Google is considering designing its own server processors using technology from ARM, said a source with knowledge of the matter, a move that could threaten Intel’s market dominance.
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Now iOS users can control Google Glass remotely with MyGlass companion app (update)
For a while there, Google’s Glass was really only for the Android population since the eyewear required compatible devices running the MyGlass app for activation and the full suite of features.
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New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login)
“Steve Gibson has proposed a new standard method for website authentication. The SQRL system (pronounced ‘squirrel’) eliminates problems inherent in traditional login techniques. The website’s login presents a QR code containing the URL of its authentication service, plus a nonce. The user’s smartphone signs the login URL using a private key derived from its master secret and the URL’s domain name. The Smartphone sends the matching public key to identify the user, and the signature to authenticate it. It may be used alongside of traditional username/password to ease adoption.”
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Your car is about to go open source
Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.
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Telstra/AFL launch Google Glass app
The Australian Football League, its partner Telstra, and local developer Seventh Beam have teamed up to deliver an app running on Google’s next-generation Glass augmented reality headset that will allow AFL fans to get live information associated with AFL matches — all through their headset.
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Google tackles immortality with launch of health company Calico
Google is looking for the Fountain of Youth in its latest expansion beyond internet search.
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Code By Voice Faster Than Keyboard
Is it possible that we have been wasting our time typing programs. Could voice recognition, with a little help from an invented spoken language, be the solution we didn’t know we needed?
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Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub
Critics have been pounding GitHub recently, claiming it is hosting tons of code with no explicit software license.
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Discovery could boost internet bandwidth
A new fibre optic technology could increase internet bandwidth capacity by sending data along light beams that twist like a tornado rather than move in a straight line.