[Update: APK Download Enables Recording] Google Adds Gameplay Recording To Play Games App

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Google launched YouTube Gaming a few weeks back, but you need lots of content to make that service work. Now you can easily record your Android games and upload them to YouTube with the Play Games app (which we spotted in a teardown). However, this feature is only coming to the US and UK for the time being.

To start recording a game, just find it in the Play Games app and press the record button. Video can be encoded in 480p or 720p only. You can also have the app record you with the front-facing camera/mic and put it in the corner of the video. When you're done recording, the app has a basic video editing interface that lets you upload to YouTube. This is also possible in the YouTube Gaming app, but maybe having it in the Play Games app too will encourage more players to use the feature.

This change is rolling out to users in the US and UK in the coming days. It will come to more countries "soon after." It's not clear if this will require a new APK or if it's all server-side. We'll keep an eye out.

UPDATE: 2015/10/28 3:45PM PDT

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The Play Games update is now available on APK Mirror. It appears to enable game recording immediately upon installation, so no server-side magic is required. It's unclear if it'll work outside the US and UK, though.

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Google encroaches on Microsoft turf with “free” Apps for Work promo

Who can resist the allure of free? Especially when you consider enterprise deployments that ultimately involve hundreds if not thousands of dollars per annum. Knowing too well that line of thinking, Google has cooked up a way to entice businesses away from their pricey Microsoft and IBM enterprise agreements (EA). Google will allow such customers to use Apps for Work for free while they are bidding their time for the EA to run its course, giving users some time to get familiar with the new Google work environment at no extra cost.

The enterprise is seen as the next big, not to mention lucrative, frontier for tech companies. Microsoft has its Office 365 and even Apple has been eying a spot in that market. Google has had its Google Apps for Work for years and more recently started to push its Android for Work strategy. But enterprise deployments do not come cheap and EAs are set up to entice customers to renew their contracts with the promise of lowering prices. Google knows it is facing an uphill batter in trying to get users away from those, and so it tries to leverage the power of "free".

In a nutshell, Google itself will be shouldering the fee of using Google Apps for Work while waiting for an existing contract to run out. And even after that, the search giant will try to help defray deployment costs and set the customer up with a Google for Work Partner. While Google's announcement doesn't exactly name names, its promo page does mention Microsoft and IBM, two of the biggest players in that market.

That said, free here isn't completely free. Although Google won't charge for Apps for Work until the end of the EA, Google for Work deployment does cap out at $25 per person, so there will still be some money to be spent. After that grace period, Google for Work will run for $5 to $10 per person per month.

Google Apps for Work consists of office software such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive as well as communication platforms such as Gmail and Hangouts.

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This smartphone app can unlock your doors

New York: You can open this lock with an app installed in your smartphone. The lock made by a company called 'August' essentially allows you and anyone you register to open your door with an app.

Your friends, family, or even the plumber could download the app, you could give them a code, and they get in, CBS Local reported. You can even have that code expire, meaning they will only be able to access the door for a limited time.

The 'August' lock costs about $250 and another $250 to install it.

The August lock works with its synced app and lets you generate a code that can unlock the doors. You can also get a timely code that expires after a certain time.

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Inspiring as it may sound, security experts are not very enthusiastic about it. Because mobile phones are hackable and if your phone is hacked, you will lose access to your own house.

"The population in the planet can now get into your pocket and wallet, electronically from China or some other place. When you put your information in any computer device that is connected to the internet then you're talking about the entire world potentially accessing that thing," security expert Silka Gonzalez was quoted as saying.

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Google Cloud offers security scanning for customer apps

Google Cloud offers security scanning for customer apps

The Google Cloud Security Scanner can ferret out XSS and mixed-use vulnerabilities

Google has released a security scanner to help its cloud customers guard against attacks on their Web applications.Google Cloud Security Scanner, now available as a free beta for Google App Engine users, is designed to overcome a number of limitations often found in commercial Web application security scanners, noted Google security engineering manager Rob Mann in a blog post announcing the new service.

Commercials scanners can be difficult to set up. They can over-report issues, leading to too many false positives. They are designed more for security professionals than developers.

Google's scanner was designed to be easier to use, Mann said. The service is designed to spot errors in code that could be exploited through XSS (cross side scripting) or mixed content attacks, two common attack methods.

The scanner inspects a Web application in multiple steps. First, it quickly reviews the application's HTML code, which renders the front-end interface for users. Then it digs more deeply into the JavaScript code that runs the business logic for the site.

XSS attacks occur in sites that allow users to submit their own content, such as a discussion forum. If the Web server does not properly vet the submitted materials, attackers can add malicious code that executes when other users visit the site.

Mixed content attacks take advantage of sites that mix secure HTTPS pages with unsecured regular HTTP pages. Such sites can fool users into thinking that data is secure, when in fact it is not.

The scanning service does not cover all types of vulnerabilities, so Mann recommended customers still get manual security reviews by professionals. As time goes on, Google will expand the service to cover a wider range of vulnerabilities.

Google is not charging for the scanner, though its use may incur fees on the Google App Engine services deployed by the Web application being scanned.Google Cloud Platform competitor Amazon Web Services does not offer a security scanning service for its customers, though a number of third-party companies offer scanning services on the Amazon marketplace.

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