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Microsoft has apparently decided to remove the ability to set Google as a default search engine on new Lumia Windows Phone handsets.
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Robotics company, military contractor, and recent Google acquisition Boston Dynamics is most likely best known for its dog-like machines that can traverse rough terrain while carrying a heavy load.
It turns out that one of the company's robots, an AlphaDog, is already being used in training exercises with the U.S. Marine Corps, reports Gizmodo.
The exercise took place in Hawaii and put the (still rather noisy) machine through its paces. One soldier interviewed in the video below (his name isn't given) says that AlphaDog can go 70% to 80% of the places that troops can walk, so while it's not a total carry-everything solution, it beats waiting for an ATV.
Soliders working with the robot have nicknamed it "Cujo." Check it out in action below.
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Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella visited the Fortune Brainstorm tech conference Monday. And as Mashable's Chris Taylor points out, Nadella was animated and idealistic but “short on specifics.”
When asked about Microsoft wearables, for instance, Nadella replied with three short words, and nothing more: “We have ambitions,” he said.
Still, Microsoft's former cloud guru offered an interesting answer when asked if his company could learn a thing or two from Google and its experimental X Labs that build the company's “moonshot” projects like Glass and the self-driving car.
From Fortune's Dan Primack:
Nadella on learning from google moonshots: "always a lot to learn from people who market themselves well." #FortuneTech
— danprimack (@danprimack) July 14, 2014
Nadella's comment may come across as subtle gamesmanship, but he's also right. So far, Google's Sergey Brin has done an excellent job drumming up hype for his company's semi-secret lab since 2010, but all of its current projects are in their infancy stages. In other words, nothing from Google X is ready for the public just yet.
There are seven Google X projects we currently know about: Google Glass, the self-driving car project, the smart contact lens project for monitoring glucose, the balloon experiment aiming to provide internet access, the artificial neural network hoping to give computers “machine vision," the wind energy company Makani Power, and the “web of things,” which is Google's way of “connecting objects to the internet.”
There's also Calico, Google's life extension project to help us cheat death, and Google's plan to build robots for businesses, but both of those particular projects aren't considered part of the X Labs. They are, however, still considered moonshots.
Google has rejected plenty of other ideas, including a hoverboard, a space elevator, teleportation, and a user-safe jetpack. But all of Google's moonshots, as wild as they sound, are still a big part of Google's image. For example, Google Glass is one of the few Google X projects to actually leave the labs. It's also one of Google's most public products in general. But so far the head-mounted wearable has yet to make the general public feel comfortable or live up to the company's own expectations. Its own creator said Google Glass “has a long way to go.” -- For more information read the original article here.
Earlier this year, a massive internet vulnerability known as Heartbleed claimed to be the biggest bug the internet has seen in years.
Now, Google is taking another measure to make sure hidden internet vulnerabilities don't get out of hand with an effort known as Project Zero.
Project Zero is a new team of well-staffed security researchers at Google, according to the company's official blog.
The initiative gets its name from the term "zero-day," which refers to an attack or threat that targets a software issue that was previously unknown. Heartbleed is a perfect example of a zero-day attack, since it was a problem that went unnoticed for a long time before Google fixed it.
Here's how Google describes the initiative:
Project Zero isn't restricted to finding bugs in Google's products, however. The team will be free to roam the entire web to find vulnerabilities in any product. Earlier this week, for example, the Project Zero team reportedly fixed bugs in recent updates for Apple's Mac and iPhone software, according to eWeek.
Wired got an early look at Project Zero before Google's official announcement, and wrote a lengthy profile on the project and the security researchers it has on staff so far. In Google's blog post, however, the company emphasized that it's still hiring.
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Nike's new Vapor 360 fielding glove is specially designed to be used "straight out of the box," according to Nike. Forget stashing it under your mattress for weeks until the leather loosens up—this glove is broken in from day one.
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Google is the king of digital advertising, particularly on mobile devices, and the latest data from eMarketer charted for us by Statista proves it.
Google accounts for more than half of all mobile ad revenue worldwide, while Facebook has been steadily increasing its market share of mobile ad revenue each year since 2012, the year it went public. Facebook already accounts for more than one-fifth of all mobile ad revenue. Between Facebook and Google, the companies could rake in more than 70% of mobile ad money in 2014.
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