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Back when google had ambitions. Now they’re dead walking.

@@mohamedfahad2364 you can also think of something crazy to do and create it. Google bought these crazy and ambitious projects and improved it. Build your one and sell it to goole to improve.

shazam is so useless it cannot recognise any song i want to know about. in my experience, acr cloud performs so much better

​@@kiyoponnn Finds almost all songs I want. Even really hard ones

iPhones? It's not just on iPhone

@@Oystein87 yeah. I cringed too. Some people are so deep buried in the apple universe.

@@caty863 So true... I in general avoid Apple. They don't fit my needs and are more locked than better alternatives. And Apple is not really a customer friendly company either.

Yeah that's crazy, launched at 2002... way ahead of their time

Crazy? I was crazy once...

Was about to say 😂😂😂

don't know about the VR, but pretty sure Street Maps as well as Google Earth is still working and being improved.

Still use Google Earth all the time

@@AlphaGeekgirl I think you mean Google Earth Enterprise, the platform that companies could use to host their custom maps.

Google Earth is readily available for the Oculus Quest in VR. Not the enterprise version, the regular version.

@@pbase36 there is no Google Earth on the Quest store. There is only Google Earth for PCVR, which hasn’t been updated for years.

just created an account because of DJ. but i cant find it 😢

Appreciate this detailed observation

But that also means any body with active rfid device can get your money by just sneaking close to your wallet. Unless you have aluminium line wallet in that case u r swfe it doesnot allow waves to pass

You have to be surprised with some new service taking over and rendering you bank contactless payment inactive on your smarth phone, but not using a card.

are you using iPhone ? cause if not then why exactly would you download Shazam, when you can just ask Google Assistant what song it is, and it will give you pretty accurate results, considering it has access to whole RU-vid/RU-vid Music library. edit: I used to use Shazam but I remember few years ago, you need to play song for it to recognize while Google can find it even with just HUMMING. Maybe now Shazam can do that as well, but at that time only SOUNDCLOUD and Google were capable of it, and SOUNDCLOUD was very bad at it and also it's library was pretty bad. So I started using Google and now just don't need to download any app anymore.

For me is Shazam & Spotify 😅

I believe it all starts with learning advanced maths and coding . By learning a coding language such as Python you get to build software applications which are at the heart of the devices we use

Here is the syllabus for a course I took at Columbia University on Policy for Privacy Tech. The readings prescribed by Professor Cummings were fascinating: rachelcummings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IEOR-4575-Syllabus_final.pdf

If you want to pursue a career in tech like this, you might want to look at enrolling in a coding boot camp or pursuing a masters in electrical engineering/software engineering

Search up ‘Rachel Cummings, Policy for Privacy Technology Columbia University”. Her syllabus will pop up. I took this course in my last year of college and the readings she shared were very insightful. It changed my perspective on tech policy and how we handle big data!

No those be the ones we last meet

I am pretty sure Google made it's own thing. Cause a few years back when I used to use Shazam, it didn't recognize any songs when HUMMING. it needed a song playing to recognise it. At that time only SoundCloud and Google were able to recognize song by just HUMMING. and SoundCloud was pretty bad at it and had very few songs in the library as compared to Google which has the whole of RU-vid. I am pretty sure they made their own, cause that was my main reason to shift from Shazam to Google Assistant and now I don't need to download a separate app for this. I just hope they give an option to make a SHORTCUT on my homescreen which will directly start song recognition, instead of needing to start the Assistant and then asking it to recognise a song. edit: just found out you can make a shortcut on homescreen for that.

@@MarcSpctr interesting. So I don't need to download Shazam to get the best, Google is probably as good or better.

I use Google Assistant for every song that I want to get ID'ed. The humming feature is heavensent. I only use Shazam when Google Assistant failed to identify the song (which is a rare occurrence)

@@MarcSpctr how do you speak to the google assisstant to tell it to search for a song in the club? it's so noisy and you'd look weird to shout to your phone when you are sitting in the cloud. Shazam's interface is much better. I am pretty sure shazam also has access to RU-vid songs; the API is free. Besides, does Google Assisstant have the scrolling lyrics feature? that's what I like most about Shazam.

If the service is free your information is the product that's being sold.

I don't think you understood the explanation. They didn't do that great of a job explaining either though. It's true that some of the information is unprotected and any reader can read the info. But, the card also has an encryption process that sends a very unique code that goes along with that data, and if that data string is wrong, the transaction is declined. This string of encrypted data is different with every transaction, so even if you were able to read the data string, it's useless cause it's a one-time use string of data. Whereas your PIN is the same for every transaction. All someone has to do is watch or record you entering your PIN and they now can use the same code to access your account multiple times. With tap to pay, even if you could record that encrypted key, it's a one-time use PIN, if you may, that will never work again.

Probably don't need it anymore if haven't turned out to be your java spring occupation.