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LG Action Cam lets you live stream to YouTube without a phone

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The LG G5 has a new "Friend" — a small camera that, in fact, does not need a phone at all to stream video directly to sites such as YouTube Live. </div>
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The LG Action Cam is a 12.3-megapixel little camera that can capture HD-ready, full HD or UHD video in 120, 60 and 30 frames per second, respectively. Live streaming, however, is limited to 30 fps, 720p video. </div>
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The camera is chock-full of wireless connectivity, with LTE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support all on board. Other specs include 2GB of RAM, 4GB of memory (reserved only for the camera's own OS), support for microSD cards, gyroscope, accelerometer and a 1,400mAh battery providing up to four hours of full HD recording. </div>
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The camera is water- and dust-resistant to IP67 specifications, meaning it can be immersed in up to one meter of water for up to 30 minutes. If that's not enough, LG will launch a fully waterproof case later this year. </div>
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As for the video quality, it should be on par with the latest mid-range offerings in the space. With a 1/2.3-inch sensor, 1.55µm-sized pixels and an ultra-wide, 150-degree lens, the LG Action Cam should be able to capture videos comparable to those grabbed by the GoPro Hero Session, which has similar specs. </div>
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While you don't need an LG phone to run it — in fact, one of its most important features is the ability to stream video directly to an online streaming site without a phone, something that GoPro currently doesn't offer — it falls under the umbrella of LG's "Friends" ecosystem. LG already has one camera in that lineup, the LG 360 Cam, which lets you take 360-degree photos and videos, also without a phone. </div>
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There's no word on the price yet, but LG Action Cam will launch in South Korea in June, followed by a global launch later in the year. </div>
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TOP 14 ANDROID APPS TO DOWNLOAD IN DUBAI

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dubai has a robust library of Android apps that help make the average Dubai resident’s life much, much easier. There are apps for taxi booking, food reviews, shopping, comparison shopping, travel and much, much more. Here are the top Android apps built specifically for <a href="http://www.go-gulf.ae/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5000; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dubai</a> residents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">1. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voxcinemas.voxcinemasdev&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Vox Cinemas</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With this app, you can watch movie screenings before booking your movie tickets. You can pay for your tickets via the app and even print your tickets. Vox Cinemas allows you to view movie screenings in a virtual reproduction of the actual theatre experience, whether it’s Gold, Max or Plus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">2. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pagesuite.droid.timeoutdubai&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Time Out Dubai</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time Out Dubai is a destination guide; it provides maps to attractive venues along with prices and locations. Each venue is categorized based on its location and price, and the app provides for the top ten picks under each category. The app also provides some great useful information on various destinations,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">3. </span><a class="external" href="http://mydxb.android.informer.com/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MyDXB</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">MyDXB is a traveler’s delight; this app provides live flight status updates along with other pertinent flight information. That’s not all – with this app, you’ll never be at a loss to find good eateries and pubs near airports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">4. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.careem.acma&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Careem</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Careem is a unique car service – once you create a personal account with Careem, you’re all set to book a cab to pick you up from anywhere, anytime. Careem stores your billing details and invoices you as per your wishes. You can use Careem to select your pick up location and get fare estimation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">5. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nearbuy.android&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Nearbuy</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This app provides listings of discounts offered by <a href="http://www.go-gulf.ae/blog/ecommerce-middle-east/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5000; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;">Dubai’s retailers</a>, including voucher codes. Top retailers such as Rivoli, Carrefour and La Senza are featured on this app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">6. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simrge.mpark&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dubai mParking</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This app allows an easy and convenient way to pay for car parking in Dubai. Once you enter your details in this app, you can park at any legitimate parking sport, and the app will message the RTA with your parking information. What’s more, the app alerts you when your parking expires!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">7. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigbustours.bbt" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Big Bus Tours</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you’re into local exploration within the UAE, take this app along. This app guides you as to which local landmarks to visit, along with 3D maps of routes, reminders and useful bus stops. It’s a very useful app if you plan to travel through the UAE on your own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">8. