Utkarsh - The Contragravity

Google Allo is an instant messaging mobile app developed by Google that includes a virtual assistant and provides a "smart reply" function that allows users to reply without typing. It was announced at Google I/O on May 18, 2016 and launched on September 21, 2016. The app is available on Android and iOS. Allo will be pre-installed on Pixel phones, along with its sister app, Google Duo. Allo is based on phone numbers, not by social media or email accounts. Smart reply Smart Reply lets you keep the conversation moving with a single tap by suggesting text and emoji responses based on your personality. For example, it learns if you're more of a “haha” or “lol” person so the more you use Google Allo, the more “you” the suggestions become. Shout or whisper a message Add more meaning to your words by adjusting the size of your text. When you need more than ALL CAPS to get your point across, simply slide up to shout, and down to whisper. Turn any photo into a wo...

The Tiny Radar Chip Revolutionizing Gesture               Recognition: Project Soli Project Soli made a big splash at Google I/O 2016 conference, even more so than its initial unveiling at Google I/O the year before. Soli is being developed by Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects group, or Google ATAP, which tends to focus on mobile hardware technology. The project founder, Ivan Poupyrev,in his presentation of Soli's capabilities, machine learning engineer Nick Gillian showed off  Soli’s capabilities in the context of smart watch control. With Soli embedded in a smart watch form factor, he showed how tiny gestures and distance between hand and smart watch can allow touchless interface to check texts and the weather. They also demonstrated using the same gesture control tech in a speaker form factor that used the same algorithms as the smart watch.   The Soli Sensor Soli’s radar sensor is a marvel in many respects. For on...

Social live streaming has got lot bigger in the last few months. It is mostly used to make media content viral or post some breaking news around the world, live video tools offer companies an opportunity to reach out to their audience in real-time. So, what exactly is ‘streaming’? Streaming is a method of serving, or delivering, video and audio content over the Internet. As broadband availability has increased streaming has become a hugely popular way to publish high-quality live and on-demand video. The basic prerequisites for live video streaming are: a form of source media (e.g. a video camera, an audio interface).An encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. Some of the most popular live video services are : Facebook   Live, YouTube Live and Twitter's Periscope.With technology giants Facebook,   Twitter   and Google's   YouTube   in the fray, the competitio...

Android the best selling mobile operating system was created by Android.inc initially and then Google acquired it in 2005. First Google android phone was announced in 2008 . Android being so popular among people and making their lives sweet, so the versions of android are named after popular deserts. Android versions from 2008 till now are : ALPHA (Android 1.0)                              First version of android was alpha released on September 23, 2008. its logo was green.But initially android did not gain much popularity.  BETA(Android 1.1)  Second release from android was of beta version 1.1 on February 9, 2009.It was able to save attachments in message and had long in call screen when using the speakerphone, plus ablility to show or hide dialpad.    CUPCAKE (Android 1.5) Android 1.5 i.e, cupcake came out to be the major release from android....

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone 7 last week, Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Phil Schiller called the device's camera one of the most advanced ever put in a smartphone.  Cameras in phones are so commonplace now that users take them for granted, but improving the picture-taking capabilities of the newest devices means cramming a lot of tech into a small, and thin, package. From the  first cellphones with a camera  was the Nokia 7650, released in 2002 to  the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which launched last month, has a processor similar to that found in a laptop computer and has 853,000 times as much data-storage space as the Nokia 7650.Upgrading the cameras in smartphones typically requires improving the sensors that pick up the image . Even though pictures taken on smartphones are good, digital SLRs still have an edge in some areas. This can be partly explained by the physics of gathering light onto an image. The aperture of the lens. However, softwa...

The term 'computer generation' is often used in relation to the hardware of computers. Each phase of computer development is known as a separate generation of computers. Each phase of development is characterised by type of switching circuits it utilises. Most computers today use the idea of ' stored program computer ' that was proposed by Dr. John Von Neumann in 1945. The Von Neumann architecture is based on three key concepts that are : Data and instructions (program) are stored in a single read-write memory. The memory contents are addressable by locations. Execution takes place in a sequential fashion i.e. from one instruction to the next unless modified explicitly. The First Generation Computers (1949-55) The first generation computers used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) and machine language was used for giving instructions. The computers of this generation were very large in size and had high electricity consumption. Electric failures occur...