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The Verge has produced a fantastic seven and a half minute video explaining the new Google Hangouts, featuring actual Google employees. I recommend you watch that, because what I’m about to say is going to be all negative from here on out. First, Google Hangouts is Project Babel. The company was tired of having Google Talk, Google Hangouts (old version), Google+ Messanger, Google Voice, and a myriad of other services....

Google Lens Rolled out on Desktop with OCR Support As of now, Google Lens lets the user to copy texts from an image via optical character recognition (OCR). It works like this, go to Goole Photos on your desktop and open any image that has text on it, there at the top left corner you will see an option of “Copy text from image” with a logo of google Lens. Click on this option and the image starts analyzing what’s on Android....

Note 7 was undoubtedly the only good option until Google’s Pixel arrived and the withdrawal of Galaxy Note 7 from market somehow boosted the sale of Google Pixel in Android market. If we talk about Apple products, then iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are the fastest and most powerful smartphones in the world. On the other hand, Google launched its first self-branded smartphones earlier this month and the Pixel series are in direct competition with Apple’s latest iPhone models....

The Speed Reading Mastery Bundle helps you escape the slow lane, with six video courses that teach proven techniques. The training also looks at the psychological tricks that allow memory experts to retain information faster. The courses are worth $1,200, but Komando.com readers can get the bundle now for only $21 for a limited time. Double your reading speed Every child learns to read a little differently. During this process, some of us pick up bad habits....

In total, there is five processors have been launched, although it is possible that before the release date we may know more models like the possible 3950X with 16-core, and the rest of the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 of which nothing has been shown yet. Here’s The World’s First 7nm High-Performance CPU For PCs Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., of course, AMD which is an American multinational semiconductor company has recently, presented at the Computex 2019 its expected processors of the Ryzen 3000 series with architecture Zen 2 of 7nm....

Just the equipment can be rather intimidating and the apps expensive and, for some, difficult to learn and use. Still, if they weren’t so pricey, more of us would likely at least give it a shot. One of the better editors out there is DaVinci Resolve 15, which was released recently and can very much compete with more known programs produced by Adobe or Apple. The full version is pricey, yes, but that’s not the only one you can have....

ong with otos’ new sharing abilities, is also adding new features to YouTube, Calendar, Keep to help you stay in the loop. A new Family Group option will let you easily send things like shopping lists, important appointments, , of course, photos, with the people who need them most. Family-centric groups aren’t new to —we’ve seen them in action inside the ay store ay Music app—but now it’s coming to more services....

Rumors have been swirling for quite some time that Google is planning to launch two slightly less expensive Pixel 3 variants at some point this year. For quite some time, those devices were rumored to be called the “Pixel 3 Lite” and “Pixel 3 XL Lite”. However, more recently, there have been suggestions that Google would go with “Pixel 3a” and “Pixel 3a XL” instead. A pair of reports this week seems to not only confirm the naming schemes, but also the price points and even potentially new colors....

Google unveiled the Pixel Visual Core co-processor in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones last October, which uses an HDR+ algorithm and machine learning to try and boost image quality. The feature went live with Android 8.1 Oreo for both of Google’s smartphones, but it was tied to the stock camera. Which meant if you used the built-in camera feature in third-party apps like Snapchat and Instagram, the Pixel Visual Core’s features wouldn’t kick in....

Google Fiber, which has been available in parts of the US since 2012, wooed customers with the promise of one gigabit speeds that US incumbents like Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT&T could not match. This forced incumbents to boost speeds in areas where Google Fiber was available, but its coverage was limited and remained stagnant for five years until last month, when it revealed plans to expand to five more states....

We’ve seen ASUS trying its luck with smartphone and tablet hybrids like the PadFone. And we’re now hearing of Google launching something similar but with a laptop instead of a tablet. That’s exactly what a patent application from February suggests with plans to launch a laptop with a smartphone built into it. The smartphone will be detachable apparently, much like the ASUS Padfone. And it is possible that we’ll see a mix between Android and Chrome OS....

On the Home, Google offers a swappable lower bottom so you can choose the one that suits your home décor. The device also doubles up as a full-fledged wireless speaker and lets the users access music from various streaming services. Google Assistant has been amusing so far, the contextual approach and the way it links up with the Google Knowledge graph are laudable. It is capable of comprehending queries like “OK Google, Play that Shakira song from Zootopia” and figure out the title of the song all by itself and play the same....

We completely forgot the tech giant Google’s Google Wallet and the most recent Android Pay, as from now all these services will simply come under the one brand or name, as we already mentioned earlier, which will be known as Google Pay. However, at least for the moment, it absolutely changes nothing. From the tech giant Google side, they have announced the release of its Google Pay brand that now includes all its electronic payment services, and thereby also announces the death of Google Wallet and Android Pay....

The D-Wave 2X Quantum computer is being developed and experimented on at U.S. Space Agency ‘Ames Research Centre in Mountain View, California; as per the result of several experiments, Google declared it the world’s most powerful computer ever, which is 100 million faster than the regular computer, it is pretty controversial from the past year about D-Wave System that how they are secret without noticing they developing a giant system for computing the complex physics which could take years to solve but with the help of this new D-Wave System it will take seconds to solve much more complicated and complex problems....

For anyone that wishes they could easily connect to a Wi-Fi network to avoid using a terrible cellular connection, or simply to avoid using their data as often, Wi-Fi Assistant is a feature that would certainly help. Unfortunately for anyone that hasn’t been using Project Fi, Wi-Fi Assistant has been out of reach. That is, until now. Google has officially announced that it is bringing the feature to all Nexus users –anyone that’s using a Nexus device running Android 5....

The static password is the most popular authentication method. It’s also the least secure one. This article describes how static passwords can be attacked and protected. It also presents zero knowledge proof, which can be used to get rid of the static passwords. 2. Authentication When the user wants to get access to the system, he typically enters username (identification) and static password (authentication). The authentication can be related with something the user:...

Find out what are, after all, the models of the processors affected by Spectre and Meltdown security flaw or vulnerability. Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities! What is the danger? Both allow hackers to access sensitive information by accessing the device’s base memory. The first vulnerability, Meltdown, successfully removes the barrier between user applications and sensitive parts of the operating system. The second vulnerability, Spectre which is also found on AMD and ARM chips could make more vulnerable applications publish the contents of their memory....

The cost of being placed as the most targeted sector for cyber security incidents has been identified by the Ponemon Institute (3) with estimates of healthcare data breaches across the industry costing around $6.2 billion. The same study also identified the average cost of a data breach as being $2.2 million (4). Further studies by the Ponemon Institute, including one on privacy and security of healthcare data, found that almost 90% of healthcare organizations had suffered a data breach in the last two years, and around 45% have had five or more breaches....

In the fifth edition of the “State of Sales” report, Salesforce Research surveyed more than 7,700 sales professionals worldwide to discover how sales organizations are maximizing value amid economic headwinds, meeting changing buyer expectations more efficiently, leaning more into sales operations as a strategic partner in business success and using enablement tactics to turn all reps into MVPs. Here are four key findings of the report: The new sales mantra: maximizing impact....

Most OEMs have now started shipping their Android devices with a hidden service or diagnostic menu. Samsung, for example, includes a diagnostic menu on the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge and the Galaxy S5. While hidden, a diagnostic/service menu provides a great way to check if the different hardware features of the phone are working properly or not. LG also includes a hidden service menu on its devices including on the G3 and the G4....