New chat app Supersonic Messenger turns off language Emojis

The new Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger chat app from Google turns language into text and emojis. With the application, words are displayed almost in real time as text and icons on the Android smartphone.

Google's latest chat app Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger combines voice input with Emojis. To use the app, you must install it on the Android smartphone together with a conversation partner, press the microphone button and say its message. The words are then converted into text almost in real time. Words, which could be represented as emojis, are recognized by the app as such and appear as emojis on the display.

Up to now only in English

For example, in the sentence "Do you want to go out for coffee later?" The coffee as coffee cup Emoji represented. "Do you want" is supplemented by a thumb up and at the beginning of the question a waving hand appears, which is to draw attention to the question. So far the app supports only an English language input.

New Messenger comes from Area 120 team

The Supersonic Messenger was developed by Google's Area 120 team. With the Area 120 concept, Google responds to the problem that the best employees often leave the company to start their own company. Google grants each employee 20 percent of their working time to work on their own ideas. If they create a business plan, employees in Area 120 can apply. Whoever is accepted may build his product in the period of a few months. In the end, the teams can apply for financial support from Google and start their own business. The iOS app Uptime emerged recently.

Google Pixel: Microphone is obviously causing problems

Some buyers of the Google Pixel and the Google Pixel XL have obviously struggled with microphone problems - up to the complete deactivation of the audio input. What exactly causes the misconduct and what affected persons in these cases can do, we now clarify - and what a hair dryer has to do with the topic.

A microphone problem is currently causing the perplexed face of some owners of a pixel phone, reports PhoneArena. The corresponding thread in the support forum of Google already brings it to more than 800 comments - no individual case so. According to the buyers' complaints, several of the three microphones sometimes also create difficulties. In the worst case, an audio input on the Pixel Phone is simply no longer possible. Some users came to the floor and explained that they had solved the problem with a hair dryer. However, this approach is not recommended.

Google: Less than 1 percent of all users affected by the problem

A Google employee explained in the forum that various causes are responsible for the faulty behavior of the microphones. The only thing to be sure is that the software does not get to grips with the problems, because faulty microphones are due to the hardware. The microphone could simply be defective, even a faulty soldering of the audio codec is possible. Both are, however, very rare, less than one percent of all users are affected, assured the search engine giant.

Anyone who is affected by this issue should submit his or her smartphone to Google for a free exchange. If you did not buy the Pixel Phone directly from Google, you should contact your dealer for the exchange. The development of the Google Pixel 2 should run on high tours, with a release of the successor is expected in the autumn.

In addition to pixel 2: Google plans to continue cheap smartphone

Google wants to bring in the autumn of this year with the pixel 2 a successor to its first own premium smartphone on the market. Unsurprisingly, stubborn rumors hold that the Group continues to work on a cheap entry-level mobile phone.

The Google Pixel 2 could also get a more favorable offshoot. (© YouTube / MobySmartCat 2017)

In addition to the Pixel 2 in 2017, Google could also launch an entry-level version of the device at a lower price on the market. As 9to5Google citing an insider reports, the team behind the pixel smartphone also works a cell phone with stripped down specs. Prototypes of the device are currently under the name "Pixel 2B" run - whether this is also the final name of the smartphone, is more than open.

Google Pixel 2 stays premium: pixel 2B for emerging markets?

Google's hardware chief Rick Osterloh had recently emphasized in an interview that the Pixel 2 will always remain a "premium smartphone" and also indicated that the release date could fall back to fall. "You can count on the fact that we follow this (the annual rhythm), you can count on a successor this year, even if you do not get a date from me," says Osterloh .

These statements, of course, do not rule out the publication of a cheaper pixel series. This "cheap pixel" could benefit from the technology of the first Google pixel, but in sales then run under another brand name, such as Android One. This is also a further indication of the insider source of 9to5Google hints: The pixel 2B is therefore not to appear in the US and more to buyers in emerging markets.

