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Health nuts rejoice. Google has added nutritional information to over 1,000 foods to its search results, using Knowledge Graph to display information about a specific food. You can enter in search queries like “how many carbs in an apple,” and it will bring up that information, along with a sidebar of other nutritional facts about apples.

The new feature can also tell you other facts about certain foods, including how much protein is in a banana, and of course, how many calories a certain food item has (we’re all about counting calories, right?). So far, we’re not seeing the additions in our search results just yet, so we’re guessing Google is slowly rolling it out.

The new feature will be available on both desktop and mobile search, but it’ll only be available to US users for the time being, which means it’ll only detect English for now. However, we’re guessing that Google will add more countries and languages over time, as well as more food items hopefully (because we really want to know how many calories are in a cronut).

Google will also let you choose the quantity of a food item in order to get more accurate results while churning out your diet. We’re guessing that most health-focused people are already using some sort of food-tracking app, but for those just casually wanting to know more about what they eat, Google wants to be the go-to place for that.

Google brings nutritional information to search results is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sundar Pichai just dropped some pretty big news onstage at D11: Google’s Play Music All Access app will be coming to iOS in the following weeks. When the streaming service debuted at I/O, we found it curious that an Apple-compatible version was missing, especially considering that Mountain View is quite generous in sharing its cloud services with folks on Cupertino’s platform. Speaking with Walt Mossberg today, Pichai — SVP of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google — said Mountain View’s goal is to be “universally accessible,” noting that “when there’s a mass of users, we invest in more platforms.” Of course, that cross-platform love doesn’t extend much to Windows Phone, which has tangled horns with Google over the lack of an official YouTube app. That’s it for now; we’ll be sure to clue you in when the iOS app gets a formal release date.

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Remember those photo memes that recently went viral? The one that features a classic Dragon Ball or Street Fighter inspired pose where someone blasts everyone off to kingdom come, and the one that’s inspired from Darth Vader’s signature force choke?

These photos are already fun as they are, but an app that can add even more to these shots that are intended to go viral has been released. It’s called the Kame Camera app and it’ll breath some Manga-inspired life into your photo memes.

The Kame app enhances these photo memes by letting users add swirling flames and shock and lightning effects to their images with a few quick taps.

From Hadokening and Quiddiching to Vadering, this app has got most of these photo memes covered.

The Kame Camera app can be downloaded from Google Play and the iTunes App Store.

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Google will make another mobile phone available with stock Android soon. Sundar Pichai, SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps, announced at the D11 Conference that the company will sell the HTC One Google Edition for $599 on the Google Play store, beginning June 26.

Google has previously announced the availability of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android through the Play Store, which will retail for $649. That device was announced during I/O, with availability also set for June 26.

“We’re developing a user experience that scales across the world[…],” Pichai said, explaining why the Google Edition devices are now a priority for the company. “We’re making Android the operating system that is consistent across all of these devices.”

“The challenge is related to what is great about Android […] The scale and scope of Android is pretty breathtaking,” Pichai explained further. “From a Google perspective, we care about how users use Android and the user experience.”

HTC has already offered a similar device through its own online retail store, the HTC One Developer Edition. The Developer Edition is a $649.99 device that has 64GB of onboard storage, plus an unlocked bootloader. The new Google Play version of the One will differ in that it will also offer stock Android, and updates that arrive in time with those issued for Nexus devices and the Play version of the Galaxy S4. The Developer Edition also ships with Jelly Bean 4.1, but the HTC One Google Edition will ship with Jelly Bean 4.2.2. Also, the Google version will carry 32GB of internal storage instead of the 64 from the dev model. The Google HTC One works with GSM cellular networks.

HTC says it will continue to offer the Developer Edition direct from its own website, but the $599 Google Edition, with its GSM network support and initial U.S.-only availability, is probably the better buy for developers looking to not only try out the hardware but also stay up-to-date on the very latest from Google’s OS.

The HTC One has already been well-received by critics, and offering it with a stock Android experience is sure to be a hit with a specific audience. It’s also impressive that it will cost $50 less than the competition from Samsung. But now that Google is clearly interested in expanding the so-called “Nexus Experience” beyond its own line of co-branded devices like the Nexus 4 from manufacturer LG, it’ll be interesting to see what role those “blessed” handsets will have in the future, or whether “Nexus” becomes more of a designation than a specific device line.