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In August, two more were found using images from Google earth. Radar has even been used, famously uncovering vast new areas of the vast Cambodian temple complex Angkor Wat.

Sony soon will be the first consumer electronics maker with a Google feature built into its TV SETS.

Folks watching any show will be able to use a special remote to search Google on the same TV screen.

and senior futurist at the Davinci Institute and currently Googles top-rated futurist speaker. At the Institute, he has developed original research studies,

Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,

Google created a platform that lets anyone buy or display online advertisements. Facebook allows any developer to write applications for its social network

Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,

Google created a platform that lets anyone buy or display online advertisements. Facebook allows any developer to write applications for its social network

is already challenging Google, itself hardly an old-school corporation. But the biggest winners have been individuals, not institutions.

Among these is Google s Zeitgeist conference, where I have moderated discussions for several years. One of the most recent gatherings was held last May at the Grove Hotel, a former provincial estate in The english countryside,

Google flew in overnight Internet sensations from around the world. Yet for all its luxury, the mood of the Zeitgeist conference is hardly sybaritic.

and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (not to mention, of course, Google s own CEO, Eric Schmidt). But the most potent currency at this and comparable gatherings is neither fame nor money.

which Google showcased some of its new inventions, including the Nexus phone. This geeky enthusiasm for innovation and ideas is evident at more-intimate gatherings of the global elite as well.

Leading the charge is Google with over 700,000 Android devices being activated daily. Over the past year, Google activated more than 255 million devices compared to 105 million Apple activations.

Admittedly this isn t a true apples-to-apples comparison (no pun intended) because Google doesn t make their own phones

and Apple does. As smartphones and other devices evolve in this exploding market, look for a near-term push into near-field communications, 4g,

it will be the year that major players like Google and Mastercard roll out their cashless initiatives around the world.

In October 2011, the Google Wallet, a free, NFC-enabled mobile payment system became operational at select retailers across the US.

Google CEO Larry page sees himself as the next great visionary, following in the footsteps of Steve jobs, Nikola Tesla,

Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150 000 driverless miles on highways.

and for Google to make a play to design an Android-like operating system for all driverless cars. 22.)

Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Hewlett-packard and Googles moves surprised the tech world.

Marc Andreessen (board member at Hewlett-Parckard) explains why software is eating the world. Both moves are also in line with a trend Ive observed,

And the creation of software-powered driverless cars is already under way at Google and the major car companies.

and Android (especially in a world where Google owns a major handset maker). In some industries, particularly those with a heavy real-world component such as oil and gas, the software revolution is primarily an opportunity for incumbents.

Its not an accident that many of the biggest recent technology companies#ncluding Google, Amazon, ebay and more#re American companies.

but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too. Thats not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything

Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.

You have banks competing with carriers competing with Apple and Google, and its pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.#

These include Paypal and Google, which want to play a part in a new payment system,

Apple and Google already have payment systems#Apples itunes has 200 million accounts tied to credit cards,

while Google Checkout has been less popular. Both could be turned into mobile wallets, allowing users to pay for offline purchases with their Apple or Google accounts.

But they would need access to the cellphone chips and the merchants terminals. Apple could make its own cellphone chips to make this all happen,

but Google could not because it makes only Android cellphone software, not the phones themselves.

Four of the most valuable American companies#Apple, Google, Microsoft and I b m.#are rooted in technology.

Google s Android and other app platforms#was responsible, directly and indirectly, for 466,000 jobs.

Google, which receives two million applications a year, interviewed Mr. Grimes, but he did not make it past the preliminary stages.

Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 200,000 driverless miles on highways. 6.)Ground-Based Delivery Drones Before we have sold driverless passenger cars in any sizable quantities

it took much longer for Google, Microsoft and Japan s NTT Docomo to deliver the service in a non-intrusive

Audi, BMW, GM and Google tested them first. The search engine giant wanted them on the roads by 2020

#Google s self-driving car. Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights,

#Levandowski is an engineer at Google X, the company s semi-secret lab for experimental technology.

As a sophomore, he won a national robotics competition with a machine made out of Legos that could sort Monopoly money#fair analogy for what he s been doing for Google lately.

He was one of the principal architects of Street view and the Google maps database, but those were just warmups.#

The Google car is an old-fashioned sort of science fiction: this year s model of last century s Make it belongs to the gleaming,

I was told by Ron Medford, a former deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who now works for Google.

is the founder of the Google Car project. A wunderkind from the west German city of Solingen, he programmed his first driving simulator at the age of twelve.

By then, Thrun and Levandowski were both working for Google. The driverless car project occupies a lofty, garagelike space in suburban Mountain view.

It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.

Google guards its secrets more jealously than most. At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.

the cofounder of Google, told me. Brin was dressed in a charcoal hoodie, baggy pants, and sneakers.

