Google Maps is making it easier to keep up with your favorite retailers with a Facebook-style follow feature. Google Maps You can search for a business you want to keep an eye on and tap the “Follow” button to prompt events, offers and other updates to show up in the “For you” tab. For example, …
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Why send a text saying you’re “on the way” when you can give friends live ETA updates? Google is rolling out an update for Google Maps that sends your real-time ETA, location and route to anyone you choose. Journey sharing is already available on the Android version of Google Maps, but Google said in a blog post Thursday that the update …
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The Google Lens augmented-reality tool is directly integrated into Google’s new Pixel 3 phone, Google said Tuesday at a launch event for several new products. Lens unlocks previously announced capabilities like Style Search, which identifies products online that’re similar to the one you’re pointing your phone’s camera at, or a feature that gives you the option of having your phone autodial …
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Google Assistant will now take an active role in helping you book a ride. Ask it for a ride to the airport or a local restaurant, and the digital assistant on your phone will pull info from popular ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. You’ll see wait times and prices compared, and if you choose a service Google will take …
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Google Maps is rolling out a commute feature for its Android and iOS apps with extra information to help with your trip to and from work. The commute section will suggest alternative routes if there are problems. Google Maps The new section will show details for each leg of your journey, including disruptions to traffic and to bus or train …
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Google is trying to make planning your next trip a little less stressful. The search giant, which turned 20 this week, is adding suggestions directly to your searches and created a landing page for flight trends and hotel options as the winter holidays approach, as previously reported by TechCrunch. The suggestions offer you things to do, day plans and travel …
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Google Maps has added a group planning feature to help you figure out your plans without having a long string of messages about it. The feature, which was released Wednesday, is designed to help groups of people make plans a little more easily. It allows everyone to weigh in on decisions about where to eat, drink or hang out. You …
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Emergency operators in the US will soon be able to get more-accurate information about the location of Android phones used to dial 911. Google said Wednesday that it’s partnered with T-Mobile and emergency technology providers RapidSOS and West to send emergency call centers information from its Emergency Location Service (ELS), an enhanced location service that runs on 99 percent of …
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Exactly 10 years ago Tuesday, a newly promoted vice president named Sundar Pichai stood before a group of tech reporters in a conference room at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. There, he revealed the Chrome web browser publicly for the first time. It went well, to say the least. Google’s Chrome’s first browser icon Google Over the last decade, the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. One of the most anticipated smartphone throwdowns of the year — the 2018 iPhones and the Google Pixel 3 — will be about far more than just phones. It will go to the root of the competition between Apple’s iOS 12 software and Google’s Android …
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