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Google combining Android software, Pixel hardware divisions to more broadly integrate AI
In a letter to employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the changes will “turbocharge the Android and Chrome ecosystems” while helping to spur innovation.
In a letter to employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the changes will “turbocharge the Android and Chrome ecosystems” while helping to spur innovation.
The South Korean company’s announcement made waves across Indiana, but so did a decision by Minnesota-based SkyWater Technology to cancel its project at Purdue after not receiving hoped-for federal funding.
A Feb. 21 cyberattack against a Nashville, Tennessee-based medical-billing clearinghouse sent shock waves across Indiana’s health care system.
Indiana’s tech companies landed a combined $348.8 million in venture funding last quarter, which was the strongest first-quarter activity since recordkeeping began in 2015, TechPoint says.
The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies.
The sweeping bipartisan proposal would for the first time give consumers broad rights to control how tech companies like Google, Meta and TikTok use their personal data, a major breakthrough in the decades-long fight to adopt national online privacy protections.
Skywater Technologies had been expected to invest $1.8 billion in a plant at Discovery Park District at Purdue University, but the company said then the deal was contingent on funding from the CHIPS and Science Act.
In January, NHanced cut the ribbon on a facility at WestGate@Crane Technology Park at Odon and is already expanding there with $236 million in planned investment. And in January, NHanced announced a $152 million investment in a former Cook Medical facility in Bloomington.
MadeLabs serves software-as-a-service companies and does everything from building software products for clients to helping them integrate or modernize their existing products.
Technologies that were adopted to help employees connect to their managers and colleagues remain in place regardless of whether people are working remotely or from the office. As a result, workers are more connected than ever and often feel pressured to respond at all hours.
In return, the state is offering an incentive package of almost $700 million, making it the largest economic development deal in Indiana history.
No specific details have been disclosed, but Gov. Eric Holcomb, Indiana Secretary of Commerce David Rosenberg and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) are expected to join Purdue President Mung Chiang for the announcement.
The Cyber Safety Review Board describes shoddy cybersecurity practices, a lax corporate culture and a lack of sincerity about the company’s knowledge of the targeted breach, which affected multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China.
The massive housecleaning comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance.
AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.
Besides the quantum leap in storage, Gmail also came equipped with Google’s search technology so users could quickly retrieve a tidbit from an old email, photo or other personal information stored on the service.
Gameplay at Circle Centre Mall’s Video Game Palooza Charity Arcade is helping to fund scholarships for Hope Training Academy.
Online marketing firm Pneuma Media LLC plans to hire 26 people over the next five years, the company announced Tuesday.
Before trading began, Trump Media had a market value of about $6.8 billion, a figure that will rise significantly if the early gains in the shares hold.
Big brands that have relied on TikTok to reach younger consumers do not appear to be panicking as they wait to see what happens in Washington. But they also have started planning.