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How to search for a song on YouTube by simply whistling or humming a tune
How many times have you woken up with a tune stuck in your head, and you just can’t remember the lyrics but also can’t let go of the tune until you figure out what song it is? Pretty often, correct? The next usual step is heading to Shazam, humming the song, and hoping it understands the song despite your baritone. And once you hit the jackpot, you head to your choice of music app –– and for 82% of music listeners in India, YouTube is the popular choice –– and finally get the song in and out of your head.
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‘The godfather of AI’ Leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the AI systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Receives $200 Million In 2022 Amid Cost Cutting
Alphabet Inc Chief Executive SundarPichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the median employee's pay, the company said in a securities filing on Friday. Mr Pichai's compensation included stock awards of about $218 million, the filing showed. The pay disparity comes at a time when Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been cutting jobs globally, The Mountain View, California-based company announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs around the world in January, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce.
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Alphabet shares fall on report Samsung may dump Google Search for Bing
Alphabet Inc shares fell as much as 4% on Monday following a report South Korea’s Samsung Electronics was considering replacing Google with Microsoft-owned Bing as the default search engine on its devices. The report, published by the New York Times over the weekend, underscores the growing challenges Google’s $162-billion-a-year search engine business face from Bing – a minor player that has risen in prominence recently after the integration of the artificial intelligence tech behind ChatGPT.
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Google Pay Sending Accidental Cashback Rewards To Several Pixel Users
A Google Pay error has given way to the service sending cashback rewards to random Pixel smartphone users, the media has reported. It is being said that the reason why Google sent these accidental credits to some Google Pixel users. According to some Reddit users, unexpected credits were sent to Google Pay accounts of several Google Pixel users with some accounts receiving as much as $1,072 (or roughly Rs 88,000)
