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Instagram will tell you which of your boring friends to unfollow Instagram  has added some more ways to organize the list of people you're following. You can see which people are flooding your feed and  Stories  the most and which accounts you interact with least often. So, if you've realized you're following too many people and want to make your feed a bit more manageable, you'll have easier ways to figure out who the biggest spammers are and whose posts you don't actually care about.

Google Maps Celebrates Its 15th Birthday With a Makeover, New Features. Google Maps on Thursday launched a redesign that prominently solicits users' reviews and photos of places they visit, seeking to grow its data in a field led by local search apps such as Zomato, TripAdvisor, and Yelp. More than 1 billion people now turn to Google Maps to see and explore the world, the company said. The new look, which coincides with  Google Maps'  15th birthday, introduces a "Contribute" tab to a menu at the bottom of the service's mobile app, Google said in a  blog post .

Google bug accidentally shares users' private videos with strangers. In a statement to 9to5Google , Google apologized and basically repeated what it said in the message it sent. "We are notifying people about a bug that may have affected users who used Google Takeout to export their Google Photos content between November 21 and November 25. These users may have received either an incomplete archive, or videos — not photos — that were not theirs. We fixed the underlying issue and have conducted an in-depth analysis to help prevent this from ever happening again. We are very sorry this happened."

Man Uses 99 Smartphones to Fool Google Maps and Create a Fake Traffic Jam: Video Google Maps is an invaluable tool for anyone who drives a car in a big city, offering details on traffic snarls or bottlenecks on major roads. A lot of us religiously check Google Maps before going anywhere, to properly plan our routes. Google itself runs ad campaigns encouraging users to do the same. But the system isn't foolproof and can be deceived, as hilariously demonstrated by a man in Berlin who used 99 smartphones and a hand cart to create ‘fake' traffic jams in the German capital.

Meet Arvind Krishna, new IBM CEO who is latest south Indian to head global IT company.  Arvind Krishna, born in Andhra Pradesh, is going to be the CEO at IBM from April. He joins three other India-born CEOs who are currently heading Microsoft, Google and Adobe.

Google temporarily closing China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan offices due to coronavirus . In recent days, the global tech industry has been  responding  to the coronavirus. Google today announced that it’s temporarily shutting down offices in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, while instituting travel restrictions.

Google takes on AWS and Azure in India with Airtel cloud deal . Google Cloud announced on Monday that the new partnership, effective starting today, enables Airtel to offer G Suite to small and medium-sized businesses as part of the telco’s ICT portfolio.

Wild Karnataka is a 2019 Indian ultra-HD natural history documentary on the Indian state of Karnataka's rich biodiversity, most of which is still unknown to the general public. The film was produced by award-winning film-makers Amoghavarsha J S and Kalyan Varma in collaboration with Icon Films and Mudskipper.

Machine learning can 'fingerprint' programmers

India launches antitrust investigation against Google

Nevada lets Google's driverless car hit the open road, requires it to bring a driver

iGate drops Patni brand name

Facebook CEO set to become richer than Microsoft CEO