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Teachers Say “OK Google”

Just Say, Feel, Execute 

Did you ever want searching through Google to be easier?

“OK Google” is a voice command used to activate Google Now voice search on your Android smartphone. It can be accessed by opening your phone’s Google Search app or Google Search widget and either tapping the microphone icon or saying “OK Google”.

You can ask Google Now pretty much anything you like, just as you normally would with Google Search. However, “OK Google” command can as well be used to set alarms, make calls and send texts, schedule meetings and do much more on your Android device. Day by day capabilities of Google Now is increasing and it is expected that in near future it will be one of the best voice-assistants.

Let’s see some Google Now commands for searching and knowing the exact answer instead of a list of webpages which may have the answer.

  • Search – What is the recipe for Masala Dosa
  • Translations – Say “what is your name in French.”
  • Meanings/Definitions – What is the meaning of ‘alude’
  • Sports schedule and information
    • When is the next Olympics
    • Show me Indian Premier League table
  • Science and other fields’ questions & answers
    • Who invented Computer
    • Which is the first programming language
  • Weather information and forecasts
    • Will it rain tomorrow
    • How is the weather in Delhi today
  • Date and Time
    • What is the time in New York
    • When is the next new moon in Delhi
  • Flight information and schedules
    • Flight status of SG231
    • Has flight AI121 landed
  • Entertainment
    • Play ‘Kagaz Ki Kashti’ by Jagjeet Singh
    • Youtube ‘Trailer of [Movie Name]’
  • System related tasks
    • Wake me up in [3 hours]
    • Remind me to check my email at 6 PM
    • Create calendar event [Meeting EXUN] [Friday 10 AM]
    • Call Rohan
    • Send email to Ananay [Subject: Meeting] [Message: EXUN Meeting at  9AM]
    • Navigate me to the nearest restaurant
    • How far is Connaught Place from R K Puram
    • Directions to Airport
Now comes the fun commands you may try in OK Google

  • Saying Make me a sandwich – responds “Poof, you’re a sandwich” or “What? Make it yourself”
  • Asking “Who are you?” – responds “Searching for oneself can take a lifetime, but a good place to start is classic rock.
  • Asking “What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?” – responds – “The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
  • Saying “Do a barrel roll” – makes the search results page roll like on web.

If you want to have a look at the official list of Google Now commands, you can find them in the link https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2842392?hl=en

With that I am winding up this article. I hope you try and experience a lot more Google Now commands.

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– Mohit Dey

Technology – Free and Transparent

GOOD things happening about the technology today are that it is becoming faster, more economic, simpler, and increasingly intuitive. Over the last few years, we have seen a rapid change in technology tools and services; we are moving very fast from the bulky personal computers that we were once fascinated by, to tiny palmtops, smart mobile devices, and now to wearable devices. Most services that seemed impossible are now available at a touch. The speed of data is moving from mbps to gbps and those days aren’t far when it becomes ptbs.

We started working on CPU 8086/80286 with a speed in range of 6 MHz to 25 MHz and today we are on CPUs running at over 2GHz, an upgrade of about a hundred times.

Many technology companies are working on business models wherein they are not charging users directly for their services, making more and more people benefit from it. Google is one of the biggest such companies that believes in global access to technology.

With more and more use of technology tools and services, we are automatically heading towards a transparent and simplified culture, where we aren’t dependant on individuals for information and data. This eradicates corruption and the role of the middleman, which is a serious allegation against ethics in technology.  

Some of the innovative things, I would like to share as per views of some experts as follows:

  1. Mindfulness assistance devices – Mindfulness, mental stress and performance is the next biggest area of self-improvement coming to the world. As the white-collar economy and the speed of life increases, everyone will be looking for an edge both in performance and happiness. – James McDonough, SEE Forge
  1. Wearable solar jackets – We are becoming more and more reliant on our smartphones and when the battery dies, we are lost. There is this cool new product, wearable solar, that charges your device through solar power. Stuck somewhere with a dying phone? Slip on a jacket and head outside to power up your device. – Elliot Bohm, Cardcash.com

    3. Smart fitness monitors – Are today’s fitness monitors providing you the kind of insights you need to change your lifestyle and behavior? I don’t think so. In the coming months, these devices will become much smarter using machine learning so that they can tell you what to do and when to do it. The current state is a passive one where you know what you did, the future state is an active one where these devices are your actual health partners. This will need an innovation in both hardware and software, but more so in machine learning tailored to digital health. – Ashu Dubey, 12 Labs
  2. Smart contact lenses – The next phase isn’t fitness, but health and medicine. Google in particular has been eyeing contact lenses as a way to monitor glucose levels — a $10 billionmarket. – Sam Saxton, Salter Spiral Stair and Mylen Stairs

    5. High-tech fabric – The biggest opportunity in the wearable space is to embed the sensors into the fabric of clothing. Forcing someone to wear a device creates a barrier to growth. Embedding the technology into apparel will allow the most natural integration with fashion. – Aaron Schwartz, Modify
  3. Happiness and emotional monitors – As our brain’s patterns and chemical fluctuations become more understood, we’ll soon be able to easily deter shifts in emotions and moods that impact our output. We often don’t pay attention to our moods during the day, and wearables could help offer insight, almost like a coach. Moods are often just simply triggered by external factors (like “road rage” when driving or an incessant employee who triggers a judgmental attitude) or physical conditions (like “hanger,” which makes you terse and crabby because you skipped lunch). – Beck Bamberger, BAM Communications

    And many more such innovations are in the pipeline. What is important for us now is not to panic, but to watch and watch, and choose what we need to adopt according to our own needs. With such innovations, we get more FREEDOM to choose the right thing in right manner.

