Google has updated its Google Play

Google has updated its Google Play distribution data for the seven-day period ending December 1, revealing that Android 4.4 KitKat running devices are steadily rising and closing the gap on Jelly Bean-powered devices.

Google Glasses

It is the most recent gadget launched by the Google which created a lot of Buzz in the market. Google Glasses is undoubtedly a Next Generation wearable Gadget which is facilitating users to snap photos, attending call, sending message, do hangout on Google+, finding location, recording videos directly from these Glasses.

Google[x] labs has been “cooking” new projects with attainable scopes that could rapidly and dynamically set the precedent for an evolutionary jump in technology, energy, and communication. These industries can use the “big data” craze to create positive global solutions NOW.

Predicting the Future

Google is so committed to the future, it should come as no surprise that the company is even interested in predicting it. Another Google investment is in Recorded Future, a company that seeks to parse the universe of information available online for clues about what's to come.

Cancer Treatment

Fighting cancer fits perfectly with the do-good theme present in many of Google's investments. Google Ventures put some money into Foundation Medicine, which combines genomic and molecular data to create a new approach to cancer care. Perhaps curing cancer is just another engineering problem.

Smart Thermostats

A Google future seems to involve making everything smarter, from drugs to cars and even home thermostats. This idea is one of the driving forces behind NEST, the sci-fi climate-control system that learns the best way to keep your home comfortable--while also saving on energy bills. NEST has already rolled out to some customers, and a waiting list has formed for the next batch.

Climate Change Insurance

A number of Google's investments in companies through its Google Ventures wing also have an eye toward the future. One of the companies in the portfolio is The Climate Corporation, which sells weather insurance for farmers to protect their businesses from increasingly unpredictable conditions and extreme weather.

New Drugs

Google is interested in investing in new ways to fight disease. Its investment portfolio includes a stake in Adimab, which uses a novel approach involving yeast cells to speed up the discovery of new antibodies. Another Google company,

iPierian, uses a technique called "cellular reprogramming" to create new drugs that attack diseases by modifying them.

Developing renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal power is one of the main goals of Google's nonprofit arm, Google.org. The project concentrates on solar-powered turbine engines to create electricity, as well as on low-cost heliostats, which are mirrors that track the sun and concentrate solar energy. Google also supports efforts to map the world's potential geothermal energy sources. The goal is to create renewable sources that are cheaper than burning coal, which currently generates most of the power in the United States

Elevators to Space

Believe it or not, Google is just one of a number of organizations and individuals interested in setting up the infrastructure to leave Earth's atmosphere without the use of rocket propulsion. Space elevators are reportedly another project on the Google X agenda (see previous slide). The idea is to run a ribbon from Earth to a counterweight in orbit that allows easy access to space for all kinds of scientific experimentation and other ventures. Many people believe that we could have such lifts operational in less than a decade.

Google X

Google is reportedly running a secret division dubbed "Google X," which includes a lab in an undisclosed location where robots rule the roost, according to the New York Times. There's no evidence of an army of T-1000s being built somewhere underground in Silicon Valley, however. Apparently Google is trying to build bots to perform all sorts of mundane tasks around the home and office (such as making coffee or copies), which will give humans greater flexibility to work remotely and focus on higher-level duties.

Home Automation

For years we've been hearing about a refrigerator that orders milk for you when you're running low, but Google wants to expand the idea to the entire home. Its Android @Home platform already has connected light bulbs, coffee pots, and more in the works. On top of that, Google has its eye on moving beyond the home, to a much broader "Internet of Things." At the company's most recent developer conference, it rolled out its open accessory development kit for Android, inviting makers everywhere to get busy connecting anything from small gadgets to big machines.

Inside Google's Secret Lab

Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google’s (goog) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines mounted on unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft tethered to the ground like a kite. The startup, Teller told Page, was seeing promising results, and, he added proudly, its prototypes had survived all recent tests intact.
Page approved Google X’s acquisition of Makani, which was being completed for an undisclosed amount at press time. He also had a demand. “He said we could have the budget and the people to go do this,” Teller says, “but that we had to make sure to crash at least five of the devices in the near future.”
As the polymath engineers and scientists who work there are fond of saying, Google X is the search giant’s factory for moonshots, those million-to-one scientific bets that require generous amounts of capital, massive leaps of faith, and a willingness to break things. Google X (the official spelling is Google [x]) is home to the self-driving car initiative and the Internet-connected eyeglasses, Google Glass, among other improbable projects.

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Google Wallet will stop processing payments for digital goods sold on websites in March 2015 

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Thanksgiving Day 2014: This is why the US holiday has a Google Doodle today 

 

Google has celebrated Thanksgiving Day with a bouncing turkey Doodle on its US homepage.

The festive, cheery-looking bird replaces a letter “o” in Google, with the rest of the word spelled out in autumn leaves.
You might think a bird destined for the dinner table would have little to celebrate – but perhaps this one has been spared by President Barack Obama.
The presidential turkey pardon is a quirky annual tradition at Thanksgiving and this year saw a pair of turkeys named Mac and Cheese saved from the slaughterhouse.

 

 

Our doodle for French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s 150th birthday draws inspiration from the iconic imagery of the Can-can Dancers, a symbol that reflected the lively spirit of the Parisian “La Belle Époque” (“The Beautiful Era”).

 

In August, Google launch  +Google Chrome in Cuba to 

help Internet users surf the web quickly and safely. Today, 

as part of our continued effort to make technology even 

more accessible there, we’re making free apps and games 

on +Google Play, as well as the free version of+Google 

Analytics, available in Cuba.

Bigg Boss 8: Ali sent to secret room after Sonali slaps him - Sonali slaps Ali when Puneet reveals that he had made a very inappropriate comment about Upen and her a few days back

 

Modi-Nawaz handshake, key energy deal ends SAARC summit - A long handshake between PM Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif served as the perfect moment to conclude the two-day South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Nepal.

 

Australian cricketers at the Sydney Hospital following the death of Phillip Hughes

Google could dominate wearables with Glass OS

Did you know that Google Glass still exists?

Yes, the gadget that launched a thousand think pieces hasn't disappeared, though the absence of hand-wringing about, say, Glass' privacy implications suggests a worse fate than bad publicity. No one is going to worry about a product if no one is wearing it.

To be fair, we the media are still paying a certain kind of attention to Glass, much as The National Enquirer pays attention to aging celebrities who may not be long for this world. A recent Reuters piece catalogues the many ways developers are defecting from Glass. To which we say: stick a fork in Glass already, google It's done.

At least Glass appears to be done as a mass-market gadget for consumers. Yes, Glass is still in beta, which means Glass partisans could argue consumers haven't had a chance to embrace it. But if the pent-up consumer demand was really there, why isn't Google rushing to meet it?
The reality is that Google isn't a hardware company. Its misadventure with Motorola shows that making and selling physical stuff just doesn't align with how Google makes money. What Google does know is software. Android is the world's leading mobile operating system not because Google makes a great phone that everyone uses, but because the company let other phone makers use it. And Google could do the same with the wearable operating system it's developed for Glass.
"Why not license it out and get out of the hardware business altogether?" asks J.P. Gownder, who covers the wearable device market for Forrester Research.

 

Internet access

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Case of UK man who wants Google to stop malicious postings about him appearing in search results settled in court -