Elizabeth Warren for President open-sources its 2020 campaign tech
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren may have ended her 2020 presidential run, but the tech used to drive her campaign will live on. Members of her staff announced they would make …
Google reportedly plans to forgo April Fool’s Day jokes this year
Google’s typical April Fool’s Day antics will be put on hold this year due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Business Insider obtained an internal email that explained the move. The email said …
Google sets aside $800M in ads and loans to help in COVID-19 fight
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company would be donating more than $800 million in ad credits and loans to help government orgs and small businesses respond to …
Google commits to donating $800 million to COVID-19 response efforts
Google has committed to donating $800 million USD ( about $1.1 billion CAD) in COVID-19 response effort funding. According to Google Canada, this amount includes ad grants to help organizations …
Google releases Semantic Reactor for natural language understanding experimentation
Google today released Semantic Reactor, a Google Sheets add-on for experimenting with natural language models. The tech giant describes it as a demonstration of how natural language understanding (NLU) can …
Smart telescope startups vie to fix astronomy’s satellite challenge
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Inside Udaan’s push to digitize India’s B2B retail market
During a recent visit, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella reiterated his company’s commitment to India and revealed a new fund to help SaaS startups in the country. And then Nadella …
Google to resume Chrome updates with revised schedule following COVID-19 delay
Last week, Google paused Chrome updates in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the tech giant has confirmed that it will resume Chrome updates under an adjusted schedule. On …
Stocks shoot upward as ‘Phase Three stimulus passes Senate and unemployment skyrockets
Stocks soared on Thursday even as the US reported its worst unemployment numbers in fifty years of tracking data. The pain felt on Main Street is offset for investors by …
Google lets businesses mark themselves as ‘temporarily closed’ amid COVID-19
Google has added a new functionality for businesses to update their profiles on the search engine and mark themselves as ‘temporarily closed.’ The tech giant has published instructions for ‘Google …