Project Ara, the Google adds Tegra K1 and Marvell Processors

Project Ara, the Google adds Tegra K1 and Marvell Processors

The modular smartphone which you can build yourself with that hardware you want, is long in Google's plans. Some months ago when it announced that Rockchip will be one of the companies that produce processors for Project Ara, and now announced its official partnership with two more, the Marvell and Nvidia.

The Google and Quanta, which is working to build the hardware, created two separate prototypes. One is based on Marvel PXA1928 processor and the other uses the Tegra K1 of Nvidia, which indeed we saw at this year's Nexus 9 tablet that HTC is made on behalf of Google. Unfortunately, Google does not show us any of the two yet.

To say that the idea of modular telephone born from Motorola and Phonebloks, then passed into the hands of Google when in 2012 acquired Motorola Mobility in 2012. Next month we expect announcements from Google about the progress of the Project Ara, but and when sales will begin. The aim is to keep low the price of materials and the basic model around 50-100 dollars.

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Vsenn, aspiring competitor Project Ara

The ambitious project of Google for flip phone that can be customized as you want the hardware is certainly the most interesting project we have seen in recent years. Unsurprisingly but once notified the Project Ara will inspire others to try to compete and to copy.

Vsenn, aspiring competitor Project Ara

The first attempt comes from a new company called Vsenn which has co-founded by former Product Manager of Nokia X. On the official site of Vsenn see that the new project will be more limited than the Project Ara as you can swap the camera, battery and CPU / RAM. Also, to run smoothly and promptly gets updates for the next four years, will run pure Vanilla Android.

As for the security of personal data, the Vsenn promises strict confidentiality with «triple layer encryption» and secure Cloud. Finally, in terms of design will be back cover which will change according to the preferences of each one.

Although not fully customizable like Project Ara that you can change everything from the screen to the camera, it will be interesting to see Vsenn allow changing some basic modules even what he has accomplished in terms of design.

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Project Ara app, Build Your Own Modular Smartphone

Project Ara app, Build Your Own Modular Smartphone

The Project Ara is the most ambitious project on which he worked for a long time Google, today announced the first commercially available modular smartphone called Spiral 2. He also announced that by the end of 2015 will be available approximately 30 modules of which will can you choose what you want and make your own ideal mobile.

Along with the Spiral 2 will release a special application, Project Ara Configurator which will help design the mobile you want, before you buy. You can see that it is the design of before getting your hands on, but it will look like when for example you decide that you want to change a bit as the camera. It is something like MotoMaker app, but only stays in color, design and capacity. You can choose from CPU, camera, speakers and screen up.

The release is expected in 2015 with the modular Spiral 2, and it will definitely be something very interesting.

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Project Ara Spiral 2 Prototype

Google announced that Spiral 2 will be the first commercially available modular smartphone derived from the research and development center of Project Ara aimed at creating a new class of electronic devices with detachable parts that the user chooses what to incorporate (eg another camera).

The main trunk of the Project Ara Spiral 2 consists of screen HD, Marvell PXA1928 processors and NVIDIA Tegra K1, Camera 5 Megapixel, battery and speaker, also light and proximity sensors, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G modem and microUSB port.

With its release, the Spiral 2 will be available 11 individual modules while towards the end of this year will increase to 20 to 30. The next Spiral 3 (shown in the first photo) is 4G and according to Google will not has nothing to envy from a hi-end smartphone.

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The Google rents airbase of NASA

In order to extend the exploration of space and robotics, Google will pay to NASA 1,6 bn. Dollars to hire a historic airbase near the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Management of Federal Airport "Mofet ', an area of four million acres on the peninsula of San Francisco, passed on 60 years in Planetary Ventures, a mysterious company owned by Google.

Little is known about its activities, although according to some reports, the company is active in the real estate market.

Google has not revealed how it intends to use the facility, but according to NASA, the space will be used for "research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, robotics and other emerging technologies.

The two founders of Google, Larry Paige and Sergey Brin, are known to be concerned about issues of aviation and Space Administration, and recently acquired companies were robotic and satellite technology.

Under the agreement, the Planetary Ventures will take to restore the "Hangar One" of the airport, a giant structure that dates back to 1933 and has been declared a historic and listed. A total of $ 200 million will go towards the restoration of Hangar One and two other similar structures.

The Federal Airport "Mofet" was used by the US Navy before going to the Ames Research Center of NASA.

Already used for landing private aircraft carrying top executives of Google.

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Google ads with malware! million computers with malicious software

Google ads with malware! Yes you read that right. Yesterday evening, researchers Malwarebytes noticed a strange behavior on sites like Last.fm, The Times of Israel and the newspaper Jerusalem Post. The ads served these websites were unusually aggressive, causing warnings from anti-virus systems and Malwarebytes. 

