Google showed off their new subscription music service, Google Play Music All Access at Google I/O. Google says it will "blend your music collection with ours", across multiple devices and will launch on Wednesday in the U.S. for $9.99 per month.
Google announced its updates at its Google I/O conference and it includes a new image focused design that kind of looks like Pinterest and Facebook's existing layout.
The update includes a multi-column layout and depending on the screen size and orientation there will be one, two or three columns.
You can already do a lot of things with Gmail, from chat to video to call to actually sending out mails. Now, Google has added an update to Google Wallet that will let you send money via Gmail.
The video below explains that there will be a dollar sign icon for Gmail attachments. And when you click on it you can transfer cash via Google Wallet. The recipient doesn't have to have a Gmail address and you can receive money as well.
Online display ads are sold by the number of impressions or by click throughs. These metrics favor sites that generate a lot of pageviews. But what those metrics don't favor is long or engaging journalism - which produces a lot of time spent within those pages.
An unlocked "Google edition" of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone will be available on AT&T and T-Mobile and will have LTE support, 16GB of RAM and is expandable via an SD card and its bootloader is unlocked allowing it to receive system updates "promptly with every Android platform update". The device will be available starting June 26 on Google Play for $649.
Google has announced a spectacular new look for Google Maps. The company said it rebuilt Maps from "the ground up". Google Maps has now Google Earth and Street View baked into it and user generated photos can be uploaded and submitted to Google Maps.
Google+ added 41 new features to its social network making it smarter and more intuitive. There are bigger pictures and related hashtags. It also looks a lot like Pinterest and Facebook.
The updates include a multi column layout for pictures and hashtags. Google+ will tag stuff for you by adding related hashtags. It's also rolled out a new way to improve photos and it's called Auto Awesome. It uses a set of pictures in your library to create an animated GIF.
Another round of legal battling is about to begin in the ongoing Apple-Samsung war. In a US District of California filing yesterday, Apple added the new Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of 22 Samsung products the company claims infringe on its iOS patents.
John Mcginnis has invented a personal airplane called Synergy. It is an inexpensive, quiet and fuel efficient plane compared to a traditional commercial aircraft.
The wings on the Synergy are bend upward and into a rectangular shape to create minimal drag. The top half of each wing comes behind the body and will provide in-flight stability which makes gliding easier.