In India, users can now find flood alerts and related information on Android devices, Google Maps, and Google Search. The technology giant has announced it via a Twitter post. The feature is now developed in collaboration with the Central Water Commission (CWC), the Government of India and the Central Water Commission Official Flood Forecast. Find…
Social networking giant Twitter tests a new feature that facilitates translating text for users. Twitter may soon auto-translate all tweets, at the moment, the platform supports built-in translation by tapping the translate option below a tweet. Now, by allowing automatic translation the company expands this feature. Within the context of an experiment, Twitter translates tweets…
The world’s largest social media companies, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and ByteDance, are forming an industry-wide partnership to combat fake news on their platforms in India, even as the government is finalizing content-censorship regulations. The proposed alliance — to be named the Information Trust Alliance (ITA) — will be a consortium between digital platforms and…
