iPhone users can attach Drive files on Google Calendar
iPhone users can start associating files from Drive directly to Google Calendar events, thanks to the app playing catch up to its Android version. Those files can be documents, PDFs, work presentations and spreadsheets or photos you took at a party — whatever they are, Calendar will ask whether you want other people to be able to view or edit them. Just like the Android update that rolled out a few months ago, this one also comes with a seven-day week view so users can easily peek at their schedules. Plus, it intros interactive notifications that add an option to email guests and to open a saved location in Maps from the lock screen. That’s about it for now, but as always, iPhone owners who want to know what’s next can keep an eye out for the latest Android update… and then wait a few months to get the new features.
Filed under: Misc, Mobile, Google
Source: Official Gmail Blog
Google showcases 17 awesome, new Android Wear watch faces for you to use
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Android Wear is awesome compared to Apple’s Watch OS, if only for the fact that it has an almost limitless number of watch faces for you to download and choose from on the Play Store (and countless more available through apps like WatchMaker and Facer). To celebrate this fact, Google has highlighted 17 Android Wear watch faces that it thinks need airtime, and features an assortment of brands and familiar icons like Hello Kitty, Angry Birds and even Terminator Genisys. If you want to check out these 17 faces, hit the link below in Google’s tweet:
Adorable, elegant or fierce. Wear what you want with 17 new #AndroidWear watch faces https://t.co/VOLcXaanDK pic.twitter.com/pQzCsgPlu0
— Android (@Android) June 22, 2015
Unless you’re the type of person who likes to change watch faces everyday (like me), these 17 watch faces should give you more than enough to use for the foreseeable future, and based on the quality of the faces, you might want to check each of them out. We hope this is more of a regular thing for Google to highlight the selling points of their wearable OS which has somewhat fallen by the wayside with the release of the media sponge that is the Apple Watch.
What do you think about these 17 Android Wear watch faces that Google has highlighted? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Twitter (Google) via TalkAndroid
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Project Fi “Invite Status” lets you know when to expect your invite
Google’s new Project Fi MVNO was launched back in April. Since then, people have uncovered many little factoids about Project Fi including that it was invite only. That’s right, the invite horrors started again. Inbox by Gmail, the OnePlus One, and now Project Fi.
Many people signed up for Fi back when the invite system was launched in April, but they have yet to receive an invite. Fortunately, Google has updated Project Fi’s sign up site to put potential customers at ease.
The site has been updated to include an “Invite Status” that will let you know when you can expect your invite to the network. Statuses have been all over the place.
Some lucky ducks found out that their invite would arrive in their inbox in 2-3 weeks. Others found disturbing news that Google was still determining their status.
The invite status do not appear to correlate directly to when you placed your request. In an effort to make sure that Fi is ready for prime time, Google has been selecting various people from different regions.
If you are in a region where there is already a Fi user, you may be in for a long wait. On the flip side, if you are the first to request an invite in your area, you may get yours sooner rather than later.
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Google’s urban tech lab is working on free, city-wide WiFi
When Google unveiled its urban improvement initiative, Sidewalk Labs, it left one big question: what was this new outfit actually working on? As of today, you should have a good idea. Sidewalk and a group of investors have bought and merged two key companies behind LinkNYC, an effort to offer free, public WiFi across New York City. The combined entity, Intersection, will extended LinkNYC’s internet-for-all technology to cities worldwide. Ideally, you’ll one day “walk down any street” and expect to get fast wireless data. That sounds more than a little ambitious, but it makes sense given Google’s sheer clout and desire for a ubiquitous internet. The easier it is for you to hop online, the easier it is for Google to serve up its money-making ads.
Filed under: Networking, Internet, Google
Via: Wired
Source: Sidewalk Labs
Deal: Grab a 32GB LTE Nexus 9 for just $380 from Expansys ($220 off)
Google’s Nexus 9 tablet is quite good, but the general consensus on the device is that it’s too expensive. When we’re talking around $400 for a tablet with just 16GB of storage and Wi-Fi-only connectivity, that can be a hard sell. And while the 32GB LTE-enabled variant may be a powerhouse, that will run you about $600 if you purchase it from the Google Store. If you’re interested in the tablet and have been waiting for the price to go down a bit, now may be your chance. Right now, you can purchase a 32GB LTE Nexus 9 tablet from Expansys for just $379.99, which is a massive $220 off the normal retail price.
Keep in mind that the tablet only comes in the Black color option and 32GB of storage if you spring for the LTE model. Expansys is throwing in free shipping with all orders, as well.
Don’t miss: Google Nexus 9 review
In case you need a refresher, the HTC-made Nexus 9 features an 8.9-inch display with a resolution of 1536 x 2048, Nvidia’s powerful Tegra K1 processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP rear-facing camera and a big 6700mAh battery. The tablet runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box, and will be one of the first devices to receive the update to Android M once Google officially releases it.
Expansys doesn’t mention if this is a promotion or if this is the new price for the tablet, so we’re not sure how long it will last. If you’re interested, head to the link below to pick one up for yourself.
Google’s Play Music radio is now free for everyone with ad-support
Google took to its official Android blog to announce that Google Play Music radio is now free for everyone, only with ad-support. Those interested in the service were required to pay a $9.99 monthly All Access fee after a 30-day trial.
This move may come as a surprise for some, but it’s actually a great business move, considering that Apple Music is coming into the fray this fall. Google hopes that you’ll like its free, ad-based service so much, you’ll subscribe to it ad-free for $9.99/month.
