Google Voice remains a popular service that gets far too little attention. Users have been waiting months for a promised voice-over-IP (VoIP) feature, which entered beta testing around a year ago. Google was quiet on the test during that time, but a recent tweet prompted an update from the company: the new VoIP support is starting to roll out and … Continue reading
It’s not every day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues an advisory about pet hedgehogs, but here we are.
The second heat wave in two weeks in Southern Australia continued to punish the region, with temperatures in Melbourne hitting 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit (42.8C) on Friday afternoon, and the state of Tasmania struggling to deal with “30 uncontained fires,” according to the Guardian.
He’s back to haunt your nightmares! That viscerally upsetting long legged teddy bear that went viral a few years ago is on sale for $100, the best price we’ve ever seen, and $10-$20 less than usual. Every time I look at that photo, I burst out laughing, so he should be a good conversation piece, even if he doesn’t…
Google has some new devices in the works which judging from a report from last year, are codenamed “Bonito” and “Sargo”. These are rumored to be possible Pixel devices as Google usually uses codenames based around fish for their Pixel handsets. Now it seems that there could be more devices that Google could be working on.
According to a report from Till Kottmann (via Android Police), it seems that Google has at least more devices that they are working on and they are codenamed “Salmon” and “Medaka”. Like we said, Google usually gives fish codenames to its Pixel devices, which hints that these are also Pixel-related products. Just in case you didn’t know, apparently medaka is the informal name for a Japanese rice fish.
It is unclear as to which Pixel devices these codenames could be referring to, but it has been speculated that at least one of them could be the rumored Pixel Watch. The device has been rumored about for quite a while now but has yet to make an appearance. It was speculated to launch last year but it was a no show, suggesting that it might be launched this year instead.
Google will be hosting its Google I/O event towards the middle of the year and sometimes new products do get announced, so hopefully we’ll have more details then and won’t need to wait until the Pixel event at the end of the year to find out more.
Here are the upcoming Google device codenames #leaked:#salmon and #medaka.
None of the devices has a notch and medaka is most probably the rumored Pixel Watch. More info should surface soon.— Till Kottmann (@deletescape) January 25, 2019
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Companies like Apple tend to shut down the companies and services that they acquire and fold it into their own products and services. They did this with Workflow, Beats Music, and Texture, just to name a few. Facebook on the other hand seems to be more than happy to let their acquisitions continue operating as it is.
However it seems there is a chance that could change because in a report from the New York Times, it appears that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is looking to unify its services. No, it does not mean that Facebook’s services will all be merged into one, but rather the infrastructure will be unified so that they share underlying principles across the various apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.
One of the things that Zuckerberg is hoping to see is the inclusion of end-to-end encryption across the board. It is unclear what the goal is by unifying the infrastructure, but it has been speculated that it could potentially be to help make these services tied to Facebook even further so that it’s harder for users to quit its platform.
A good example would be WhatsApp, which for the most part has allowed users to use the app/service without necessarily being linked to Facebook. Facebook reportedly plans to complete this by the end of the year or early 2020.
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Are you a DOOM fan? Of course, you are. Do you own a Roomba? Of course, you do. Now you can combine two of your favorite things into one new cool thing. DOOMBA is a script written by programmer and designer Rich Whitehouse for his 3D model and animation conversion program Noesis that allows you to create playable Doom maps from the data collected by your Roomba. How cool is that?
Now your little robot vacuum cleaner is helping you in a whole new way. Now we just need to be able to put our Roomba in the actual map that it generates so that it can play a fun game of DOOM while we watch.
I’m eagerly awaiting that Black Mirror episode. Mostly because I can’t wait to see a gun-toting Roomba going crazy on some demons. Actually, I’d like to see that turned into a product. A robot that cleans my floor and secures my home? Hell yeah! Now that’s a DOOMBA. It would be the best security guard ever.
You can read more about the process and download the program from Rich’s website HERE if you’re interested in trying DOOMBA out for yourself.
[ via Polygon via Geekologie]
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