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zolotarev

Google Glass still exists: Meet Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 - 0 views

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Google AR

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  • zolotarev on 21 May 19
     
    Google announced a new version of Google Glass. Glass Enterprise 2 is powered by the "Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 platform. The company says, "This enables significant power savings, enhanced performance, and support for computer vision and advanced machine-learning capabilities." Google VR/AR lead Clay Bavor has claimed ownership of Google Glass on Twitter, so now it seems the same group that brings you ARCore and Google Daydream VR goggles will be in charge of Google Glass.
Vladimir Antonov

Project Skybender: Google's secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed | Technology | T... - 0 views

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google internet Technology Social Connected World Global Mobility Internet of Everything

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 02 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Google is testing solar-powered drones at Spaceport America in New Mexico to explore ways to deliver high-speed internet from the air
  • Project SkyBender is using drones to experiment with millimetre-wave radio transmissions, one of the technologies that could underpin next generation 5G wireless internet access
  • High frequency millimetre waves can theoretically transmit gigabits of data every second, up to 40 times more than today’s 4G LTE systems. Google ultimately envisages thousands of high altitude “self-flying aircraft” delivering internet access around the world.
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  • “The huge advantage of millimetre wave is access to new spectrum because the existing cellphone spectrum is overcrowded. It’s packed and there’s nowhere else to go,” says Jacques Rudell
  • However, millimetre wave transmissions have a much shorter range than mobile phone signals. A broadcast at 28GHz, the frequency Google is testing at Spaceport America, would fade out in around a tenth the distance of a 4G phone signal. To get millimetre wave working from a high-flying drone, Google needs to experiment with focused transmissions from a so-called phased array. “This is very difficult, very complex and burns a lot of power,” Rudell says
  • The SkyBender system is being tested with an “optionally piloted” aircraft called Centaur as well as solar-powered drones made by Google Titan, a division formed when Google acquired New Mexico startup Titan Aerospace in 2014. Titan built high-altitude solar-powered drones with wingspans of up to 50 metres
  • Project SkyBender is part of the little-known Google Access team, which also includes Project Loon, a plan to deliver wireless internet using unpowered balloons floating through the stratosphere.
  • In 2014, Darpa, the research arm of the US military, announced a program called Mobile Hotspots to make a fleet of drones that could provide one gigabit per second communications for troops operating in remote areas.
  • Vladimir Antonov on 02 Feb 16
     
    Could this be a next gen. technology that would bring hi-speed internet access literally to every place in the world?
nrybakov

Google announces Stadia, its cross-platform game streaming service - 0 views

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Entertainment Game Technology

shared by nrybakov on 09 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • The service will let you play all manner of computer games streamed from Google‘s data centers to your devices running the Chrome browser or ChromeOS platform, or even your TV with a Chromecast Ultra plugged in. You won’t need any additional hardware to run Stadia, and you won’t need to install anything to play games. As Google VP Phil Harrison noted in an interview with Eurogamer, “Anywhere where YouTube runs well, Stadia can run.”
  • Rather than treat Stadia as an entirely standalone service, Google sees people using it from and with YouTube. That means your starting point with Stadia could be a game trailer on the video platform, or a live stream of a tournament; you could simply hit Play on either video stream and start playing – solo or with others – within a few seconds.
  • nrybakov on 09 Apr 19
     
    New Service from Google that allows users to play games streamed from Google on any possible devices. That may potentially attract more audience to the other Google products (YouTube especially).
Vladimir Antonov

After Investing In A Local Services Startup, Google Turns Around And Builds A Competito... - 1 views

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Technology Clash of Titans Economy centralization Big Data Digital Monopoly No Middle Man

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  • Google is working to create a new product in the home services market
  • Calif.-based technology giant is working on an offering through its ads team that will allow customers to connect with roofers and repairmen and put it in direct competition with Thumbtack and Amazon.com
  • As Buzzfeed reported, there will likely be some integration with Google Ad Words, which will likely create targeted ads for users searching for certain services that will allow them to receive direct quotes.
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  • This isn’t the first time that Google’s investing has created a possible conflict of interest. In February, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Google was developing an Uber competitor in anticipation of the launch of its self-driving cars. The search company, through its venture capital arm Google Ventures, had previously invested $258 million in the ride-sharing service in Aug. 2013, with Google chief legal officer David Drummond taking an Uber board seat
  • Google is extremely wary of the expansion of the vertically-integrated tech giants into other spaces, said sources, and it’s not staying still with Amazon announcing its entry into a local services market that some experts estimate does more than $400 billion in business every year.
  • Vladimir Antonov on 12 Feb 16
     
    Big tech companies expansion // to be added to the 'clash of giants' trend
alexbelov

Google's answer to Amazon's Echo is code-named 'Chirp' and is landing soon - Recode - 0 views

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voice assistant ai google amazon nest technology