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The ad-supported version is available on the web, starting today. However, Android and iOS versions won’t be updated until later this week.
source: Google
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Google Translate processing over 100 billion words daily
Google has released a new video that is part of their “Be Together. Not the Same.” marketing strategy in which they showcase their Google Translate platform and app. In the course of the video it is revealed that Google is now processing over 100 billion words each day through Google Translate. According to Google, the most translated words they process include “How are you?”, “Thank you” and “I love you.” Besides the statistics regarding translation, the video also shows how the Word Lens integration in the Google Translate app on smartphones works to provide a real time image translation.
Hit the break to check out the video from the Android team and let us know in the comments how you use Google Translate.
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Google reveals new health tracking wearable for medical professionals
Google has announced a new wearable, intended to give doctors and researchers quick and accurate data on their patients. The new wearable can measure a patient’s skin temperature, heart rhythm, and pulse. It’s also able to track environmental data, such as noise and light exposure, Bloomberg says.
The wearable isn’t going to available to the public. In fact, it’ll primarily be a prescription-based device. “Our intended use is for this to become a medical device that’s prescribed to patients or used for clinical trials,” says Andy Conrad, head of the life and sciences team at Google.
Google’s new wearable isn’t ready for medical facilities just yet, though. The search giant plans on collaborating with officials in the medical field to test the accuracy of the data the device provides. The wearable hasn’t received approval in the United States or Europe yet, either. But, Google does plan to begin trials with the new device this summer, which means it could be ready to go as early as late 2015, pending government approval.
If found successful, the device could prove to change how doctors and researchers gather data in the medical field. Slapping a wearable on a patient’s wrist would be much easier than current methods. But, there is one big hurdle that has to be worked on before facilities can even begin to think of adopting this new technology: unreliable patients.
“Historically, doctors do everything — patients just need to turn up at the trial site,” said Dennis. “Now, we’re asking patients to take on meaningful responsibility in gathering information.” As Bloomberg points out, asking patients to keep the device charged hurts data severely because you just don’t know if a patient will comply or remember. Not to mention that they’d need to keep the device on their wrist as opposed to taking it off.
I look forward to the day when this sort of technology is widely adopted, though. It would make it a lot easier to catch things before they happen, such as heart attacks and maybe sometime in the future, even strokes. If a simple wearable could detect or warn you when there’s heart irregularities or a blood clot forming somewhere, many potential harmful situations could be averted before they even happen.
Would you wear a device like this?
Source: Bloomberg
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Google reveals new health tracking wearable for medical professionals
Google has announced a new wearable, intended to give doctors and researchers quick and accurate data on their patients. The new wearable can measure a patient’s skin temperature, heart rhythm, and pulse. It’s also able to track environmental data, such as noise and light exposure, Bloomberg says.
The wearable isn’t going to available to the public. In fact, it’ll primarily be a prescription-based device. “Our intended use is for this to become a medical device that’s prescribed to patients or used for clinical trials,” says Andy Conrad, head of the life and sciences team at Google.
Google’s new wearable isn’t ready for medical facilities just yet, though. The search giant plans on collaborating with officials in the medical field to test the accuracy of the data the device provides. The wearable hasn’t received approval in the United States or Europe yet, either. But, Google does plan to begin trials with the new device this summer, which means it could be ready to go as early as late 2015, pending government approval.
If found successful, the device could prove to change how doctors and researchers gather data in the medical field. Slapping a wearable on a patient’s wrist would be much easier than current methods. But, there is one big hurdle that has to be worked on before facilities can even begin to think of adopting this new technology: unreliable patients.
“Historically, doctors do everything — patients just need to turn up at the trial site,” said Dennis. “Now, we’re asking patients to take on meaningful responsibility in gathering information.” As Bloomberg points out, asking patients to keep the device charged hurts data severely because you just don’t know if a patient will comply or remember. Not to mention that they’d need to keep the device on their wrist as opposed to taking it off.
I look forward to the day when this sort of technology is widely adopted, though. It would make it a lot easier to catch things before they happen, such as heart attacks and maybe sometime in the future, even strokes. If a simple wearable could detect or warn you when there’s heart irregularities or a blood clot forming somewhere, many potential harmful situations could be averted before they even happen.
Would you wear a device like this?
Source: Bloomberg
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Google debuts its new health-tracking wearable built for medical studies
In recent years, many interesting projects have come out of Google’s X labs – Google Glass, Project Tango, and even contact lenses that can read one’s blood sugar levels. Today Google’s experimental labs revealed a new health-tracking wearable that will be used in clinical trials and drug tests to give researchers and doctors minute-by-minute data on how patients are doing. According to Bloomberg, the new wearable device can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and even environmental info such as light exposure and noise levels.
“Our intended use is for this to become a medical device that’s prescribed to patients or used for clinical trials”, says Andy Conrad, head of the life and sciences team at Google. The device won’t be marketed as a consumer device, but will instead be prescribed through medical facilities.
This new wristband, if widely adopted, could potentially have a big effect on how doctors receive patient data in the future. Although this is giving patients some new responsibilities (keeping the device charged, wearing it at all times), the results will likely be worth the added effort. Google plans on collaborating with academic researchers and drugmakers to test the wearable’s accuracy.
As of now, the device still needs regulatory approval to be used in the United States and Europe, and Google hopes to begin trials to test the new wearable this summer.
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