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From AR navigation to business messaging and reviews, Google Maps is truly a platform. The latest update today is focused on improving the visual quality and details of the default layer — especially for nature — in Google Maps. The service today has three map types: “Default,” Satellite, and Terrain.…

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The “something special” teased by Google over the weekend is a month-long series of deals. Fred Armisen is the face of the Google Store Daily Special with various skits showing off various Assistant devices and how they are helpful. For the next month, there will be a “Daily Special” on…

Introduction Google's Pixel 4a is finally here and although it has arrived a few months behind its rumored schedule, many are eager to buy one during these trying times. How much has been done to improve the Google-fied budget Pixel 3a from last year? Well, last year's formula was quite…

Earlier this month HTC made the Wildfire E2 smartphone official in Russia, with entry-level specs and a price to match. However, it turns out that the Taiwanese company is also working on an even cheaper, even more basic handset to be launched soon under the Wildfire sub-brand. This will be…

Dalvin Brown USA TODAYPublished 9:42 AM EDT Aug 14, 2020Google's latest search feature will help you find where you can watch live sports games and live TV shows. As of Thursday, when you go to Google.com and search “where to watch the Clippers game” or “how to watch the A’s game” on your…

We’ve become more dependent these days on the Internet to search for information, especially about places or businesses whose hours and policies may have changed in the past months. Unfortunately, those very same businesses may be experiencing difficulties in keeping up-to-date from lack of manpower or for being unable to…

Simply take a photo of a math problem and Google Lens will bring up step-by-step instructions and explain how to calculate the answer. Surely parents will benefit from this too, not only students.There are a ton of digital learning tools available to assist students. If your child uses a Chromebook, learn…

A new certification program aims to foster more development in a segment of machine learning that would run on small devices at the edge.Online learning platform EdX; Google’s open-source machine learning platform, TensorFlow; and HarvardX have put together a certification program to train tech professionals to work with tiny machine…

Google is experimenting with showing domain names only in Chrome’s address bar instead of full URLs. The feature will be tested in the upcoming Chrome 86 release, with Google hoping the change could protect users against scams and phishing attacks using misleading URLs. Domain names and URLs are one of…