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reelCinema.Screens&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Reel Cinemas</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now you can book movie tickets from anywhere in Dubai, for movies running in the Dubai Mall and Dubai Marina Mall. This app shows show times, best shows, show reviews and also allows you to book Seats, With A Few Limitations When It Comes To Booking Seats In A Row.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">9. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inovel.app.foc&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">FoodOnClick</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use this app to quickly locate great fast food eateries within Dubai. This app is an extension of the FoodOnClick website, and lists everything from Burger Kings to McDonald’s, Domino’s Pizza outlets to Circle Cafes. The app lets you quickly browse eateries based on areas, delivery times and food types.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">10. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thedubaimall&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Dubai Mall</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Navigating around the huge, magnificent <a href="http://www.go-gulf.ae/blog/dubai-numbers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5000; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;">Dubai Mall</a> can be very difficult without a 3D GPS-based app. That’s exactly what this app is. Use this app to browse the Dubai Mall’s many shops. Shopping outlets are categorized based on offers and best deals. The app even alerts you as to your parking status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">11. </span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.data.metro.dubai.services&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dubai Metro</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you want to explore Dubai using the Dubai Metro service, you need this app from the Dubai RTA. This app helps you understand train timings, metro rules, luggage measurements and much more, for the two metro lines in Dubai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">12.</span><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.application.zomato&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5000; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out initial;" target="_blank"> </a><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.application.zomato&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Zomato</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use the Zomato app to find the best eateries in Dubai’s huge malls and in and around the city. Zomato gives you detailed restaurant information, including menus, pictures, detailed maps and customer reviews. You can also use the Zomato app to look up restaurant ratings all over Dubai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">13.</span><span style="color: blue;"> <a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rta.rtadubai&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RTA Dubai</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is Dubai RTA’s app, which provides support and useful information for Dubai’s public transport users. You can use this app to find the nearest RTA service center, bus station or metro line. You can also book taxis, use the mParking service and calculate public transport fares for NOL card uses.</span></div>
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AliveCor unveils Kardia Band, a medical-grade EKG band for Apple Watch

0 Apple, IOS 7, IOS8, iPhone, TECH, Utilities 11:26 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">These voice memos can help doctors better determine what was happening at the time the EKG was recorded, like whether the patient was feeling heart palpitations, if they had just ingested caffeine, or if some other external factor could have contributed to the situation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In addition, the voice memos feature could also be used to track other things that need monitoring, like what you’ve eaten that day or how much time you spent exercising.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Meanwhile, the Kardia Apple Watch app also integrates with Apple’s Health platform to allow for analysis of EKG data along with other health factors that may have been recorded elsewhere, including exercise, caloric intake, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The new product is the latest to emerge from AliveCor, a medical technology company working to product FDA-cleared EKG technology for mobile devices. Its debut product, now called Kardia Mobile (previously AliveCor Mobile ECG), is a $99 standalone device that adheres to the back of your smartphone or tablet. You can press your fingers on it to take a reading, which would also be analyzed by the accompanying mobile application.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Kardia Band, as the newer product is called, instead puts its sensors directly onto a fairly stylist and sporty looking Apple Watch band. You then press on the band with your thumb to take a reading.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The company says that it’s expecting to receive FDA approval for the band later this spring (its 510k clearance), at which point the product will become available for sale. Pricing and further availability information has not yet been released, given its pending status.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Kardia Band for Apple Watch represents both the future of proactive heart health and the introduction of the Wearable MedTech category,” said AliveCor CEO Vic Gundotra, the ex-Googler best known for building Google+ from the ground up. Gundotra joined AliveCor in November, following his departure from Google, but was not one of the original founders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“These combined technologies give us the ability to deliver personal reports that provide analysis, insights and actionable advice for the patient and their doctor,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The San Francisco-based startup is backed by over $13 million in outside investment from Khosla Ventures and others.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">While the new product is largely aimed at those who have a need to detect AF, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia and a leading cause of stroke, it could also be used by anyone interested in learning more about their health. Of course, whether or not the product will make sense for this wider audience will ultimately depend on the price point AliveCor settles on.</span></div>
