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Google has been exploring all avenues of making Google Glass a daily necessity for the user in its next version after halting its sales in January this year and a major move in the direction was obtaining a dance app that can help guide newcomers on how to dance to any tune online. Google patent application for the feature shows ...

  If you open your Inbox in Gmail, another noticeable new invention is that a new floating action button in blue to create reminders will pop up for many users and the new FAB is in beta stage from Google indicating that the tech giant is rolling out another feature.   Finding it against the vowed principles or guidelines of Google ...

How about building your own virtual assistant with an open-source computing system using your voice the way Apple’s Siri is designed? A new generation of “intelligent personal assistants” for wearables and other devices can be made custom-ready with additional advancements in the datacenter infrastructure to support them, according to researchers. Sirius, built by University of Michigan engineering researchers, is similar ...

A team of engineers at Google is reportedly working to build a version of the Android operating system to power virtual-reality applications. The move comes on the heels of Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR. Wall Street Journal quoted “two people familiar with the project” as saying that Google has “tens of engineers” and other staff working on the ...

Heeding the Indian authorities request following a court order, Google said it has complied with it and removed the links to the Youtube video links to BBC film ‘India’s Daughter’ that specifies the victim’s name and also carries some offensive comments made by one of the convicts from inside the jail. The interview with Mukesh Singh, one of the convicts ...

Google said it will help Indian government’s new initiative MyGov, the citizen engagement platform. Google will partners with MyGov to launcha country-wide contest to build a mobile app for the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). “Google will partner MyGov in this contest to build the PMO mobile app. The contest will launch tomorrow at 5 p.m. on MyGov.in,” the statement said. ...

By N. Sridhar Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday woke up the IT fraternity with his clarion call for something like Google to happen out of India. He said innovations in areas like cyber security, innovation, connecting the nation, better use of social media, and cloud would bring down the digital divide but why not in a simple daily requirement ...

Google has been awarded a patent for a “fragrance emission device” that can be worn inside the dress to keep the bad odor of the body under control or send out fragrance for people nearby. But, more than that Google is actually goggling at detecting a user’s location, surroundings and his need to locate or ward off friends and enemies. ...

India with more than 300 million Internet users is emerging as the most sought-after destination for global tech giants like Facebook who announced Internet.org in India recently and not far behind, Google has decided to set up its ballong-based Loon project in India to access the remote and rural areas within the ambit of the connected world. Media reports said ...

ISRO will be launching its next rocket launch with Google’s Sky Box Imaging satellite, for the first time a US satellite on its launch vehicle. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching Google’s satellite for GPS maps from its launchpad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix corporation has signed a contract with Google-owned Skybox to ...