Did Google show us HTC Nexus 9 render on Google I/O?
There were plenty of rumors suggesting that HTC is working on a new Nexus tablet, dubbed Nexus 9. We’ve even had a detailed leak regarding the device which included not only a render of the device but its specifications as well. Well, something interesting happened on Google I/O which might suggest that the leak was true, to some extent at least.
If you look at the picture Google used at this year’s I/O, you’ll notice a weird look tablet in the middle which is not the Nexus 7 (2013) (it is not Samsung’s Nexus 10 either, you can tell that on a first glance). I’ll tell you why:
- The camera is on the middle of the tablet (from portrait perspective), while the one on the Nexus 7 is on the right side of it, not completely, but still, it’s not centered.
- You’ll notice the front facing speaker on the render, next to a front facing camera. Well, Nexus 7 doesn’t have a front facing speaker. On the other hand the leaked HTC Volantis doesn’t either, as far as we can tell by the render linked above at least.
- The tablet on this render is in landscape while the Nexus 5 (on the right) is in portrait. You can see that the tablet is taller in landscape than Nexus 5 is in portrait, which also doesn’t match up to Nexus 7′s proportions. Nexus 5 is 137.9mm tall while the Nexus 7 (2013) is 114mm wide.
This really doesn’t have to mean anything, maybe Google is playing with us. Be it as it may, we do think this is for real and that Google wanted to tease us a bit, in other words we don’t think it’s their way of trolling us or that it was an accident. What do you think?
Source: Google
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Google released a promo video showing off Android “L” on various devices and situation as a part of Google I/O
Google really had lots to say at this year’s Google I/O. We definitely expected a promo video for it and Google delivered.
Video runtime is around 2 minutes and it shows most of what Google has been talking about, or better, presenting at Google I/O this year. This promo video is tracking a guy and his dog in different situations, from waking up and running to a dog show and chillin’ in the living room. Throughout the video you can see Google’s new Android Wear in action on a LG G Watch and Android “L” on a Nexus 5 and Nexus 7, they even included Android TV and Android Auto in the story. Oh well, see it for yourself:
Source: Google (YouTube)
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Google will pay for coding lessons for thousands of female tech workers
We know the stats by now, and they’re grim: women hold just a quarter of IT jobs, and they make up a mere 18 percent of recent computer science graduates. At this year’s I/O, Google has announced a new program that, it hopes, will do something to correct this imbalance. It’s going to pay for “thousands” of female tech workers to discover basic coding through self-learning courses, presumably in the hope that this will advance their careers and turn them into better mentors and role models for youngsters.
A cynical view might be that Google is simply throwing cash at the problem, because this isn’t really a long-term solution: The company is actually just handing out voucher codes so that women can enrol for three months of free online classes at the Code School. However, Google is also running deeper projects to tackle female underrepresentation in education and employment as part of its Made w/ Code program. And besides, it probably deserves credit for taking the unusual step of highlighting just how bad its own diversity problem is, rather than hiding behind the tech industry as a whole.
Google is offering the Code School vouchers directly to female I/O attendees and others “inside the tech community,” but if you’re interested and don’t want to be overlooked, then you can put yourself forward here.
Filed under: Misc, Internet, Google
Via: CNET
Source: Code School, Google Women TechMakers
Commercial Project Tango tablet could come from Google and LG
The Project Tango tablet has been showcased by Google at various times as a prototype and has shown itself to be an exciting exercise in what Android can do outside of just being used as an idle device. The ability to make 3D maps and take advantage of augmented reality makes it a very interesting prospect for […]
Google releases YouTube Creator Studio to the Play Store
If you are one of the millions of YouTube creators out there that manage your own channel on YouTube, your life just got a little bit easier today. Google has, finally, released YouTube Creator Studio to the Google Play Store. The app makes managing your channel a heck of a lot easier when mobile. The […]
Engadget Daily: living in Google’s world, the faces of Android Wear and more!
Today, we take a look at the Android L Developer preview, compare the three faces of Android Wear, evaluate a $1,000 bread-making robot and dive into the hyper-connected world of Google. Read on for Engadget’s news highlights from the last 24 hours.
