IoT simply means exercising better and complete control upon objects in order to extract more information, thereby enhancing quality of life. IoT enables us to access a whole lot of information which was not accessible before. Imagine your hand band glowing red if a fb friend passes by or glowing blue if a twitter follower is in the same train you are.
IoT is definitely going to create a huge impact on our social lives with these high impact products.
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Google introduces Project Blocks which will help kids to learn how the code and logics works in a very play full manner.
This simple platform will allows developers, designers and educators to build physical programming experiences that can help kids (5+) learn to code.
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That’s certainly less exciting than Nutella, which pretty much everyone wanted. Heck, I would’ve even taken ‘New York Cheesecake,’ which is the internal codename Google used for the OS.
But at least it’s also better than some user-chosen names (Android ‘Nipples’) so I guess we’ll take it. Realistically speaking, Nutella probably would have involved some licensing woes, though they managed to do it for Kit Kat.
In an interesting note, the company used Snapchat as one of the platforms to reveal the name for the first time. Full News is Here
Two-factor authentication is a great way to keep your online accounts secure, but between hunting for your phone and manually typing in the auto-generated passcode, it can be quite a pain.
Google’s hoping to fix that with a simpler security prompt option. The next time you try logging into Gmail or Google Apps, you only need to tap ‘Yes, allow sign-in’ to authorize it. No more fidgety digits to key in before the clock runs out. Check out the full feature.
Mozilla is experimenting with a new feature in Firefox that lets users log in to the same site with two different accounts.
Containers is an “experimental” feature in Firefox Nightly version 50, which is designed to reflect the idea that people project different aspects of themselves in different contexts in real life. Containers brings that concept to the web.
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