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Google now lets any Android developer integrate live YouTube streaming in their apps

Oct28
by on October 28, 2014 at 6:54 pm
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With the YouTube WatchMe for Android project, Google is looking to help third-party developers integrate live streaming directly into their apps. It’s an open source project available on GitHub, harnessing the YouTube Data API v3, YouTube Live Streaming API, Google Play Services and Plus API. It basically offers a template app that you can adjust for your own needs, and you can read more about how to go about setting things up here. Though Google still classes the app as experimental, the same live broadcasting capabilities are evident in existing third-party apps such as Live on YouTube by Sony Xperia….

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HTML5 is now final and ready for prime time, says the World Wide Web Consortium

Oct28
by on October 28, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

The HTML5 standard is now officially being recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The HTML5 standard has been around for years and powers many of your favorite sites. Today’s news from W3C (the international standards organization for the World Wide Web) says that after all those years of use, HTML5 is ready for prime time. HTML5 allows for native media playing in browsers. Previously, technologies like QuickTime and Flash were needed to play videos in a site’s page. The organization says that it worked with more than 60 companies getting the standard finalized and that over 4,000 bugs were…

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HTML5 is now final and ready for prime time, says the World Wide Web Consortium

Oct28
by on October 28, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

The HTML5 standard is now officially being recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The HTML5 standard has been around for years and powers many of your favorite sites. Today’s news from W3C (the international standards organization for the World Wide Web) says that after all those years of use, HTML5 is ready for prime time. HTML5 allows for native media playing in browsers. Previously, technologies like QuickTime and Flash were needed to play videos in a site’s page. The organization says that it worked with more than 60 companies getting the standard finalized and that over 4,000 bugs were…

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Google announces a futuristic nanoparticle project that could detect cancer in your blood

Oct28
by on October 28, 2014 at 6:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google unveiled a futuristic project today at the WSJD Live conference that could someday embed nanoparticles in your bloodstream to detect diseases like cancer. According to Andrew Conrad, Life Sciences chief at the GoogleX lab, the goal behind the project is to develop a system that doctors will rely on for all of our tests. You would take a pill to swallow the nanoparticles, which would then bind themselves to cells in your bodies in order to scan for irregularities. A wearable device would then collect data from the particles and report it to your doctor. While I’m deeply excited about the…

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Google announces a futuristic nanoparticle project that could detect cancer in your blood

Oct28
by on October 28, 2014 at 6:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google unveiled a futuristic project today at the WSJD Live conference that could someday embed nanoparticles in your bloodstream to detect diseases like cancer. According to Andrew Conrad, Life Sciences chief at the GoogleX lab, the goal behind the project is to develop a system that doctors will rely on for all of our tests. You would take a pill to swallow the nanoparticles, which would then bind themselves to cells in your bodies in order to scan for irregularities. A wearable device would then collect data from the particles and report it to your doctor. While I’m deeply excited about the…

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