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Updates to Google Goggles, the History list view with place markers on past searches is cool

The most interesting bit is "for iOS"." Creating a gesture based interface for mobile devices would b e transformative.

"The experience reskins an actual location in the fantasy environment of Berk, the island in DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon 2 animated movie. You can explore fantasy-style landscapes - layered on a map of San Francisco - while flying around on the back of a creature like Toothless, the Night Fury dragon from the film. This kind of app is a hybrid of exploration and actual gameplay, and it is an interesting experiment that blends different mobile technologies as well as movies, games, and the real world. "

"Facebook has been showing a survey to users within the social network. Users can take this survey if they want to - it's entirely voluntary. They'll answer questions about whether they're experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, such as cough or fever.  That data then gets sent to the research team at Carnegie Mellon (not Facebook), which uses it to create population models of people experiencing symptoms. The idea is that symptoms are the "precursor" to hospital visits, so an uptick in symptoms in a particular area could help officials decide where to send health resources. "The survey responses combined with other data such"