March On Google

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  Google Play Store to Show Warnings on Apps Causing Excessive Battery Drain

  Starting March 1, next year, the Google Play Store will show warnings on app listings that cause excessive battery drain. The Android apps that keep devices awake for a longer time will also be excluded from the prominent discovery surfaces, such as recommendations. A user session is considered excessive when it involves more than 2 cumulative hour...

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  Google Expands Gemini’s Deep Research Tool to Workspace Apps, Offers It for Free

  Google has expanded its Gemini Deep Research tool, allowing it to access and analyse data from Google Workspace platforms such as Drive, Docs, Sheets, Gmail and Chat. The agentic AI feature can now combine information from user files and emails to produce detailed research reports. Available for free, it strengthens Gemini’s integration within Go...

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  Google Fined $36 Million Over Anti-Competitive Deals With Australia Telcos

  Google has agreed to pay a Aus$55 million (US$36 million) penalty for striking "anti-competitive" deals to pre-install only its own search engine on Android mobile phones sold by two leading Australian telecoms firms.

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  Google Rolls Out AI Mode in Search to All Users in India, Removes Search Labs Sign Up Requirement

  Google announced the rollout of AI Mode in Search to all users in India on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) search functionality was so far only available to Indian users registered on Search Labs, but now it is being provided to everyone. The Mountain View-based tech giant has made the feature available across the desktop interface and vi...

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  Google Search’s AI Mode Rolls Out to More Users With New Features

  Google announced an expansion of its AI Mode feature in Search, alongside new features, on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant first released this artificial intelligence (AI) search mode in March, making it available to the Google One AI Premium subscribers in the US on an invitational basis.

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  Google Is Adding Native Image Editing Capability to the Gemini App

  Google is expanding the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered native image editing feature to the Gemini app. Announced on Wednesday, this new capability will allow users to make specific changes to images without leaving the AI chatbot. This new capability was first unveiled in March within the Google AI Studio platform.

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  Google Says Deep AI Investments Powering Ad Sales, Soothing Anxious Investors

  Alphabet reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business on Thursday. The search giant's first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and the company said it would buy back $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,97,800 crore) in stock, adding $75 billion (roughly Rs. 6,40,362 crore) to its mark...

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  Anthropic Releases New Research Capability in Claude, Adds Google Workspace Integration

  Anthropic is adding a new capability to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. Announced last week, the company is adding a new agentic capability, dubbed Research, to the chatbot. Similar to Deep Research in Gemini and ChatGPT, Research allows Claude to conduct multiple web searches on different topics to find comprehensive information ...

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  Google Pixel 9a Is Now Eligible for Android 16 Beta Programme

  Google released the Android 16 Beta 4 update on Thursday with several fixes for several bugs in tow. However, it also brings crucial news for owners of the latest Google Pixel 9a. As per the Mountain View-based tech giant, the handset, which was launched on March 19, is now eligible for the Android 16 Beta Programme.

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  Google Pixel 9a Goes on Sale in India: Price, Specifications, Offers

  Google Pixel 9a is now available for purchase in India. The new Pixel A series smartphone debuted in March in the country in three colour options. The Pixel 9a runs on a Tensor G4 chip paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It has a dual rear camera unit led by a 48-megapixel primary sensor. The Pixel 9a has a 5,100mAh battery.

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  Google Brings Multimodal AI Mode Search to Google Lens, Expanding to More Users

  Google announced that it is expanding its recently released AI Mode feature to more apps and users on Monday. The feature is now available in Google Lens and comes with multimodal capability. The company also said that the free subscribers of Google Labs will also get access to it. The tech giant introduced the artificial intelligence (AI) tool in ...

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  DUSU Announces Scholarships Worth Rs 99,000 For Female Students On Navratri

  DUSU Scholarships: Eligible students from Delhi University can submit their achievement certificates via Google Forms until March 31.

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  Google Workspace March Feature Drop to Upgrade Google Meet and Vids With New Capabilities

  Google Workspace's March feature drop was announced on Thursday, and it is bringing several new artificial intelligence (AI) features to users. Most of these features have already been rolled out to eligible users, and others will get it in the next few days. The most notable feature is an upgrade to Google Meet’s “take notes for me” feature.

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  NDTV Gadgets 360 Awards 2025: Check out the Nominations for India’s Most Trusted Award Show

  NDTV Gadgets 360 Awards is back with its 2025 iteration! The biggest tech event will honour tech excellence in 40 different categories, including smartphones, laptops, SoC, tablets, Smart TVs, TWS, wearable, and more. India’s largest tech award show will take place on March 25, 2025, in New Delhi.

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  Google Doodle Celebrates 'Worm Moon', March's Final Half Moon

  At every stage of the game, users are offered unique rewards to keep them engaged. Those who complete the challenge can also share their high scores.