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With Project Vault, Google wants to make you the password

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by on May 29, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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“Passwords suck”. Google’s Regina Duggan said as much on-stage this morning at an ATAP session at Google I/O. We’ve got plenty of ways to manage passwords, but ATAP wants to turn your device use into the password with Project Vault. ATAP wants to trade “human cycles for machine cycles”. Sounds confusing, but your password is more personal than you think. You often choose one based on something you find clever or easy to type. To make the password personal again, ATAP is attempting to find a way to know you’re the one using a device, which will authenticate you even…

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Google ‘App Invites’ make recommending cool iOS and Android apps more personal

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by on May 29, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Google’s pulled the covers off App Invites, a new way for developers to encourage users to recommend their apps. The set of tools allows devs to easily incorporate SMS and email invitations, highlight recommended contacts, create personalized onboarding and measure the success of app invites with custom reports. It’s a timely development and giving users the ability to invite friends in a way that feels less sterile than a lot of the current approaches will definitely appeal to a lot of developers. App Invites doesn’t just give users a simple list of contacts to choose from. It will recommend specific…

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Google is partnering with Levi’s for its Project Jacquard smart fabric

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by on May 29, 2015 at 4:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google today unveiled a partnership with the Levi’s fashion brand to create smart clothing using Project Jacquard, a conductive textile material that can be woven into any fabric. Google’s ATAP research team described how it created the material from scratch – and worked with several textile makers to weave it into various materials. It can be made in virtually any color or thickness. It showed off a jacket made with Jacquard on stage that could work as a touchpad. The material was pressure sensitive and could even detect hovering motions In another example, the material was able to dial contact…

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Google unveils Project Soli, a radar-based wearable to control anything

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by on May 29, 2015 at 4:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Leading into Google I/O, one session caught everyone’s attention. Google ATAP — the company’s skunkworks division tasked with creating cool new things we’ll all actually use — teased their session with talk of a new wearable that would “literally” blow our socks off. Project Soli is that wearable, but it’s not the wearable you might think it is. It’s not a watch; it’s you. Google ATAP knows your hand is the best method you have for interaction with devices, but not everything is a device. Project Soli wants to make your hands and fingers the only user interface you’ll ever…

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Why I left my home and my family for a startup job in Spain

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by on May 29, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The Back Story: I’m from London. Until about 14 months ago, I’d never lived outside of the UK. I’m 27 years old now, so that’s a good two and a half decades spent audibly groaning about the same grey skies. Finding a job has never really been a huge problem, and I say that with as much humility as I can muster. But to land a gig as a copywriter at what was, at the time, one of the internet’s biggest startups about a month after graduating feels pretty cool in hindsight. But things are different now. There are more startup…

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