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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
I’m active on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon. But I use another service to reach many more people than I do via all those services combined. That’s right. I’m a local guide on Google Maps.
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Start with Google Maps and Google Earth, then explore more than 15 other map apps that work well on a Chromebook.
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Google is adding a new mode to its Maps platform that enables users to enjoy sweeping views of cities and neighborhoods in impressive detail. The newly introduced “immersive view” is a mish-mash of its existing Street View and aerial mapping imagery th… Continue reading Google Maps adds immersive view to let you to check out “the vibe”
Many years ago, Google created one of its famous April Fools jokes suggesting it would make an 8-bit version of Google Maps for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. [ciciplusplus] decided …read more Continue reading Google Maps, Now On The NES