The NCAA has come up with a way to help fans fill out their brackets for March Madness. After years of fighting against tournament pools because of their staunch anti-gambling position, the organization announced Thursday…
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lipkart Money Digital Wallet Launched, Limited to Android App for Now
Flipkart has silently launched its wallet – Flipkart Money – powered by payments firm FX Mart on its Android app. The service is currently available only on Android for mobile devices. While the company has…
China Looks to Ramp Up Internet Growth, and Its Controls
China’s government has highlighted big data, encryption technology and “core technologies” such as semiconductors as the key elements of its push to grow into a tech powerhouse, according to a new five-year plan released Saturday…
Google Tests Letting Brands, Celebrities Post Directly to Search Results
Google is experimenting with a new initiative that lets certain people and brands post their own search result directly. The unnamed experiment by Google features a design like the Google Now cards and show details…
Dartmouth’s ‘Magic Wand’ Pairs Medical Devices to Wi-Fi
Doctors could keep better tabs on their patients between visits with a simple wave of a magic wand-like device being developed at Dartmouth College. The prototype, dubbed “Wanda,” is part of a multi-university project to…
Reliance Jio to Provide Free Wi-Fi at 6 T20 World Cup Stadiums
Telecom operator Reliance Jio will provide free Wi-Fi services at six cricket stadiums during the upcoming T20 World Cup matches. “Reliance Jio will install Wi-Fi network at six stadiums that will be complimentary for audience…
Google Aims to Take Machine Learning Mainstream With New Cloud-Based Tools
At the GCP Next 2016 conference in San Francisco this week, Google announced the launch of Cloud Machine Learning, a suite of cloud-based tools, with which the company hopes to make sophisticated machine learning tools…
EU Commission Wants Google to Pay a Licensing Fee
The European Commission is currently holding a public consultation on granting “neighbouring rights” to publishers. Under this, the lawmaker is proposing that Google should pay publishers a licensing fee. The European Commission is proposing that…
Microsoft Might Be Willing to Bankroll Yahoo Board Takeover: Report
Microsoft Corp executives are in talks with equity firms considering bids for Yahoo Inc! saying that Microsoft might be willing to offer “significant financing” for their efforts, tech news site Recode reported on Thursday. However,…
France Fines Google Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
The French data protection authority said it has fined Google EUR 100,000 (roughly Rs. 74 lakhs) for not scrubbing web search results widely enough in response to a European privacy ruling. The only way for…