- Recover photos, video, audio and documents from SD cards inside Android devices to a computer.
- Recover messages, and export both in HTML and XML formats to PC for easy reading, printing and importing to your device.
- Retrieve deleted contacts, including names, numbers, Email & addresses, and export in HTML, vCard and CSV to PC.
9
Nov
TensorFlow machine learning code open-sourced by Google
If you appreciate the speed and ability of Google products to do things like translate signs on the fly or find pictures in your Google Photos library, then you may be pleased to know that capability may start to spread throughout the computer systems and apps you use on a daily basis. The possibility for this is thanks to a decision by Google to open source their TensorFlow machine learning system.
Google is moving quickly into areas dominated by artificial intelligence, with machine learning being a big piece of that. They recently revealed their RankBrain AI engine is improving search results for users and they recently updated their Inbox app with a smart reply feature that draws on the TensorFlow code.
TensorFlow is Google’s latest version of machine learning code, following their DistBelief system. When Google started building TensorFlow, one of their aims was to make it more scalable and to disconnect it from a heavy reliance on Google’s infrastructure. The new codebase ended up being portable and is capable of running on hardware ranging from clusters of super powerful servers to a typical smartphone.
The freedom presented by these design decisions enabled Google to open-source the TensorFlow code. In the spirit of open-source code, Google hopes that access and use by researchers, engineers and even hobbyists will result in even better machine learning capabilities in the future. For end users, that means technology will work even better than it does now.
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source: Google
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9
Nov
Google engineer explains why your Nexus 5X is taking upside down photos
If you’ve been playing with a Nexus 5X and third-party camera apps, you may have noticed some of them are shooting photos upside down. Weird, right? Well, it turns out it’s a pretty rare issue caused by how Google had to mount the camera sensor in the Nexus 5X to make everything fit.
The Nexus 5X has a camera sensor that’s mounted in reverse landscape, instead of the typical portrait orientation that everyone expects. To compensate for that weird orientation, Google’s new camera APIs account for that and keep things displaying the right way. Unfortunately, there are still many apps that use Android’s older API, and that’s where users are seeing problems.
The Nexus 6 actually saw some of these same problems at launch, but only with the front-facing camera. Since the front cam is less frequently used than the rear camera, it was less widespread than what we’re dealing with now.
The good news here is that your Nexus isn’t broken. You’ll just have to wait for app developers to update their applications to use Android’s newer API.
source: reddit
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9
Nov
Google explains why some Nexus 5X pictures are the wrong way up
If you recently splashed out on a brand spanking new Nexus 5X, you might be wondering why some of the images you take aren’t the right way up. It turns out that it’s a quirk of how the device was manufactured, thanks to a little insight from Google’s Eino-Ville Talvala. After users began to complain about the issue on Reddit, the engineer popped up to explain where the problem comes from, and how to fix it.
Via: XDA – Developers, SlashGear
Source: Reddit
9
Nov
TAG Heuer’s Connected is a $1,500 Android Wear watch you can trade in
Before we kitted them out with high-res AMOLED screens and WiFi, luxury watches were the sorts of thing you could wind up and pass down through the ages. With its new Connected smartwatch (seriously, its name is “Connected”) TAG Heuer thinks it’s captured “eternity in a box” and restored a sense of legacy to an otherwise obsolescing wearable. Erm, we’ll see about that. Long story short, it’s a $1,500 Android Wear watch that you’ll be able to trade in for a mechanical version after two years if the whole connected lifestyle really isn’t for you.
Source: TAG Heuer Connected
9
Nov
Google is giving “smart pills” to the world
Google is open-sourcing TensorFlow, the “secret sauce” behind features like intelligent image recognition in Google Photos or the Smart Reply feature that arrived to Inbox last week.
Announced today, TensorFlow is a set of free tools for machine learning applications. Or, in technical terms, “an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs.”
The math involved is very high level, but the name TensorFlow comes from the flow of a tensor (a type of vector) through a graph, where nodes are typically mathematical operations or endpoints, and edges represent the relationships between nodes.
Google is giving away TensorFlow by licensing it under the Apache 2.0 license. That means anyone can use it, from academics, to independent developers, to Google’s biggest competitors.
As Matt Cutts, the head of webspam at Google puts it, Google is handing out “smart pills” to anyone who wants them.
Google handing out free (open source!) smart pills world-wide by giving away TensorFlow. https://t.co/fbRCQhgDDm https://t.co/1WkSyTpTNX
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) November 9, 2015
Machine learning is a foreign concept to most people. But for the last few years, machine learning has been making a real impact on products that we user every day. Among other things, AI algorithms have improved, or made possible, features like:
- Better web search results
- Google Photos’ image recognition
- Better real-time translations
- Improved thumbnails on YouTube
- Improved voice recognition on Google Now
TensorFlow is behind these features, and now Google is giving it away.
See also: What is machine learning?
