What is Google Fiber and why is it so awesome?

What is Google Fiber?

Google Fiber is an Internet and television service provided by Google itself, and plans range from 5Mbps all the way to a blistering fast 1 Gbps (or 1,000Mbps). The service also provides television channels for an extra monthly charge, but to put 1Gbps speeds into perspective, you could theoretically download a full 1080p movie in about a minute. Of course, you most likely won’t get the full 1Gbps speed, since the connection loses a bit of quality from traveling through different loops before reaching your house. So, let’s just say a 1080p movie can download in about five minutes – still, that’s incredibly impressive.

Hence, Google will be providing its fiber-optic cable to a neighborhood and will then be utilizing wireless technology for the distribution of the broadband connection to nearby homes. As a mashup between satellite TV and cellphone Internet provisions, Google Fiber’s wireless service will be utilizing radio waves via a satellite that already serves a fixed location.

Where is Google Fiber available?

Currently, Kansas City (both Missouri and Kansas) and their surrounding suburbs are the only areas in the U.S. with Google Fiber up and running. However, Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah are officially on the list to get Fiber in the future.

What plans are available?

Google offers three different Google Fiber plans:

• 5Mbps Internet for $0/month (one-time construction/installation fee)
• 1Gbps Internet for $70/month (fee waived)

 

Top 5 Malware Prevention Tips

Cyber criminals are using malicious software to steal your identity; leading you to becoming the next victim of identity theft, one of the fastest growing crimes in Canada and the USA.  Don’t despair just yet.  It is good to know that there are steps to take to help prevent your computer from being infected with malware.

Install anti-keylogger software

Keyloggers, also known as keystroke loggers, are malicious software that silently records every keystroke that you type often capturing screenshots and mouse movements as well. What I personally find really scary is that some keyloggers will hijack your webcam. This will allow a cybercrook or some other unscrupulous person to spy on you through your webcam.

Install anti-virus software and keep it up-to-date

This is your first line of defense against computer viruses and other malicious software. There is free anti-virus software, which I will tell you about in a moment, available for download online. If you can afford a few dollars though I highly recommend that you consider purchasing Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2015. This anti-virus software has top ratings from six independent labs. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2015 is highly rated by both Internet security experts and consumers alike.

Install anti-spyware software

Anti-virus software does a great job at detecting and removing computer viruses, but unfortunately it does not detect all spyware.  To protect yourself from malicious software, including spyware, it is important to have anti-spyware software installed.

There is reputable free anti-spyware software available for download, such as SpyBot Search & Destroy and SUPERAntiSpyware.

Install anti-malware software

I highly recommend that you install and run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, especially if you suspect that your PC might be infected with malware. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is widely recommended by computer and Internet security experts and is a very popular anti-malware program right now.

Don’t open email attachments from unknown senders

In fact, even if you know the sender, be leery if you are not expecting the attachment or it looks unfamiliar.  Their email account could be compromised or someone could be spoofing their email address.  The attachment could be infected with malware, such as a trojan horse, spyware, or keylogger.

 

3D PEN: INTRODUCTION, WHAT AND HOW

3D printing is an rapidly growing industry that has taken off both in the consumer and industrial spaces. A 3D printer works by rapidly heating and cooling materials (usually some type of plastic) based off of designs from a computer.

The 3D printing process works great for making rapid prototypes or one-off replacement part that would be hard to find otherwise.  If you’re looking for something more free-form and creative, you should try a 3D pen!

What is a 3D Pen and How Does It Work?

Put simply, a 3D pen allows you to draw in three dimensions. Imagine if you could draw on paper, but lift your pen off the page and the ink keeps flowing, adding depth to your creation! This is the reality of using a 3D pen. In the video below, you can see one in use and see some creations.When you first pick up your 3D pen, you’ll need to plug it in and give it a minute to warm up. Once the pen is warmed up and ready to go, you can insert strands of plastic into the back of the pen that will feed through and out the nozzle at your selected speed . The plastic essentially is melted down inside of the pen and rapidly cools when it’s ejected, which gives it the strength and rigidness it stand upright

The most popular kind of plastic used in these 3D pens is called ABS plastic. ABS is flexible and resistant to breaking. Another type of plastic is PLA, which is more environmentally friendly as it’s biodegradable, though it’s not as strong as ABS plastic.

How Much Do 3D Pens Cost?

Like all new technology gadgets, the costs of 3D pens have been dropping the longer they have been on the market. Today, you can find most 3D pens for around $50 to $100 depending on the manufacturer and features.The pens are still new. 3Doodler, which launched its $2 million Kickstarter campaign in 2013, was the first.

Google Assistant: The smart person’s guide

Google Assistant is a voice-activated personal digital assistant, first introduced by Google at the 2016 I/O conference in California. Much like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, or Microsoft’s Cortana, the Google Assistant provides contextual information and performs actions such as booking a restaurant reservation or sending a message on behalf of the user . To perform its functions, Google Assistant relies on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as natural language processing and machine learning to understand what the user is saying, and to make suggestions or act on that language input. Google Assistant is the foundational piece of Google’s “AI-first” strategy that CEO Sundar Pichai recently discussed at a Made by Google event.

