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Google Photos no longer free in High-quality starting June 1, 2021

Google photos no longer free, Starting June 1, 2021, all new photos and videos backed up in High quality will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with your Google Account or any additional storage you may have purchased, the same way other Google services like Google Drive and Gmail already do.All photos and videos you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021, are exempt from this change and will not count toward your Google Account storage. This includes all of your existing content uploaded…

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New safety app from Google share your location with loved ones

Google is making it easier for your close friends and family to keep track of you with its new Trusted Contacts app for Android. The idea is simple: assign some of your contacts as “trusted” and they’ll be able to request your location and see your current activity status. If you don’t respond to a location request within five minutes, it will be automatically shared with these contacts. It’s basically Google’s version of the Weasley clock in Harry Potter. The general idea is to be able to make sure loved…

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Remotely SignOut from Gmail & Google Drive

As a heavy user of all things Google, there are occasions when have forgotten to log out of a session.  With the increased presence of Chromebooks in schools, students and teachers may run into a similar problem since Chromebooks don’t automatically log you out from your Google account, leaving you vulnerable.  Fear not!  You can remotely log out of Gmail and Google Drive from any device to end all open sessions by following these simple steps: Access your Gmail by going to www.mail.google.com Scroll to the bottom of the Gmail…

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After Google Balloon, It’s Facebook’s Time to fly Solar drone

MARK ZUCKERBERG wrote on his facebook note release about Solar drone ‘Aquila’. On June 28th, we completed the first successful flight of Aquila — our solar-powered plane that will beam internet to remote parts of the world and eventually break the record for longest unmanned aircraft flight. The flight took place before dawn in Yuma, Arizona. Our original mission was to fly Aquila for 30 minutes, but things went so well that we decided to keep the plane up for 96 minutes. We gathered lots of data about our models and…

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Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill With DeepMind-Powered AI

Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way. The internet giant is using technology from the DeepMind artificial intelligence subsidiary for big savings on the power consumed by its data centers, according to DeepMind Co-Founder Demis Hassabis. In recent months, the Alphabet Inc. unit put a DeepMind AI system in control of parts of its data centers to reduce power consumption by manipulating computer servers and related equipment like cooling systems. It uses a similar technique to DeepMind software that taught itself to play…

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Google API to Calculate a Distance in PHP / Mysql

I actually had a hard time finding some of the Geographic calculations to find the distance between two locations so I wanted to share them here. If you remember ‘the old days’ of calculating a distance between two points, it was simply the hypotenuse of a triangle (A² + B² = C²). That’s an interesting start but it doesn’t apply with Geography since the distance between lines of latitude and longitude are not an equal distance apart. As you get closer to the equator, lines of latitude get further apart.…

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Google to train Android Developers in India

Tech giant Google aims to train about 2 million developers in India on its Android platform over the next three years to cash in on the high-quality talent pool in the country. India, which has about one million people working on solutions for the Android mobile platform, is poised to become home to about 4 million developers by 2018, making it the world’s largest developer base. “India is expected to have the largest developer population globally, overtaking the US, by 2018, with four million developers. But today only 25 percent of developers are building for mobile,” Google Vice President…

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Pokemon Go Has Full Access to Your Google Account, Here’s How you can Fix

This was discovered by Adam Reeve, Principal Architect at RedOwl Analytics. He took to Tumblr to share his findings: “Let me be clear – Pokemon Go and Niantic can now: • Read all your email • Send email as you • Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them) • Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history • Access any private photos you may store in Google Photos • And a whole lot more” (SEE: How to Download & Play Pokemon Go in India?) And this…