The three faces of Android Wear, compared
Android Wear is making waves this summer in the form of three new smartwatches: the LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live and Motorola Moto 360. Read on for our breakdown of each wrist-worn device and its implementation of Google’s wearable platform.
We just played with Android’s L Developer Preview
Android L is just a developer preview for now, but it’s a forthright indicator of the OS’ uber-connected future. With over 5,000 APIs, a new set of guidelines called Material Design and 64-bit support, Google’s provided a great education of its next mobile OS update.
This robot bakes the world’s most expensive flatbread
This is the Riomatic: a smart kitchen appliance that bakes a really fancy type of flatbread. Users must simply keep tabs on its water, flour and oil hoppers, and voila, it’ll spit out fresh bakes every two minutes or so. The catch? It costs $1,000.
Living in a Google world: Why Android L means you’ll never have to disconnect
As this year’s Google I/O conference came to a close, one fact became absolutely certain: Android is going to follow you everywhere. Read on as Sarah Silbert investigates Android L and its implications on Google’s ecosystem.
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Filed under: Misc
Chromecast’s ultrasonic device pairing is much simpler than it sounds
It turns out that there’s more than one way for guests to join in on your Chromecast party. In addition to accessing Google’s streaming stick via an onscreen PIN code, friends can pair their devices to your living room entertainment setup via inaudible ultrasonic frequencies. Apparently, all one needs to do to enable this is allow the Chromecast to support nearby devices, and it’ll push the necessary tones through your flat-screen’s speakers, which said gizmos will receive and sync with. If it sounds simple, that’s the whole point. As Gigaom tells it, Chromecast engineering manager John Affaki says that this is an effort to make using the HDMI dongle in a social setting much easier. Whether you can trust friends enough for them to not stealth-add Slayer’s “Angel of Death” to the next party playlist is up to you, though.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Mobile, Google
Via: 9to5Google
Source: Gigaom
Google I/O Extended, a great experience for a fraction of the price
While we all wish we could go to Google I/O in San Francisco to see it in person and score some awesome swag, it’s not possible with the limited number of tickets and high cost.
In past years, I was joining just about everyone that couldn’t make it to the event while streaming it from home, but this year I had the opportunity to attend two Google I/O Extended events, one in Denver and one in Boulder. The events were just two of the hundreds all around the world and were essentially a streaming event with food, prizes and more.
The first that I went to was the Denver event, where I watched the keynote from and it was setup by a group of people, including Mark Scheel, a Denver-based developer who founded and is the president of Digital Construction, a software consultancy. Scheel is also the Android Platform Lead at a successful Denver area app company, whose primary product is a medical consumer app that will pass 5 million Android downloads from the Google Play store in 2014 and he wrote the book “Software Development for Google Glass.”
Scheel said Tuesday that about 70 people registered for Google I/O Extended Denver. Tickets were sold for between $10 and $20, depending on when you bought them.
“Last year I went to the I/O Extended event in San Francisco and saw what a cool event it was. I was really surprised with the excitement for it. We sold out way ahead of time.”
Separating itself from the others, the Denver event also had a semi-working Android Wear device. Scheel said they were “pretty confident” they were the only I/O Extended event in the country with an actual Wear device. The device was a smartwatch imported from China that was hacked to run the SDK.preview.
Google I/O Extended Denver included two guest speakers, Dan Ambrisco who talked about the Android Wear SDK and Therese Pocrnick, who presented “Confessions of an Agile Coach.” Ambrisco not only talked about how to get the SDK up and running, but also about how apps should be designed for Android Wear devices and showed off a Wearable Speedometer smartwatch app.
With the hacked Android Wear device, Ambrisco was able to show off how to navigate around the IU, but said it couldn’t do much else.
Along with live streaming of the I/O and the presentations, there was also breakfast and lunch for all attendees, including local soda and craft beer, and a raffle to chance off a Chromebook, Sphero robotic balls, Chromecasts, $500 Google Cloud credit, t-shirts, water bottles, signed Google Glass books and more.
