Google launches Science Journal app for Android users

As said, Google has been giving us lot of surprises starting from making project Ara available to public. This time, it has launched a new Science Journal app mainly targeting students and kids.

What is Science Journal?

The Science Journal app is developed with the aim of helping the students to perform some basic experiments on the phone itself. As said, it is developed with kids being the target users. This way the app would help the students and kids to go ahead with their science projects and innovations.

For example, the app records basic data like speed of the vehicle in which you are travelling, intensity of light present in the environment you are (indoor or outdoor). It can also record the data of the accelerometers of your device. You will be able to manually enter and save data in the form of charts and graphs. The app also has a feature to record your voice so that you will be able to take notes when required.

Making app better

Google has collaborated with Exploratium(laboratory for public based in California) to work on getting the app even more better. Exploratium has provided with some lab kits for app which contains sensors which would enable users to conduct experiments.

This is really a cool idea from Google towards providing a helping hand for students to innovate.

New malware hits android, uses masquerading technique

Android has been hitting the news since past a year or so. Now, android devices have a loop hole found in them. Security firm Zscalar has discovered a new malware that is capable of monitoring texts, browsing history and banking information. The malware, masquerades as an update for Chrome browser. This malware is hosted on webpages and is designed to look as a page of Google or officially belonging to android.

The malware is designed to monitor the the call logs, browsing history, text messages and banking information. Once this malware is installed, it sends the logs to a remote control server. Whats even more shocking is that this malware can find out whether your device has an anti virus installed or not. Also it can terminate such apps and evade detection. Once the malware has entered your device and you open the play store, a popup would be generated asking you to enter your credit card details. If you enter the details, these details would further be forwarded to some remote server which is still not known.

Although, the malware can be easily removed on factory reset of your device.