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Google Maps users can now try a new AI search feature powered by Google Gemini, read AI-written review summaries, and more.
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Google Street View is getting new imagery in nearly 80 countries, and Google is also using AI to sharpen its satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps.
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An old but persistent email scam known as “sextortion” has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of recipients pleasuring themselves, now include a photo of the target’s home in a bid to make threats about publishing the videos more frightening and convincing. Continue reading Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home
Google is finally adding a speedometer and speed limits to the Google Maps app for iOS and CarPlay, two things Android users have been enjoying for years.
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Google has updated its Maps app on Android to display weather and air quality information when using the map layer.
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Google announced today that it is bringing a generative AI-based location suggestion feature to its Maps service, starting in the U.S.
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This week the podcast is more lavatorial than usual, as we explore how privacy may have gone to sh*t on Google Maps, our guest drives hands-free on Britain’s motorways (and is defamed by AI), and ransomware attacks an airplane-leasing firm.
Google will allow users in Europe to unlink some of its services once the EU’s Digital Markets Act takes effect on March 6, 2024.
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Google today announced a surprisingly long list of improvements and changes to the Android ecosystem, many tied to device interoperability.
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Through its Maps app, Google has access to a monster trove of daily traffic data – and it’s using it to provide cities with free, AI-optimized traffic signal timing suggestions that could reduce stop/starts by 30% and intersection emissions by 10%.Cont… Continue reading Google’s Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops