Both Google and Nasa have been developing a quantum computer as part of their artificial intelligence work. However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
We found the toothbrush for as low as $35 on ebay and for only $14 on Amazon.
not just FX,"said the head of Travelex's new digital team, former Google and e-Harmony executive Sean Cornwell."
Among the other feasible applications for the transistors is better power electronics for data centres run by Google
#Google Project Ara modular smartphone delayed to 2016 Google had announced earlier this year, that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
Looks like, amidst the all new structuring happening at Google, the modular device will have to wait until next year.
on day 2 of the Google I/O developers conference, at the ATAP keynote, Google engineer Rafa Camargo assembled a Project Ara phone as part of a live demo,
Google, known by its employees for frequent eorgs announced a major shake up with the holding company Alphabet.
Google, Google X and other products now become subsidiary of the parent company. Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara.
The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions, and a 2mp front-facing module is also in the works.
And the other authors are Di-Yan Wang (Stanford), Mingyun Guan (Stanford), Michael Angell (Stanford), Changxin Chen (Stanford), Jiang Yang (Stanford) and Bing-Joe
which is joint venture among NRG ENERGY, Google and Brightsource energy. That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
#EU Formally Accuses Google Of Market Abuse, Opens Probe Into Android The European union competition chief formally laid down the gauntlet to Google on Wednesday,
accusing it of market dominance in web searches, particularly around online shopping. It also opened a formal investigation into
whether its Android operating system unfairly favored its own apps. would like to hear what Google has to say for itself,
Wel take in the response of Google and decide how to proceed. Wee not here to take the side of rivals.
Google wrangle with the EU over search results has been going on for five years, but the formal Statement of Objections is a landmark step.
who was criticized by some for not taking a stronger stance with Google. Almunia was replaced by Vestager late last year.
The next step is for Google to formally answer the EU Statement of Objection, which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
who filed their complaints with the EU back in 2010. If Google and the Commission cannot reach a settlement
and the case reaches the European High court, it could not only drag on for several more years
but see Google fined 10%of its annual revenues. At 2014 levels that would be $6. 6 billion.
Some might argue that Google as a private company should have the freedom to organize search results how it wants
who added that she considered Google to be lose to a monopoly. Google sent a memo to its employees yesterday showing charts from Comscore and its own internet analytics
saying the Statement of Objections was isappointing news. But, it added, e have a very strong case. t
#EU v. Google: What Each Side Is Saying The European union on Wednesday formally accused Google of abusing its dominant power in web search in violation of antitrust laws.
The action is potentially the most significant antitrust case in the tech industry since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s
It could force Google to pay billions in fines or to alter the way it presents search results.
Specifically, the European commission said that Google's GOOGL+0. 35%promotion of its own comparison shopping search function may rtificially divert traffic from rival comparison shopping services
which has been investigating Google search practices for about 5 years, detailed its concerns, known as a Statement of Objections,
on Google comparison shopping service here. The accusations did not extend to other areas of search,
like reviews and travel that Google rivals like Yelp YELP+3. 14 %and Tripadvisor TRIP+0. 57%had complained about.
whether Google has violated European antitrust laws with its Android operating system and related mobile services. The commission said it is concerned that Google may have hindered market access to rival mobile apps by pushing Android phone makers to pre-install its suite of mobile services
which include search, maps, Google Drive and the Play store. It also said it is concerned Google may have hindered market access to makers of modified versions of Android.
The commission full concerns on Android are detailed here. Google put out a vigorous defense. In a blog post, Google search chief Amit Singhal said that people have more search choices today than ever before,
and that competition among shopping search engines is thriving. ndeed if you look at shoppingn area where we have seen a lot of complaints
and where the European commission has focused in its Statement of Objectionst clear that (a) there a ton of competition (including from Amazon and ebay EBAY+0. 58%,
%two of the biggest shopping sites in the world) and (b) Google shopping results have not the harmed the competition,
Singhal wrote. In a separate blog post, Hiroshi Lockheimer, an engineering vice president for Android, rebutted the commission concerns regarding Google mobile operating system. ndroid has been a key player in spurring this competition and choice, lowering
prices and increasing choice for everyone, Lockheimer wrote. Google will now has 10 weeks to respond to the commissions charges.
The commission will then evaluate those responses and potentially recommend remedies e
#Tencent Scores#1 On China Brand Ranking, Next Global? Chinese tech companies are becoming more adept at marketing
and brand image, and will become better known in the West as their products and services go global.
This year, three of this year top five are oriented consumer Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. The brand rankings are compiled by analysis of financial data of publicly traded companies and interviews with consumers.
