What is Google Maps AR Navigation? Since street view data isn’t available in the country, Google seems to be using local data of shops or established business or places of common interest in order to provide these AR based navigation directions. Do note that this feature is only supported for walking directions, as it’s generally hard to pick up GPS signals when one is surrounded by tall buildings, or in cases where there are multiple exits or roads and you’re not sure which one to pick....

Google Now has become one of the greatest strengths in the mobile space for the company, working as both a digital personal assistant and a bastion of knowledge all at the same time. That usefulness is about to get upgraded in a big way, as Google has officially announced that beginning today, January 30, the application now supports third-party applications. With this third-party integration just starting out, there’s a lot of room to grow, but Google has already confirmed that 40 different entities are supported out of the gate, including the Guardian, Duolingo, Kayak, and more....

The tech giant Google is releasing an Invisible reCaptcha system, which does not request any “challenge” and does not appear on the forms. For obvious reasons, the company does not detail the workings of the technology, but says the differentiation between humans and robots happens through “a combination of machine learning and advanced risk analysis that adapts to new and emerging threats.” ReCaptcha will continue on the pages but in a hidden way....

Chances are you’ve never heard of Himax Technologies. They’re a Taiwanese company that makes the “LCOS Microdisplay” technology used inside device like Google Glass. To be more specific, you know that little cube that rests above your eye ball when using Glass? These guys make that. Assuming Google gets the approval, then they’ll own 6.3% of the company by the end of this quarter. In fact, Google also has an option to own 14....

Ahead of Google I/O tomorrow, Google has announced some major upgrades to Android Auto. The first and foremost update is to the design which would make content more accessible on media apps. The search capabilities have also been enhanced on Android Auto. Media apps can now directly integrate their results into Android Auto so you can trigger Google Assistant on your car’s infotainment system and get more details about the song currently being played or other variants of the same song from different artists....

It goes without saying that video files are huge. Thankfully, computers get more and more powerful each and every year, so they can handle decoding increasingly complex video codecs. Anyone who has ever downloaded a 1080p video off YouTube for storage purposes can tell you that it takes up about a gigabyte and hour. Compare that to the good old DVD, which held nearly 5 GB, yet only stored a two hour movie....

As the name suggests, ANC works to actively cancel out the ambient noise that interferes with what you hear from the headphones themselves. It can be great for locking in and blocking out. Noise-canceling earbuds or headphones can help drown out distraction, but have you ever wondered how they actually work? Are you listening to them or are they listening to you? Read on to learn more about the sound technology behind the silence....

This course isn’t for programmers or administrators. It’s for the leaders and planners who need to understand how quantum computing will change the world. So it’s appropriate for CIOs, CTOs, and anyone in charge of planning, designing, and developing 2020’s and 2030’s computing worlds. While Deloitte estimates that fewer than a dozen companies will use quantum computers in their day-to-day operations in 2022, the future is coming faster than you might think....

You never know what you’ll see there, for one thing — and sometimes the sights can be downright shocking. Tap or click here to see how people found shocking pictures on Google Maps. We’ve compiled 10 very cool things you can do within the confines of Google Maps Street View that you may never have considered. From time traveling to using the app at eye level to explore. 1. Enabling Street View via Pegman Did you know you can move the tiny yellow figure (also called a Pegman) onto the map to enable Street View?...

Learning is always so much easier when it’s fun, and kids as young as 9 years old can get started learning about electronics while having a blast building five quirky beginner-friendly robots. They all have instructions and a coin cell battery included, but each teaches a completely different lesson. Kids will learn about light-emitting diodes (LEDs) while building the BOB robot. Six lights change colors automatically. MARV will teach the difference between a switch and a pushbutton with its pushbutton and two LEDs....

