Google creates $4 million crisis fund to help people hit by US visa ban

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has created a $4 million crisis fund to help four organisations working to help people hit by US President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Highlight StoryThe fund has a corpus of $2 million that can be matched with up to $2 million in donations from employees, totalling $4 million, USA Today reported.(AFP File Photo)

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Apple joins Microsoft to keep Artificial Intelligence from turning against humans

Google Chrome now hits 2 billion active installs across all platforms

However, this base of two billion might not indicate towards the active user base of the browser. Also, almost all Android smartphones come with Chrome pre-installed. (Google)

Internet search giant Google’s vice president of Chrome engineering, Darin Fisher, has said that the flagship browser Chrome has crossed an install base of 2 billion across all platforms.

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Nearly 3,18,000 Android users hacked via Google’s AdSense vulnerability

Kaspersky Lab, an international cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom, on Tuesday said that it has discovered a modification of the mobile banking Trojan, Svpeng hiding in Google’s advertising network AdSense. (Reuters)

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