#Long term Investors Should Prefer Facebook to Google Last week saw another slew of quarterly earnings releases.
which support owning Google or Facebook. Google prices keep dropping, even as growth slows in oremarket Google once again reported higher sales and profits.
And that is a good thing. But, once again, the price of Google primary product declined. Revenues increased because volume gains exceeded the price decline
which indicates that the market for internet ads keeps growing. But this makes 15 straight quarters of price declines for Google.
Due to this long series of small declines, the average price of Google ads (cost per click) has declined 70%*since Q3 2011!
While this is a miraculous example of what economists call demand elasticity, one has to wonder how long growth will continue to outpace price degradation.
which allows Google to place more ads in more specific locations for advertisers via such automated products as Admob, Adexchange and Doubleclick Bid Manager.
Further, Google revenues are almost entirely search-based advertising, a category Google dominates. But this is largely a PC-related sale.
Today 67.5%of Google ad revenue is from PC searches, while only 32.5%is from mobile searches.
Due to this revenue skew, and the fact that people do more mobile interaction via apps, messaging apps and social media than browser,
and Google is making more money, it is possible to see that growth is slowing.
And Google efforts to create mobile ad sales outside of search have failed largely, as witnessed by the recent death of Google+as competition for Twitter or Facebook.
It is the market shift to mobile which creates the greatest threat to Google ability to grow;
certainly at historical rates. Simultaneously, Facebook announcements showed just how strongly it is continuing to dominate both social media and mobile,
Just as Google did in internet search a decade ago, beating out companies like Yahoo, Ask jeeves, etc.
Facebook is monetizing its market leadership position Google is moving rapidly to monetize this user base.
and represents 67%of global revenue (the inverse of Google revenues.)Further, Facebook is now taking its own programmatic ad buying tool, Atlas, to advertisers in direct competition with Google.
Only Atlas places ads on both social media and internet browser pages a one-two marketing punch Google has cracked not yet.
Google $17. 3b Q1 2015 revenue is 30 times the revenue of Facebook. There is no doubt Google is growing,
and generating enormous profits. But, for long-term investors, growth is slowing and there is reason to be concerned about the long term growth prospects of Google as the market shifts toward both social and mobile.
Google has failed to build any substantial revenues outside of search and has had some notable failures recently outside its core markets (Google+and Google glass.
Just how long Google will continue growing, and just how fast the market will shift is unclear.
Technology markets have shown the ability to shift a lot faster than many people expected, leaving some painful losers in their wake (Dell, HP, Sun microsystems, Yahoo, etc.
Meanwhile, Facebook is positioned squarely as the leader, without much competition, in the next wave of market growth.
Facebook is monetizing all things social and mobile at a rapid clip, and wisely using acquisitions to increase its strength.
As these markets continue on their well established trends it is hard to be anything other than significantly optimistic for Facebook long-term.*
Using the example of information Google GOOGL-1. 71%collects from its usershich includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, credit card data, online history, devices used,
meaning that Google users wouldn have a right to privacy around that data. The dissent continued, nd why stop there?
So now, under the majority rule, the Fourth Amendment allows the government to know from Youtube. com what we watch,
or Amazon com AMZN-0. 38%what we buy, or Wikipedia. com what we research, or Match. com whom we datell without a warrant.
A few concurring judges also offered caution about the implications of the case. his case is certainly about the present,
Backers included major VC players like Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Google Ventures hope what youl see is the regulations get cleared very soon
One could argue that Google system was a communication platform centered around Gmail, but it was linked not fully to the chat system.
Google Paypal Venmo Square Banks And others It is very clear that a sort of shakeout will commence that will define competing products and perhaps remove a few products from the market.
Google Google has been sending person to person money via Gmail for over two years and although it is not breaking any records,
or a picture is quite genius. Google will need to lower costs and continue to innovate.
Paypal, Google, and Square, Apple will not handle any payments themselves. High Likelihood Of Success There is little doubt that Facebook will be successful In person to Person payments.
#Youtube Now Lets You View And Upload 360-Degree Videos Youtube has announced that it is now supporting 360-degree video uploads.
Some of the cameras that are compatible with Youtube 360-degree video uploads include Bublcam, 360cam by Giroptic, Allie by IC Real Tech, the SP360 by Kodak and the RICOH THETA.
This means that viewers can watch videos in any direction for a different perspective instead of just where the camera is facing.
said Youtube staff in a blog post. ou could let viewers see the stage and the crowd of your concert, the sky and the ground as you wingsuit glide,
When you upload a Youtube video with a 360-degree camera, the viewer is able to tap on the video
If you are using the Youtube app on an Android device then you can pan around the video simply by moving your smartphone and tablet around.
