Google Updates Its Container Services With Focus On Speed, Scaling And Authentication

 With its Docker Registry and Container Engine, Google has made a big bet on containers for its Cloud Platform this year. Today, the company is launching updates to both of these services. The Container Engine, Google’s service for automatically managing clusters to run and orchestrate container deployments, now supports the latest version of Kubernetes (version 1.1). This new version… Read More

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You Can Now Watch Any YouTube Video In Google Cardboard

Remember that scene in Back to the Future where Marty Jr. was rudely watching TV at the dinner table in giant glasses? Now, you can do that same thing with YouTube and Google Cardboard.

No, this new update doesn’t turn every video into one of those awesome 360-degree videos that you can view in every direction. Instead, this update turns your VR headset into a personal home theater. You can see a virtual screen “floating” in front of your face, no matter where you look.

This is similar to the Netflix virtual theater app that the company released a couple months ago. While it’s little more than a novelty right now, it is a neat way to isolate your viewing experience and have a mini-home theater to yourself. The question is whether you’d really want to sit around with a VR headset strapped to your face just to watch YouTube. But now you can at least find out!

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How to Turn an Old Laptop Into a Chromebook with CloudReady

If you haven’t used a Chromebook in a while, they’ve come a long way . But you don’t need to shell out cash for a new laptop just to run Chrome OS. You can install it on nearly any laptop with an application called CloudReady.

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Twitter opens up polls to everyone

If you've been wondering which candy your Twitter followers prefer -- Red Vines or Twizzlers, -- the social networking company has your back. Starting today, the micro-blogging service is rolling out its poll feature to iOS, Android and on Twitter....

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Researchers build a cheap camera that sees what we can't

Normally, our eyes can see things better than our cameras, which is why those smartphone shots of a full moon at night are so bad. Hyperspectral imaging is a way to fix that, since it can capture parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, like near-inf...

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Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, a Managed Spark and Hadoop Big Data Service

An anonymous reader writes: Google has a new cloud service for running Hadoop and Spark called Cloud Dataproc, which is being launched in beta today. The platform supports real-time streaming, batch processing, querying, and machine learning. Techcrunch reports: "Greg DeMichillie, director of product management for Google Cloud Platform, told me Dataproc users will be able to spin up a Hadoop cluster in under 90 seconds — significantly faster than other services — and Google will only charge 1 cent per virtual CPU/hour in the cluster. That's on top of the usual cost of running virtual machines and data storage, but as DeMichillie noted, you can add Google's cheaper preemptible instances to your cluster to save a bit on compute costs. Billing is per-minute, with a 10-minute minimum."

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Keep Kids Learning This Summer with Google's Free Online Science Program

Google has partnered with NASA, National Geographic, Khan Academy and other major organizations to teach kids science over the summer. It’s called Camp Google and the first week takes kids underwater.

Virtually, that is. Kids sign on at camp.withgoogle.com to watch videos, participate in activities, and earn badges. After this week’s Ocean Week, they’ll explore space, nature, and music to do things like create space food, grow crystals, and turn a smartphone into a booming stereo.

It’s tough entertaining and educating kids when they’re home all day in the summer, so thank you Google.

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3 amazing technologies that could be part of your new smartphone

That little computer you carry around in your pocket is already your camera, navigation device, instant messaging machine, ride-hailing tool and phone. But it's very possible that, in the not-so-distant future, what we now refer to as "smartphones" w...

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The most amazing building in the world was started in 1883 – still not finished building it

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen was Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The basilica looks like a giant drippy asymmetrical sandcastle.

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Listen Again in Google Translate

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Google Maps gets even more detailed traffic features

Google has updated Maps with more specific traffic alerts just in time to help you dodge Memorial Day traffic nightmares. The app can already route you around closures and other problems using crowdsourced traffic data, but now it'll give you an expl...

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Final Week to Apply to the 2015 NY Digital Health Accelerator

Anticipating many innovative entries, the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) program has entered its last week of accepting applications – the application deadline is Monday, May 18, 2015. The program will choose up to 10 early- and growth-stage companies … Continue reading →

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Introducing Google+ Collections, a new way to group posts by topic

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Europe is making in-car emergency calling standard by 2018

More than 25,700 people died driving on european highways last year. In an effort to reduce these incidents, the European Parliament has voted to outfit every new passenger car and light truck in the EU with an auto-dialing system that rings 112 (Eur...

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DailyPulse Gets Updates from Coworkers for You, Helps You Avoid Meetings

If you manage people or projects at work, you know it can be tough to get updates from coworkers so you can put all of the pieces together. DailyPulse is a web service that handles the process for you. They email your team with the questions you need answered, collect the responses, and put them together in a tidy package for you.

DailyPulse is a bit like previously mentioned TeamReporter, which does something a little similar. While TeamReporter also asks your team for their updates and builds status reports around them, DailyPulse also gives your team a place to discuss everyone's responses, accomplishments, and updates. Both services are great for making sure you get the responses you need from people when you need them, and they're both great at assembling those responses into a package that's actually useful—you'll automatically get a summary of the day's (or week's, or whatever schedule you choose) events so everyone's on the same page.

The big difference though is that DailyPulse also puts those updates into a webapp that you can your colleagues (or your boss and any other managers on your project) can log in to and make comments on, add notes to, and ask questions about. The biggest benefit is that instead of spending time in weekly status meetings, you can use a service like this to keep everyone up to date on what everyone else is doing without wasting time on conference calls or in meeting rooms. It also gives you a place to get and give anonymous feedback on the project, individual team members, and managers.

Those added features do come with a price though. DailyPulse is $5/user, per month, so you'll have to be judicious about how many people you get to sign up for it. If you're looking for something without the price tag though, we should note that TeamReporter is free. If your company is footing the bill though, and its extra features sound good, DailyPulse is a great option.

DailyPulse

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