Monday, February 09, 2015

Deep Web Search Engine Memex Fights Crime a Bit Like Minority Report

Source: http://gizmodo.com/deep-web-search-engine-memex-fights-crime-a-bit-like-mi-1684674056

Deep Web Search Engine Memex Fights Crime a Bit Like Minority Report

Exactly one year ago, DARPA announced a characteristically scifi-inspired mission: to create a search engine that could find things on the deep web that Google's crawlers would miss. The so-called Memex project is now well underway, and for the first time we're getting a look at the crime-fighting search engine in action.

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LG builds its own mobile VR headset for the G3

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/09/lg-google-cardboard-vr-headset-g3/

Korea's two largest companies are Samsung and LG, and while Samsung has been making a big splash in the VR world, LG has remained conspicuously silent. That's because the company has been working with Google to build a headset for the LG G3 that'll do a similar job to the Gear VR. The charmingly-named VR for G3 is a plastic headset that'll let you slide the phone into the hardware, with special holes cut for the smartphone's rear volume keys.

Rather than building its own virtual reality platform, however, LG has cribbed the design from Google's paper-craft VR headset, Google Cardboard. Like the original, the plastic hardware comes with a neodymium ring magnet on the side that'll pair with the G3's internal gyroscope, enabling you to control your phone without having to touch the display. Of course, by leveraging Google's VR platform, LG can piggyback off the search engine's software background rather than starting yet another rival in the nascent space.


Unfortunately there's no word on how much it'll cost or where you'll be able to snag one. For now, the company is saying that it'll launch in "selected markets" and that a headset will be thrown in for free when you purchase a G3. Naturally, we've pinged the company to find out more, and will let you know what we learn.

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Google to speed up Chrome with the next version of HTTP

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/09/google-spdy-http2/

Google Inc. To Announce Earns

Google is giving up on its homegrown SPDY protocol, which aimed to deliver a faster web browsing experience in Chrome than tried and true HTTP. Instead, it's adopting HTTP/2 -- an upgraded version of the protocol that's close to being standardized -- in Chrome 40 in the next few weeks. All of that working developing SPDY wasn't for nothing, though. Google says HTTP/2 includes several features that evolved from its protocol, including multiplexing and header compression, both of which allows you to efficiently make multiple page requests at once. Don't expect your web browsing to speed up immediately with HTTP/2 -- it'll take some time for Google, other browser makers, and developers to fully take advantage of its many improvements -- but it lays the groundwork for a faster and safer web over the next few years. As for SPDY, Google says it'll dump support for that entirely in early 2016.

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Source: Google Chromium Blog

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This awesome trick lets you use Google Maps even when you're offline (GOOG)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-google-maps-offline-without-wifi-2015-2

Google Maps

Since Google launched Maps ten years ago this week, the service has become completely increasingly ingrained in our lives.

One lesser-known Maps features is that you can download a part of a map to check out even when you don't have mobile data or wi-fi. It's especially handy for travelers, who often don't have cell service. 

Here's how you use make it work:

First and foremost, download the Maps app. Then, either search for a location, like "New York City," or zoom into a specific area that you want to save for viewing offline, and click the location box at the bottom of the screen:

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In the top right corner, you'll see three vertical dots. Click them, and you'll see a "Save offline app" option:

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Google will ask you what you want to call the new offline map:

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Then, you can find all your saved maps by swiping right any time on the app and tapping "Your places":Maps

Viola! You'll see your saved maps, and be able to find your way around even without cell service or wi-fi (you'll still be able to see your location as a blue dot):Maps2

 

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Sunday, February 08, 2015

drag2share: Google buys an app that helps you privately share photos

source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/08/google-buys-odysee/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full

Google Photos on Android

Remember those murmurs that Google would detach its photo service from its social networking? It just took steps that could make this split a practical reality. The search firm has snapped up the creators of Odysee, a mobile app that can automatically share photos in private as well as send your phone snapshots to your PC at home. The team (Nimbuz) isn't specific about its future plans beyond promises of more "amazing products," but it's joining the Google+ group. That's an unusual move for a developer that specializes in keeping pictures out of the public eye, but it'd make sense if Google wants a photo platform that can stand on its own two feet. Whatever Google's intentions, it's acting quickly. Odysee has already vanished from app stores, and the service shuts down on February 23rd.

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