The technological giant Google is penetrating every pore of computing and their latest "victim" is wireless routers. Recently, Google (or is it now Alphabet?) introduced an advanced wireless router for idiots, OnHub, equipped with 13 antennas of 2.4 GHz frequency (12 of which transmit the signal and one receives) and a data transfer speed of up to 1900 MB per second. Aesthetically perfect, it is intended for more demanding environments.
On paper, it pays to cover the roof with solar cells. Namely, this reduces the electricity bill, and can even bring income. But first you have to think about the costs, because photovoltaics are not cheap, and even before that you have to ask yourself whether your roof has solar potential at all. Getting a professional opinion on whether it's worth installing solar panels on your house can really hit your wallet, especially if the answer is 'no'. As with many things, Google now also has an answer to the question of whether your roof is suitable for a solar power plant.
Vacations are slowly coming to an end, which means that many of you are returning home with full "batteries", and especially with full memory cards due to the abundance of photos taken. There must have been several hundred of them. The days when we went to the photo studio and developed them are long gone, now we move most of them to the computer. Digital photography has completely changed the way we perceive memories. We used to put pictures in albums, today they are drowning unmarked in files on the computer. Therefore, we suggest that you consider the Google Photos application, where your photos will be automatically uploaded, sorted and tagged.
What would Google look like if it had been invented in the 80s? This is the question that puzzled the Australian company Mass:werk, who made a working vintage version of Google based on the technology that was available at the time. Are you curious about what browsing Google would have looked like thirty years ago? Check it out for yourself.
Have you ever had one of those days when you hoped you wouldn't run into anyone you know at a store or bar, or you really didn't feel like waiting in line? Hand in hand, when did you have it? And what does this have to do with Google? Everything. Google now provides us with information about store or bar visit statistics, so you can check the most popular times, i.e. when it is usually the busiest and when is the best time to go shopping, visit the gym or read the newspaper while sipping coffee.
Gone are the days of trying to come up with a convincing excuse for sending an email that wasn't quite ready to be sent. Now you can use the official "Undo Send" function in Gmail or "Cancel sending" cancels the sent e-mail. We have exactly 30 seconds.
Google recently added a new tool called Which Phone to help us find the Android phone for us amidst the flood of phones. The tool asks us to choose three activities for which we most often use our phone and determine how often we use it for that. Then Google "thinks" a bit and offers a choice of three mobile phones and links to online stores.
Google launched the next version of Android these days. At the annual developer conference Google I/O 2015, they presented Android M, which brings many new functions and successful improvements. Android M focuses on improving software stability and usability.
In times when we capture photos and videos like crazy and in high resolutions, it quickly happens that we run out of available space on the memory of the mobile device, because these are extremely space-hungry and smartphones or tablets quickly burst at the seams. That's why we resort to cloud services, where even free space dries up quickly. Google consigns such issues to the dustbin of history with the Google Photos app, which offers unlimited photo and video storage.
The company GoPro, which is famous for its action cameras, is not resting on its laurels, as it is diligently expanding its "vehicle fleet". After recently announcing the arrival of their own drones equipped with GoPro camera technology, which is actually just a response to the competition, together with Google they are plowing the field in the field of virtual reality. At the I/O 2015 conference, Google announced the arrival of a platform for sharing virtual reality content in 3D, and the company GoPro will be of great help to it.
At its recent I/O conference, Google revealed a bunch of interesting innovations with which it wants to push the boundaries of technology. Their Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) department served us with new "James Bond" devices, among which we were particularly impressed by the Soli project. As part of the project, a device is created, but it is not a smart device. This is you. It is a special sensor that recognizes and applies the user's gestures.
The visionary and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who was hired by Google several years ago, often bombards us with provocative but often accurate predictions, such as that a computer will beat a human at chess (it already happened) and that we will be surrounded by autonomous vehicles vehicles (already happening). It is also known for the theory of singularity, a concept that futurists like Kurzweil use to explain the development of the world from the point of view of technological development.