The software is scalable, and can run on everything from a single smartphone to an entire data center. TensorFlow is ready for deployment in real applications, so this is not just a research tool.
Matt Cutts says it will spawn entire new industries.
Why is Google open sourcing this extremely valuable resource? The company says it hopes that freeing TensorFlow into the wild will help advance machine learning as a whole. The ecosystem will develop much faster, and that, in turn, will benefit Google. It’s somehow similar with what Google did with Android and several other open source projects.
For more details head over to the official project page.
9
Nov
Nexus 6P camera glass may spontaneously crack
The Nexus 6P is arguably one of the best Nexus devices made, with the brushed aluminium finish and sleek build combining to create “a Nexus flagship worthy of its premium moniker“. Yet, it’s not all positive; some reports suggest its easy to bend and damage Google’s latest flagship and some Reddit users are reporting that the glass panel in front of the camera can also spontaneously crack.
The small piece of glass protecting the camera is made of Gorilla Glass 4 but doesn’t seem to be as durable as its smartphone display equivalent. Some pictures posted online suggest that the glass is spontaneously cracking and one Redditor has come up with a theory why the glass may be cracking.
Summarising u/RedHeadedMenace/:
It seems that most screens – including the Nexus 6P display – have a small plastic shock ring to protect the glass but the Nexus 6P’s camera glass doesn’t have this. As such, any lateral pressure applied by the case can cause the camera glass to crack.
Sounds simple enough right but smartphones are complex pieces of engineering and other users suggest that the phone overheating, sudden changes in temperature or even an internal issue related to the battery swelling could be causing the camera glass to crack.
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It also seems that the cracking occurs at different times, with one user reporting that it happened on the first night they got the phone, another saying it happened within 24 hours and the original poster suggesting it happened spontaneously while the phone was just sitting there.
Huawei and Google are yet to official acknowledge the issue but the number of reports is increasing so it’ll be interesting to see how the company responds. It’s possible that this issue may be affecting just a particular batch of handsets as neither of our units has this problem or it could be that they haven’t cracked yet.
Nexus 6P in video:
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What about your Nexus 6P? Has the glass in front of the camera cracked? Let us know in the comments below and if it has cracked, we recommend letting Google/Huawei know, as well as the retailer you bought the handset from.
9
Nov
Tag Heuer to launch $1500 smartwatch today
Luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer is preparing to launch its high-end smartwatch today, according to company chief Jean-Claude Biver. The watch will be known as the Carrera Connected and will come with a rather expensive $1500 price tag.
Tag Heuer has teamed up with Google and Intel to develop its new smartwatch, suggesting that it could be powered by Android Wear, as previous rumors have indicated, and may sport many familiar features. The Carrera Connected syncs up with a smartphone wirelessly and features a changeable watch face and fitness tracking options, which all sounds very standard, but other features are being kept close to the company’s chest.
Latest smartwatches:
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With its expensive price tag, the Carrera Connected could end up appealing to similar customers who are interested in the ~$1000 stainless steel Apple Watch models, rather than competing with the range of existing smartwatches in the Android ecosystem. Even Samsung’s new Gear S2 only costs around $300.
A move into the premium segment of the watch market could help build the profile of Google’s wearable platform. We know that the very high-end wearables segment is not the most popular end of the market, but Tag Heuer probably isn’t looking to sell millions of units anyway.
The smartwatch looks similar to Tag Heuer’s existing Carrera classic watch (pictured above) and apparently can’t be told apart at a distance. The watch will also come with a selection of six brightly colors wristbands to choose from.
The Carrera Connected will make its debut in New York at noon on Monday and will be heading to Europe three days later.
9
Nov
Wondershare Dr. Fone for Android file recovery software (Review)
It is very easy to accidentally delete or lose precious files on your Android smartphone. Whether you accidentally delete a picture, text message, vCards and more, Wondershare Dr. Fone for Android is here to help you recover your lost files. Not only is it for accidentally deleted files, but it can also be used for phones that have been damaged by water too.
Description from website
Directly scan and recover SMS, contacts, photos, video and more
Preview & selective recovery
- Preview all recoverable contacts, messages and photos and documents before recovery.
- Selectively recover what you want by selecting them from the scan result.
Read-only and risk-free
- Keep data on your device original, no damage, deletion or modification at all.
- Only read and recover the data, no personal information leaking, or things like that.
Usage
One of the major downsides is Wondershare has limitations on the actual devices it can support. The list of devices they support is actually quite huge, but if you have a current phone there is a good chance it isn’t supported yet. For the sake of this review, I went through a list of devices: Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, Asus Zenfone 2, LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, Nexus 6P, HTC One M8(Android 5.0) and Nexus 5X. None were supported directly, but if I decided to root them the Dr. Fone software could actually recover it.
I’m not the type of person who roots devices, so I had to borrow a friend’s Note 3 running Android 4.4.2. Luckily he’s the type who doesn’t upgrade his software and he reluctantly let me borrow his device.
