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Google’s internet balloons can stay aloft for 100 days thanks to fluffy socks

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As reported on Engadget. by Steve Dent While some high profile Google projects (*cough Glass*) have been withering on the vine,Project Loon is a bright spot and even has a carrier partner. Mountain View says it can now autofill the internet-enabling, weather-tracking balloons in five minutes and launch up to 20 a day. They also last up to ten times longer than early versions, letting them stay in the stratosphere for over 100 days. Google…

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Google banks on its own tech to protect Chrome users from another Heartbleed

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Last month Google said that it was tired of mashed-together bug fixes for OpenSSL and decided to create its own fork called BoringSSL. It has now implemented that variant in thelatest Chromium build, the open-source software that eventually arrives in Chrome. OpenSSL is software used for secure connections — created largely by volunteers — and an overlooked code problem recently caused the infamous Heartbleed bug. When BoringSSL was first announced, there was some grumbling from…

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Google, Microsoft and Instagram rush to fix Flash flaw that could steal your data

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT  Yet another critical security flaw has been found for Adobe’s notoriously sieve-like Flash plug-in, this time by Google Engineer Michele Spagnuolo. His exploit tool, called “Rosetta Flash” is just a proof of concept, but could allow hackers to steal your cookies and other data using malicious Flash .SWF files. The exploit is well known in the security community, but had been left unfixed until now as nobody had found a way to harness it for…

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Google Introduces Android TV, Its New Platform For Smart TV Apps And Navigation

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ryan Lawler Google has spent many years trying to find its way onto the biggest screen in the house. Today at its I/O developer conference, the the company introduced yet another product that it hopes will accomplish that goal — a new Android TV operating system. Contrary to reports, Android TV isn’t a set-top box like Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV, but a software system that will be embedded into the smart…

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Google will keep absolute control over the the look and feel of Android Wear

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch OEMs can’t change the design of Android Auto and Android TV either Companies that make Android Wear, Android Auto, and Android TV products won’t be allowed to dramatically alter the design and user experience of Google’s latest software. Somecustomization will be permitted; they’ll be able to add custom apps, services, and other small touches, but changing up the overall look and feel is expressly forbidden. “The UI is more…

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Google Revises Glass With More RAM The Day Before I/O

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak Well, the timing is nothing if not interesting: one day before its I/O keynote, Google has just given the Glass hardware a small hardware upgrade. Without much fanfare, Google has quietly bumped the memory in newly shipped Glass units up from 682MB to a full 2GB. That gives Google (and Glass developers, for that matter) roughly 3x as much memory to play with. With I/O starting tomorrow, it’s more than reasonable to…

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People Are Going To Dress Up Like Star Wars Characters In SF Tomorrow To Protest Google

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm No one protests like San Francisco. The scene: Tomorrow, outside of Google’s I/O conference, an assemblage of protestors will dress up like Star Wars characters to decry Google and the economic impact of the technology industry. The goal, the group told TechCrunch in an email, is to highlight rising income inequality in San Francisco, a city now infamous for its spiraling rents. Google has become a symbol for the rapid…

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Google Glass Frames By Diane Von Furstenberg Now On Sale In The U.S.

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Google has new frames available for Glass buyers, and they’re specially designed by Diane von Furstenberg. These are the chicest Google Glass frames you can buy, for the time being, and they come in multiple sunglass tints, plus a single pair of optical frames in different colors. The designs are all Glass compatible, but you can also get Glass in a bundle with one pair of the sunglasses and one…

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Google reportedly wants in on Virgin Galactic’s space business

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN Fresh from its $500 million acquisition of satellite imaging specialist Skybox, Google appears to be ready to make another space-related investment. Sky News reports that the search giant is in advanced talks to take a minority stake in Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic business with a view to getting its internet satellite project off the ground. Google may invest around $30 million into the company, which is set to begin commercial flights to space later this year, forming a…

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Google Plans To Launch An Easy-To-Use Chrome Plug-In For Email Encryption Soon

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Frederic Lardinois Google today announced that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the OpenPGP email encryption standard. Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairly technical and can get extensions likeMailvelope to work for you, using Gmail — or any other popular email service — with…

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