Since 2005, it began to consider the birthday on 7 and 8 September and later 26. Since 2012 stipulated that would be 27, as company executives wanted to coincide with a record of pages indexed accomplished that day. “When is Google’s birthday? I’m not sure we know it,” the head of Google Doodles Ryan Germick wrote on the Google blog in 2013. “There are different opinions about when to make the cake and candles, but a fun fact is that the first doodle climbed before Google became official (30th August from September 4, 1998)”....

Remember Google Currents? The app was surprisingly missing on the Nexus 5 and the Android 4.4 KitKat update for other Nexus devices. Well, today Google has announced that it is combining Play Magazines service and Currents into Newsstand. The Newsstand service will consist of 1,900 publications, free and paid, and include selections like The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Vanity Fair and Wired. According to Google, the Newsstand app will “automatically put the news you care about most front and center and present stories that interest you based on your tastes....

More than likely Google is going to announce the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL on Tuesday, May 7. But it looks like one big box retailer wanted to get the jump on the competition by a few days. As was first reported by Android Police, a Best Buy in Springfield, Ohio, actually put the Pixel 3a XL out there on store shelves. In the images we can see a pair of purple Pixel 3a XL units, as well as a similar model in black....

Google’s I/O conference may have ended, but the announcements are far from over. Today, the search giant announced that some major changes are coming to their Google Play Services, and that the update to 5.0 is now rolling out to Android devices globally. The last update to Google Play Services brought it up to version 4.4 back in May of this year, and with it came plenty of additions, like Street View integration, but this is a pretty massive jump....

As the pandemic rages on, public health and safety have created a huge market for cleaning products and hand sanitizers. But not all are safe to use. Looking for cleaning products? Tap or click here to find out about fake Clorox and Lysol websites. The growing demand has created an underbelly economy where companies produce the cheapest products that they can. And now, reports indicate hundreds of hand sanitizers contain toxic ingredients....

Schools can also offer students access to streaming 3D learning experiences on low-bandwidth devices through ASU Prep Learning Cloud. The technology was developed with and is powered by Google Cloud. ASU Prep Digital is an accredited online K-12 school that’s part of Arizona State University. Google Public Sector is a recently created division of Google. The division focuses on helping schools and governments with digital transformation. “We’re turning students into explorers by embedding learning into the digital formats that students love,” said David Sudarma, ASU Prep’s chief technology officer, in an announcement shared with ZDNet....

Google has kickstarted MWC 2019 by announcing some major changes and improvements coming to Assistant. Firstly, it is bringing its virtual assistant to KaiOS which is found powering many low-end phones in parts of Asia, Brazil, and Mexico. These low-end phones are too slow and weak to run on Android and pack a very small display. So Google says that the addition of Assistant and voice typing to these devices will help improve the user experience....

During a panel session at the New Music Seminar conference in New York, YouTube’s music head confirmed that Google is planning on merging YouTube Red with Google Play Music. The company will be merging the two services to help better educate consumers and increase the overall subscriber base. The merger will also allow Google to better negotiate with music labels and collaborate with them for future content. “In my mind, the missing piece on building these businesses is collaborating with the [music] industry, and not just making deals and going away and seeing how it works....

Google not only removed Dennis Cooper’s entire blog but it has also erased the 14 years of work in the process. After the deletion of the blog the readers of Dennis Cooper’s blog have been greeted with the message “Sorry, the blog at denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs” Dennis Cooper also reported that he never did any backup or archive anywhere via Facebook messages “Nothing on the blog is backed-up or archived anywhere else, as far as I know,” On June 28, Dennis Cooper reported the issue and announced on Facebook that his Google Blog which contains experimental writings, photos, visual arts and personal updates had been taken offline due to a violation of the company’s terms of services....

Google today announced that it is expanding its Android One program to Philippines. The company had unveiled Android One and the first batch of devices from Indian OEMs at an event in September last year, followed it up with the launch in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and finally in Indonesia earlier in the month. With Android One, which includes hardware and software designed by Google, the company hopes to launch affordable smartphones that offer a more consistent performance than some of the low-cost, Android-powered phones that are available on the market....