Google and Microsoft have reworked their search algorithms to make child abuse content harder to find, though some experts still argue that it will make little difference to those who actually hunt out the illegal imagery. Announced at a UK internet safety summit, the new search code has apparently already removed around 100,000 Google results […]
The original black OUYA game console has been out on the market since earlier this year, and here in the Autumn of 2013, the team has released a white edition with double the internal storage space. This machine works with the same hardware besides – Android inside, a wireless controller for games, and a box […]
It has been brought to our attention that the good people over at Android are possibly developing a totally new Android camera application programming interface (API). This API is touted to deliver support for uncompressed RAW image output, not to mention a slew of additional features that will definitely come in handy such as face detection. These details hail from a commit that was dated October 11th, where it was directed to keep the new API away, unleashing it only after Android 4.4 KitKat rolls out to the masses. (more…)
Google Allegedly Working On New Android Camera API, Supports RAW Image Output original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This week the folks at Amazon have released the first big update to their mobile operating system since the new wave of Kindle devices in Fire OS 3.1. This version of the OS is – as always – based in Android, but modified to make itself wholly Amazon-friendly. This update brings on new deep integration […]
Nokia may be the first to have delivered RAW photography in a smartphone, but there’s evidence to suggest that Google isn’t too far behind. A month-old batch of code, recently spotted by app developer Josh Brown, reveals that work has been underway on a new Android camera API that could allow smartphones to store uncompressed images alongside JPEG ones, drastically increasing the amount of correction and manipulation that can be accomplished after an image has been captured.
A second snippet from the API suggests that Android may get some level of stock support for modular or external cameras, perhaps like Sony’s QX10 and QX100, although the meaning of the words is slightly ambiguous:
The camera device is removable and has been disconnected from the Android device, or the camera service has shut down the connection due to a higher-priority access request for the camera device.
Ars Technica has pointed out some other potential changes that are buried in the documentation, and rightly suggests that any imaging-related improvements would be a good thing for Android right now. Even with Sony’s Xperia Z1, which contains one of the most powerful sensors currently found in an Android phone, it’s the software that holds things back more than anything else, so extra features in the underlying OS could provide manufacturers with just the nudge they need.
Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Mobile, Google
Via: Ars Technica
Source: Google Git, Josh Brown (Google+)
Google is taking a proactive approach to filtering out search results for the sexual abuse of underage children as they’ve announced they’re teaming up with Microsoft to completely rid its service from these kinds of search results. Eric Schmidt announced Google’s initiative to the British press earlier today as the company has hired a team of 200 Google employees to come up with a solution over the past three months, which resulted in a total of 100,000 potential queries from being removed. (more…)
Google Proactively Fighting Child Pornography Search Results original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Following no small amount of pressure from the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron
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When Internet search giant kicked off the announcement of their Google Glass, the world was abuzz with the kind of possibilities that such a mobile device would be capable of. The thing is, it has taken its own sweet time to hit the mass market, and even right now, only developers and those who are willing to drop more than a grand for it some time back were able to get their hands on one, as you cannot simply walk into a store and pick one up as you please. Well, it had to happen – the first music video which was shot entirely using Google Glass has been released (edited, of course), thanks to Riz with the song, “Let’s Tango”.
You can check out the music video in its entirety in the video above, and as usual, beauty is in the eye of the beholder – or in this case, the ears as well, since this is a music video after all. Of course, the Google Glass has also seen its fair share of restrictions, but I am quite sure there are more rooting for than against it. Now, we just have to sit tight and await other “firsts” associated with Google Glass to hit the Internet…
Riz’s “Let’s Tango” Is First Music Video Recorded Using Google Glass original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Eric Schmidt himself took to the British press to announce that Google has made a big step in ridding its search results of links to underage sexual abuse — with some image detection assistance from Microsoft. The Google chairman said he hired a 200-strong team to work out a solution over the last three months and that their work has already fixed up to 100,000 potential queries. The UK Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the news as “significant progress.” He’s also praised Google’s previous set of measures, which displayed a warning to people attempting to search for illegal material and caused a 20 percent drop in illicit activity. For now, Google’s newest improvements are limited to English-speaking countries, including the UK and US, although the search company says it’ll roll out its adjusted search globally over the next six months, covering 158 more languages.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Google
Via: AllThingsD
Source: Daily Mail
Google’s 2013 reboot of its Nexus 10 tablet will be manufactured by LG and sell for £299 ($482), if these leaked pics are to be believed. They were apparently leaked by Spanish broadband and telecom provider Telefonica, as the “Property of Telefonica” watermark on the second pic would indicate. Together the allegedly individually sourced pics […]
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