Smart watches have entered the world of
controlling cars remotely with the Korean
Hyundai introducing a new feature that al-
lows owners of Hyundai models fitted with
Blue Link to control their cars using their An-
droid Wear watch.
The Blue Link app is available for Android-
operated smartphones. Owners of Hyundai
vehicles equipped with Blue Link could re-
motely connect to their vehicles. With the
new Android Wear version of the app, driv-
ers have the ability to access remote vehi-
cle operations right from their wrists, such
as starting and stopping the engine, lock-
ing and unlocking the doors, and activating
safety features. Users will be able to locate
their car or call roadside assistance from the
app as well. The app also takes advantage
of Android Wear’s voice control capabilities,
allowing for commands like “start my car,” or
“lock my car.”
A researcher from the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology (MIT) has wrapped all the
languages required for web building into a
single language that could streamline devel-
opment, speed up performance and better
secure websites.
While building a web page requires under-
standing a whole stack of technologies, from
HTML to JavaScript, the new language,
called Ur/Web, provides a way for developers
to write pages as self-contained programs.
It incorporates many of the most widely used
web technologies, freeing the developer from
working with each language individually.
Ur/Web’s author, Adam Chlipala, an MIT
computer science assistant professor, said
that this language has potential broad appli-
cability to reduce costs of Web development
in many different settings.
Chlipala will present his work next month at
the Association for Computing Machinery’s
Symposium on Principles of Programming
Languages.
Ur/Web
unifies web development languages
Voice Control
for your
car with smart watch app
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Microsoft’s Spartan
competes with Chrome and Firefox
Microsoft is building a new internet brows-
er that will be built-in this year’s official
Windows 10 set, replacing the Internet
Explorer browser.
The new browser is code-named “Spar-
tan” and will replace the Internet Explorer
12.
Spartan will look and feel more like
Chrome and Firefox and will be a light-
weight browser compared to previous ver-
sions of Internet Explorer. It will include
new features, like extension support.
While developing the new browser, Mi-
crosoft will not use the WebKit engine
that is used in several browsers, such as
Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari. In-
stead it will use Trident rendering engine,
which it started using while developing In-
ternet Explorer 9, along with Chakra Ja-
vaScript engine.