The instructions are actually quite simple. Install the software, which in my case was the Windows 10 64-bit version, and I entered the license code I was given by Wondershare. Set-up really was a breeze.
Next I had to enable developer options by going to my settings and clicking About phone, Build Number (tapped seven times), and then enable USB debugging. Once I did that and connected my phone to my computer’s USB port using the micro-USB cable I use to charge my phone, the software connected and started to scan my Note 3. It took about 110 minutes to scan all of the files, and by my tests it worked rather well. I had my friend sitting with me to verify what files were deleted and recovered and according to him, that was all of his files that he could remember. Luckily for me, my friend didn’t have anything scary I did not want to see. The only downside was that it was slow to recover the files, but given the fact that I assumed these files were deleted, I wouldn’t mind waiting if it meant saving files I needed.
Since the Note 3 wasn’t my actual phone I owned, I could not take screenshots for you guys to see the recovery process as he didn’t want his information on the web. Here is what the interface looks like from the screenshot from Wondershare’s website:
For the sake of this review I did back up “lost” files from the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 onto my computer and it was very easy. It was as easy as using any file managing software I’ve used before and am quite happy to keep Dr. Fone for Android installed on my PC as long as I own Android phones.
Summary
Dr. Fone for Android does work as advertised and requires minimal effort on your part if your device is supported by Wondershare’s Dr. Fone for Android. I don’t blame Wondershare for not being able to support every Android device and software version as there are literally thousands and thousands of versions out there. But that does mean there is a good chance that if your device is current, it probably isn’t supported by Wondershare yet. If you’re technical you can root your device and Dr. Fone for Android will work just fine.
There is a free trial version you can test before paying for the full license fee of $49.95 which is a lifetime license and supports 1-5 devices. Wondershare is continually adding more devices and software versions with free updates, so your money will go a long way with a lifetime license.
If you want to learn more, click here to go to Wondershare.com. They offer a whole suite of software products beyond Android.
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9
Nov
Google is giving away three free movies to all Chromebook owners
If you’re the proud owner of a Chromebook, you may want to boot it up, head over to Play Movies & TV and check the dedicated promotions section of the application as Google is now giving away three complimentary films from a limited selection to all owners of a Chrome OS-powered device. Unfortunately, the movies are only available in Standard Definition (SD), but it’s still a pretty sweet deal nonetheless.
The list of films available varies depending on the device accessing the Play Movies server and area that it’s located in, but a rough outline of what you’ll be able to choose from can be seen below:
- Mission Impossible
- Mission Impossible II
- Mission Impossible III
- Mean Girls
- Clueless
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Footloose
- Flashdance
- Forrest Gump
- The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
- The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
- The Last Airbender
- Charlotte’s Web (2006)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
All-in-all, some pretty solid choices. As a film lover, I’d recommend going with either the Mission Impossible trilogy or Forrest Gump, The Last Airbender and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
Source: Google
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9
Nov
Fly Labs acquisition likely resulting in improved Google Photos video editing
Google Photos is great for many things, but we can all agree video editing is not one of its strengths. You get some functionality, but I would say clip editing is less than basic. It is reasonable to assume this is something the Search Giant should be working on, and now we are getting indirect confirmation that they are.
Google has just acquired Fly Labs, a company known for its extensive video and photo editing apps for iOS (mostly video). Their apps include the Fly Video Editor, Clips Video Editor, Tempo Video Editor and Crop on the Fly. These have been downloaded over 3 million times over the last 18 months, so you know these apps have their following.
“Our mission at Fly Labs has always been simple: to help people make the most of their photos and videos. We make video editing apps because we believe that there’s no better way to stay connected with your memories than by engaging with them creatively.” -Fly Labs
In their announcement post, the Fly Labs team mentions they will be moving over to Mountain View to work with the Google Photos team, making it quite obvious what the acquisition is about.
“Google Photos is a home for your life’s memories, powered by Google’s machine learning and computer vision technology. It’s a perfect match for what we built at Fly Labs, and we’re looking forward to folding our technology into Google Photos.” -Fly Labs
But what about the iOS apps?!
Are you a fan of the Fly Labs apps on iOS? We have good and bad news for you. The good news is that all these apps are free as of today! It costs nothing to download it and there’s no in-app purchases included. Just head over to the App Store and get them.
The bad news is that these apps won’t be there for much longer. They will disappear from Apple’s market in 3 months. You can download the apps until then and keep them on your device after they are put down. The only downside is there won’t be further updates or support.
See the Fly Labs apps on iTunes
Wrapping up
It’s hard to say what comes next, but we can all assume some sweet video editing is coming to Google Photos. It’s definitely something we needed to wrap up the combo. The Search Giant acquired Snapseed creators Nik Software in 2012, and that made all the difference for photo editing within their services. It’s time for Google to step up their video game, and I say they are on the right path. Would you agree?
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