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Mukesh Kumar

Wartex 2.0 – Overall Winners

Wartex 2.0 was held at D.A.V Public School, Dayanand Vihar on 22nd November 2016. Exun Clan bagged the overall winners trophy. The individual results are as follows:

    A/V Editing – Winners

  • Akshay Khandelwal
  • Anirudh Chauhan
  • Ananay Arora
    RoboWars – Winners

  • Danish Bansal [RK]
  • Shaurya Jain [RK]
    Surprise Event – Winners

  • Shashwat Goel
    Gaming – Runners Up

  • Veer Vaibhav Singh Rathore [DS+]
    RoboSoccer – Runners Up

  • Aahan Birla [RK]
  • Yash Mathur [RK]
    Mental Ability – Runners Up

  • Shashwat Goel
  • Aman Verma
    Snappic – Second Runners Up

  • Arnav Singh [ETC]

Congratulations to all the winners!

Project Beta 2016

Project Beta 2016 was held at Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri on 1st October. The individual results are as follows:

Programming – Winners
Ayush Singla
Manav Aggarwal

Gaming (Console) – Runner Up [DS+]
Advay Das

Gaming (PC) – Runners Up [DS+]
Haardik Kumar
Aaryak Garg
Saharsh Vedi
Veer Vaibhav Singh Rathore
Karthik Madhav Jain

Congratulations to all the winners!

Exun 2016 – Programming Prelims

The prelims for the Programming event will be held on Tuesday, 22 November from 5 PM to 8 PM. There will be an online programming contest at exun.co/prog-prelims.
Participants are requested to join the codeforces group for now.

The top 10 teams will qualify for the onsite finals.

Note: Any number of teams can participate from a school but a maximum of two teams from a school will qualify for the finals.

Exun 2016 – Create Prelims

The prompt for the preliminary round of Exun’s Create (Creative Event) is now live at exun.co/prompt!

Here are few things to keep in mind:

– There will be no overall winner for Create. Every event (Design, Web Development, Video, Audio, and 3D Design) will be judged individually, and points earned in prelims will be added to points earned during the (on-site) final round (in case you qualify).

– We will qualify a maximum of six schools for the (on-site) final round.

– Preliminary round submissions must be made before 11:59 pm on 24 November 2016.

– Please note that participation is strictly individual. Team entries will not be considered. An FAQ section with complete details on the event has been included in the prompt, but please feel free to contact us at exunclan@gmail.com with any questions or queries you may have, or if you wish to use a software program not listed in the prompt.

– Since they are all individual events, it is possible that X school qualifies for Web Design but does not qualify for 3D Design, Y school qualifies for 3D design but does not qualify for Web Design, Z school qualifies for both, Web Design and 3D Design. In this case, X school will compete with school Z for a podium in Web Design, and Y school will compete with school Z for a podium in 3D Design. However, the more sub-events you qualify for, the more are your chances of winning the overall!

Hope you like it – all the best!

Force Fest 2016 – Overall Winners

Force Fest 2016 was held at Apeejay School, Shekh Sarai on 23rd and 24th August.

Exun Clan bagged the Overall Winners Trophy. The individual results are as follows:

Graphic Design – Winners

  • Neel Lakhwani
  • Anirudh Goyal

Quiz – Winners

  • Baibhav Vatsa
  • Gursher Aujila

Web Design – Winners

  • Vishrut Malik
  • Yashwardhan

PowerPoint – Winners

  • Somesh Kar
  • Ishir Bhardwaj

Programming – Runners Up

  • Ayush Singla
  • Sankush Gupta

Congratulations to all the winners!

 

Code Wars 2016 – Overall Winners

Overall

Code Wars 2016 was held at Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj on 23rd and 24th August. Exun Clan bagged the Overall Winners Trophy. The individual results are as follows:

Creative Event – Winners

  • Ananay Arora
  • Anirudh Goyal

Group Discussion – Winner

  • Adit Bhardwaj

3D-AV – Runners Up

  • Chaitanya Vaish
  • Avi Chandra
  • Neel Lakhwani

Programming – Runners Up

  • Sankush Gupta
  • Manav Aggarwal

Junior Quiz – Runners Up

  • Sagnik Anupam
  • Kabir Goel

Crossword – Runners Up

  • Srijan Jain
  • Udit Malik

Techathlon – Second Runners Up

  • Entire Squadron

Congratulations to all the winners!