#When Thrun and Levandowski first came to Google, in 2007, they were given a simpler task:

Google engineers went on to jury-rig some vans with G. P. S . and rooftop cameras that could shoot in every direction.

and sent them all over the United states. Google street view has since spread to more than a hundred countries. It s both a practical tool and a kind of magic trick#spyglass onto distant worlds.

which Google had been leasing from companies like navteq. The street and exit names could be drawn straight from photographs

but Google maps had to be comprehensive: every logging road logged on a computer, every gravel drive driven down.

Street view and Maps were logical extensions of a Google search. They showed you where to locate the things you d found.

#Google s quest to popularize self-driving cars How a self-driving car sees the world.

And with that, Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.

It s not just Google that s developing the technology, but also most of the major car manufacturers:

Following Google policy, Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself, while Chauffeur drives the freeways.

#Levandowski works at Google s headquarters in Mountain view, California. He s the business lead of Google s self-driving-car project, an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles,

but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars#asily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof#n average of once an hour.

Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500,000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou

can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this.##In other words, a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.

Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a#oeclick here to download#button.

In the language particular to Google, the researchers are#oedogfooding#the car#riving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.

Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.

#oewe have a saying here at Google, #says Levandowski.##oein God we trust#ll others must bring data.#

Chris Urmson, the director of Google s self-driving-car project, told a government audience in Washington, D c,

Google s crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques#ncluding emergency braking, high-speed lane changes,

There has been reported only one accident that can conceivably be blamed on Google. A self-driving car near Google s headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

and impact another two cars, falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago#he Stone age,

in the foreshortened timelines of software development#nd, according to Google spokespeople, the car was not in self-driving mode at the time,

Considering that the Google self-driving program has clocked already half a million miles, the argument could be made that Google Chauffeur is already as safe as the average human driver.

It s not an argument Google makes to the public because Levandowski says the system hasn encountered t enough challenging situations in its real-world commutes.#

#oewe can speculate; we have models, but we don t actually know the value of the technology to society,

#Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009,

#Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans, but since it was accused of being the bad guy in a real-life Matrix,

Google lobbyists have made the rounds with legislators in Washington. Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad.

Google wants to make#oeavailable to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use,

if Google is proposing to give away the software. For the car companies, the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:

But at $75, 000 to $85, 000 each, Google s lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined, including the car itself.

A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.

Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask

Google, to its credit, shows no signs that it s allowing Detroit to slow it down.

Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one, Levandowski says. So what s the plan?#

#In other words, Google thinks a new generation of bot-rodders may kick things off. Google won t say anything more,

but since there s really only one place to turn for the all-important lidar, I ask David Hall

and the super-high-resolution Google maps that go with it, Hall doesn t see the point. He imagines talking to potential customers.#

#oe#Almost as good as Google s?##The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#

The Google car doesn t work without one, as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10,20,

Some states, prodded by Google lobbyists and looking to get ahead of the curve, have made the cars explicitly legal.

the director of Google s self-driving-car project, allows. But that doesn t mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted.#

Level three has the Google-style autopilot. And level four is the holy grail#he car that can drive you home

who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.##oepeople start doing all kinds of things they shouldn t#igging around in the backseat, for example.

#Google is betting that established car manufacturers, working with low-cost radar and camera components, will never adequately bridge that gap.

NHTSA s former deputy director, Ron Medford, has signed just on as Google s director of safety for the self-driving-car project.#

displayed by a unit the size of a toaster. 4. Real-time Google earth At RAL Space in Oxford,

and use it to layer complex animations on top of Google earth, sometimes piecing together multiple camera angles to extrapolate the desired information.

when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),

and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.

and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city and among their peer group to drive one.

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#Human-Powered Vehicles Can Drive Meaningful Change (Op-Ed) Mark Archibald professor of mechanical engineering at Grove City College in Pennsylvania

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#Optical Technique Sorts Grapes for Wine Quality (ISNS) A team of German scientists has developed an automated process that sorts grapes into different levels of quality for winemaking.

Further examples include a Burritobot on Kickstarter last year and Google serving 3d printed pasta. Other 3d printing technologies have been investigated for use with food.

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#Google Goes Wild: How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.

Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.

Wildlife conservation is also getting a boost thanks to several groups'efforts to use some of these Google tools to track invasive species map populations of endangered species

One such effort has taken Google street view into the Amazon. Working with conservation organization Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) Google street view and Google earth teams have collected ground-and river-level images of the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve a protected

area in the Brazilian Amazon. Google usually uses camera-equipped cars to take images for its Street view

but because the Rio Negro region is inaccessible by car the researchers had to come up with an alternative method.

and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.

and analyzed using Google Fusion Tables Ribenboimsaid referring to Google's Web application for gathering visualizing and sharing data tables.

