Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine has decided to follow the global search engine’s footsteps. The company is producing a Google Glass-like eyewear and has decide to name it Baidu Eye. The company demonstrated a working prototype on September 3 at its annual Technology Innovation Conference in Beijing. Baidu’s new wearable connects to a smartphone, recognizes voice and gesture commands (like expanding to zoom, or circling an object in your field of view with your finger). The device has an in-built earpiece and camera. It is designed to support image search.

efending Baidu Eye, the company’s director of international communications, Kaiser Kuo told Tech in Asia, ” We found that screens impair vision and tire your eyes easily. Instead, we tether it to a smartphone app, so you can receive information on your phone screen (or your tablet, or another device) which is larger and easier to browse on than a small, head-mounted screen. It also uses much less energy, and the battery lasts much longer. Its design is very light in the front, and of course people who wear eyeglasses can use it easily.”

Baidu is planning to integrate Eye with social networks, gaming sites, as well as offer hands-free activities like taking photos and videos or answering calls. Baidu Eye is still in its early stages and the company is still working with several manufacturers to bring it to market. No word yet on its expected price or availability.

Along with the language option, 8.3 also brings improved notifications support for Android Wear devices. Other than that there are the usual bug fixes.

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In the effort of making 'global email' spam free, Google on Tuesday announced that its Gmail service will now begin rejecting emails that contain misleading combinations of accented or non-Latin characters. Notably, Google had last week announced support for email addresses that contained such characters last week. The search giant on Tuesday said that it is rolling-out some changes to ensure that spammers or scammers cannot use accented or non-Latin characters in suspicious combinations in emails, as similarities between character sets can be exploited to send misleading or harmful messages.

Google said that it is filtering emails for such domains using an open standard, the Unicode Consortium's "Highly Restricted" specification, considering it will strike a 'healthy balance between legitimate uses of these new domains and those likely to be abused.'

"To stay one step ahead of spammers, the Unicode community has identified suspicious combinations of letters that could be misleading, and Gmail will now begin rejecting email with such combinations," said Mark Risher, Spam & Abuse Team, Google.

Google last week announced support for non-Latin characters in email addresses, calling it the 'first step toward more global email'. The company is trying to make the adoption of email addresses containing accented or non-Latin characters widespread by providing partial support in its very popular Gmail service. Google said, "The technology is there, but someone has to take the first step. Today we're ready to be that someone." The first step as per Google was allowing Gmail to recognise addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters, and thus giving Gmail users the ability to send emails to, and receive emails from such email addresses.

Google added that it would soon bring Calendar support for email addresses with accented or non-Latin characters, and also make it possible in the future to create Gmail addresses of the same type.