New goodies from Google, more money for Alien hunting, and a new way to make salt water utterly delicious!
For $35 Google’s new Chromecast 2 gets a new form factor with an all new integrated HDMI cable that incorporates three wireless antennas. Google claims this allows Chromecast to continuously choose whichever antenna is getting the best signal from whatever device you’re using to send the signal.
Now the new Chromecast Audio looks super interesting! It also costs $35, but promises to turn any set of powered speakers into Internet-connected smart ones. I’m not gonna call it a Sonos killer just yet… but Sonos just got a wake up call. From Google.
Google is launching a new tool called Customer Match, that lets advertisers use a list of email addresses to target specific users across Google services.
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner pledged $100 million to fund new research programs spread across several academic institutions including the University of California-Berkeley’s SETI Research Center.
Researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have created a new desalination technology that’s low cost, can be made in local labs with abundant materials and can make drinkable water in just minutes.
