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New Delhi: Data journalism, reverse visual search and mobile journalism are among the new courses that the Google News Initiative announced on Monday. The new courses are designed to help newsrooms continue innovating, Google India said. The Google News Initiative India Training Network was launched in 2018 and along with the Google News Lab, this network has helped train over 35,000 journalists across India to date to efficiently use free digital tools and resources that help elevate quality journalism. These courses have imparted skills such as the effective use of Google search operators; using reporting-friendly tools such as site-archiving and audio transcription, using web monitoring via Trends and Alerts, and tips on how to verify content through reverse visual searches and geolocating images. The new courses announced on Monday will help scribes learn how to find and visualise data easily without having any special graphic designing or coding skills. … [Read more...] about Google India offers new courses for scribes

Many would call 2020 a lost year. India ’s technology industry will likely look at it differently. It’s a year when they built enormous credibility and trust around the world. It’s also a year when the world valued technology more than ever before. That should have a profound impact on the business of India’s technology providers in the years to come. “In the last 12 months, there was a fundamental shift in how we think about technology,” Debjani Ghosh , president of IT industry body Nasscom , said at last week’s Times Techies webinar with Nasscom. The way this industry has demonstrated resilience, agility, and the ability to adapt to crisis (during the pandemic) has been acknowledged globally. We had analysts, customers all saying, we did not expect this to happen in India. We as an industry have shown we are absolutely trustworthy.This would not have been possible without government support. Because of certain laws and regulations, it wasn’t possible for a large … [Read more...] about Why trust in India’s tech biz soared during the pandemic

Steel maker Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India (AMNS India) on Monday said it has signed a pact with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)-Pilani to provide its employees an opportunity to enrol for an e-learning programme. The engineering programme will be for a duration of three-and-a-half years, AMNS India said in a statement. AMNS India is a joint venture of Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal and Japna's Nippon Steel. Located at Hazira in Gujarat, AMNS India is among the top steel-making companies in India, while BITS-Pilani is a premier educational institute located at the Pilani town of Rajasthan, about 222 km from the state's capital Jaipur. "AMNS India recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with BITS-Pilani to provide a sponsored B.Tech Process Engineering degree through a work integrated learning programme without the need for a career break," it said. The course will be facilitated by faculty of BITS-Pilani through digital … [Read more...] about AMNS India partners with BITS-Pilani to provide online engineering course to employees

Samsung Galaxy A32 will launch in India on March 3. This is revealed in a Twitter post shared by the official Twitter handle of Samsung India. “Bring your A game as things are about to Go Awesome over here. Only 2 days left”, reads the tweet hinting at the phone’s launch on March 3. The phone has already been launched in international markets including Russia and the UK. The support page of the Samsung Galaxy A32 is live on Samsung’s India website. The title of the webpage also reveals the sale date of the phone. According to it, the handset will go on sale on March 5. Samsung Galaxy A32: Specifications As revealed by the listing page, the handset will pack 6GB RAM and will have a 128GB internal storage capacity. The smartphone will come in four colour variants- Awesome Black, Awesome White, Awesome Blue and Awesome Violet. Samsung Galaxy A32 will offer a quad lens camera at the back. The camera system will feature a 64MP main sensor paired with an 8MP … [Read more...] about Samsung Galaxy A32 launching in India on March 3, teased to pack 6GB RAM and 128GB storage

Stressing that tech giant IBM has an incredible focus on India, CEO Arvind Krishna on Tuesday reiterated that the company is on the path to expand its operations and services in the country. IBM currently employs 380,000 people serving clients in 170 countries and India has the highest number of IBMers outside of the US -- a key research and innovation hub for the tech giant that set up its first office in the country almost 26 years back. "We have a lot of collaborations in India and the regulatory framework promotes export of our services from the country," Krishna said during a virtual media interaction. "We are really proud that we provide services to the country's private sector banks, public sector banks, telecom companies and organisations in various other sectors," he emphasised, adding that the company is set to expand its services in the country. "The Indian market is very vibrant. To leverage this market further, organisations will have to have robust digital … [Read more...] about IBM set to expand operations in India, says CEO Arvind Krishna