The Covid-19 pandemic is fueling an e-commerce boom as per the shuttered businesses move online — but Google isn’t benefiting in the way its big tech rivals are. Google advertising sales fell 8% in the second quarter, causing overall revenue at parent Alphabet to shrink for the first time. The company’s main digital ad rival Facebook Inc. saw sales jump 11%, while Amazon revenue soared 40%. Those gaps is highlighted how Google has struggled to parlay its online search dominance into a meaningful e-commerce business. Google’s shares fell upto 3%…

Google has added a few security tools to protect your passwords and financial information saved on Chrome’s autofill better. One of these features will be use biometric information, like fingerprint etc, to verify your identity when you want to use your credit card online.Google has rolled out a couple of security tools to protect the financial information and passwords that you saved with Chrome’s autofill feature. One of them will allow you to verify your identity using biometric information, such as your fingerprint, whenever you want to use your credit card online. Currently, these…

Pepper’s skill set includes making phone calls, identifying missing items in the kitchen and occasional aerobics instruction. Now, after a surge in loneliness among vulnerable groups during the coronavirus pandemic, this robot’s potential as a companion have earned her a role in a Scottish university’s assisted living all experiment with artificial intelligence. Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have programmed robots, including Pepper — who was launched as per the world’s first humanoid in Japan in 2014 — to perform tasks normally carried out by care workers. “We are specifically interested in…

Microsoft Edge browser is started crashing for users who has selected for Google as their default search engine. The crashes went on around for four hours before Microsoft fixed it. This issue only affected users who had Google selected as their default engine. This issue was affecting users on both MacOS and Windows, according to reports. Microsoft acknowledged the issue, and suggested a workaround of turning off search suggestions while it worked on a fix. As per a report by The Verge, the browser is started crashing when users typed into the…

Huawei Technologies and Apple both are increased their share of the China smartphone market in the second quarter of 2020, bucking a broader trend as the overall market for handsets continued to contract. Huawei shipped 40.2 million devices in China in the second quarter, 8% more than a year earlier, to increase its share of the market to a dominant 44%. Apple saw a substantial year on year growth of 35%, selling 7.7 million units, though its sales made up only 8.5% of the total market. Overall smartphone shipments in China…