A supermoon lunar eclipse is a pretty rare thing, so go look at it now
If you’re thinking the moon is looking particularly foreboding, don’t worry. Your eyes aren’t playing tricks, and nor is it the end of days, but a lunar phenomenon that happens once roughly every 30 years. If you look outside now, you’ll see a supermoon lunar eclipse: a combination of a very nearby moon — making it look up to 14 percent bigger — and reflected orange hue from the sun, which is lined up with the moon and the Earth. Get your camera out (or hold your phone real steady), and go outside. But if you don’t really like “outside”, NASA’s offering its own livestream right here. And if you miss it, you’ll just have to wait til 2033.
Source: NASA
Google bringing high-speed WiFi to 400 Indian train stations
Google’s main concern is getting people online, obviously due to the fact that most of their profits come from internet users; and hopefully because they want to help out, too. Regardless, it makes sense that they focus on emerging markets, as this is where most new internet users will come from. According to Internet Live Stats, only around 40% of the world population has an internet connection, and you can be sure this is something Google is working on changing.
Projects such as Android One, YouTube offline, Google Maps offline and Project Loon are only some of Google’s initiatives to bring a better online experience to emerging markets like India. Today the Mountain View-based tech company announces another big move to get millions of train commuters online, after welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Googleplex for a visit.
The Search Giant is collaborating with Indian Railways and RailTel to bring WiFi to 400 train stations in India. And Google claims this is not your usual internet connection, it is said to be “high-speed” broadband, which will be “many times faster than what most people in India have access to today”.
Google will launch this new service on 100 of the busiest stations, which should be online by the end of 2016. Other locations will follow soon afterwards. Regardless, this is a good advancement, as the first 100 stations should cover about 10 million users who take advantage of these stations every single day.
With over 300 million active users in India, this country ranks second in number of internet surfers, only surpassed by China. The kicker here is there are still about a billion Indians offline, which are the ones Google is trying to target here.
The best part? This service will be completely free at first. Yes… at first. In the long run, Google expects the service to be “self-sustainable” and get some profits in order to further expand to new stations.
So there you have it, fellow Indian techies! Soon you will be enjoying internet at many of your train stations, all thanks to Google’s efforts to get as many users online as possible. I just have to wonder how fast is “high speed internet”. Google is not specifying speeds, which definitely makes us very curious.
Hilton looks into claims its hotels’ shops were hacked
If you’ve been spendy at one of Hilton’s hotels in recent memory, you may want to double-check your financial records. The company is investigating claims by security guru Brian Krebs that hackers compromised banking card data at a “large number” of Hilton’s gift shops and restaurants, ranging from Doubletree locations all the way to posh Waldorf Astoria hotels. The intruders reportedly broke into point-of-sale machines as far back as November 2014, and it’s possible that their attacks are continuing to this day.
Hilton is quick to point out that card fraud is “all too common,” and that it works with “some of the top experts” in security to keep you safe. Those are true (just ask Target), but the concern is that the company didn’t do enough to either offer a strong initial defense or to catch the breaches until several months after they began. And no matter how vigilant the chain was, these statements won’t be much consolation if thieves use your accounts to go on a shopping spree.
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Source: Krebs on Security
Podcast 033: If a Nexus leaks, will you still buy it?
What starts off as a collection of selfie stick belittling, turns into Andrew Grush, Joe Hindy and Nirave Gondhia following along as Jonathan Feist pretends to lead the show. We talk about Blackberry and their new Priv, previously known as Venice, which leads to ribbing Josh while he’s not there to defend himself. Google has two new devices coming this week, the Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P. We wanted to say little more on the subject, saving our thoughts for next week, but our discussion on the current leak culture took us right back to the Nexus devices. Will you be purchasing a new Nexus device, or at least holding off another purchase until you see what Google has to offer? Huawei was a recurring topic throughout the show, we all had mostly great things to say about them and their products, leaving us highly anticipating the Nexus 6P, which is also built by Huawei. I hope you have as much fun listening as we did recording.
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Google will help bring high-speed Internet to India’s train stations
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While there are over a billion people in the world who have access to smartphones and the Internet, that still leaves between 5-6 billion people with limited-to-no Internet access – in India alone, there are still one billion people not online, despite the fact that it now has the second largest population of Internet users in the world. As a step to help one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets get Internet to more of its consumers, Google will help bring high-speed Internet to India’s train stations, announced by CEO Sundar Pichai today. The collaboration between India and Google was announced when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Google’s HQ.
The infrastructure that Google is looking to put in is broadband Internet to provide Wi-Fi in 400 stations across India – 100 of these are expected to be finish by the end of 2016, and even finishing these 100 will provide Internet to 10 million more people everyday as they pass through these stations. With this new infrastructure, the growth of Android One, and the ability for apps like YouTube (and Maps soon) to work offline, India is definitely an area that is going to see even more incredible growth in the near future.
What do you think about Google helping to provide Internet to India? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Google Blog
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Microsoft kit helps you run Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi
Sure, it’s no secret that you can run Windows 10 on a tiny Raspberry Pi 2, but actually doing that could prove to be a challenge. What parts do you need? And what do you do with it when you’re ready? That’s where Microsoft and Adafruit think they can help. They’ve released a Windows IoT Core Starter Kit that gives you everything you need to get going, including an SD card preloaded with Windows 10 IoT Core and the tools you need (both hardware and software) to start on some projects. It’ll cost you $115 if you need a Raspberry Pi 2 at the same time, and $40 if you already have one sitting around. That’s a lot of money to spend on such a modest device, but it might pay off if you’d like to spend more time creating clever machines than searching forums for help.
Via: Microsoft-News, Engadget Chinese
Source: Adafruit, Blogging Windows
Google is putting WiFi in 400 Indian train stations
India may be rapidly building up its reputation as a tech-savvy country, but there are still hundreds of millions of people in the country who’ve had little to no experience with the internet. Google may have a clever solution to that problem, however. It’s installing WiFi (initially for free) in 400 train stations across India, with 100 of the busiest stations due to get online by the end of 2016. The hope is that this will connect the 10 million people who pass through India’s train system every day, letting them experience the web even if they’d otherwise have no access at all. And it’s not basic data, either. Google is promising speeds good enough to stream HD video and otherwise outclass what many Indians are familiar with.
OF course, this isn’t strictly an altruistic gesture. Microsoft teased plans to bring cheap broadband to 500,000 Indian villages just a day before Google’s announcement, and Facebook has its own ongoing free internet program. Google is racing to capture the attention of first-time internet users, and the tech industry at large profits when more people are viewing ads and using cloud services. Moreover, this could help curry the favor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited Silicon Valley this weekend — important when officials are worried that Google is abusing its search dominance. Still, it’s hard to knock an effort that could improve the quality of life in one of the most populous countries on the planet.
Source: Google Official Blog
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