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  • A product team at Google is working on a hardware device that would integrate Google's search and voice assistant technology, akin to the Amazon Echo
  • a portable speaker with voice assistant tech
  • voice search and intelligent personal assistance will occupy center stage at the company's splash show
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  • And Echo is collecting the type of data — what consumers search for, listen to and buy, and how they talk to machines — that Google loves. Amazon has long been considered a big threat to Google's core business as web and mobile app users go to the online retailer for product searches.
  • alexbelov on 12 May 16
     
    Google is working on an intelligent voice assistant device for home.
Maria Gurova

Google on Its Own Transparency Report: This Is Not Good Enough - Rebecca J. Rosen - The... - 0 views

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google Political Technology cyber safety surveillance government big data

shared by Maria Gurova on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • To promote transparency around this flow of information, we’ve built an interactive online Transparency Report with tools that allow people to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google services are being blocked.
  • Though Google would often note that the report was not complete picture of how governments accessed user data online, it couched that admission in the context that the report was growing and improving with each release.
  • Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from governments for user information have increased by more than 100 percent. This comes as usage of our services continues to grow, but also as more governments have made requests than ever before. And these numbers only include the requests we’re allowed to publish.
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  • Instead of highlighting the report's strengths, it is using this release to emphasize what it cannot say, but wants to.
Maria Gurova

Google Glass Gets Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable Apps - 0 views

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google glass Technology social media travel wearable foursquare

shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google Glass just got a whole lot more useful for travel. The connected headset now has official apps for Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable.
  • TripIt inserts its trip updates and information in the Google Now cards that already appear on Glass. Your flight status, departure time and gate will all appear on a single card
  • Open Table has its own command: "Okay Glass, make a reservation...." Once you speak those words, a selection of nearby restaurants will appear, ready for you to scroll through
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  • The current version of Google's Field Trip sends you notifications about surrounding points of interest, but the upgrade, released in April, lets you specifically ask what's nearby.
  • Word Lens completes the travel package. The app has been on Glass since last November, but its augmented-reality translation abilities are arguably perfectly suited for smart glasses. With Glass, all you need to do is look at a sign or menu, aim Glass' camera so the text you need translated is in an onscreen rectangle, and the words will change — from, say, Italian to English — before your eyes
Anna Dubinina

Google Reveals Its New "RankBrain" Artificial Intelligence System - 1 views

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CIS Technology Artificial Intelligence Google Search Personalization AI Human language interpretation

shared by Anna Dubinina on 27 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • RankBrain helps Google decipher the approximately 15% of phrases that the search engine has not encountered before, Bloomberg reports.
  • Google has just gone public with the details of a new artificial intelligence called RankBrain, which the search giant is using to handle difficult queries.
  • Anna Dubinina on 27 Oct 15
     
    Google is training a new artificial intelligence product on its search engine's most difficult queries
Maria Gurova

Elon Musk Snags Top Google Researcher for New AI Non-Profit | WIRED - 0 views

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Technology science AI open source deep learning AI non-profit cognitive AI Musk

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  • Tesla founder Elon Musk, big-name venture capitalist Peter Thiel, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and several other notable tech names have launched a new artificial intelligence startup called OpenAI,
  • OpenAI has the talent to compete with the industry’s top artificial intelligence outfits, including Google and Facebook—but the company has been setup as a non-profit.
  • The apparent aim is to build systems based on deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that has proven extremely adept in recent years at identifying images, recognizing spoken words, translating from one language to another, and, to a certain extent, understanding the natural way that we humans talk.
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  • intend to open source their work, freely sharing it with the world at large. Recently, Google open sourced the core software engine, TensorFlow, that drives its deep learning services, and just this week, Facebook open sourced its deep learning hardware.
  • OpenAI says, its backers have committed $1 billion to the project.
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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Google Technology big data collection internet of things robotics human tracking smart home

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
Maria Gurova

YouTube's Grand Plan to Make VR Accessible to Everybody | WIRED - 0 views

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Technology Social entertainment youtube VR Advanced Content Monetisation Impactful Communication Economy Immersive Experience Immersive Entertainment accessibility content maker movement Market

shared by Maria Gurova on 09 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Today, YouTube is unveiling 360-degree virtual reality videos and a virtual movie theater for all YouTube videos, available to anyone with a Google Cardboard headset. The goal is to “democratize virtual reality” and “bring VR to everybody
  • social network is now seeing 8 billion daily video views. Facebook itself recently debuted 360 video. And the social networking giant owns Oculus,
  • But Facebook, its biggest competitor, is rapidly encroaching on YouTube’s turf.
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  • expects that library of content to grow “very rapidly,” especially as the company works with YouTube creators to get more VR content up on the platform
  • According to Variety, these YouTube stars are even more influential among US teens than Hollywood celebrities.
  • The one stumbling block is that not that many people have the equipment to experience VR. Google says some 1 million folks already own the Cardboard viewer
  • it’s convenient that the company is launching these virtual reality features right before The New York Times ships 1.3 million Google Cardboard sets this weekend, as it debuts its new VR documentary, “The Displaced.”
Oleg Batluk

