 10,000 or about 21 per cent from the ... Read More »
Arsenal defender Kieran Gibbs is reportedly considering his future at the Emirates due to a lack of playing time. The Gunners academy product was Arsene Wenger’s first-choice left-back between 2012 and 2015, but has since lost his place to Nacho Monreal. And now The Sun claim the 26-year-old, who is ... Read More »
Destiny developer Bungie has clarified comments it made about weapons tuning in the Rise of Iron expansion. The Destiny developer previously said that a weapons balancing patch would be released after the launch of Rise of Iron later this month. However, in a follow up post on Reddit, the Destiny ... Read More »
Europe plans to give media companies the power to demand payment from search engines like Google when snippets of their content are republished. The European Commission is is working on a significant overhaul of copyright law that aims to help level the playing field between news outlets and tech giants ... Read More »
In a setback for Samsung and a somewhat happy news for Apple as it prepared to launch iPhone 7, the global recall by the south Korean giant of its flagship premium device Galaxy Note 7 over battery explosion fears is certainly going to affect its future prospects, experts said on ... Read More »
Europe plans to give media companies the power to demand payment from search engines like Google when snippets of their content are republished. The European Commission is is working on a significant overhaul of copyright law that aims to help level the playing field between news outlets and tech giants ... Read More »
The implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations this year is going to bring cheer to various segments and one of the biggest beneficiaries is expected to be real estate. About Rs.1 lakh crore of money is being released as part of the hike in salaries and an additional amount ... Read More »
Britain’s Olympians flew home this week after coming second in the medal table at Rio. A Conservative MP attracted controversy for saying that which body had really come first in the games? The European Union The British Empire The public school system [Source:-BBC] Read More »