You can now stream YouTube directly from his handy-app life

YouTube announced that it is the ability to add live video directly from your mobile app. This ability is said to be coasting creators to first select, it is expected that more people on later to roles.

On the stage at VidCon, Lead YouTube Product Kurt Wilms showed the latest feature of the popular video in social networks. Although before YouTube Live skills she was with verified channels on those limited, and was replaced by the creator Studio.

The news today confirms our report of a live access tool for people, and it is directly in the core YouTube mobile app baked". It also provides the service is in direct competition with twit ters peri scope and live video option of Facebook , both service that have recently been in the news and have seen some pretty significant adoption.

The fight for the video under the same of Twitter to lead to further, Facebook, snap chat and YouTube, then it is now on the new "reality" and the TV is with the people emits exactly what you do - think what iJustine does, but now more for the masses. And it is not surprising that YouTube in this room has occurred. In August, the head of the company of consumer goods manual Bron Stone Wired said: "By and large we think about YouTube video with synonym for ... Live is always a part of the video was, and actually, there is always a very exciting part."

A possible difference that YouTube has over its competitors is the fact that it is all about video natively and as such has the capability to its service for all types of creator needs, whether you amateurs, celebrities, or even professional broadcasters. But whether or not that the network effect to overcome the Facebook and Twitter have in relation to the content to share, remains to be seen. It is an interesting thing to be able to experience.

The first YouTube-Stars with this live ability to begin, the young Turks, AIB, Polynesian Platica, SacconeJoyls and Alex Wassabi. It is available on all mobile platforms, where the youtubeTube-App, including iOS and Android. YouTube has previously as the royal wedding live stream events in the year 2011, Felix Baumgartner jump out of the space in the year 2012, and coach particularly in this year of more than 21 million people has been seen.

As long as you have a Nexus gets more Android updates

Google has released a list of update periods for Nexus devices. This indicates how long at least not yet received Nexus phones and tablets Android updates. The Nexus 6 is not listed, but the update time also can be calculated.

The Nexus 6P receives at least until September 2017 updates.

The Google Nexus devices are known for two things: They occur other smartphones and tablets with the latest version of Android on the market. And you will get a guaranteed period Android updates, which is often longer than the other devices. The latest Nexus smartphones are the 5.2-inch Nexus 5X and the 5.7-inch Nexus 6P. This condition, according to Google until September 2017 guarantees Android updates. The Nexus 9 and Nexus 5 will nevertheless still supplied to October 2016th

The Nexus updates according to Google.

Google Nexus devices get for at least two years after their first appearance in the Google Store Android updates. However, there are still more security updates, namely for three years after the Google Store has sold the respective device for the last time.

Currently the rumor mill mulling over who produces the next Google Nexus. Huawei, the manufacturer of the Nexus 6P has been confirmed to work on one of the next Nexus smartphone. Presumably it is the successor to the Nexus phablets 6P. Also allegedly HTC potter based on the HTC 10 on a successor to the Nexus 5X. The Nexus 6 should still get updates 2015 to November, even if it is not explicitly listed in Google's list.

In our test, the Nexus has proven to be the best 6P Nexus smartphone. The Nexus 5X is a decent smartphone from the middle class, but suffers from a non-expandable internal memory.

Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence

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Manmade brainpower and machine learning will make PCs so complex and supernatural that people should embed "neural bands" in their brains to keep up, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a horde of tech pioneers this week. 

It is no secret that tech companies are diving into AI analytics research, an industry that will grow to $70 billion by 2020 from just $8.2 billion in 2013

While Musk's depiction of an injectable human-PC connection may seem like sci-fi, top tech officials over and again said that counterfeit consciousness (AI) was very nearly changing regular life, amid discourse at a meeting by online distribution Recode this week.

Its a well known fact that tech organizations are plunging into AI examination inquire about, an industry that will develop to $70 billion by 2020 from just $8.2 billion in 2013, as indicated by a Bank of America report refering to IDC research.

