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Tech alert: GOOGLE TONE Shares Links Using Beeps and Boops
If your computer starts sounding like R2D2, it may be sharing links to others within earshot.
A report from Popular Science discusses a new Chrome extension that lets a computer share a URL with another computer using tones.
Popular Science, Jason Cipriani
Google Tone
A new Chrome extension, called Google Tone, released this week makes it possible to share a URL with another computer in the room using a series ofbeeps and boops. The concept is dead simple yet instantly instills a sense of disbelief. A computer making seemingly random sounds can transmit the URL for the tab I have open in Chrome across the room? Get out.
Full of skepticism, I decided to put it to the test. I installed the Chrome extension on a MacBook Air and a HP laptop running […]