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Google is Preparing Kid-Friendly YouTube and Chrome

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Google announced that it will launch different versions of its services. The kid-friendly YouTube and Chrome are two of the services Google wants to release in the near future. Pavni Diwanji, Google’s vice president of engineering explained that the purpose of the new censored versions of Chrome and YouTube is to ensure the content is suitable for children under the age of 12.

Google’s VP did not disclose the exact details of the upcoming kid-friendly YouTube and Chrome but he suggested that the new technology can be used both at school and at home. He explained that everything will remain the same, except for the fact that all the content will be censored and suitable for kids.

Diwanji said in an official statement:

“The big motivator inside the company is everyone is having kids, so there’s a push to change our products to be fun and safe for children. We expect this to be controversial, but the simple truth is kids already have the technology in schools and at home, so the better approach is to simply see to it that the tech is used in a better way.”

Diwanji continued saying:

“We want to be thoughtful about what we do, giving parents the right tools to oversee their kids’ use of our products. We want kids to be safe, but ultimately it’s about helping them be more than just pure consumers of tech, but creators, too.”

Google’s intentions are good but many will probably criticize it for trying to target the child and pre-teen market.
Google is currently working on developing the kid-friendly YouTube and Chrome versions in their Mountain View headquarters, inside a secret room called the Kids Studio. Diwanji said that her daughter is helping with the insights and is part of the group. She is helping Google deliver what kids want to find in a search engine.

Diwanji said that after her daughter Googled “trains”, the results did not include Thomas the Tank Engine and her daughter said that this must definitely be there because all kids love Thomas.

Google has not divulged which products suitable for kids will be launched first, but YouTube and Chrome will most likely be on the list.

Google Launches a $105 Android One Smartphone in India

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The search engine giant Google has launched today the first of their Android One smartphones. The first country to see this budget smartphone is India where it can be bought for $105. The initiative of introducing budget-friendly and quality software phones has been praised by many.

Google has a partnership with Indian handset makers Karbonn, Micromax and Spice Mobiles and they want to launch 6,399 rupees phone which will feature Google’s operating system. These budget phones will target the low-cost segment of the smartphones market segment.

After the premiere launch in India, the Android One smartphone, Google is planning to launch it in other South Asian countries like Philippines and Indonesia by the end of 2014. They will expand it to other countries as well starting with 2015.

Goggle is currently working with HTC, Acer and Panasonic to build more smart mobile devices under the Android One brand. With the Android One Google wants to improve the hardware and software quality by giving the smartphone makers a point of reference. If the Android One smartphone will prove to be successful, it will mean that more people will have internet access and also more usage of Google’s products.

Android One was launched in India for $105

Neil Shah, director for devices at the Counterpoint Research stated that:

“After China and the United States, India is the third largest smartphone market in the world and Google won’t like to leave such a huge market in control of brands looking to use a custom-forked Android OS as is happening in China.”

What do you think about Google’s initiative to launch Android One in India? Do you think this will mean better smartphones at a lower price? We would like to hear from you so you can leave your comment in the section below.

 

 

Google’s Self-Driving Car Updates

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google self driving carBefore the self-cleaning car from Nissan that uses a special paint called the Ultra-Ever Dry paint that protects the car from the usual mud, dust and water marks, there was Google’s self-driving car, the car that, obviously, drives itself.

The recent updates regarding Google’s self-driving car say that the special car can now detect objects on city streets better than it used to. We’re talking about a cyclist or a parked car which the self-driving car can juggle them better than, let’s say, a human driver.

Google said that, “We’ve improved our software so it can detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously—pedestrians, buses, a stop sign held up by a crossing guard, or a cyclist making gestures that indicate a possible turn. A self-driving vehicle can pay attention to all of these things in a way that a human physically can’t—and it never gets tired or distracted.”

The search giant released a video of the Google self-driving car in which it shows the viewer what the car “sees” when it’s on the road, driving itself. The objects seen by the car produce red or green grids which signal the car when it’s safe to proceed. Although it might seem chaotic to a normal driver, Google says that these scenarios are “actually fairly predictable to a computer.”

Google has been working on their wonder automobile for some years now and supported the Californian legislation that allowed the new technology. In 2012, Jerry Brown, the California Gov. approved the law that established safety and performance standards for self-driving cars in their state, following Nevada’s similar legislation.

Google’s self-driving car is still in prototype mode and will probably stay like that for a while because it’s still being tested. Google said that “We still have lots of problems to solve, including teaching the car to drive more streets in Mountain View before we tackle another town, but thousands of situations on city streets that would have stumped us two years ago can now be navigated autonomously.”

Google’s Self-Driving Car Updates – we will see them on the road by 2035

According to a report from IHS Automotive, we will probably see semi-autonomous cars on the roads before 2025 and self-driving cars around 2035. The report also predicts that the number of self-driving vehicles will increase from about 230,000 in 2025 to an impressive 11 million by 2035.

What are your thoughts on Google’s self-driving car? Is it a sign of how the future will look? Please comment in the section below.

Chrome Remote Desktop For Android Released By Google

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chrome remote desktop androidIn a world where smart mobile devices are everywhere one might find the word desktop a bit too outdated. But some of us (believe it or not) still use a desktop computer or a laptop, yet. So there’s great news for people like us. Google has announced their Chrome remote desktop for Android devices. It’s a free app that you can install in your Google Chrome browser after you download it from the Web Store. After you added the new app to your browser you need to enable the remote connections and you can control your desktop without having to leave the browser open. If your laptop is not turned off completely or in the sleeping mode, you can control Chrome’s background process from your own Android smartphone.

Once you fire up the Chrome remote desktop app you will see a list of all the systems you can have access to. It will also show you all the systems you’ve signed up to using your Google account that you have enabled using the remote desktop app. All this means that you won’t have to remember any complicated numeric IDs in order to log in and use the new app.

There are some things you should know about Chrome Remote Desktop for Android that aren’t that exciting. For example, it doesn’t allow you to play games from your Steam library on your tablet or smartphone while you’re on the bus on the way to your work place. Even if you’re using the same network as the laptop you’re trying to access, you will get plenty of noticeable latency when trying to play games. Some say that even a basic game like Terraria is not really playable. But if you’re using Chrome Remote Desktop for Android to do stuff like emails or move files around in your computer then Google’s new app is more than capable of helping you with it. It even competes with other paid remote control apps like Splashtop or Teamviewer. So why pay for something when you can have it for free, right? Especially if you need it for minor things like emails and copy things from your laptop into your smartphone or tablet.

Chrome Remote Desktop for Android – availability

If you are using Google Chrome as your desktop browser and you have an Android smartphone or tablet, you can download and intall the new Chrome Remote Desktop for Android. It’s easy to use and best of all, it’s free.

 

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