Google’s Project Tango Brings Virtual Reality to Your Mobile

Google is rightly considered the tech giant of the current era. Not only in the optimization of World Wide Web but also in providing the gizmo fans latest technology, Google is yet to be defeated. Google has proved that it can uphold the same reputation in almost every field, may it be telecommunication, internet or robotics, Google products are the best. Recently the step taken by Google in the field of robotics, Project Wings, gained a lot of recognition and its Project Ara also has gained a lot of support. It is evidently clear that Google with its companion lab GoogleX will keep giving out more products and technology than any other corporation. Google has again come up with a new idea, Project Tango, which will change our experience with cellphones, forever.

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Amir Rubin is the co-founder at fairyland. Fairyland is a development partner on Google’s Project Tango, and he’s presently attempting to make a crowd sourced 3D map of each place on Earth with explicable details. Rubin dictated to the audience at a conference in Malmo that however fairyland helped Google place sensors on phones that are able enough to measure and capture depth perception pictures that may be created into 3D maps.

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The good thing about this is that with these maps, robots and 3D-enabled apps are going to be able to browse the surroundings around them. According to him your mobile doesn’t perceive physical reality, however by victimizing machine-learning techniques and 3D processess, apps and robots are going to be in a position for the primary time to know the exact form of the real world. The most exciting issue concerning this, Rubin believes, is that it suggests for the longer term visualization of content. Once everyone’s phone contains a detector and might browse the surroundings we have a tendency to inhabit, it’ll basically make amendment to what apps will do and the way they will move with the planet.

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According to Rubin the content of the longer term visualization is totally immersive and totally interactive. Remarking, however it’ll modify a lot of virtual reality and computer game experiences. “Dinosaurs are going to be chasing you through your own house — obscurity is safe!” He creates a mental image of content and skill turning into a combo in a very manner they haven’t witnessed before, giving an example where each piece of piece of furniture in a particular area may be mapped to a special musical device and tuned in to play music. Rubin feels that when you are interacting with the planet, it isn’t an actual virtual interaction, instead you are truly interacting with these objects that sleep in your area.

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Google launched its Project Tango phone earlier this year, and at the present moment we cannot apprehend precisely when we will be able to see 3D sensors on Google’s Nexus category android phones. What we can confirm is that the apps of the next generation will not be limited to the contents posed by our screens.

Micromax Yu Expected to be Priced for Rs.12,999 and Come with 4G Support

Micromax Yu Expected to be Priced for Rs.12,999 and Come with 4G Support

Micromax is all set to unveil its new brand ‘Yu’ tomorrow. The brand will be based on CyanogenMod and will provide immense customization options and regular updates for the customers. The exclusive partnership with Cyanogen will help Micromax battle some of the long-standing grievances against the company. The device under the new brand has been spotted on import/export website Zauba.

According to the listing on the website, the Yu device is imported from China with a unit price of Rs. 8,301. The device has a 5.5-inch display and supports Micro SD cards. It is a dual SIM device with 4G LTE support.

You can expect the price to be around Rs. 12,999 which seems okay for an LTE device. Considering the available data, we can expect a decent spec sheet. But does it have enough to take on the global leader of Cyanogen device, the OnePlus One? Well, today Micromax was in news for filing a case against OnePlus in India to preserve its exclusive rights on Cyanogen, so it doesn’t have to fear any challenges in that sphere. We are still hoping for a good act by Micromax for its new brand and hope the company provides a better quality of service than in the past.

Thanks to Micromax OnePlus One May Face Sales Ban in India

After the dejection that set on Indian smartphone consumers after the ban on Xiaomi, a new development might infuriate them further. Micromax has filed an infringement complaint calling for a ban on sales of OnePlus devices as it now owns exclusive rights to sell Cyanogen devices in India. The fans of the flagship killer have waited for a long time to get their hands on the exclusive device, and this development might backfire on Micromax.

Micromax is going to launch its own brand of CyanogenMod powered devices called ‘YU’. The company states that it incurred massive costs to create an exclusive brand for selling Cyanogen powered devices in India. The devices are up for launch tomorrow, 18th of December.

According to Livemint, the complaint was registered at Delhi High court and Micromax secured a temporary injunction in the case. The court has ordered OnePlus to refrain from marketing, selling and shipping its popular handsets in India. But to give the Chinese company some relief, the judge allowed them to sell all the remaining stocks they have on hand. OnePlus began selling the handsets on 2nd of December.

