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We recently invested in Nest Protect alarms for our home. The Nest Protect is a fire and carbon dioxide detector all in one. My wife and I have a vintage home and we have always been a fan of the smoke alarm systems that are wired together so if one alarm goes off, they all go off to help alert the entire household. If you have just one or two detectors in a home and they are not wired together you may not hear the one downstairs the Nest Protect solves this issue. Just like Sono’s speakers the Nest Protect creates its own little network so if one goes off, they all go off and if for some reason your internet goes down, they can still trigger all the devices. Since they are wireless there is no need to run wiring. Nest Protect does have a wired version and if we were remodeling or building a new home from scratch, I would do those so this way I do not have to worry about replacing the batteries on the Nest Protect every few years. The hardwire ones still do have a battery backup in th

It’s easy to add an image to your document in Google Docs, but including a caption is another story. Until Google adds a caption feature to Docs, here are a few ways you can create and add captions to your photos. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Android notifications can be annoying at times, but they don’t have to be. Enabling “Do Not Disturb” mode is one way to mute pesky notifications at times when you don’t need them. Here’s how to set it up on your Google Pixel. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that doesn’t track you. This alternative to Google, Bing, and Yahoo is growing fast. Here’s an introduction to DuckDuckGo and a look at how it protects your privacy. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

In March 2021, Google began testing its new ad-targeting initiative called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) with a subset of Chrome users. The plan is to implement FLoC as an alternative to cookies—which are being phased out—to track online behavior. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Every Google account comes with free storage, but if that’s not enough for you, more can be purchased. Regardless of how much you have, you probably want to keep tabs on how much you’re using. We’ll show you how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Sometimes your hands are full and can’t grab your phone to type out a text message. Thankfully, Google Assistant makes it easy to send SMS with only your voice. We’ll show you how it works on phones and smart speakers. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

GAIA-X is a European initiative intended to provide a unified ecosystem of cloud services and data centers governed by EU data laws. So why are American cloud companies rushing to sign up? Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›

You can be forgiven if you’re not 100 percent certain what the US Supreme Court ruled in its Google vs. Oracle decision . Yes, we know that “Google won” — or, as Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, “Google’s copying [of the Java API] did not violate the copyright law.” This is true, but goes only so far. Google, after all, had gone to court with two big arguments: one, that APIs aren’t copyrightable and, two, that even if APIs are copyrightable, Google’s use of the Java API to develop Android constituted fair use . To read this article in full, please click here

Microservices architecture moves complexity out of internal application design and into the external network connected service architecture. Cloud providers offer a variety of approaches for managing this complexity. This article gives you an overview of the options available in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). [ Also on InfoWorld: No one wants to manage Kubernetes anymore ] GCP microservices tools overview You can get a general introduction to microservices here . There are a number of approaches to dealing with such an architecture of smaller, interrelated services. Below is a list of options available in GCP. To read this article in full, please click here

Era Software CEO Todd Persen. (Era Software Photo) New funding : Seattle-area database architecture startup Era Software , formerly known as EraDB, raised $15.2 million in a Series A round led by Playground Global. The tech:  Era helps companies manage their cloud-native workloads. Its first product, EraSearch, is built for log management and offers an alternative to Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. The idea is to reduce cloud hardware and operational costs. EraSearch is in private beta. Leadership: Era was founded by CEO Todd Persen , co-founder and former CTO of InfluxData, and CTO Robert Winslow , co-maintainer of Google’s FlatBuffers low-latency storage framework in Rust and co-creator of the Time Series Benchmarking Suite. Investors: Other backers in the 20-person company include Foundation Capital, Array Ventures, Global Founders Capital, and angel investors. Total funding to date is more than $22 million.

It’s easy to bring 3D animals, objects, and more into the real world with a simple Google search. That list now includes several popular anime characters from Japan, including Pac-Man and Hello Kitty. We’ll show you how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Google Assistant smart speakers and smart displays show a visual indicator when the device is listening, but it can be easy to miss. Thankfully, you can turn on an audible chime to indicate when the Assistant is listening. We’ll show you how to turn it on. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Everyone knows the fear of losing their smartphone. There are plenty of ways you could try to find it, but the easiest might be with the help of Google Assistant. Just say “Hey Google” and find your iPhone or Android phone. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

The Google TV home screen is all about recommending movies and TV shows to watch. You’re going to see these recommendations every time you turn on your TV, so why not make them better? We’ll show you how to do that. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

If you keep a lot of Google Chrome windows open to organize your tabs, you can go one step further and name each window. Chrome’s built-in naming feature makes it easy to remember which window is for what in the taskbar or overview screen. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.