Google Street view gets a Time machine

Google Street View was launched in 2007, and has been expanding all over the world ever since. Now the search giant has collected all its imagery from then until now, so you can travel through time in Street View.
In a blog post, Google Street View Product Manager Vinay Shet explained how they have added a clock icon to Street View images, which allows you to slide through the different images Google has taken of that place since 2007.

This means you can do things like see the 2014 World Cup stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil, or the Freedom Tower in New York being built. Vinay Shey also said that these historical images serve as records for recent history, like viewing earthquake damage and reconstruction. Depending on when Google took its Street View imagery, you can also use it to see the same place in different seasons.
Google Street view history is currently only available in the Chrome browser on desktops. Google has not said when this will be rolled out to mobile versions (or other browsers).

Chrome 34 update speeds up load times, adds supervised user import

Google has updated its Chrome browser with the usual performance and bug fixes. The company is making web pages load faster than ever with new web developer tools to format images. Chrome looks at which device the page is being loaded on and offers the optimal photo size. This speeds up load times and reduces bandwidth usage, which mobile users will appreciate.
Also new to the browser is the ability to import and sync supervised users. Google released parental controls two versions ago and now you can sync these user profiles across devices.

To import a supervised user, head to Settings and click "Add new user." At the bottom of the window, you'll see an option to "Import an existing supervised user."
Now you can easily import and sync browser settings for the entire family across all your devices.
If you're already running Chrome, you can update the browser by clicking the Menu button and "About Chrome." The browser will automatically look for updates to install.

Broadcast your life with Livestream for Google Glass

Google Glass is great for sharing video from a first-person perspective. Now you can share live with the Livestream app for Google Glass.
The app lets users upload live video to Livestream's website where your friends (or the public) can watch. The app doesn't much besides broadcast video, though you can see chat messages in real time.
The interface is simple with a red record button when you're live, an elapsed time counter, and viewer count. There's also a display for connection speed at the top right to let you know if your video is streaming properly.
To install Livestream for Glass, you'll have to install an app on your PC or Mac. Pair your Glass with a Livestream event and begin broadcasting by saying, "OK glass, Livestream."
If you want to share live video privately, use Google Hangouts for Glass instead.

Chrome 34's password manager can save your bank passwords

Banks, and other sites that have a heightened sense of security normally evade browsers that ask to save passwords. Chrome 34's password manager ignores this by default, so your passwords for these site will be saved. Websites that include the code autocomplete='off' normally sidestep password managers, forcing users to enter them every time they access a site. This has the advantage that anyone else using your computer can't access your bank account, for example. But the new Chrome 34 ignores autocomplete='off' by default, if users have the password manager enabled.
The Chrome team's view is 'that this is very important for user security by allowing users to have unique and more complex passwords for websites.' They also point out that 'this does not affect non-password fields', so it may be you still have to manually enter some information to access your secure sites, although it very much depends on how those sites are designed.
While it's true that you are more likely to choose a complex password if Chrome will remember it for you, this does mean you have to entrust Chrome with that information. If you use Chrome Sync, you also have to trust that information will be safe being sent across Google's servers.
You can choose to turn off ignore autocomplete='off' in the password manager, but it's unlikely that normal users would actually do that.
This feature does make it easier to use complex passwords, but at the same time means they will be saved by Chrome. Online services such as banks would be more secure if you simply use a complex password and remember it, as your head is less likely to be a victim of hacking than a server or computer.

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