Google will let you upload photos and add missing roads in Maps

Posted on 11/03/2021 by Engadget

Google has announced three new ways you can help make Maps more informative and accurate, which would make it more useful at a time when people are checking out places online before they venture out of their homes. To start with, the tech giant is ho...

Android update adds scheduled texts and improves accessibility

Posted on 23/02/2021 by Engadget

The first developer preview of Android 12 may not have told us a lot about what to expect from the next version of Google's mobile OS, but we're getting new features sooner than we expected. The company is announcing a set of six updates toda...

Google Maps now lets you pay for parking and travel tickets inside the app

Posted on 17/02/2021 by Engadget

Google is adding payments features to Maps to help users who need to move around town during the pandemic. The app now lets you handle your parking fees in more than 400 US cities and transport fares at upwards of 80 transit agencies around the world...

Apple Maps will get crowdsourced incident reporting with iOS 14.5

Posted on 10/02/2021 by Engadget

Crowdsourced traffic incident reports have been a hallmark of Waze and Google Maps for years, and now it looks like that functionality will finally make its way to Apple Maps. As spotted by Roadshow, the iOS 14.5 beta updates Apple Maps to allow you...

EVs with Google Maps will make it easier to plan trips around recharging

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

Cars with Google Maps built in are getting a few more features that should make it easier to plan trips around charging stops. Google is using graph theory in its latest routing algorithms to help you determine the best way to get to your destination...

Put Bernie Sanders almost anywhere with this Google Street View app

Posted on 21/01/2021 by Engadget

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris might have been the headliners of Wednesday's inauguration, but Sen. Bernie Sanders stole the show just by sitting on a chair in his winter gear. A photo of an isolated, masked Sanders wearing mitt...

Google Photos lets you relive a day through your Maps timeline

Posted on 16/12/2020 by Engadget

Since 2015, Google has offered a timeline feature through Maps that allows you to retrace where you were on a specific day in the past. Despite coming out at around the same time, Google Photos is only now starting to take advantage of that functiona...

Gmail, YouTube and more down in major Google outage

Posted on 14/12/2020 by Engadget

Not the best start to the week. Around 6:29AM ET, the vast majority of Google-operated services, including Gmail and YouTube, went down for customers in multiple markets. A quick glance at Downdetector reveals that Google Drive, Maps, Nest, Calendar,...

Android gets auto-narrated audiobooks and expanded Voice Access

Posted on 03/12/2020 by Engadget

Google is rolling out another pack of Android features, and one of the most notable might be one you can only hear. The company is teaming with US and UK publishers to introduce auto-narrated audiobooks in the Play Store — you won’t have to hope for...

Google Maps community feed will highlight changes in your city

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Engadget

Google is introducing a new community feed to Maps that the company says will help keep you informed of all the latest developments in your city, including new restaurant openings and service changes. Located in the app’s Explore tab, the feature col...

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