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New Chrome Extension Uses Sound To Share URLs Between Devices

Posted by samzenpus on from the sound-of-malware dept.

itwbennett writes: Google Tone is an experimental feature that could be used to easily and instantly share browser pages, search results, videos and other pages among devices, according to Google Research. "The initial prototype used an efficient audio transmission scheme that sounded terrible, so we played it beyond the range of human hearing," researcher Alex Kauffmann and software engineer Boris Smus wrote in a post on the Google Research blog.

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  1. Re:Android/ChromeCast already uses ultrasonic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Running a simple google search before replying sometimes makes sense:
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2473520,00.asp