After much research, the security researcher Jerome Segura realized that the problem stems from the ad networks of Google, DoubleClick and popular Zedo. Both networks promoted malicious ads that are designed to distribute Zemot malware. A Google spokesman confirmed the problem, saying: "Our team is aware of the problem and has taken the necessary to eliminate it." 

The Malware served by ad networks (or «malvertising») is nothing new, but this incident is noteworthy because of the unusually wide range of attack. 

"He was active, but not visible for several weeks until we started to see popular sites to" fly »flags on our honeypots," says Segura. 

"Then we thought, that something is happening." Early indications came in late August, and today millions of computers likely to have been exposed to Zemot, and people with antivirus is not updated at risk. "

The Zemot focuses on computers with Windows XP, although it can also infect and modern operating systems that run on x86 and 64bit. The Zemot designed to bypass the security of a system before infecting with additional malware. 

"Even though there were only 5% of vulnerable systems," says Segura «expect a very large number of infections."

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The Google does not force any more new users to Google+ account

Google is changing little things these days will probably make new users, happy. Those who open a new account in Gmail will not longer have to also create Google + account. 

The option is there, but Google continues to invite new users to create a profile on Google +, which will "help make Google better for all, contributing to reviews on YouTube, and ratings for apps, books, movies Play Store ». But now the company will not cause those who only want the Gmail service to hurry and create an account at Google Plus, according to a publication of the Marketing Land. 

You can click "Create Profile" or select "No, thanks" to proceed without Google + account. 

Until now, those who wanted to use only Gmail completely "democratic" had to obtain a social network of Google. 

The move comes after an attempt by Google to separate users of Google + users of other products. For example, not long ago, the news that YouTube will only accept comments that are supported by a Google + account caused quite a stir and the reactions of users. 

It seems, however, that the dedication of Google for Google + network rather fade. The company came late in the game of social media and really does not offer a product that will make users leave Facebook or Twitter. 

Mr. Vic Gundotra, head of Google+ had created and lead the social networking site from the beginning, chose to leave the company last April. It will be interesting to see how Google will manage the product from here. Rather it is unlikely to close the service, since it has about 300 million monthly users, but is likely to start separated from the other products of Google, or at least will reduce the level of dependency between Google + and the rest of the portfolio.

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Android One Unveiled for the first 3 affordable devices

During the Google I / O, the company officially presented its new project which is called Android One and aims to bring much economic devices in emerging markets. Today presented the first 3 ultra cheap Android smartphones in India. This is the Karbon Sparkle V, Micromax Canvas A1 and Spice Dream UNO. 

The Dream UNO is the most economical of the three at $ 103 while the Sparkle V costs $ 105 and the Canvas A1 106 dollars. In India, Google has to compete with Mozilla on economic devices started selling mobile at $ 40 with Firefox OS. Of course we are talking about a market of 900 million population only 10% use smartphone, apomenos enough space for everyone. 

In terms of technical characteristics and the three models have the same specs: 4.5-inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 854, MediaTek MT6582 SoC with 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU and Mali 400 MP2 GPU, 1GB RAM and 4GB built-in memory that can be expanded . The outdoor camera is 5MP and the front 2MP. It will also have Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth connectivity, 2 card slot for SIM, FM radio and 1,700mAh removable battery. 

The best thing about the new devices that are running stock Android, specifically 4.4.4 KitKat. This means that for two years will get updates directly from Google and will be the first devices that will be upgraded to Android L with the Nexus.

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Google is planning to build its own quantum computer

In collaboration with researchers at UCSB, as Google wants to build its own quantum computer, the investigation has to assume the lab Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.

The team of researchers from UCSB and the responsible professor, John Martinis, are the group of Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab of Google created a year ago in collaboration with NASA and USRA.

H team of UCSB researchers have managed to create Xmons, which is cross-shaped qubits cooled to such a level that there is no electrical resistance and magnetic interference. The Xmons can be placed in series, so that they can communicate with each other in a positive impact on the computational power and beyond.

Finally, Google will continue to experiment with the machine Vesuvius Ames Research Center of NASA, which will be upgraded with the editor of Washington 1000 qubit.

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The Gmail Adds New Filters for the Control of Spam

In an ongoing effort to stop spammers, Google began to reject messages service Gmail, which include "very limited" character combinations. 

The Google began using a new tool that aims to prevent e-mails of spammers to arrive in the inbox of the users of Gmail. The company announced Tuesday that it is adding new filters spam in email platform in an attempt to stop receiving deceptive or phishing messages. 

The filters involved searching e-mail using Unicode Consortium which could let spammers to trick users. Most companies, applications and websites using Unicode, so characters to work on all platforms. However, some characters look almost identical, as the Latin and Cyrillic 

"Fraudsters can exploit the fact that the 0, and the look almost identical to the letter o, and by mixing the match, they can deceive regular peoples" publish by anti Spam Google. 

Remains to be seen whether the new filtering company will be operating and leading spam tab spam. 

It should be remembered, and to admit that the Gmail service currently has the best spam protection on the internet.

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