How do you remember important things that you think you might forget? Some rely on their brain to memorize information while others prefer writing things down on post-it notes. There are ton of digital note-taking apps – from Evernote to Trello – that can also help you remember anything with ease.
There’s another interesting option from Google that you may wish to explore for remembering things. It’s called Google Assistant, the voice assistant app that is now available on newer Android phones. If you don’t have one, you can still use Google assistant inside the Google Allo app that is available for both iPhone and Android.
Let Google Remember Things for you
To get started, say “OK Google” to launch Google Assistant on your phone and then say “Remember ..” followed by information you would like Google to remember. For instance, you could say:
Remember my favorite color is blue
Remember that my registration number is Z1234
Remember that I parked the car in the 2nd level
Remember that my hotel room safe code is 6666
You can launch the Google Assistant anytime later and ask Google for information that was previously stored.
How to ask what Google remembers?
You could say something like “What did I say about my favorite color?” or “What’s my registration number?” If Google is unable to understand your question, you could say “What did I ask you to remember” and it will show a list of 5 most recent things you’ve asked Google to remember.
How to Clear Google’s Memory?
If the list has grown big, you can also use your voice to instruct Google to forget things it remembers. You could say “Forget what I said about my favorite color” or say “What did I ask you to remember” and tap the “Forget #” option to erase any of the listed items from Google’s memory.
Regina Dugan, a former DARPA executive and current
head of Facebook's mysterious Building 8, has released information about
the work that the social media giant has been doing on
brain-computer-interfaces meant to let you "communicate using only your
mind."
Facebook’s annual developers’ conference is in full swing this week.
Ultimately, the event serves as an opportunity for the company to unveil
their most innovative products and reveal key details about upcoming
projects. And nothing is more promising or intriguing than what’s coming
out of Facebook’s mysterious Building 8 (B8).
Currently,
we know very little about B8, as none of their projects have been
officially detailed, but rumors are swirling, and it’s not like we don’t
know anything. We have some big, overarching information about
the general work being done. It seems that B8 is working on four
primary projects. These are said to include augmented reality, drones,
cameras, and direct brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
Yes, Facebook is working on computers that are meant to interface with our brains.
During
the opening event yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced
that, today, speakers at the conference would discuss where they are in
relation to their work on the BCI technology.At the event, he
stated that we would “hear from Regina Dugan about some of the work that
[they are] doing to build even further out beyond augmented reality,
and that includes work around direct brain interfaces that are going to,
eventually, one day, let you communicate using only your mind.”
Dugan is a former DARPA executive. She also worked for Google’s advanced projects division. Now, Dugan has finally released information about the work B8 has been doing.
Facebook
is working to develop a brain-computer interface that will, in the
future, allow individuals to communicate with other people without
speaking. Ultimately, they hope to develop a technology that allows
individuals to “speak” using nothing but their thoughts—unconstrained by
time or distance.
They want to create “category defining
products” that are “social” first, products that allow us to form more
human connections and, in the end, unite the digital world of the
internet with the physical world and the human mind.
Dugan notes
that the brain produces about 1 terabyte per a second. However, through
speech, we can only transmit information to others at about 100 bytes
per a second. Facebook wants to get all of the information that
is transmitted to our speech center out of the “brain” and into the
world (to allow us to get it to others at will).
For their
beginning work, they hope to allow all humans to “type” and “click”
through our brains in order to interact with our technology. For
example, people with ALS could type—not with eye blinks—but with their
thoughts. Thus, they wish to “decode speech” and allow all individuals
to communicate using our brain waves.
Initially, their goal is to allow people to type 5 times faster than people can type on a smartphone straight from their brain. This means that they are developing technologies that can “read” the human brain in order to transmit this information.
Next, they will work to allow people to “type” a staggering 100 words a minute using their thoughts. That’s far, far faster than most humans can type on a computer. The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute.
They
have developed actuators that allow people to “hear” through their
skin.Ultimately, with Facebook’s technology, humans can “feel” words.
Eventually,
they want to allow people to think something and send the thought to
someone’s skin. Additionally, they will allow people to think something
in one language and have a person receive the thought in an entirely different language.
Hyderabad became the first Indian city to get 1 Gbps internet connectivity, courtesy of ACT Fibernet, making it the first time we’ve received city-wide coverage of that kind of speed anywhere in India. So who exactly were the reigning champions before then? And just how do we stand up to the rest of the world?
We’ve put together a list of the cities with the highest average
internet speeds across the globe, as well as in India. Take note, we’ve
measure this capability based on the average download speed in each
city, pulling data from both Akamai and Ookla. Also keep in mind that
all speeds here are listed in Mbps (Megabits per second). Here’s what we
found out:
1. Seoul
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, grabbed the top spot for fastest
internet in 2016, measuring in at an average of 26.1 Mbps. Some of the
fastest connections in the city offer up to 1.5 Gbps speeds.
2. Hong Kong
Hong Kong comes in second place, with the country’s financial capital showing an average of 21.9 Mbps across services.
3. Singapore
Called
the most “tech-ready nation” by the World Economic Forum, Singapore
comes in at a close third, with 20.2 Mbps being the average download
speed.
4. Tokyo
The
most populous metropolitan area in the world and capital of Japan,
Tokyo, comes in fourth with an average 19.6 Mbps broadband speed.
5. Taiwan
The
island nation of Taiwan, often in contention with the government of the
People’s Republic of China over its status, brings up fifth place with a
15.6 Mbps download speed average.
On paper, India does fairly well for itself if you just look at the top
cities in the country. We average out at about 13.271 Mbps in download
speeds across the nation, but which cities rate the best.
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