As of right now, the 360-degree Youtube videos are supported by just the Chrome browser on the desktop and the Youtube app on Android devices.
Youtube said that 360-degree videos will be supported on other platforms in the near future like the iphone and ipad.
Youtube also has plans to make the 360-degree videos accessible through virtual reality platforms, which is the best way to view immersive content.
The experience feels very similar to Google GOOGL-0. 94%Street view . If you are near the Youtube Space L a. studio on Bluff Creek Drive in Los angeles,
the Creator Tech team is letting people try out the 360-degree cameras and put together those types of videos with help from the staff between now through April.
When you are ready to upload 360-degree videos on Youtube, you can find technical information on Github with a Python script to insert the correct video metadata.
Youtube plans to make the process of uploading 360-degree videos automatic, but that script will be required in the meantime.
Keep in mind that the quality of the 360-degree videos are not as high as we see in the standard Youtube videos.
And the 360-degree videos take up about four-to-five times the bandwidth of regular Youtube videos.
Youtube set up a playlist of some 360-degree videos so that you can see multiple examples.
Here are a few examples of the new 360-degree videos on Youtube (watch these using Google chrome on your desktop
or the Youtube app for Android to see the 360-degree controls) e
#In Historic Turn, CO2 EMISSIONS Flatline in 2014, Even as Global economy Grows A key stumbling block in the effort to combat global warming has been the intimate link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth.
it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,
#"Google maps for the Body"zooms in from whole organs down to individual cells The algorithms used for zooming in
and out on Google maps and Google street view have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level.
Google, Brown and Stanford universities, Cleveland Clinic, and optics and medical device manufacturer Zeiss. It uses imaging technology originally developed to scan for defects in silicon wafers,
and with help from Google's Maps algorithms the researchers can zoom and pan through a whole organ or tissue joint all the way down to individual cells.
Unlike Google's Body Browser, which visualizes the layers of the body in three-dimensional rendered graphics,
this so-called"Google maps for the Body"uses real images that get seamlessly stitched together and layered on top of each other."
Chromebooks have the benefit of running on Google's stripped-back CHROME OS platform though, meaning they don't need much horsepower to run smoothly.
#Google just became part of a new company called Alphabet Today Google, the company, is smaller
while the Google universe seems to be expanding with the announcement by CEO Larry page of a new umbrella company called Alphabet,
which will include a stripped down Google focused on search and Internet products and other companies like Calico operating as subsidiaries of the new company.
The announcement came in a post on the Google company blog by Page that is also cross-posted on the new,
In essence, what yesterday was Google today is called Alphabet, but under the umbrella of the new name is owned a wholly subsidiary that will still be named Google focusing on Internet products.
Alongside the new, smaller Google within Alphabet will be a number of other companies working on disparate projects like the aforementioned longevity company, Calico,
a life sciences company working on a glucose-sensing contact lens, the lab formerly known as Google X and investment arms Google Ventures and Google Capital,
just for starters. Page will be CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be President. Sundar Pichai, who has been in charge of products at Google,
including Android, Chrome and Maps, will be the new CEO of the new, stripped-down Google. Although Page doesn't say so specifically,
it seems that some of the company's biggest properties like Android and Youtube will remain a part of the smaller Google.
Normally news of what is basically a corporate restructuring isn't so interesting except that it involves a company that is,
While Page is framing the structural change as a way for Google (erm Alphabet) to stay on its toes
According to one filing, Google and the other new subsidiaries of Alphabet will report separately to investors,
For those who follow Google's moves with interest, the creation of Alphabet could hopefully give more of the company's many diverse projects a fighting chance of reaching fruition by having the support
Google has created a number of products that are shuttered later suddenly to the dismay of their user base (Google Reader, Glass, Buzz, Notebook, Wave, Health. just for starters), usually in the name of greater corporate focus.
Google shareholders will automatically convert to Alphabet shareholders, but the stock will continue to trade under the same GOOG and GOOGL ticker symbols s
#Yahoo Livetext: company makes app to stop video chats being awkward Livetext, quietly launched weeks ago
Yahoo found that the audio was often he biggest inhibitor of video chat according to Adam Cahan, SVP of mobile and emerging products at Yahoo.
That matched the feedback from the young people that Yahoo hopes will use the app,
#Google logo history: A trip through search engine's gradually smoothening logo Google just launched a new logo the first major redesign in years,
and a reflection of the changing nature of the search engine in all of our lives. But the site has been on a gradual evolution
At its beginning, Google wasn called even by that name t launched as ackrub That site had a rather obvious picture at the top:
It became Google in late 1997. The look was a little reminiscent of Word Art of old:
Google also briefly got an exclamation mark in 1999. It disappeared a year later. That shouting logo would be the last very different one that the site would have.
