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  📚 Unsung Genius Behind Google! 🇮🇳💡 Meet Rajeev Motwani — the Indian mind whose ideas helped build Google as we know it! 🧠 Mentor to tech giants like Google & PayPal 📊 Co-author of the original PageRank paper 💡 Co-inventor of Locality-Sensitive Hashing 🏆 Gödel Prize winner (2001) 📚 Stanford professor & author of iconic CS textbooks From Jammu to IIT Kanpur , then on to UC Berkeley and Stanford — his journey was filled with groundbreaking work and visionary mentorship. Sergey Brin once said: "Whenever you use a piece of technology, there's a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it." Though he tragically passed in 2009, his legacy continues through every search algorithm and through the Motwani Jadeja Foundation supporting global innovators. 🔍 A true legend whose impact you feel every time you Google something!

Google's Bolo app, which is being launched in India first, uses speech recognition and text-to-speech technology. Bolo will be available on Google Play Store in India for all smartphones running Android 4.4 (Kit Kat) and higher NEW DELHI: Tech giant Google Wednesday unveiled a new app 'Bolo' that aims to help children in primary school learn to read in Hindi and English. The free app, which is being launched in India first, uses Google's speech recognition and text-to-speech technology. The app features an animated character 'Diya', who encourages children to read stories aloud and helps if the child is unable to pronounce a word. It also lauds the reader when he/she completes the reading. "We have designed the app to work offline, so users need to just download the under 50MB app once and then they have access to close to 100 stories in Hindi and English that the children can read out loud and improve their reading skills," Google India Product Manag...

Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. To read the full story, visit  https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

Google just got more serious about India Pichai is in India along with eight Google vice-presidents, including those for Search, YouTube, Maps, and Android among others. (Sanjeev Verma/ HT Photo) After days of anticipation, the real reason of Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s visit to India has come to the fore. Fortunately, it was not about one single thing, but about many small initiatives that go to show that, Google just became more serious about India. Sundar Pichai took the stage to explain in detail, and piece together, the announcements made in the course of last few months and their relevance to India. Real time cricket scores and videos by early next year, an expansive new campus in Hyderabad and an aggressive ramping up of recruitment in India were among a host of initiatives. The tech giant also unveiled two new projects to boost its penetration into India’s vast rural and semi-urban hinterland. The first is Project Loon -- a network of high-altitude, internet-be...