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During the Google I / O that was held in the evening of May 18 Google has announced a new device designed for home. An alternative to Amazon Echo, already heralded by rumor, named Google Home. To have it announced Mario Queiroz, the manager of the entire project as well as the man behind the Chromecast. Home is essentially the next step of the Mountain View giant within the Smart Home, a hub for all devices in the home. Esthetically Google Home is a simple and basic product with a customizable base and able to disappear into the domestic furniture. Inside is a small speaker with long-range microphone that plugs into the electrical outlet and that is always listening. Google Home will listen to your questions, will execute your commands, play music and control all compatible household gadgets. In short, it will assist in the tasks of everyday life. Google Home is not portable but it is an advantage, at least according to the designers who created it. The fact of always being complex...

Google continues the evolution of Google Search, announcing "Google Assistant" a personal digital assistant, similar to Apple's Siri and Cortana Microsoft. The official announcement was made at the Google I / O 2016 and although the details provided at the time are still quite scarce, there is a clear desire to integrate Assistant in the whole ecosystem of the products of the Mountain View home. Google Assistant will be present in the Android smartphone, the Android Wear smartwatch, in infotainment systems based on Android Auto and smart home systems thanks to Google Home, a device announced at the conference that comes into direct competition with the Echo device Amazon , powered by Alexa (digital assistant developed by the e-commerce giant). Assistant will not only provide the results of research on the basis of user-used tags, but will operate proactively, or anticipating future requests based on the questions asked, and will be able to provide correct answers, tak...

Homefront The Revolution is available for purchase from this week in PC formats, PS4 and Xbox One. The game is developed by Dambuster Studios on CryEngine platform and distributed by Deep Silver and Kochmedia. Which promise 30-hour experience, supplemented by three expansions that will arrive in the course of 2016. This is The Voice of Freedom and Aftermath, which will add two new districts for the single-player mode. Expansion wider - Beyond the Walls - will follow in 2017. The cooperative experience Homefront, however, will come through "Resistance Mode" which will be launched with 6 missions, and new ones will be added in June. All of Resistance Mode missions are free and Dambuster Studios is committed to providing the highest quality for the new content and new aggiornamneti without adding extra costs. Homefront The Revolution is a first-person shooter on open world, with a Philadelphia will host an asymmetrical battlefield. The forces of the KPA (Korean People's ...

BitTorrent is working on a live-streaming technology for years now, but only today has unveiled the first multi-platform dedicated application. Live BitTorrent is essentially a broadcasting platform that will be launched on AppleTV by the end of the week and will arrive on iOS and Android in the month of June. Inside the app there will be some minor channels, but the company has promised that additional content will be coming soon, and also premium paid. The first channels available on the platform will not be very prestigious, but will try to cover different needs: we will be boxing channel and MMA (Fightbox), of auteur cinema (Filmbox Arthouse), for lovers of nightclubs (Clubbing TV), and also the channel "dedicated to bringing viewers on a journey that explains how to get wealth, use it and enjoy it" (AWE). But the important part of Live BitTorrent is certainly not related to content, as to the technology used. The live video will indeed be spread in the same way it ha...

Amazon is committed to expand the range of devices equipped with personal digital assistant Alexa. It suggests the influential The Wall Street Journal, referring to "Knight", code name that identifies the new device equipped with Alexa and equipped with a display similar in size to those of the tablet screens. the possibility is not confirmed to control the device via touch interface, but it's pretty clear the intended use, or integration into a smart home system. The source describes as follows Knight suggesting the usage scenario: ... It is designed to allow users to call up web pages, view videos and images, when their hands are covered with flour ... References that suggest the integration of the device in a kitchen and interaction using voice commands given to Alexa. The new The Wall Street Journal reports adds a few details about the technical characteristics of the device, but warns against isolation examined the product, which is part of a more complex proje...

IBM has for several years to work on phase change memory (PCM), and, in recent hours, has provided an important update on the progress of the search. Such non-volatile type memory offers considerable advantages both with respect to the flash memories, both with respect to the RAM modules: are the fastest of the first, very resistant and, as mentioned, are of non-volatile type, so do not lose the data stored in the absence of power supply, as is the case with the RAM memory. Limitations related to the technology used caused them so far use in a production environment, but something is moving, as emphasized by IBM researchers. The PCM memories exploit the physical properties of a calcogenura alloy (formed by Germanium, Antimony, and Tellurium), similar to that used in the rewritable optical discs. The alloy, crossed by a determined change of phase current intensity, passing from the crystalline to the amorphous, according to a reversible process. The crystalline phase (state with low e...

Apple is showing some attention to the Orient of the world: after you invest a billion dollars in Chinese society Didi Chuxing (followed by a short trip to China by Tim Cook), it is the turn of India with ' announcement of the opening of a new center "Design and Development Accelerator" for iOS in Bangalore. India is a particularly important market for Apple, which are hidden some important growth opportunities. Bangalore is considered the main center of the country by the concentration of startups, with over a million people who work in the technology sector. "India is home to one of the iOS development community's most vibrant and entrepreneurial in the world. With the opening of this new center in Bangalore are giving developers the access to the tools with which we will help them create innovative apps for customers around the world, "said Tim Cook said in a statement. Apple is also planning to open a development center in Hyderabad which will focu...