Google: Amazing Smartphone with 3D sensors

Google has unveiled a prototype smart phone with "customized hardware and software" that enables it to make 3D maps of a user's surroundings.  The device's sensors permit it make over 250,000 3D measurements every second and update its position in real-time.  Google said possible applications may include indoor mapping, helping the visually-impaired navigate untried indoor places unassisted and gaming.

It has offered 200 prototypes to developers keen to make apps for it. Google supposed its Advanced Technology and Projects unit developed the phone as part of a project called Project Tango with help from researchers at various institutions. We are physical beings that live in a 3D world. Yet, our mobile plans assume that physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen. 

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Parent’s unconscious of risks faced by children on smart phones

According to a study many parents are out of touch with the dangers faced by their kids on tablets and smart phones. Almost one in five children supposed they had seen something on their devices that had upset them, twice the number parents had thought. A separate study found that just over 20% of parents do not monitor what their children are doing online.

The study was commissioned as part of Safer Internet Day. While 90% of the parents surveyed said they had spoken to their children about staying safe online when using a tablet or a Smartphone, most said they allowed their children to use them unsupervised.  Without using controls such as built-in security, safety and privacy features and search engine filters, children will almost surely run into something that really isn't suitable for their age, or any age.

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YouTube: Begins auditing video views

The video-sharing website YouTube supposed it has started to audit the number of views a video has received. The move is intended at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube supposed, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some spectators are using tools like redirects or buying views to increase their count.

YouTube supposed it will now occasionally validate the views on videos and remove the fake ones from the total. Some bad actors try to game the scheme by artificially inflating view counts. They're not just confusing fans about the popularity of a video, they're undermining one of YouTube's most important and unique qualities.  However the firm said that it does not expect the new approach to affect more than a tiny fraction of videos on YouTube.