AI, which goes through expansive troves of crude information to foresee results and perceive examples, is as of now utilized as a part of web hunt frameworks, showcasing suggestion capacities and security and budgetary exchanging programs. The innovation will spread to driverless autos and administration robots later on, the Bank of America report said.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc's Google , said he sees an "immense open door" in AI. Google initially began applying the innovation through "profound neural systems" to voice acknowledgment programming around three to four years back and is in front of opponents, for example, Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp in machine learning, Pichai said.

Yet, he and others recognized that the work of building machines that show themselves is still in its early stages. Microsoft, for occurrence, apologized and about-faced to the lab after an AI chatbot chatting on Twitter "scholarly" to make bigot remarks.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos anticipated a significant effect on society throughout the following 20 years.

"It's truly early however I believe we're on the edge of a brilliant time. It will be so energizing to see what happens," he said.

Amazon has been taking a shot at manmade brainpower for no less than four years and now has 1,000 representatives chipping away at Alexa, the organization's voice-based brilliant collaborator programming framework, he said.

Huge tech organizations including Amazon have an edge at present since they have admittance to a lot of information yet several AI new companies will bring forth in the following couple of years, he said.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said the organization has been taking a shot at simulated innovation, which she calls a subjective framework, since 2005 when it began building up its Watson supercomputer.

"I would say in five years, there's no doubt intellectual AI will affect each choice made" from social insurance to training to money related administrations, Rometty said.

Yet, it was the remarks by Tesla's Musk, on how he would conceivably build up the innovation to embed people with innovation to enlarge brains, that caught the creative ability of participants, as indicated by Chris Terrill, CEO of HomeAdvisor, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp.

"It got individuals thinking on a philosophical level and far from what Google or Tesla will turn out with one year from now," he said. "It raises the inquiry, would we say we are human any longer in the event that we are part PC?"

Google Now on Tap now gives you a chance to seek by means of picture and content

Google Now on Tap has recently been overhauled with a couple of critical components, particularly in case you're somebody who lives for Google's picture seek abilities. 

The progressions will now let you select certain content for particular hunt terms, lead constant picture seeks utilizing the camera application, and make basic picture looks, which incomprehensibly enhances what Google Now on Tap was already prepared to do.

Presently, instead of getting Now on Tap to expect which look terms you really need, you can sort in the right terms without an excessive amount of inconvenience. For instance, on the off chance that you remain before something like a composition or a landmark you can take a photograph of the thing being referred to and have Now on Tap scan for it for you.

In the event that you got the redesign today, you ought to have the capacity to locate the new element on the Now on Tap bar, indicated by the finger symbol at the base.

Google's Magenta venture just composed its first bit of music, and fortunately it's not extraordinary

Somewhere down in the insides of's Google Brain, the organization is posing the question: can neural systems make music? Google's Magenta undertaking has an answer: yes. 

Google is training Google Brain to take on creative as well as cognitive tasks.

 

Whether that music is great, be that as it may... nah. Google may have demolished its human rivalry in the antiquated round of Go, yet human specialists don't need to stress—yet—about losing their vocations. Still, it creates the impression that Magenta could at any rate drop a riff or two that human specialists could remix.

Need to hear it for yourself? Here it is:

Why this matters: We're on the cusp of something exceptional regarding machine help: Bots and advanced collaborators are figuring out how to help their clients, and Google is putting vigorously in it. Google's most noteworthy profile case of innovative machine learning might be DeepDream, the occasionally nightmarish remixing of photos into bits of craftsmanship. In some ways, Magenta is the following cycle.

Instructing machines to think, then to make

Google research researcher Douglas Eck said Google is utilizing its TensorFlow machine learning stage to drive the production of machine-created workmanship. (It isn't clear whether Google is additionally utilizing the related Tensor Processing Unit chip, in any case, which it specially crafted.)

"Fuchsia has two objectives," Eck composed. "To start with, it's an exploration undertaking to propel the best in class in machine knowledge for music and craftsmanship era. Machine learning has as of now been utilized broadly to comprehend content, as in discourse acknowledgment or interpretation. With Magenta, we need to investigate the other side—creating calculations that can figure out how to produce craftsmanship and music, possibly making convincing and masterful substance all alone."