Why it matters

Google Assistant matters more for what it represents in terms of the future of Google’s approach to consumer products than for what features it has or what it can do. As noted above, Google believes that, just as the tech world moved from web to mobile, the next stage in that evolution is to move from mobile to AI.

As hardware becomes more commoditized, smartphone manufacturers must compete on what they can provide through next-generation software and AI. Not only that, but they also must build out an ecosystem of products and devices that share access to this AI. Google Assistant will be embedded in the new Google Pixel phone, but it also works in its smart chat app, Allo, and is a key part of its smart home hub, Google Home.

 

How to take advantage of Google Assistant

Users who want to take advantage of Google Assistant must purchase one of the products that offers it as a feature—Google Home, Google Pixel phone, or Google Allo. Once a user has begun using it along with their Google account, it is important to use it often to improve the quality of information it provides.

Developers and businesses who wish to sign up to work with the embeddable SDK, which will be available in December 2016, can do so here.

An Introduction of Big Data Revolution

Big Data is a phrase used to mean a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large it is difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques.  In most enterprise scenarios the volume of data is too big or it moves too fast or it exceeds current processing capacity.

Big Data has the potential to help companies improve operations and make faster, more intelligent decisions. This data, when captured, formatted, manipulated, stored, and analyzed can help a company to gain useful insight to increase revenues, get or retain customers, and improve operations.

Big Data: Volume or a Technology?

While the term may seem to reference the volume of data, that isn’t always the case. The term Big Data, especially when used by vendors, may refer to the technology (which includes tools and processes) that an organization requires to handle the large amounts of data and storage facilities. The term is believed to have originated with Web search companies who needed to query very large distributed aggregations of loosely-structured data.

An Example of Big Data

An example of Big Data might be petabytes (1,024 terabytes) or exabytes (1,024 petabytes) of data consisting of billions to trillions of records of millions of people—all from different sources (e.g. Web, sales, customer contact center, social media, mobile data and so on). The data is typically loosely structured data that is often incomplete and inaccessible.

 

Internet for Everyone : Google’s project Loon

Hey Friends, Today my post is on new Google project :Loon that is related to internet Accessibility .

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.

Google began Project Loon to find ways to provide reliable internet access to users in remote areas that aren’t served by terrestrial networks.

 

How technology Work

Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in the desired direction. People connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global Internet back on Earth.

How Loon Moves

Project Loon balloons travel around 20 km above the Earth’s surface in the stratosphere. Winds in the stratosphere are generally steady and slow-moving at between 5 and 20 mph, and each layer of wind varies in direction and magnitude. Project Loon uses software algorithms to determine where its balloons need to go, then moves each one into a layer of wind blowing in the right direction. By moving with the wind, the balloons can be arranged to form one large communications network.

Recent reports state that the Project Loon introduced by Google in 2015 may also be introduced in India soon. A report in Wall Street Journal states that Google is in talks with telecommunications companies in India to enable balloon-based Internet in rural and developing areas as well.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE’S NEW FRAMEWORK: MATERIAL DESIGN LITE

 

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Google introduced the Material Design Language, which has been adopted by a lot of different libraries and frameworks. Google recently introduced their own implementation for the web in the form of Material Design Lite (MDL), which is usually a Flat Design Framework.  It also uses grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows, but more liberally and effectively.

According to Google, their design language is based on paper and ink, meaning just as paper renders expansion and shadows in the physical world, digital components replicate the same behavior in applications using this new design language .

 

Why should we choose MDL over other frameworks available?

In terms of advantages and disadvantages in a technical sense, there is no solid reason to choose MDL over any other framework. However, Flat design is generally easy to pull off with basic CSS3. Graphic effects made purely in CSS would cause a huge performance decrease past just loading the file because of gradients and box shadows, among other issues. This is where MDL has an advantage, with its capability to create a lightweight app without using complex CSS.

Is it developer friendly?

MDL is framework-agnostic, which means it can be used with any front-end solution. The tools are responsive and will function on any modern browser, such as Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Opera.

 

How does MDL compare to other frameworks with rich graphic app designs?

The material is too minimalist, but I hope that Google will incorporate more richness into its mobile design because we have a more powerful device that can render graphics and images more efficiently than ever before.

The Google Play Store, for instance, is a good example of the use of Material Design. It has nicely placed content with so many colors and sections in it, but it still looks very edgy and neat.

In conclusion, MDL is suitable to develop mobile apps and business-related software or web apps. Softwares for banks, e-commerce and people management tools can be easily built with MDL because it provides a light appearance and clean interface, which is clearly visible on hand-held devices.