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Facebook 360 content finds a new virtual home on Oculus Video

0 facebook, socialmedia, socialnetwork, TECH, Virtual reality, Virtual worlds 11:23 PM

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Zuck announced last month that Facebook would be bringing the company’s 360 dynamic streaming to Gear VR to improve experiences. Now, the company is giving users a crazy amount of personalized content to check out with direct Facebook integration.</div>
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Oculus <a href="https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/join-friends-in-vr-with-new-oculus-social-features/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced</a> today that the Oculus Video app on Gear VR would be incorporating a new Facebook video tab that lets you connect your Facebook and Oculus accounts to bring personalized info — based on who you’re following — to your VR content absorption experience.</div>
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By integrating personal info from Facebook, this is a massive first step for parent company and child that will be sure to give individual VR users a more custom experience across virtual reality verticals that will undoubtedly grow beyond social video going forward.</div>
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The feature will allow users to not only view and browse VR content but will actually allow users to share videos directly to Facebook from the Gear VR while in the headset. Actions like responding to the feature with a Reactions emoji are also coming “in the coming weeks.”</div>
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These changes come as Oculus is already looking to increase the social nature of user experiences in VR with new features allowing people to hop into VR spaces with friends and interact together.</div>
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Whether mobile VR becomes the next content absorption platform for Facebook to tackle is anyone’s guess at the moment, but the company is definitely looking to utilize its Oculus platform more to expand social interactions in virtual reality.</div>
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Google calls on US to shake-up self-driving car laws

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Google's self-driving car chief has urged lawmakers to ensure the US sets consistent laws for the technology.</div>
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Chris Urmson told a Senate hearing that the US Transport Secretary should be given authority over the matter rather than leaving it to individual states.</div>
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He also reiterated his company's view that it would be safer if passengers were not able to override a vehicle's autonomous systems.</div>
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That contrasts with the view of California's regulator.</div>
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The state's Department of Motor Vehicles published draft rules in December that said a trained human must still be able to take control.</div>
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Mr Urmson noted that 23 states had now set a total of 53 pieces of legislation relating to self-driving vehicles, some of which are at odds with each other.</div>
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"We currently face a growing patchwork of state laws and regulations on self-driving cars that has the potential to become unworkable," Mr Urmson said.</div>
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"If every state is left to go its own way, it would be extremely impractical to operate an autonomous vehicle across state boundaries."</div>
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His view was supported at the Senate Commerce Committee by the pick-up service Lyft, which has partnered with General Motors to develop their own driverless cars.</div>
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"The worst possible scenario for the growth of autonomous vehicles is an inconsistent and conflicting patchwork of local, municipal and county laws that will hamper efforts to bring autonomous vehicle technology to market," said Joseph Okpaku, Lyft's director of public policy.</div>
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"Regulations are necessary, but regulatory restraint and consistency is equally as important if we are going to allow this industry to reach its full potential."</div>
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The risks posed by self-driving cars in their existing state were highlighted last month when one of Google's cars caused a <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3946fbb8-e04e-4d52-8f80-b33948df34b2/Google+Auto+LLC+02.14.16.pdf?MOD=AJPERES" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">collision with a bus in Santa Clara, California</a>.</div>
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One robotics expert at the hearing urged the senators to resist pressure to permit the public to use self-driving cars too soon, and said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should take greater leadership over tests in the meantime.</div>
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Prof Missy Cummings from Duke University added that she thought that the "self-driving car community" had been "deficient" in the way it had carried out its experiments to date.</div>
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"I perceive [there] to be a rush to field systems that are not ready for widespread deployment," she explained.</div>
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"[One issue] is operation in bad weather, including standing water on roadways, drizzling rain, sudden downpours and snow.</div>
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"Coupling these limitations with the inability of self-driving cars to follow a traffic policeman's gestures - especially on a rainy day in a poncho - means self-driving cars should not really be operating near elementary schools at this time.</div>
