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It was an odd, unanswerable question. Still, it was on the mind of at least one Google user in India. What is the country’s “ugliest” language? For anyone who typed the question into the platform’s search bar recently, its algorithm produced a fact box confident of the answer: a tongue called Kannada, spoken by tens of millions of people in India’s south. Informed of that result, many of them weren’t happy. Several politicians in the state of Karnataka, where most Kannada speakers… Source link

It was an odd, unanswerable question. Still, it was on the mind of at least one Google user in India. What is the country’s “ugliest” language? For anyone who typed the question into the platform’s search bar recently, its algorithm produced a fact box confident of the answer: a tongue called Kannada, spoken by tens of millions of people in India’s south. Informed of that result, many of them weren’t happy. Several politicians in the state of Karnataka, where most Kannada speakers… Source link

Jun 5th 2021 IN THE 1990S parodies of Clippy from Microsoft Word were a bit of a trend in cartoons and magazines. The annoying paper-clip-shaped figure would pop up as soon as you began writing “Dear…” and say: “It looks like you’re writing a letter,” before offering unsolicited advice on things such as formatting. Two decades later, various automatic aids to writing, including spelling and grammar-checkers, are much better. They are both more discerning—powered by artificial… Source link

It’s hard to remember now, but once upon a time, Google was terrible at design. Android was ugly. Google sites were ugly. And the company lacked a serious industrial design program. But in 2014, Google revealed a unified approach to design to help fix it all. Called Material Design, it reimagined all of Google’s apps with a new visual metaphor of digital paper and ink. Ugly pages were replaced by clear, clean cards. Supporting animations were simple and effective.  Google got design,… Source link

new Delhi. Reliance Jio has launched a new web browser JioPages for Indian users, which is exactly Made in India and supports 8 Indian languages. These new web browsers of Reliance, equipped with a lot of features, have been specially made for mobile users, which is fast and safe. According to Reliance, indigenous web browser has been launched for Indians keeping in mind the data privacy, which is not less than any foreign web browser in terms of features. Also read- Huawei Y7a launch, tough… Source link