Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things — wants to be the first place people go for discovery and planning pastimes. In aid of that, today the company announced three new features for its star navigation app, Google Maps: aerial and more…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
A new report detailing the cost of mobile data in different markets across the world, bears the evidence of why internet use in most of Africa remains low despite the growing broadband internet coverage. The Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 report, which surveyed 233 countries, shows that five of the 10 most expensive countries to buy…
That scorching summer weather isn’t going away anytime soon, so Google Maps is introducing a few new features for outdoorsy types. Google announced a trio of additions to its popular GPS navigation app on Wednesday (July 27). The first one was teased back at Google I/O 2022: 3D aerial views of more than 100 famous…
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The IMF forecast Russia’s economy to contract 6% this year — an improvement from its April forecast. Russia’s crude-oil and energy exports have been holding up better than expected, said IMF. Global economic outlook is gloomy, with growth likely to hit 3.2% this year, down from 6.1% in…
Google’s 3D “immersive view” isn’t completely ready, but you can get a glimpse of it starting today. The company is rolling out updates to Google Maps for Android and iOS that introduce aerial views of close to 100 famous landmarks, including Alcatraz in San Francisco, Big Ben in London and the Empire State Building in…
I still can’t get over hearing that Grand Theft Auto was nearly canned – the Grand Theft Auto, the original, the game that started it all. What would have happened if it never came out? And it very nearly didn’t, to hear Gary Penn talk about it, senior producer and then creative director on it….
Everything starts somewhere, and when the games industry began to form in the UK, back in the ’80s, Gary Penn – my guest on the One-to-one podcast today – was there. A young adult passionate about games, he was propelled to micro-stardom, as he puts it, when he won a competition to find Britain’s best…
IBM releases its annual “Cost of a Data Breach Report, which finds the cost of of intrusions is increasing and creating a cyber tax.Read MoreRead More
Google is relaunching Street View, the Google Maps feature that allows users to explore an area through 360-degree panoramic street-level images, in India roughly six years after the South Asian nation rejected the feature over national security concerns. The company, which has been attempting to launch Street View in the country for over 10 years,…
Rumors become reality as the upcoming DJI Avata FPV (first-person view) drone has appeared on the FCC’s (Federal Communications Commission) website. You can view the documents by going to the FCC ID website where you can see that Avata was given the grantee code of SS3 and you can read a few documents pertaining to…