OnePlus has a non-exclusive right to use CyanogenMod‘s trademark and software all across the world except China. While Micromax has an exclusive license for South Asia, this might become a major hindrance in the growth path of the OnePlus. The company had major plans for India, including bringing the next generation OnePlus Two in India, but it is yet to be seen what this development leads to. OnePlus also informed the court that Cyanogen intimated them about the exclusive agreement with Micromax just a fortnight before its India launch. The court told OnePlus that it could sue Cyanogen but that can only be governed by the laws of California where the agreement was signed.

It might not actually mean the end of the Chinese company’s India journey. OnePlus is already planning a new OS based on the latest Android L update, but this will lead to the demise of its most appreciated feature, the CyanogenMod.

Micromax on the other hand can gather a bad public reputation following this development. Though they are right in the technical and legal aspects of things, but the public opinion might shift against them and that too just a day before their brand launch. The company will have to bring something exceptional to take on the massive popularity of the OnePlus One.

Micromax if you don’t want to face immense public ire, you better bring something that blows our minds or else you’ll be seen as the killer of the flagship killer in India, and you really don’t want to be that company.

In other (OnePlus) news, they’re launching a secret device today, any guesses what it might be?

Is Firefox Coming to iOS ???

Mozilla is buzzing with good news and making news in past couple of days with the recent release of Mozilla new browser Firefox 34.  Mozilla has declared that it wouldn’t release Firefox for iOS as Apple won’t let use its own web engine on its platform. With a new CEO, though, it looks like Mozilla’s words may be changing. At a Mozilla event in Portland, the organization discussed about the requirements to get its browser onto iOS.

Apple has been very limited regarding to third-party browser engines on its platform. At present third-party iOS browsers like Chrome or Opera are on iOS because they use Apple’s own JavaScript and rendering engines.

There are no plans yet how Mozilla plans to bring Firefox to iOS, but specified that Apple isn’t willing to open up its platform for third-party browser engines, Firefox probably have to work with Apple’s technology. With that, it can support Firefox accounts, its bookmark syncing options and other Android features.

2015 is going to be a crucial one for Firefox and they will optimistically bring a bit of a rebirth for the browser. Users these days want to use the Firefox browser on all of their devices. Mozilla has been loyally opposed to an iOS version of its Firefox browser for some period. That makes simple in keeping bookmarks and passwords in sync quite easy, after all. Do you remember two years ago Mozilla presented Firefox Home on iOS for accurately for this reason, but then later abandoned that project?

Apple wants to use own web engine, but Apple will only let companies use its in-house code in the name of security.

It’s not easy to see why Mozilla would create an about face, even after its difficulty with Firefox Home. As with Chrome, the real attraction is sync support with other browsers and platforms. A port would set your Firefox bookmarks and passwords on your iOS gear, so you wouldn’t need to change browsers just to stay in a comfortable web environment. It wouldn’t unavoidably make you away from Chrome or Safari, but it would be least allow you to switch browsers on an urge without losing a key feature.

The Pirate Bay survived, IsoHunt gave life to The Pirate Bay

Our Favourite Torrenting Site — The Pirate Bay survives!!!  Competitor site IsoHunt has duplicated the torrenting service and re-launched it at oldpiratebay.org

IsoHunt officially mentioned that it copied The Pirate Bay’s search engine and link database before it was taken offline after a recent police raid that took in Sweden.

The alter ego site, which was started in an endeavor to keep torrents accessible, not to cause confusion, is actually missing many original Pirate Bay. As IsoHunt mentioned they are many features and stuff to come in we may expect those files soon.

“We saw a lot of topics where people are looking for something like this,” IsoHunt told the news blog. “For sure it has some bugs and glitches but we are going to improve it. The tool is for the users’ convenience till TPB comes alive again.”

The popular searches naturally have content overlaps between isoHunt.to and oldpiratebay.org.The original life of the popular (the pirate bay) torrenting site was completely wiped off by police during a raid in Stockholm (Capital of Sweden) last Tuesday. Law enforcement seized servers, computers, and other tools in an operation to guard intellectual possessions.The same time of data was wiped The Pirate Bay and a number of other similar sites gone from the Web.

Some Sense of Humor on oldpiratebay.org :

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The torrent community was fast to react as soon as TPB went offline:

Many copycat websites with thepiratebay.cr, which directs users to a separate website that charges for access.

Police and copyright holders will be dissatisfied to hit upon, even if, that small changed in the days after The Pirate Bay’s shutdown. The attention-grabbing thing is number of IP addresses torrenting took a hasty dive of about 6 million, but returned back to the 100-million-plus line within two days.