PlaNet узнает место по фотографии с невероятной точностью | Хайтек - 0 views

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CIS AI Google geolocation global mobility neural network

shared by Oleg Batluk on 02 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Новейшее достижение искусственного интеллекта Google — способность компьютера узнать, где была сделана практически любая фотография.
  • нейронную сеть
  • PlaNet побеждает человека
  • Oleg Batluk on 02 Mar 16
     
    Google creates proactive algorythm automatically defining any photo geolocation
isoldatenkova

Google is adding AR features to Search and Maps - Business Insider - Business Insider - 1 views

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Technology google advertising AR

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  • At Google's annual I/O developer conference, the company announced a number of new AR features that will be integrated into its core mobile offerings — Search and Maps.
  • Google Maps' newly announced AR feature will leverage a user's smartphone camera to superimpose walking directions over real-world streets.
  • Business Insider Intelligence expects the number of mobile AR users to near 2.5 billion by 2023, up from 1 billion in 2018.
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  • Google could also build out a unique and attractive platform by leaning on the insights it gains from business and consumer users of its AR features. The company could then license this tech to headset manufacturers, opening up another valuable revenue stream.
Vladimir Devyatkin

Google chairman: 6 predictions for our digital future - 1 views

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technology future

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  • Vladimir Devyatkin on 10 Jul 13
     
    Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow him on Twitter, and add him to your Circles on Google+. (CNN) -- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has been thinking a lot about our digital future.
evgeny lavrov

One Day, Google Will Deliver the Stuff You Want Before You Ask | Wired Business | Wired... - 0 views

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Technology shopping anticipation tracking tech

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  • As personal digital assistant apps such as Google Now become widespread, so does the idea of algorithms that can not only meet but anticipate our needs
  • eBay lets you shop at only one store at a time and promises delivery “in about an hour,” while Google lets you shop at multiple stores and pick your own delivery time window.
  • customers won’t be ordering stuff from eBay anymore. Instead, they’ll let their phones do it.
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  • “Ambient commerce is about consumers turning over their trust to the machine,” Sheldon says
  • Between what these companies know about our interests, our friends, our whereabouts, our purchases, and anything else we’re willing to feed them, whether by email, Twitter, Facebook, GPS, or credit card, they probably should have a very good idea of what we want and when and where we want it.
Maria Gurova

What It Really Feels Like to Ride in a Self-Driving Car | TIME.com - 0 views

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Technology Google self-driving car urbanization

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  • Google’s project to change transportation by designing cars which can drive themselves is getting less secretive
  • a trip which will be far less tedious when I can do it while reading, answering email or otherwise being productive.
  • Sergey Brin has talked about self-driving cars being a reality for “everyday people” within five years–and he said that a year and a half ago, which would suggest he was thinking about 2017
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  • From a technical standpoint, the car uses lasers, radar and cameras to construct a 3D image of the world around it, and uses that to make driving decisions.
  • The driver has a small heads-up display which summarizes what the car’s vision system sees, with color-coded indicators for other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and other things it needs to contend with.
  • The Google cars drive safely in part because they’re programmed to be relentlessly cautious: Unlike many a human driver, they won’t push their luck.
Irina Marchenko

Умные очки Google Glass умерли. Разработчики разбегаются - 1 views

Интернет-издания пишут, что интерес к Google Glass потеряли не только разработчики, но и те люди, которые получили возможность первыми испытать устройство. Людей, которые носили Glass, стали избега...

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Maria Gurova

YouTube Kids App Blasted as 'Deceptive' by Consumer Groups | Variety - 0 views

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Technology entertainment KE youtube legal 'marketing to kids' Google Social UGC 'short-form' video

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  • Google’s YouTube Kids app, which offers a walled garden of content aimed at the 5-and-under set, is the target of a coalition of consumer groups urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the service as a potential violation of rules about advertising to children
  • “Many of the video segments endorsing toys, candy and other products that appear to be ‘user-generated’ have undisclosed relationships with product manufacturers in v
  • iolation of the FTC’s guidelines concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising,
Oleg Batluk

5 лучших изобретений недели | Хайтек - 0 views

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CIS radiolocation hyper-consumerism Google patent family entertainment

shared by Oleg Batluk on 02 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Google хочет использовать радиолокацию, чтобы усовершенствовать процесс поиска данных в интернете
  • Радары в данном случае используются для распознавания жестов и других физиологических данных пользователя.
  • Oleg Batluk on 02 Mar 16
     
    Google wants to use radiolocations to expand search with physiological consumer data
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Out in the Open: The Tiny Box That Lets You Take Your Data Back From Google | Enterpris... - 0 views

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Technology social

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  • Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 16 May 14
     
    The National Security Agency is scanning your email. Google and Facebook are hoarding your personal data. And online advertisers are selling your shopping habits to the highest bidder. Today, more than ever, people are thinking about how to opt out of this madness without quitting the internet entirely.
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