Category: Google

A Tour of Intramuros Without Leaving Your Couch

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During the local debut of Street View, Google Philippines and the Department of Tourism showcased one of their first project; a Virtual Tour of Intramuros.

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The Virtual Tour offers a 360-degree view of some of the popular destinations inside the once walled city at the heart of Manila.

Here are some of the shots taken using the Google Street View Trekker (Feel free to navigate through each of the pic):

According to Google Philippines, Intramuros is just the first of many tourist destinations that they plan to include in their Street View database. In our opinion, this kind of initiative from Google and DoT will certainly increase the tourism growth in the country.

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Google’s new acquisition DeepMind costs $400M

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Google has been purchasing a lot of companies recently and the newest one is DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company.


DeepMind, as described in their landing page, “is a cutting edge artificial intelligence company. We combine the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms.”

The purpose of the acquisition is to fill in more AI experts to Google. It was reported that it was even led by Google’s CEO himself, Larry Page. December last year, Google also hired Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist, as director of engineering focused on language processing and machine learning.

Google is not the only major company who is working on AI that actually learns and thinks for itself. Facebook, Yahoo, and IBM with its Watson supercomputer is also reported to be working on their own.

DeepMind was founded by neuroscientist Demis Hassabis, Skype and Kaaza developer Jaan Tallin and researcher Shane Legg.

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Search ‘Doge Meme’ in YouTube to go Comic Sans mode

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Google enjoys planting Easter Eggs into their products, and if you’re really good at finding them, they might amuse you even by a little bit. There’s Google Now’s Barrel Roll, YouTube’s Harlem Shake and now, the much very wow internet sensation doge is hiding in YouTube coding and design.

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It’s been there for quite sometime now. Just type in “doge meme” in the YouTube search bar and it will immediately bring you to the search results with a little twist; everything will be in such color and Comic Sans font styles, and it will stay that way until you leave YouTube and reenter it again. Nothing new in functionality though, but we just thought about sharing it with everyone for those not familiar with it yet, especially with all the doge craze around right now.

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Doge has been attracting a lot of attention lately – there’s the digital currency Dogecoin and there’s this. Very creativity. Such Successful. Wow.

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Google Now for desktop Chrome in beta

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Google Now, Google’s personal card-style assistant, is pushing its way into your desktops.


As of now, Google Now for desktop is accessible within Chrome Canary. That is a beta version of Chrome aimed for developers and to those who want to be early adopters of new features. It could be unstable but it is updated daily. It can run alongside with a stable version of Google Chrome.

If you want to try, you may download Chrome Canary for your Windows and Mac PCs. And then:
- Go to chrome://flags/#enable-google-now
- Switch from “Default” to “Enabled”
- Click “Relaunch Now” at the bottom of the page to restart the browser.

Google Now cards are displayed by the Chrome’s notification interface in the Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar with a bell icon. Make sure to sign in to your Chrome browser in order to use Google Now. Available cards include weather, sports scores, traffic details, and event reminders. If you use Google Now on a mobile device, these cards might be based on your mobile’s location. If you use multiple devices with Google Now, each device’s location must be managed independently.

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A smart contact lens for diabetes by Google X

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Google X, the secret facility division of Google that is behind the Google Loon, the self-driving car and the now-released Google Glass, is now working on a new announced project.

People with diabetes is the big beneficiary of the new project Google X is working on. A contact lens that can read glucose levels with the use of tears. The said smart contact lens is made up of a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor. The two are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material.

Early prototypes is said to perform a reading once per second. Aside from these, tiny LED lights could be integrated to serve as a early warning mechanism if sugar levels are too high or too low.

Google will be partnering will experts to make the smart contact lens available to consumers. A dedicated app shall also be developed for user and doctor readings.

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