Google WiFi router

Google  WiFi router

Google announced its own branded wireless router (made by TP-LINK), which it says “is a new way to Wi-Fi.” But what does this mean? And doesn’t $199.99 seem expensive for a Wi-Fi router? Perhaps not. Although OnHub won’t be available for purchase until August 31, let’s see what a closer look at its specifications reveals about it today.

The OnHub has 13 antennas — six 2.4GHz antennas, six 5GHz antennas, and a congestion-sensing antenna — arranged in a circle. The OnHub monitors the Wi-Fi environment and automatically adjusts its settings to provide an optimal experience, let's connect it with your device via USB WiFi  .

Since it doesn’t have the usual front panel of  indicators, you will need an Android phone or Apple iPhone with Google’s OnHub app to manage the router. However, these apps let you do things like assign bandwidth priority to a specific device. This would let me, for example, make sure that the computer I’m using to record a podcast over Skype gets the bandwidth it needs, even if someone in my family is watching Netflix.

In addition to Wi-Fi, the OnHub also has Bluetooth 4.0 and 801.15.4 (ZigBee/Thread). You are probably are famliar with Bluetooth as a way to communicate with wireless devices like headphones, keyboards,WiFi PC and mice.

But Bluetooth 4.0 also supports Bluetooth Low Energy, which lets it communicate with sensors and activity trackers like the Fitbit without expending much power. 801.15.4 is an IEEE low data rate and low power Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) standard that allows a variety of devices to communicate with each other — in other words, the Internet of Things (IoT).

Neither of these radios are active in OnHub at launch according to Google. But the company advises us to “…stay tuned. We have exciting things in the works.”
And while the OnHub lacks the usual front panel of high-end consumer routers, it does have six tri-color LED arrays, which Google says is a dimmable light ring that provides feedback.


Also of note: The OnHub has one USB  3.0 port and a 3-watt speaker. Yes, that grill on the top is an audio speaker. And the OnHub does have a passing resemblance to Amazon’s well-received Echo voice activated Internet connected speaker, although OnHub doesn’t include a microphone in its specifications. However, it is easy to imagine getting Google Now-type audio responses to questions posed to a smartphone or some other connected device in the home.

So, is Google’s OnHub worth $199.99? At this point, you would be buying a potentially useful connected device hub for your home or small office. But, we won’t know what that potential is until Google turns on the Bluetooth 4.0 and 801.15.4 radios and reveals what the USB port and speaker do. Still, I’m somewhat tempted to buy one just to get a front-row seat to Google’s introduction of its IoT lineup.

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Android Marshmallow Google Now Launcher

Google surprised Android fans earlier this week by finally confirming that the final name of Android M will be Marshmallow, but the company is not quite ready to roll out the finished build of Android 6.0 just yet.

Instead, Google only released the third and last developer preview version of Marshmallow, which can be installed on any of the supported Nexus devices or Android TV Box by anyone looking to try it out.

Other people looking to experience parts of Android 6.0 have a few options though, including the new official wallpapers, the new boot animation and now the new Google Now Launcher app.



Before you get too excited about the new Google Now Launcher, especially if you’re using the launcher on a regular basis already, you should know that the developer preview version doesn’t come with that awesome Google Now on Tap feature built into it.

Google Now on Tap should be available in the final Marshmallow release later this year, though.

According to Phone Arena, the Google Now Launcher version 1.2 doesn’t introduce any significant features either. The blog says that the launcher doesn’t feature the vertical app sorting layout on non-preview ROMs, but you can expect performance improvements and new wallpapers to choose from.

Assuming you want to give this Google Now Launcher a try for yourself and get a small taste of Marshmallow, you can download the APK from the Reddit source link below and install it manually on your device such as Android GPS device, Android Box,Android Smartphone.

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Humans’ brains become Hybrids

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One of the world’s leading inventors and thinkers about the future said our ‘thinking will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking’ in 20 years

Humans will become hybrids by 2030, says leading Google engineer, with tiny robots scurrying around our brain to help us think

In the near future, humans’ brains will be helped out by nanobot implants that will make us into “hybrids”, one of the world’s leading thinkers has claimed.

Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and director of engineering at Google, said that in the 2030s the implants will help us connect to the cloud, allowing us to pull information from the internet. Information will also be able to sent up over those networks, letting us back up our own brains.

"We're going to gradually merge and enhance ourselves," he said, reported CNN. "In my view, that's the nature of being human — we transcend our limitations."

As the cloud that our brains access improves, our thinking would get better and better, Kurzweil said. So while initially we would be a “hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking”, as we moved into the 2040s, most of our thinking will be non-biological.

Kurzweil has been heralded as one of the most accurate and prominent predictors of the future, and addressed some of those forecasts during the talk at a conference in New York.

Of the predictions that Kurzweil has made since the 1990s, an estimated 86 per cent of them are thought to have been correct. But he pointed out that some of those that seem to have been wrong were still yet to come.

He had predicted that self-driving cars would be in use by the end of the last decade, for instance. And while that was wrong, it shows that technology develops along certain directions — meaning that it's not a question of whether certain innovations will arrive, but when.

"Now that's not completely wrong," he said. "If I had said 2015, I think it would've been correct, but they're still not in mainstream use. So even the [predictions] that were wrong were directionally correct."

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Android TV : More Than 600 Apps

Google's Android TV

Google's Android TV Box streaming platform, usable on devices like the Nexus Player, hasn't exactly made waves, but a new update that adds hundreds of new apps might just do the trick.

An update to the Google Play Store for Android TV Box this week now allows users to browse and download more than 600 apps. The update lets users browse through all apps or view 20 curated app collections to make finding new apps even easier.

For example, one app collection may feature all of the best sports apps, while another may highlight the most popular news apps.

Devices running Android TV Box can also play games, so a number of new titles have been added to the store as of the update as well.

The ability to browse all apps and curated app collections are a definite improvement from what users had to experience not so long ago. Android TV  initially only highlighted a limited selection of apps in its app store, making finding new or related apps difficult.

This update comes shortly after Google's I/O press conference, where the company announced a number of new features that would be making their way to Android TV Box in the future.

One such feature is the ability for app publishers to create their own TV channels and have their shows premiere live right alongside big-name broadcasters like ABC. TED, Vevo, the Huffington Post and more will support the new Android TV  Channel feature at launch.

While Android TV Box now features more than 600 apps to choose from, it is still a considerably smaller selection when compared to other streaming platforms like Amazon Fire TV and Roku, which each have closer to 2,000 apps available to download.

Apple TV, on the other hand, has fewer than 70 apps for users to choose from, as Apple has so far only invited an elite few publishers access to the platform.

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Abbey Road Studios By Google

Abbey Road Studios By Google

Let it be known that Abbey Road Studios can now be seen across the universe via a new interactive website presented by Google and Android Box.

Inside Abbey Road lets you take a virtual tour of almost every inch of one of the most famous recording studios—host to sessions by everyone from the Beatles to Kanye West—in the world.

Guided by Giles Martin, son of Beatles’ producer George Martin, you will experience the studio where the London Philharmonic works, studio two where the Beatles created several of their records, and studio three where Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon was born.

You will also find videos about important events and music developed in the studio, the processes behind recording, and little interactive pieces like an up-close look at the studios vintage microphone collection and four-track digital mixing console.
We know, all your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise.

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