In doing so, it recognised one of the most important changes during its 17 years like Google itself,
Neural networks like the one found in Giraffe are already outperforming humans in many areas of pattern recognition, with Google Deepmind matching game testers in classic Atari 2600 games.
Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d-Printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
and the Pakistan prototype has been funded by a Google Faculty Research Award. The RBS team is now working with Endaga,
Google and other big companies recently backed Magic Leap with more than $540 million; and Microsoft has starting pooling resources into virtual-reality research. n addition to the major business Eyenetra is doing for prescriptions,
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Follow Jeanna Bryner on Twitter and Google+.+Follow us@livescience, Facebook & Google+.+Original article on Live Science e
#Simple Chemical Stops Prion Disease Mad cow, scrapie and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease are all diseases of the brain that debilitate before they kill,
and for how long to shine the light that excites the brain cells. Now researchers from Georgia Tech
Google shows off plans to build contact lenses that are powered by and communicate through light pulses.
Google contact lenses will be light-powered. Using embedded cells that turn light into an electronic current,
the ability to measure body heat and blood alcohol content are mentioned as possible new features for the Google lenses.
However, it clear that Google believes that future hardware shouldn be confined to wraps around the wrist or the body.
but Google has tried it before (remember Glass?)and maybe, the second time the charm c
while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
a space that is vastly dominated by Siri from Apple and Google Now from you know where.
Google Now can only manage to provide you with a list of recommended gifts that you can buy for your friend.
It is also important to note that unlike Google Now and Cortana Facebook M will not be making use of data it has collected about you over the years.
Whatsapp made a record by becoming only the second non-Google app to achieve the 1 billion downloadsmark on the Google Play Store.
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
#Google restructure easy as ABC Chief executive Larry page said the new structure will make the operation of the company leaner
Alphabet will be comprised of the core Google business including internet search, mapping and Youtube along with newer businesses that will be managed separately, such as Google Fiber, Nest and the investment arm Google Ventures.
Google CEO Page will become CEO of the new entity, with his cofounder Sergey Brin serving as president.
Longtime Google executive Sundar Pichai who has taken on increasingly important roles at the company in recent years,
will be CEO of the core Google business. Under the new structure, Page said the ewer Google is slimmed a bit down,
with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main internet products contained in Alphabet insteadalphabet will be comprised of the current efforts in life sciences such as glucose-sensing contact lens and the health research firm Calico,
he said. Page parent company will also include the drone delivery project Wing and investment arms of the California technology giant. undamentally
Creepy things Google knows about youlphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence.
me in service to them as needed. lphabet Inc will replace Google Inc as the publicly traded entity,
and all shares of Google will automatically convert to shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights,
Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet. The reorganisation comes amid concerns that Google dominance of the tech sector may have peaked as the landscape evolves.
Google has for years been the leader in internet search and has turned advertising linked to those searches into a highly lucrative business.
But its shares have struggled since hitting an all-time high in early 2014 and it has little to show for ventures in other areas:
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
#Google reveals new look logo Google logo keeps its four-color scheme but shifts to a soft sans-serif font.
and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens,
the California-based internet firm said in a blog post. ee taken the Google logo and branding,
and talk. he unveiling of the new logo came just weeks after a surprise reorganisation of Google under a newly formed parent company called Alphabet.
The plan calls for Alphabet to be the corporate parent, with an operating unit for Google and its related search operations
While Google is known as the dominant player in internet search, it has launched a variety of projects in recent years that are related marginally at best to its core operation.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The Google unit, to be headed by current company vice president Sundar Pichai, will include search, ads, maps, Youtube, Android and related technology infrastructure.
The revised design unveiled on Tuesday features the same mix of blue red, yellow and green that Google has been using throughout its nearly 17-year history,
though the hues are slightly different. Google also invented a new typeface called roduct Sansthat is meant to resemble the simple printing in a grade-school book.
The overhaul also will change the appearance of the letter that Google uses as its shorthand logo on the smaller screens of smartphones and other mobile devices.
The will now be displayed capitalised and in colour instead of being kept lower case and white. Google last tweaked its logo in 2013 g
#The world first dog emotion tracker has been created to help humans understand their pets FINALLY! A tech company has decided to use the internet of things to give the people
"When I use Google maps and I navigate somewhere, I am always pulling my mobile out of my pocket to check,
#EU ruling means Facebook and Google can send data to the US If you live in Europe,
including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.
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