Posts Tagged ‘google’

Google: Project Shield

Project Shield is an initiative to use Google’s infrastructure to protect free expression online. The service currently combines Google’s DDoS mitigation technologies and Page Speed Service (PSS), which allow websites to serve their content through Google to be better protected from DDoS attacks.

Project Shield is currently invite-only, and seeking additional “trusted testers”. Organizations with sites serving media, elections and human rights related content are invited to apply using the form here.

New Google Maps looks just amazing!

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The new Google Maps draws you a tailored map for every search and click you make. So whatever you’re trying to find or wherever you’re trying to go, you’ll always have a map highlighting the things that matter most.

Shader Toy + Google Map + Panoramic Explorer

Street View is Awesome! We can go so many places! But can we see more? YES!

Tallinn:

New York:

More interesting places:

  1. Shibuya
  2. Heliopolis
  3. Construction in Hong Kong
  4. Admiralty, Hong Kong
  5. LA 110 Freeway
  6. SF Chinatown
  7. NYC Zuccotti Park
  8. Arashiyama, Kyoto
  9. Taipei 101
  10. Minamisanriku
  11. Akihabara
  12. Daibutsu, Nara
  13. Leake St, London
  14. Setenil de las Bodegas

Chrome Experiments : Generative Machines

Random generated machines from Google Data Arts Team.

From the Author:

This experiment generates machines inspired by exploding view diagrams.
Note: press “Shift-Click” to move diagrams.

Technology:
WebGL with THREE.js by Ricardo Cabello, TWEEN.js by Soledad Penadés for animation, THREEx keyboard script by Jerome Etienne, and dat.gui by Google Data Arts Team.

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Nexus 7

Nexus 7: powerful, portable and designed for Google Play

All of this great Google Play content comes to life on Nexus 7, a powerful new tablet with a vibrant, 7” 1280×800 HD display. The Tegra-3 chipset, with a quad-core CPU and 12-core GPU, makes everything, including games, extremely fast. And best of all, it’s only 340 grams, lighter than most tablets out there. Nexus 7 was built to bring you the best of Google in the palm of your hand. Hang out with up to 10 friends on Google+ using the front-facing camera, browse the web blazingly fast with Chrome and, of course, crank through your emails with Gmail.

Nexus Q

Nexus Q: It’s a sphere!

It’s great to be able to take your entertainment with you wherever you go, but sometimes you want to ditch the headphones and enjoy music with friends and family. So we’re introducing Nexus Q, which combines the power of Android and Google Play to easily stream music and video in your home—all controlled by an Android phone or tablet. Designed and engineered by Google, Nexus Q is a small sphere that plugs into the best speakers and TV in your house. It’s the first-ever social streaming device—like a cloud-connected jukebox where everyone brings their own music to the party. Available first in the U.S., you can preorder Nexus Q today from Google Play for $299, and it will ship mid-July.

Introducing Google Drive… yes, finally!

With Google Drive, you can:

You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB.

Get started with Drive today at drive.google.com/start — and keep looking for Nessie…

Google Dtive available for download for Mac and PC.

Project Google Glass

Google unveiled a YouTube video teasing its augmented reality eyeglasses, a pair of spectacles that interacts with what you’re seeing and acts as a smartphone, day planner, turn-by-turn navigation system, camera and more.

For up-to-the-minute information on the new specs, you can follow Project Glass and its major players on Google+

Introducing Google Play

Now your favorite music, books, movies, apps, and games are all in one place that’s accessible from the Web and any Android device. Discover, buy and share like never before.

Learn more at play.google.com

Google Sesame

Sesame – new awesome feature from google.

Go to the link, use your phone to scan the QRcode on the page and hit the resultant url – the desktop browser will automagically redirect to your logged-in gmail without entering your password. You are in!

We constantly experiment with new and more secure authentication mechanisms, and it looks like you found one of our experiments. Note that this feature is not officially supported and may go away at any time – we’re already working on something better.
Dirk Balfanz, Google Security Team.

Best solution for public/unsecure workstation. Go Google!