Not all and sundry was upset that The Pirate Bay went dead: Co-founder Peter Sunde said that “I’ve not been a fan of what TPB has become.”

Google, in the meantime, lately removed some popular third-party Pirate Bay apps from Play store for copyright violations. The banned applications list PirateApp, The Pirate Bay Premium, The Pirate Bay Proxy and The Pirate Bay Mirror, all of which make use of proxy sites to let users get around ISP blockades and access TPB from a mobile device.

Android Lollipop Would Encrypt Your Data Right From The Installation

Yes !, you read it correctly! The latest version of Android namely, Android Lollipop Would encrypt your data right from its installation.

This facility was offered optionally back in some days but now from the release of the Android L ,  encryption has been implemented as a major security measure to save user’s data. Due to this , Android L will stay on the same level with IOS 8! .

“Encryption keys are stored inside the device, so that even Google can not provide confidential information to the authorities,” said Google SpokesWoman Niki Christoff , the Washington Post.

Measures taken by Google comes as the scandal that corporations were involved after the revelations of Edward Snowden on their Collaboration with NSA. Therefore, once enabled encryption, the big producers can raise quietly shrug, even in case the official requests by governments.

On the other hand, the police officials complain that the increasingly higher security devices make access more difficult, and this makes harder their ability to prevent a crime or even terrorist attacks.

Law enforcement Agencies are not happy with the above taken measures because even if they would be having a warrant of the criminal , they wont be able to decrypt the data which is locally stored on that person’s phone.

Elenkov explains. “However, because Android has chosen to reuse the lock-screen PIN or password (maximum length 16 characters), in practice most people are likely to end up with a relatively short or low-entropy disk encryption password.”In other words: the strength of the disk encryption on Android was as strong (or weak) as your lock-screen password And in most Scenarios it is useless as people are too lazy to set long lock-screen passwords.

From the Android 4.4 Google took a huge Step towards a strong crypto-System but the thing was that their data was protected by just a pin or a passCode which could be easily broken down. But with Android L its not like that. But still the reason is unclear.

“In addition to enabling FDE out of the box, Android L is expected to include hardware protection for disk encryption keys, as well as hardware acceleration for encrypted disk access,” Elenkov Says . “These two features should make FDE on Android both more secure and much faster.”

Electronic frontier foundation to provide free SSL certificates for entire WEB

Facebook to spend billions of dollars to bring the Internet to everyone: Zuckerberg

Facebook Inc (FB.O) is prepared to spend billions of dollars to reach its goal of bringing the Internet to everyone on the planet, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.

“What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world,” Zuckerberg said at an event in Mexico City hosted by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

“Even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen, I believe that over the long term its gonna be a good thing for us and for the world.”

Around 3 billion people will have access to the Internet by the end of 2014, according to International Telecommunications Union (ITU) statistics. Almost half that, 1.3 billion people, use Facebook.

Facebook, the world’s largest social networking company, launched its Internet.org project last year to connect billions of people without Internet access in places such as Africa and Asia by working with phone operators.

“I believe that … when everyone is on the Internet all of our businesses and economies will be better,” Zuckerberg said.

FAcebook Makes a New Personal Assistant To Stop Posting DRUNKEN !!

In last few years, we have seen Facebook is doing a lot of work to create more awareness in the society. Facebook always try to make their social network more interesting and helpful for the people. But, in the website everyone is free to share anything they want. This may help us to share our thoughts and opinion with freedom. We can be connected with out own people. But wait ! what happens when you are drunk and using facebook ?

On that time, this freedom may break relationships, keep your own people away from you or your boss may say get lost to you. Because you can post anything that can hurt or expose something that you don’t want to show to anyone .

To overcome this problem, Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research department chief Yann LeCun has said they are developing an “artificial assistant” who will recognise when you are about to post a selfie of your night out that you may not want your boss/parent to see.

He told Wired the “intelligent digital assistant” would tell you (virtually) “Uh, this is being posted publicly. Are you sure you want your boss and your mother to see this?”

Facebook will also notify you when someone you don’t know publishes a picture of you without your explicit approval. “You will have a single point of contact to mediate your interaction but also to protect your private information,” LeCun said.

The tool would recognise the difference between a user’s drunken and sober state through facial recognition technology.

The comments come shortly after Zuckerberg said he was “thinking” about developing a dislike button. “A lot of times people share things on Facebook that are sad moments in their lives. Often people tell us that they don’t feel comfortable pressing ‘like’ because ‘like’ isn’t the appropriate sentiment,”