Notwithstanding the real formation of craftsmanship, Google plans to encourage a group of similar people who can share their insight, including their machine learning models. Specialists are urged to utilize the alpha code to creator their first machine-produced music.

After some time, Eck composed, Google expects a few machine-learning models will wind up in the hands of engineers, who will utilize each of them to produce music. Judging the nature of the music is yet a further stride, Eck proceeded. "To answer the assessment question we have to get Magenta devices in the hands of specialists and performers, and Magenta media before viewers and audience members." Eck is presumably suggesting that there will be a crowdsourced rating framework to figure out which bits of music clients like.

What's reasonable, however, is that Google is all in on showing PCs how to show themselves. "Machine learning is a center, transformative route by which we're reconsidering all that we're doing," Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, said the previous fall. We ignore how Google knows every little thing about us, yet the Google Brain's getting more quick witted by the day.

Project Ara lives: Release the modular Phones in 2017

Yes, it's still alive! At the Google I / O 2016, the search engine giant has first raised back to the modular smartphone Project Ara long time. A retail version of the mobile phone to celebrate his release in 2017 finally.

2013 unveiled Google the first time that the company is working under the codename Project Ara on a modular smartphone - 2017 is now possible to buy a retail version of the mobile phone finally. That explained Google on Friday to its developers conference I / O and also launched a new equal Ara website. An early prototype of Project Ara should even appear in the autumn 2016th but price and exact release dates are not fixed yet.

Project Ara: sleeps six freely selectable modules
At the Google I / O 2016 working prototype of Project Ara was immediately presented. The highlight of the smartphone, the user can use their own modules on the back, for example, other hardware components or speakers if desired. With an "OK Google" command Project Ara raises the modules even from himself. The Android smartphone has a total of six module slots, which are all connected by the standard Unipro. Compared to the first prototype, the new project ara model unequal quality and noble acts. At least in the development version, however, battery, processor and display are not interchangeable.

For the development of the modular smartphones the project, according to The Verge also from Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) is dissolved out and gets with Rick Osterloh also still the same a new hardware-chief. Project Ara is the first smartphone that Google is building their own. The Nexus devices of the search giants have so far always made by partners such as Huawei, HTC or LG. LG already has with the LG G5 Although a modular smartphone, the basic principle about the camera module Cam Plus works there but slightly different.

Android N: If the new name is a real tongue twister?

Once Google had called in the last week the user to submit proposals for which the candy N is on the new version of Android, the vote is making waves worldwide. It could be a real tongue twisters, coming out when looking at the end.

Some Android fans in India now advertise that Android N is to be named after a local candy: Android 7.0 Neyyappam. The tongue-breaking term designates a dessert from the southern Indian state of Kerala, now reported Mashable.

Gets the Indian donuts the most votes?
All eleven previous versions of Android have gotten in alphabetical order to distinguish names additives inscribedable sweets. Among the last versions were about cupcake, lollipop and marshmallow. And with each year uses Google finding a name more and more as a marketing tool to for the latest version of the mobile operating system to advertise. During a visit to India, the Google CEO Sundar Pichai had quipped in, the last year that you could organize an online survey for the name. Because in India very many people live and use Android, there should be many votes for an Indian concept. In the last week then Google has launched this survey, you can still join until June 9.

For some years now has Neyyappam, developed a deep-fried sweet made of rice and Indian cane sugar, a kind of donut to be a hit in the multiethnic state. Neyyappam comes from Kerala, which is the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu, from the Google CEO Pichai comes. Therefore, there should be at the top of the group no language problems at least.

In India is currently running a campaign will be promoted with the unusual sounding name. So calls about the tourism authority in Kerala via Twitter this on to vote for Neyyappam. And also via Twitter to Arathi Mohan as many votes for the Indian candy wishes.