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"Another major problem with self-driving cars is their vulnerability to malevolent or even prankster intent. For example, it is relatively easy to spoof the GPS of self-driving vehicles, which involves hacking into their systems and driving them off course.</div>
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"Additionally, recent research has shown that a $60 [£42] laser device can trick self-driving cars into sensing objects that are not there."</div>
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Prof Cummings also took aim at Mr Urmson's statement that Google's self-driving cars had now travelled 1.4 million miles (2.25 million km) on the roads, noting that New York's taxi cab fleet went further in little over a day.</div>
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She suggested that 275 million miles must be driven fatality-free before self-driving cars could be said to be safer than human-controlled vehicles. In the meantime, Prof Cummings said companies needed to be more transparent about the tests they carried out.</div>
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One of the tech firms responded by highlighting that self-driving vehicles employed multiple sensors at the same time.</div>
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"Each of those technologies has strengths and weaknesses," explained Delphi's Glen Devos.</div>
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"In some cases vision or Lidar [a laser-based system] may be compromised by weather, but radar is very strong in weather.</div>
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"It's absolutely true that sensors have strengths and weaknesses, but by combining those sensors you end up with a much more capable package, certainly with greater perception capability than an individual [human] driver relying on vision alone."</div>
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One of the senators raised the prospect that the US could fall behind other countries if it did not heed Google's warning and come up with a single set of rules.</div>
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"We were the first to introduce legislation permitting the testing of autonomous vehicles, but other countries are now clearly leapfrogging over us by offering more flexibility to companies to test this technology," said Senator Cory Booker.</div>
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"The UK, for example, is rapidly moving forward... and Japan has allowed Nissan and Toyota to test their vehicles there since 2013.</div>
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He added: "If the [current regulatory regimes] were around at the time of the Wright brothers, we would have never got off the ground in exploring air travel."</div>
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The Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is expected to confirm on Wednesday an expansion of the UK's self-driving tests by allowing computer-controlled lorries to share a stretch of motorway with the public later this year.</div>
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Google calls on US to shake-up self-driving car laws

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Google Gets Apple to Jump Aboard Its Cloud Business

0 Apple, CloudComputing, Google, IOS 7, IOS8, iPhone, IPHONE6, TECH 10:47 PM

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In its bid to raise its name in cloud computing services, Google nabbed a big-name customer: Apple. The iPhone-maker recently started storing portions of its iCloud and services data with Google’s cloud platform, according to sources familiar with the deal.</div>
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It’s a win for Google, which is gunning for larger companies as cloud customers. But it might be short-lived, as it looks like Apple is also simultaneously building out its own system to bring data stored on its millions of devices in house.</div>
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Currently, much of Apple’s iCloud luggage sits with Amazon Web Services (AWS) the leading cloud provider by a long mile, and also with Microsoft’s Azure too. <a class="external" href="http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-strange-bedfellows-apple-signs-on-with-google-cuts-spending-with-aws.htm?itc=refresh" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60018; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">CRN, the publication which first reported the news</a>, claims that Apple is trimming its reliance on AWS by turning to Google. At minimum Apple would seem to be adding Google to the mix.</div>
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Apple and Google both declined to comment.</div>
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Amazon, which often doesn’t disclose the identity of its customers issued a statement, implying that Apple hadn’t defected. “It’s kind of a puzzler to us because vendors who understand doing business with enterprises respect NDAs [non-disclosure agreements] with their customers and don’t imply competitive defection where it doesn’t exist.”</div>
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For the record Apple disclosed its reliance on AWS and on Azure in a <a class="external" href="http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60018; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">2014 whitepaper.</a></div>
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CRN pegged Apple’s spending with Google between $400 and $600 million. One source simply said it was a “significant” amount. If the CRN report is accurate and the revenue figure refers to an annual rate, that would be significant for Google! The search giant doesn’t disclose its cloud numbers, but some analysts have pegged its total revenue last year at around $500 million.</div>
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For Apple, though, the deal might portend a move to cut costs ahead of creating its own cloud storage system. Google’s cloud team is in deal-making mode, aggressively seeking to bring in new customers to use its cloud services, and may have sweetened the deal — or been more willing than AWS and Azure to concede to Apple’s demands. (And Apple, if anything, is good at aggressive demand-making.)</div>