Among the many sponsors for the event were iTriage, GDG Northern Colorado and Google.
In the afternoon, I headed back to Boulder (where I live) and was able to check out Google I/O Extended Boulder. This free event, which required a ticket through Eventbrite, was held at the Google Boulder office and kicked off around 9 a.m. While it was primarily a streaming event as well, there were also tours of the office given and some quizzes that attendees could take to win prizes. The prizes were similar to those seen at the Denver event and included a Chromebook, Chromecast, Nexus 7 and a Google messenger bag filled with other goodies. Breakfast and lunch were provided as well as some appetizers and drinks at an evening reception where attendees could meet some Googlers.
All attendees at Google I/O Extended Boulder received swag before leaving – a t-shirt, Google Play credit and a 5,200mAh power bank.
Overall, it was an enjoyable day and if you ever get the chance to attend an I/O Extended event if you can’t make it to San Francisco, it’s definitely a worthwhile experience.
Check out video below of the speakers. I apologize that it’s not the best quality and part of the second speaker got cut off.
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YouTube is upgrading to 60fps, adding a tip jar for donations and much more
YouTube is about to get a whole lot better, with a slew of new features freshly announced at this year’s VidCon. Google’s video wing will soon get support for clips running at 48-and-60 frames-per-second, which should be perfect for video game footage that you’ve captured an uploaded from your PlayStation 4 in addition to those 1080p60 game trailers that are quickly becoming the norm. You’ll have to make sure 1080p resolution is selected to get the benefit of the higher frame-rate, naturally, and we’ve embedded a sample after the break. Customizable and, as the YouTube Creators blog post tells it, prettier-looking annotation cards as well as some new tools that your fans can use are en route, too. What are those? Well, viewers will soon be able to drop you a few bucks here and there so you don’t have to rely on ad revenue alone.
Also, if you don’t, say, speak Polish but a large chunk of your viewership is in the land of kielbasa and pirogi, foreign-language-fans can submit their own translations based on the captions or subtitles that you’ve made. What’s more, the YouTube Creator Studio mobile app is out now for Android, and it gives access to analytics data including real-time estimated views. Apple fans will have to wait a “week or two,” according to the YouTube Creators Twitter account.
That’s not all, either, folks. To make adding a soundtrack to your magnum opus a little easier, YouTube is also providing some 7,500 royalty-free sound effects and background music tracks too and they’re available right this instant. It seems like the only thing that could hold anyone back from internet-video stardom now is, well, themselves.
60 FPS: Motion-intense videos will look even better on @YouTube when we launch support for 48 and even 60 frames per second, coming soon.
– YouTube Creators (@YTCreators) June 27, 2014
[Image credit: AFP/Getty]
Filed under: Internet, HD, Mobile, Google
Source: YouTube Creators (1) (Twitter), (2), Google Play
DARPA’s top robotics challenge contender to become a commercial Google robot
The S-One humanoid robot, which completely dominated DARPA’s Robotics Challenge trials in December, has been pulled out of the $2 million competition… and it’s not exactly surprising. You see, S-One was created by Japanese team SCHAFT, one of the robotics companies Google acquired last year, and Mountain View said long ago that it’s not interested in pursuing military contracts. While S-One’s withdrawal means we won’t be seeing it go through the agency’s rigorous challenges anymore, it does come with a very exciting news. According to DARPA Product Manager Gill Pratt, the SCHAFT team ultimately decided to bow out not only because it doesn’t need funding anymore, but also because it wants to focus on building a commercial product. In other words: a Google robot that people (most likely huge corporations, governments and the obscenely wealthy) can buy.
Before you start making plans to sell your house for one, though, know that the S-One isn’t a mind-controlled pugilist or something you can ride in. Like the other contenders in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, the biped was designed to function as a first responder in times of disaster, such as 9/11 or the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Sadly, Google hasn’t provided more details about the retail product yet, but the video below should show you S-One’s capabilities.
Which Boston Dynamics robot do you want to see on the market first?
Source: Re/code
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