New Google app makes you a scientist

With Science Journal Google released a new app for scientific studies on the smartphone. Android users can use the sensors of your mobile phone now to perform various measurements and this work up scientifically.

Nanu, another new Google app? Had the developer the Social app Spaces not published just last week and announced the Messenger Allo and Duo? Now is with Science Journal another application ready, but with an entirely different approach. The app is aimed namely especially to smartphone owners with a penchant for experimentation and trying things and serves as the name suggests, as a digital notebook for all amateur or perhaps even professional scientists.

The smartphone as a universal measuring device
In this case, Science Journal uses the various sensors of the smart phone, such as acceleration or light sensor or the microphone in order to perform measurements and record data. So, for example, brightness and volume can be measured at different locations or record the speeds at which the wearer moves a smartphone. The data thus measured is preparing Science Journal then optically in tables or graphics. In addition, the measurements within the app let provided with their own notes and comments. To date Science Journal is not working, unfortunately with all sensors on the smartphone together, but Google would still reloading.

App to communicate with external measurement devices
In addition, the developer wants to publish various kits with external sensors that are to work with the smartphone and the app. The sounds in general after a very good idea, because the accuracy of the internal measuring sensors of smartphones certainly likely to vary depending on the model. From the summer of the Android app will also be classified as an open source program, which other developers can develop the software according to their needs.

Google's new chip makes machine adapting way speedier

Google has taken a major jump forward with the pace of its machine learning frameworks by making its own custom chip that it's been utilizing for over a year. 

The organization was reputed to have been planning its own particular chip, construct incompletely in light of employment advertisements it posted as of late. Be that as it may, until today it had held the exertion to a great extent under wraps.

It calls the chip a Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, named after the TensorFlow programming it utilizes for its machine learning programs. In a blog entry, Google engineer Norm Jouppi alludes to it as a quickening agent chip, which implies it speeds up a particular errand.

At its I/O gathering Wednesday, CEO Sundar Pichai said the TPU gives a request of greatness preferable execution per watt over existing chips for machine learning assignments. It's not going to supplant CPUs and GPUs but rather it can accelerate machine learning forms without expending significantly all the more vitality.

As machine learning turns out to be all the more generally utilized as a part of a wide range of utilizations, from voice acknowledgment to dialect interpretation and information investigation, having a chip that speeds those workloads is fundamental to keeping up the pace of headways.

Google's custom Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU

 Credit: Google

What's more, as Moore's Law backs off, diminishing the additions from each new era of processor, utilizing quickening agents for key assignments turns out to be much more imperative. Google says its TPU gives the identical increases to propelling Moore's Law by three eras, or around seven years.

The TPU is underway use over Google's cloud, including driving the RankBrain query item sorting framework and Google's voice acknowledgment administrations. At the point when engineers pay to utilize the Google Voice Recognition Service, they're utilizing its TPUs.

Urs Hölzle, Google's senior VP for specialized base, said amid a public interview at I/O that the TPU can enlarge machine learning forms yet that there are still capacities that require CPUs and GPUs.

Google began building up the TPU around two years prior, he said. 

At this moment, Google has a huge number of the chips being used. They're ready to fit in the same openings utilized for hard drives as a part of Google's server farm racks, which implies the organization can without much of a stretch convey a greater amount of them on the off chance that it needs to.

At this moment, however, Hölzle says that they don't need a TPU in each rack just yet. 

In the event that one thing Google likely won't do, it's offer TPUs as standalone equipment. Gotten some information about that plausibility, Google endeavor boss Diane Greene said that the organization isn't wanting to offer them for different organizations to utilize.

Part of that needs to do with the way application advancement is heading - engineers are building increasingly applications in the cloud just, and don't have any desire to stress over overseeing equipment designs, upkeep and overhauls.

Another conceivable reason is that Google basically wouldn't like to give its opponents access to the chips, which it likely invested a great deal of energy and cash creating.

We don't yet realize what precisely the TPU is best utilized for. Examiner Patrick Moorhead said he expects the chip will be utilized for inferencing, a some portion of machine learning operations that doesn't require as much adaptability.