Both Google and FAS hope the project will raise awareness of conservation issues help protect Amazonian communities and even influence policymakers.

and stores the data in Google Cloud Pintea told Livescience. Then through Google earth Engine and Google maps Engine the institute's researchers can visualize the multiple layers of data to model the suitability of chimpanzee habitat

and to predict the potential distribution of chimpanzees. Whereas traditional maps are limited to two dimensions Google earth's 3d high-resolution imagery makes it easier for the villagers to recognize the topography

so they can monitor forests and habitats Pintea said. Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees.

Concerned about the potential destruction of this tiger habitat WWF used Google earth to illustrate the effects of deforestation on the Bukit Tigapuluh region a critical tiger habitat.

along with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Eyes on the Forest worked with Google to build a catalog of maps detailing the changes in the region over time including shifts in the forest cover;

In addition the Google mapping project has helped WWF build public support to stop irresponsible logging companies that contribute to Sumatra's deforestation said Craig Kirkpatrick WWF's managing director for Borneo and Sumatra.

Although the long time between satellite images makes it difficult to actively search for threats to tigers he said Google technology has been helpful in illustrating the pace of deforestation in the region and its effects on tiger and elephant habitat.

Google maps Engine allows us to share the massive amounts of information we've collected over the years

and research is using Google technologies to help protect elephants from some of these dangers.

Save the Elephants then uses Google earth to visualize all of the data: By leveraging the application's satellite imagery researchers can zoom in on certain regions to follow the elephants in real time.

We've been using Google earth as a very easy way to find out what our elephants are up to

and where they are going Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said in a video hosted on Google's Outreach page.

and Android apps to researchers in the field or via Google earth to be viewed in more detail on a computer.

if a threat is detected Douglas-Hamilton said. 12 Strangest Sights on Google earth When an elephant stops moving we can then send a Google earth file indicating the place where the elephant is stopped he said.

Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act

and displayed by Google earth. Several other organizations are also using Google technology for conservation purposes.

For instance Defenders of Wildlife is utilizing Google maps API to help demonstrate the impacts of the BP Deepwater horizon oil spill

and the efforts under way to preserve the Gulf Coast. And the United nations'environmental voice the U n. Environment Programme is using Google technology to explore the Earth's changing landscape

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Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.

And with that Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.

It's not just Google that's developing the technology but also most of the major car manufacturers:

Following Google policy Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself while Chauffeur drives the freeways.

Levandowski works at Google's headquarters in Mountain view California. He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles

but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.

Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand

the number of years until ordinary people can experience this. In other words a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.

Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a click here to download button.

In the language particular to Google the researchers are dogfooding the car driving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.

Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.

We have a saying here at Google says Levandowski. In God we trust all others must bring data.

This spring Chris Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project told a government audience in Washington D c. that the vast majority of those are nothing to worry about.

For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel Google's crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques including emergency braking high-speed lane changes

There has been reported only one accident that can conceivably be blamed on Google. A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

and impact another two cars falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago the Stone age in the foreshortened timelines of software development

and according to Google spokespeople the car was not in self-driving mode at the time so the accident wasn't Chauffeur's fault.

Considering that the Google self-driving program has clocked already half a million miles the argument could be made that Google Chauffeur is already as safe as the average human driver.

It's not an argument Google makes to the public because Levandowski says the system hasn't encountered enough challenging situations in its real-world commutes.

Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009 the company first announced the project in a blog post a year later.

Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans but since it was accused of being the bad guy in a real-life Matrix the company has made a concerted effort to reach out to potential partners.

Google lobbyists have made the rounds with legislators in Washington. Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad.

Google wants to make available to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use he said

if Google is proposing to give away the software. For the car companies the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:

But at $75000 to $85000 each Google's lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined including the car itself.

A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.

Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask

Google to its credit shows no signs that it's allowing Detroit to slow it down.

Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one Levandowski says. So what's the plan?

In other words Google thinks a new generation of bot-rodders may kick things off. Google won't say anything more

but since there's really only one place to turn for the all-important lidar I ask David Hall

and the super-high-resolution Google maps that go with it Hall doesn't see the point. He imagines talking to potential customers.

âÂ#ÂALMOST as good as Google's?''âÂ# The other fight is the legal one.

The Google car doesn't work without one as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10 20 or maybe even 30 seconds'notice.

Some states prodded by Google lobbyists and looking to get ahead of the curve have made the cars explicitly legal.

What's going to happen no matter what the law says is people are going to get sued Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project allows.

All kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing says auto-drive consultant Brad Templeton who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.

Google is betting that established car manufacturers working with low-cost radar and camera components will never adequately bridge that gap.

NHTSA's former deputy director Ron Medford has signed just on as Google's director of safety for the self-driving-car project.

Google's main focus and vision says Medford is for a level-four vehicle. Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.

Google would buy it right now.:Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.

To that end Google needs to do what it did for 1g fiber. Take it to some place where it can control the environment.

@jabailo...Google is way ahead of you...http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Google driverless car...they have logged a multitude of fully autonomous miles much more difficult than above

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