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Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has pledged support in India’s battle against second wave of Covid-19, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had referred to as a ‘toofan’ (storm) while addressing his radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday. Taking to Twitter, Sundar Pichai said,” Devastated to see the worsening crisis in India. Google and Googlers are providing Rs135 crore funding to Unicef and non-profit Give India for medical supplies, supporting… Source link

Google will contribute €25 million ($29.3 million) to the newly set up European Media and Information Fund to combat fake news, the company said on Wednesday. The contribution comes amid criticism that the technology giant isn’t doing enough to debunk online disinformation, which surged during the COVID-19 pandemic and during the U.S. election last year. Opinion: Congress is fed up with Big Tech. Now what? The chief executives of Google, Facebook FB, … Source link

NEW DELHI: Internet giant Google Inc. said it will support 1 million rural women entrepreneurs in India, to help them pursue their ambitions and improve livelihoods through entrepreneurship. Google will implement this through the ‘Women Will’ web platform launched at the virtual Google for India event on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Also Read | What trade freedom did to Bihar’s farmers It also announced a $500,000… Source link

The next Google Impact Challenge focuses on women and girls. Getty Google is committing $25… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists’ work, according to a town hall recording heard by Reuters, part of an effort to quell internal tumult over the integrity of its artificial intelligence (AI) research. FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville In remarks at a staff meeting last Friday, Google Research… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists’ work, according to a town hall recording heard by Reuters, part of an effort to quell internal tumult over the integrity of its artificial intelligence (AI) research. FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville In remarks at a staff meeting last Friday, Google Research… Source link

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

The company also offered up its office spaces to become vaccine clinics. January 25, 2021, 5:29 PM • 6 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Google announced a series of steps it was taking to support a more equitable and efficient rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, including grants totaling $150 million, updates to its Maps software and offering the use of its office spaces to become vaccination clinics. “The pandemic has taken a devastating toll on communities… Source link

GlobeNewswire Endeavour Reports Record Q4-2020 Preliminary Results and 2021 Guidance ENDEAVOUR REPORTS RECORD Q4-2020 PRELIMINARY RESULTS AND 2021 GUIDANCE Achieved top end of production guidance l Net Debt reduction of ∼$600m in 2020 l Net Cash position of ~$70m at year-end HIGHLIGHTS Record Q4-2020 production of 344koz, a 41% increase over Q3-2020 while AISC decreased by 15% to ~$770/ozRecord consolidated FY-2020 production of 908koz, a 39% increase over FY-2019, while AISC increased by 5%… Source link

Dive Brief: The Des Moines City Council on Monday approved a resolution outlining a series of carbon emission goals, including a 24/7 clean energy by 2035 pledge modeled after Google’s round-the-clock energy plan. Des Moines is already well on its way to 100% clean energy, according to the council resolution; 83% of the city’s energy came from clean sources in 2020. While Des Moines may benefit from factors that enable it to pursue ambitious energy targets,… Source link