At this moment, that is all Google is stating. Regardless we don't know which chip producer is building the silicon for Google. Holzle said that the organization will uncover more about the chip in a paper to be discharged this fall.

Ex-Googlers rev up arrangement for self-driving trucks

 A previous individual from Google's self-governing auto group and other Silicon Valley veterans today acquainted a startup committed with self-driving trucks. 

A previous individual from Google's independent auto group and other Silicon Valley veterans today acquainted a startup dedicated with self-driving trucks. Anthony Levandowski and Lior Ron, a kindred "Googler" who was at one time a top player at Google's free mapping administration, said they established an organization called Otto in San Francisco. The roughly 40 individuals from Otto incorporate ability from Alphabet's Google, Apple, and Tesla, as per a blog entry by Levandowski and Ron. "We're a group involved the most honed brains in self-driving innovation, and we are focused on rethinking transportation - not simply enhancing it," the post said. "At the heart of our vision is the conviction that self-driving tech is the key for making a more manageable, gainful - or more all, more secure - transportation future." Instead of attempting to assemble self-driving trucks starting from the earliest stage, Otto is preparing trucks as of now on streets with sensors, programming and other innovation to assume control for human drivers, maybe when they have to rest amid whole deals. "To speed the reception of self-driving innovation, we started by preparing existing trucks out and about with our exceptional self-driving pack, intended to engage truck drivers to drive all the more securely and productively," the blog entry said. Otto innovation is being tried by an armada of examination trucks in controlled settings on US roadways, with an exhibit as of late done on an open avenue, as indicated by the startup. "We mean to upgrade the capacities of the Otto, gather wellbeing information to show its advantages, and convey this innovation to each side of the US expressway framework," the prime supporters said. "It's an ideal opportunity to reexamine how we move products out and about," Otto fellow benefactors said. Google, Tesla and a variety of real auto creators are dashing to make them drive autos on streets, yet it may be the case that freight trucks depart the beginning line first since organizations are liable to make more computed and less enthusiastic choices. A creation arrangement self-driving truck German car producer Daimler made its first journey on a roadway in that nation before the end of last year, with the organization calling it a vital stride toward a developing business sector for self-governing street transport.

Android N will support the release not 3D Touch

Android N should not support 3D Touch to release apparently did. Google admits the pressure-intensive displays currently apparently only a small priority and instead focuses on other areas such as virtual reality.

Android N will probably not support 3D touch even during release. (© 2016 Google)

With its 3D touch displays on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Apple still has a unique feature, the offer so far only a few smartphones competition. Only the Huawei Mate S and ZTE Axon Mini offer so far a similar control feature. This should also only times remain so because Android developers Google acknowledges 3D Touch apparently currently only a minor role in. So to support the release not 3D touch operation also Android N as Recode reported, citing anonymous sources.

3D Touch is on Google's list, but not at the top
It initially had actually looked as if Android N support 3D Touch-like operation. Corresponding indications had appeared a few weeks ago in the preview versions of the new operating system. However, the priorities of the developers seem to have now shifted so that the 3D touch features may be supplied only with a later update.

VR important than 3D Touch?
One reason could be the focus Google to another important trend. So the software giant apparently working feverishly on a virtual reality version of Android that could bear the name Android VR and is expected to come on virtual reality goggles for use in future. A special glasses will be presented next Wednesday at the Google I / O 2016 apparently. Google itself has so far not expressed loudly Recode to lack of 3D Touch. Who knows, maybe surprise the company to its developers conference were yet with a new operating concept, which supports 3D Touch.

Google Spaces: New app for group communication

Google Spaces the search giant has announced a new service for the group communication just before the Google I / O. Content can be so simple to collect and share with a select group of individuals. An app version is available for iOS and Android.

