Google is targeting consumer electronics

Online search giant Google is preparing for his latest bold experiment that goes beyond the Internet economy.

The company develops its home entertainment system, reported prestigious economic newspaper Wall Street Journal, quoting his anonymous sources.

It means users can stream music wirelessly throughout your home, according to the WSJ.

The system is developed for years and will be distributed under the brand of Google, complementary sources of the newspaper.

Likely to produce the device will instead use the technological capabilities of the company Motorola Mobility, recently acquired by Google in a deal worth 12.5 billion dollars.

The device distributes music through online services company in Mountain View.

It is likely that the device can be operated remotely via smartphone and tablet-powered operating system Android.

A spokesman for Google declined to comment on the issue whether the company actually developed such a system

This is the second major initiative of the Internet giant to sell its real, physical product under its brand.

The previous release was on the phone Nexus One and Nexus Two in cooperation with mobile giants HTC and Samsung.

Google's initial intention to sell the Nexus One online store in just underwent a noisy failure.

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Apple experimented with ARM architecture

Report revealing plans to fit the Apple operating system Mac OS X Lion for computers with ARM architecture, expired yesterday evening on the Internet blog reports Apple Insider. Academic material whose author is a former intern and current OS engineer in "apple" Tristan Shaap revealed secret details about the company's experiment in the transfer of the operating system on Intel-based architecture to its ARM alternative.

In 2010, his diploma for a bachelor's degree at the University "Delft" in Holland, Shaap says the experience gained during the 12-week internship at Apple. Initially the student's request not to publish his thesis work for sensitive information in it is executed, a few months ago but the text appears in the public records of the university.

While there is no guarantee that described in the thesis experiments will lead to changes in hardware base used for the manufacturing of computers by Apple, is still curious that the company does seek an alternative to Intel.

Similar tests were carried out before the transition from PowerPC to Intel hardware in 2005 is interesting to note that Apple's then experiments were a failure, leading to the decision to be bought NeXT company and the return of Steve Jobs.

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Google preparing glasses with built-in display

Google is in the final phase of testing of glasses with built-in display, which in appearance do not differ more than the standard solar now such technology blog reported 9to5google. Unlike the accessories that are sold in stores now, these have built-in display with a computer interface. Several buttons are embedded in the glasses, but they have turned off these details can be confused with ordinary sunglasses.

There are no accurate information which technology is used, but it is assumed that these are transparent LCD or AMOLED displays. According to sources 9to5google it will not just peripheral for a smartphone with Android, the glasses will have a private IP address. However, you will need a phone or other mobile gadget through which to connect to the Web via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.

On display will be added to projected reality (Augmented reality), which will be linked to geostationary services Google. Users will be able to walk and their preferences, location and other useful information will appear on screen in the glasses like robots in fimovata series "Terminator."

Glasses will have built-in camera and supposed to be based platform Android. Now know that the screen will be located only on one eye and will not occupy the entire glass. Besides the buttons as an additional way to control light will be nodding your head up and down and sideways, the motions should not be sharp and will not attract the attention of passersby.

So far this exotic widget in prototype development stage and not at all certain that it will reach its launch.

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The second probe Grail in the orbit of the Moon

The U.S. space agency NASA research confirms that the second of two lunar probes entered orbit of the moon. With this successful mission began extensive research on the Earth's only satellite, said in a statement the agency.



Probe GRAIL-B (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) was placed in orbit the moon, after its main engine worked more than 40 minutes lunar south pole to its slow speed, say scientists involved in the mission.

Day before, the same procedure was established and its twin probe, GRAIL-A.

Both probes GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will carry out research on the moon as they have not been made​​, said the mission chief, Charles Bolden.

"Twin GRAIL spacecraft in large scale will expand our knowledge of the moon but will also help to better understand the development of our planet," said Bolden.

The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 402,336 km and the astronauts of Apollo spacecraft took three days to go.

Both GRAIL probes launched from Cape Canaveral military base in Florida on 10 September 2011, had a thirty times more time and passed more than four million miles to reach the moon.

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