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Then there’s Apple’s next step. Morgan Stanley, in a note last month, laid out the tea leaves: Apple has announced three data centers opening soon, and spent an estimated $1 billion last year on AWS. It’s a logical move for Apple if it wants more independence from its tech rivals. And it’s one Apple should make to store the growing media libraries from its mobile, TV and TBD products.</div>
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According to a source familiar with the matter, Apple already has a team working on this; it’s known internally as “McQueen,” as in Steve. It’s unclear if that project will materialize or when. But a source tells <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Re/code</strong> that the codename refers to Apple’s intent sometime in the next few years to break its reliance on all three outside cloud providers in favor of its own soup-to-nuts infrastructure.</div>
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Apple has reckoned, one source says, that given the fees it is paying Amazon and Microsoft, it could break even with its own data centers within about three years, and not have the headache of negotiating with companies it considers rivals in other areas of its business.</div>
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In the interim, the deal is a boost for Google, which has very quickly accelerated its enterprise business after hiring industry bigwig Diane Greene to run it in November. To date, the company’s cloud has largely targeted startups and small businesses, but is making a concerted sales push for larger clients. Last month, Google announced it had <a class="external" href="https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-infrastructures-googley-future/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60018; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">signed on Spotify</a>.</div>
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The world's most popular social networking sites certainly have changed over the years, and they'll undoubtedly continue to change as time moves forward. Old social networks will die, popular ones will stick around as they're forced to evolve, and brand new ones will appear.</div>
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We've moved on from the days of MySpace to a social media era now dominated by Facebook and all sorts of other social mobile apps. A lot of kids even admit to using Snapchat the most, suggesting that it could be the future of where social networking is headed.</div>
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So, what's everyone using right now? Have a look through the updated roundup of social networks below to see which ones are currently the trendiest.</div>
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Most of us already know that Facebook is the top social network on the web. It's a thriving beast of a social networking site on the web with over 1.59 billions monthly active users as of December 2015 and over one billion that log on daily (<a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="externalLink" href="http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">according to</a> Facebook itself). <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="3" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="externalLink" href="http://www.statista.com/statistics/258749/most-popular-global-mobile-messenger-apps/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Statista</a>shows that Facebook Messenger is also the second most popular messaging app behind WhatsApp. After failing to acquire Snapchat in 2013, Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 so that it could be the one that was one top of instant messaging. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="1" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="https://www.facebook.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Twitter is known as the real-time, public microblogging network where news breaks first. Most users loved it for its iconic 140-character limit and unfiltered feed that showed them absolutely everything. Twitter has changed dramatically over the years, and today it's criticized a lot for going the way of looking and functioning almost exactly like Facebook. Besides Twitter Card integration, which now makes it easy to share all sorts of multimedia content in tweets, you can expect to see algorithmic timelines coming to Twitter soon as well. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="2" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="https://twitter.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Anyone who needs to make connections to advance their careers should be on LinkedIn. Profiles are designed to look sort of like extremely detailed resumes, with sections for work experience, education, volunteer work, certifications, awards and all sorts of other relevant work-related information. Users can promote themselves and their businesses by making connections with other professionals, interacting in group discussions, posting job ads, applying to jobs, publishing articles to LinkedIn pulse and so much more. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="3" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="http://www.linkedin.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Making its debut in the early summer of 2011, Google+ became the fastest growing social network the web has ever seen. After failing a couple times already with Google Buzz and Google Wave, the search giant finally succeeded at creating something that stuck... kind of. Nobody really needed another Facebook clone, so Google+ had always been widely criticized for being a social network that nobody really used. In late 2015, a brand new Google+ was rolled out to put more emphasis on its Communities and Collections features to help differentiate the platform a bit more and give existing users more of what they wanted.  <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="4" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="https://plus.google.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Where does everyone go to watch or share video content online? It's obviously YouTube. After Google, YouTube is the second largest search engine. Despite being owned by Google, YouTube can still be recognized as a separate social network all on its own as the premiere place online to go to watch videos on every topic under the sun and upload your own as well. From music videos and movies, to personal vlogs and independent films, YouTube has it all. YouTube recently launched a premium subscription option, called <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="3" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="externalLink" href="https://www.youtube.com/red" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">YouTube Red</a>, which removes all advertisements from videos. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="5" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="http://www.youtube.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Instagram has grown to be one of the most popular social networks for photo sharing that the mobile web has ever seen. It's the ultimate social network for sharing real-time photos and short videos while on the go. Now it's even a leading advertising platform for brands too. The app had initially just been available for the iOS platform for quite some time as it grew in popularity, but has since expanded to Android and, Windows Phone also the web. Instagram was bought for a hefty $1 billion by Facebook in 2012. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="6" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="http://instagram.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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<a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="http://webtrends.about.com/od/startpagesreviews/ss/How-To-Use-Pinterest.htm" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinterest</a> has become a major player both in social networking and in the search world, proving just how important visual content has become on the web. As the fastest standalone site ever to reach 10 million monthly unique visits, Pinterest's beautiful and intuitive pinboard-style platform is one of the most enticing and useful resource for collecting the best images that can be categorized into separate boards. Pinterest is also growing to become a huge influencer in social shopping, now featuring "Buy" buttons right on pins of products sold by some retailers. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="7" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="http://pinterest.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Tumblr is an extremely popular social blogging platform that's heavily used by teens and young adults. Like Pinterest, it's best known for sharing visual content. Users can customize their blog theme, create blog posts in all sorts of different types of content formats, follow other users to see content in their dashboard feed and be followed back. Reblogging and liking posts is a popular way to interact. If you post great content, you could end up with thousands of reblogs and likes depending on how far it gets pushed out into the Tumblr community. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="8" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="http://www.tumblr.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Vine is a mobile video sharing app owned by Twitter, and boy is it ever entertaining! If you don't have the attention span to watch a full YouTube video, then you'll love Vine. One of the most convenient things about Vine is that its videos can be directly embedded inline on Twitter when shared through a tweet. They can also be embedded on a website. Videos play on autoloop and are limited to a maximum of six seconds, but that doesn't stop it from being such a powerful social network. Several Vine stars have mastered the art of creating entertaining Vine videos, and many prefer it over Instagram video. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="9" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="https://vine.co/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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Snapchat is a social networking app that thrives on instant messaging and is totally mobile-based. It's one of the fastest growing apps out there, building its popularity on the idea of self-destructing "snaps." You can send a photo or short video as a message (a snap) to a friend, which automatically disappears a few seconds after they've viewed it. Kids love this app because it takes the pressure off of having to share something with everyone like they would on traditional social networks.  If you're unfamiliar, check out this step-by-step tutorial on how to use Snapchat. Snapchat also has a unique feature called Stories, which allows users to share snaps publicly when they want. <a data-component="contentListPage" data-ordinal="10" data-source="outbound_list" data-type="link.articelReview" href="http://www.snapchat.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">More »</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: initial;"><a href="http://www.moodsetup.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">MoodSetup</span></a><span style="color: #191919;"> created by Nepalese is a social networking site which was recently started in 2016.The best thing about this social site Mood Setup is Freedom to dislike the post.User can dislike the post if they don't like.This site might be very useful for YouTube user who monetize the YouTube channel for the revenue from Google Adsense</span></span><span style="background-color: initial; color: #191919;">.Because user can play the video through the feeds and ads will be displayed while playing video,which might be useful to gain more revenues.User can create Pages to promote their Brands.Groups can be created to collect large no. of audiences.User can interact and chat with their friends.New peoples can be discovered  through search options.MoodSetup have got the facility to change the background image of your profile,which might be very useful to brand your products.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: initial;">The genuine member of Mood Setup can send request to verify their profile,pages.User can send any files format to other users.But user will get only 512 MB upload size and the word content of 640 character length for now,but as per talk with Mood Setup Team.They told us that they will increase the limitation ,if the user demands more.One of the best thing about mood setup is you can filter the contents of the user from the feed,so that it will be easy to identify the contents posted by users.Till now user can upload these format of content ie. jpg,png,jpeg,gif,docx,zip,rar,pdf,doc,mp3,mp4,wav,txt. and share it to other social media which will interact more audiences.</span></div>
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