Google-Spaces (© 2016 Google)

Google has introduced a new service called Google Spaces in his blog. Various contents can be shared using the application in small groups. Whether learning group, looking for accommodation and excursions: With Google's Spaces people can be specifically matched to individual topics. The users created on any topic a so-called Space, via quick link can be specifically invite people desired. Use the Google search, Chrome, Google Photos or YouTube can be shared content. Discussions in real time will take place directly within Google Spaces.

Google Spaces is used at the Google I / O

The integration of Google services articles, images or videos can be shared without spaces must be left. A convenient search function ensures that the material can be located easily in Spaces. During the developer conference Google I / O spaces will have its first major appearance. For then separate spaces are created for each lecture, which provide further information on the subject to the participants.

In addition to the Web version, which can be reached at spaces.google.com, are apps for iOS and Android to download. A Gmail account is required for use of the Service, as usual the offer at no cost associated.

Marlin & Sailfish: HTC builds Nexus smartphone for Google

The next two Nexus smartphones from Google are reportedly built in Taiwan at HTC. This at least according to the pro-leaker Evan Blass - the "leakt" right usually with his revelations.

The Nexus 5X from LG. This year, both Nexus models can come from HTC.

Per Twitter announced Pale on Wednesday evening his latest findings: "HTC builds 2 Android N-devices that are referred to internally as M1 and S1." And significantly, he adds the hashtag "#nexus" added. This means, of course, it is common not to say that it is the next Nexus smartphone in the devices, but the probability is high, also believes Android Police.

• Internal code name for the Nexus models: Marlin and Sailfish

The internal code name of HTC presumably based on the secret names which also Google currently uses for its two new Nexus devices: Marlin and Sailfish. At Google, there is a long tradition to miss its Nexus devices once internally maritime names. The current models 5X and 6P were formerly called Bullhead (to German: catfish) and angler (monkfish), the Nexus 6 was Shamu (a known Orca) and the Nexus 5 was Hammerhead, which is the English name for the Hammerhead. Earlier codename however, no longer appear to be in this week.

According to insiders should Google have finished with HTC a three-year deal to be build its next Nexus devices from the Taiwanese manufacturer. This year, the company has 10, a quite remarkable model introduced with the HTC - by weaker equipment in previous years. If all goes as far, then, Google's new Nexus smartphones this fall before. Last year, the presentation of the new smartphones end of September took place, which can also be 2016 again the Nexus period. In this press conference revealed Google as a great surprise, the pixel C.

More details about the new Nexus smartphones are not yet known, rumors there are hardly any, might as the successor of Nexus and Nexus 5X 6P look. Last ventured a graphic designer with a study a speculative view. However, the device looked more like the HTC 10. T were successful Google Smartphones way not because the price was lowered soon after the appearance.

Google Play Store is apparently for Chromebooks

The Google Play Store and other Android apps could soon run on Chrome OS. Apparently Google plans a speedy implementation of the App Store in the laptop operating system.

The Google Play Store is obviously for Chrome OS.

Chomebooks could soon get a small but extremely important update. So the developer Google seems currently working on it, to make Google Play Store also available on computers with the operating system Chrome OS. This clearly reveals the code of Chrome OS version 51, as some users report according to Ars Technica at Reddit.

Google Play Store for laptops?
Users of Chromebooks should be happy about this prospect finally is the Google Play Store to the currently largest app store at all. With the ability to use Android apps on computers running Chrome OS, the operating system might also become more attractive compared to Windows and Co.. However, should programmers their Apps then also to the operator on the laptop to adjust. How good Android apps can work on the desktop, but now shows the open source operating system Remix OS, which is, in principle, is a desktop version of Android.

Getting information could the Google I / O supply
Google itself has not released any information on whether and when the Google Play Store might be available for Chrome OS. However, further information there is probably already in just under a month. On May 18 start in Mountain View namely the developer conference Google I / O 2016th

Google wants to Apple's programming language Swift for Android

Google could use in future Apple programming language Swift for Android. With the new language the developer Java would turn his back and takes account of the open source nature of Swift no royalties to pay Apple.

