VOTE: Who was your hero of 2019?

The year is coming to an end and overall, it's been one hell of a year! We have had our share of ups and downs and we look forward to a better 2020. While we count down the days to the new year,......

How to tackle fake news

The ability to make out fake news from real could save the coming generations a huge amount of conflict and heartburn, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Recently, the ministry of information and......

Google to launch ChatGPT competitor 'Bard': Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the tech giant will soon launch an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered chatbot called ‘Bard', aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT......

Google to axe 12,000 workers; CEO Pichai says 'sorry'

Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe, its CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday, becoming the latest tech giant after Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon to retrench staff en mass amid the......

In layoff season, Google may fire 10,000 'low performing' employees

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is likely to join the list of Big Tech companies going for large-scale layoffs. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters With this, almost the entire universe of......

Pandemic boom to layoff season: How Big Tech, start-ups got it wrong

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, summed it up well as he explained the reason for the company sacking 13 per cent of its employees. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com He said no one......