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NEW ERA OF BIOMETRIC ENABLED INTELLIGENCE FOR SMARTPHONES

 

The confluence of biometrics and mobile software development has ushered in an era that brings new possibilities for technology to impact our lives. Biometrics-enabled applications and devices that are compatible with, embedded in, or transmit data to smartphones are one of the next areas with vast potential to watch for as mobile phones make the transition from smart to brilliant.

The first wave of biometrics-enabled software products included health-monitoring wearable devices Jawbone Up, FitBit Flex. As devices like these collect more data about the world around us, the next step in their progression will be the ability to process that data to uncover macro trends.

Many mobile application development companies and startups are entering this arena and exploring new ways in which biometrics can be leveraged to improve quality of life. One example of this is theKinsa Smart Thermometer.

Here are three markets that we see as ripe for innovation through biometrics applications:

Education – The education sector is a prime example of the same. Today, mobile applications are being synced with popular biometrics technologies such as iris scanning, not just as access control mechanisms but also for monitoring activities. Elementary school children, for instance can be monitored by their parents as they make their way to school using none other than biometrics enabled school buses.

Healthcare – In addition to some of the applications they measure pure biological health, the security of medical data is a critical concern that plagues the healthcare industry today. Be it out of the need for regulatory compliance or a genuine urge for safeguarding their data. They seem to have found the answer by marrying the benefits of voice biometrics with the convenience of a smartphone device.

Law Enforcement – Another interesting use of biometrics-enabled intelligence for smartphones is in the area of law enforcement. Biometric identifiers are being captured and referenced through a database, which allows officers on patrol to make quick inferences. Smartphone enabled mobile apps based on biometrics such as breath analyzer for DUI offenses, facial recognition, and speech recognition are all areas that may have a significant impact in future law enforcement.

AUGMENTED REALITY – INTRODUCTION AND ITS REAL WORLD USES

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My second post on new trends  technology AUGMENTED REALITY  .

Augmented reality has been a hot topic in software development circles for a number of years, but it’s getting renewed focus and attention with the release of products like Google Glass. Augmented reality is a technology that works on computer vision based recognition algorithms to augment sound, video, graphics and other sensor based inputs on real world objects using the camera of your device. It is a good way to render real world information and present it in an interactive way so that virtual elements become part of the real world.

Augmented reality displays superimpose information in your field of view and can take you into a new world where the real and virtual worlds are tightly coupled. It is not just limited to desktop or mobile devices. As mentioned, Google Glass, a wearable computer with optical head-mounted display, is a perfect example.

A simple augmented reality use case is: a user captures the image of a real-world object, and the underlying platform detects a marker, which triggers it to add a virtual object on top of the real-world image and displays on your camera screen.

Real-World Examples

• AR applications can become the backbone of the education industry. Apps are being developed which embed text, images, and videos, as well as real–world curriculums.
• Printing and advertising industries are developing apps to display digital content on top of real world magazines.
• With help of AR, travelers can access real-time information of historical places just by pointing their camera viewfinder to subjects.
• AR is helpful in development of translation apps that can interpret text in other languages for you.
• Location based AR apps are major forms of AR apps. Users can access information about nearest places relative to current location. They can get information about places and choose based on user reviews.
• With the help of Unity 3d Engine, AR is being used to develop real-time 3D Games.

The Opportunity

It is estimated that 2.5 billion AR apps will be downloaded annually and will generate revenue of more than $1.5 billion by 2015. This is because AR apps will not be limited to conventional mobile apps. There will be new markets like Google Glass which will open more forms of development and use.

Development

Now that we have covered some of the basics of augmented reality, let’s look at what it takes to develop augmented reality apps. You first need to choose development tools. There are two major forms of augmented reality, marker- based AR and marker-less AR.

A marker-based AR works on concept of target recognition. The target can be 3D object, text, image, QR Code or human-face called markers. After detection of the target by AR engine, you can embed the virtual object on it and display it on your camera screen. Qualcomm Vuforia SDK is our recommended framework to develop native apps.

Marker-less AR, also known as location-based AR, uses GPS of mobile devices to record the device position and displays information relative to that location. Some of the examples of marker-less AR are apps like Layar and Wikitude that let you view information of nearby restaurants and other establishments.

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Google’s Self-Driving Cars

Today  my first tweet is  on the most awaited Project of Google’s  SELF-DRIVING CAR.

The stir about electric and autonomous cars has been around for a couple of years now . Big names like Volkswagen , Mercedes, Tesla, General  Motors , and Google (of all companies) are pushing for driverless cars.

The goal everyone is aiming for is to solve the long-standing issue of people on the road. Yes, we are a danger to ourselves. Google’s self-driving cars have been involved in 11 minor accidents in the last 6 years, and none of them were reportedly caused by the car’s own fault.

By introducing autonomous cars on roads, cars which can compute faster than a hundred sober minds combined, road-related accidents may see a significant drop. Driverless cars will also significantly help those who do not have the capacity to drive, either because of health reasons, disabilities or old age.

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