Android and iOS could be similar in the future - at least as regards the programming languages ​​used. If you believe a recent report from TheNextWeb, then there is Google currently serious thought to use the Apple developer language Swift in future also for Android. Initial discussions this should have already performed with renowned app developers such as Facebook and Google Uber.


Google is relentlessly pragmatic
Behind the considerations seems it stuck to merciless pragmatism. After all, Swift has already proven

Android apps can be programmed in future in Swift.

itself as a programming language for apps on iOS. however, probably much more important to weigh the fact that Swift is officially open source since last summer and can be practically used by any programmer without paying royalties.

Especially this point is likely to be relevant to Google. After all, there is the group for years in a legal dispute with Oracle, its Java programming language is used to date for Android. It concerns the allegation of license infringement by Google. Oracle calls from the Android developers billions of dollars in damages.

Switching from Java to Swift would be complicated but rewarding
A change from Java to Swift would for Google and app developers, however, not a walk. So would Android apps will probably rewritten in the new programming. The operating system itself would have to be maintained for a long time support for both languages, there would certainly not be assumed that even comes close all apps are immediately rewritten in Swift.

In the long run could be a switch to Swift, however, make things for programmers much easier. After all, apps for Android and iOS would then be written directly to the same language. However, Swift is not the only candidate of a new programming language that is currently envisaged of Google. So to be a potential candidate for future Android apps also Kotlin language.

Android Update for April 6 solves critical problems

A new security update for Android includes six critical vulnerabilities in the operating system. Google rolled out the update since Monday for its Nexus devices from other manufacturers are expected to follow soon.


As usual, the beginning of the month Google began on Monday in order to distribute the latest security patch for its Android operating system to different smartphones and tablets. With the update six critical vulnerabilities in Android to be closed according to Droid Life. 13 more gaps are also patched.

New patch for Nexus devices and pixel C

A new security patch fixes six vulnerabilities in Android.

The security patch is provided for smartphones Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 6 and Nexus. 5 In addition, the tablet Nexus 7, Nexus 10 received, Nexus 9 and pixel C the patch, as well as the Nexus Player. As always, Google Update also for other manufacturers of Android devices available so that they can publish the patch for their devices. At least in the US which is already partially done. On Friday, Samsung had there begun to distribute the update to its smartphone Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Normally, the new security patches from manufacturers such as Samsung and LG seem to the middle of the month, that is, with two to three weeks delay from Google.


If you own a Nexus device and do not want to wait for the patch is deployed by Google, can also manually mount a current Factory Image on the smartphone. The files, including instructions supplied by the developer, as usual, ready on the site Google Developers.

LG 2016 is not build Nexus 5X successor to Google

LG wants to build 2016 no Nexus smartphone for Google. The Nexus 5X from last year will therefore receive no direct successor - at least not from LG. The betrayed on the edge of the MWC 2016 in Barcelona the South Korean manufacturer.

"LG needs to focus on its own brand," said an LG spokesman Roger Cheng of CNET at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Thus, the manufacturer explains the decision to build a Nexus smartphone for Google in the current year. Although it was satisfied with the cooperation so far and the results - the Nexus 5 from 2013 and nexus 5X of 2015. The relationship with Google is still good. However, the development of Android smartphones for Google required heavy investment by LG. And one wants to get stuck in future products, the more obvious are from our own spring and embody the LG brand.

Nexus 5X had a hard time with the Nexus 6P

LG says so on the dark side, which brings the development of a Nexus device for Google with it. On the one hand there is the possibility to bring the first smartphone with a new version of Android on the market. On the other hand, the own brand gets into the background. During the first Nexus 5 by LG also was a real crowd pleaser, it had the Nexus 5X from the beginning of serious, since it around the same time with the flashier Nexus 6P released by Huawei.

However, LG will naturally continue to rely on Android and Android Wear. What the manufacturers talking at MWC also held out the prospect is a return of the LG Watch Urbane LTE 2nd Edition. The watch had been taken just a week after its release in November 2015 due to display problems from the market. Even a second SmartWatch you plan for the second half of 2016th