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Google Maps Gets Smarter With Gemini AI In Major Overhaul

Google unveiled a major overhaul of its 20-year-old Google Maps on Thursday, announcing plans to integrate AI technology that has already proven successful in its search engine.

International Business Times

‘I’m coming home from a party, and I don’t want to end up getting arrested’: do driving apps help people break road rules?

Apps such as Google Maps, Apple Maps and Waze can tell drivers when they are approaching speed cameras or random breath testing stations. Countries such as Germany, France and Switzerland have banned apps from displaying these enforcement locations.

The Conversation

Gemini AI starts riding shotgun on Google Maps

Google will replace Google Assistant's control of WhatsApp and Spotify with Gemini Extensions.

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You can now ask Google Maps for spot and activity ideas thanks to Gemini

Google Maps will soon offer activity ideas, Gemini-powered review summaries, and answers to your questions about places.

Android Central

Google Maps Introduces AI-Powered Features For Enhanced Navigation

Google Maps integrates AI technology to provide personalized recommendations, detailed imagery, and real-time updates for enhanced user experience.

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Google Maps adds AI features to help users explore and navigate the world around them

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence

The Independent UK

Absolutely game-changing Google Maps update will cut down on wrong turns

I visited the Google Maps Street View garage to learn more about its new enhanced navigation features, which should cut back on your wrong turns in unfamiliar places.

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How Do You Find An Electric Car Charging Station?

First-time EV owners face an immediate concern: how, when and where to charge their vehicles. The eventual answer—for many—will be installing a Level 2 charger at home. But even those fortunate single-family-home-owning suburbanites will venture out and rely on public charging from time to time.

InsideEVs

You can use Google Maps to plan the perfect trick-or-treat route — here's how

Learn how to use Google Maps to create your perfect trick-or-treat route, track locations, and find the best candy spots.

Tom’s Guide

Renault 5 E-Tech first drive: retro hatchback is one of the best EVs of 2024

The new electric Renault 5 is a little bit of history repeating

Google Maps is clearing up its interface with this small change

Google Maps could start cleaning up its cluttered interface, starting with this small change.

Tom’s Guide

‘Sherlock Holmes’ hotel set for demolition due to perilous condition

The developers said they would rebuild the construction in line with Arthur Conan Doyle’s design

The Independent UK

Android Automotive fully lands on motorcycles – with built-in Google Maps and flash touchscreen displays

KTM brings mapping, music and bespoke apps to two wheelers

TechRadar

You can now book parking spaces in Google Maps, just like in Apple Maps

Google Maps has joined Apple Maps with an upgrade that lets you book parking spaces, in the US and Canada.

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Google Maps just got a huge upgrade that will make parking easier for millions

Google has teamed up with SpotHero to let you book parking via Google Maps.

PC Gamer

This farming sim lets you plant crops anywhere you want on a real-world map, so I patriotically grew corn and raised sheep under the Statue of Liberty

Global Farmer uses real world data to let your farm just about anywhere you can think of.

Android Central

Google Maps and Search are making it easier to find and book parking spots

Google teamed up with SpotHero to add parking reservations right in Maps and Search.

The Independent UK

Factory workers say company told them not to evacuate from Hurricane Helene. 11 were swept away in floodwaters

Two employees of Impact Plastics were killed and at least three remain missing

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The Independent UK

School under fire for installing windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms so teachers and classmates can watch

One parent said the windows were ‘a deterrent’ to keep students from using gender-inclusive bathrooms

The Conversation

When even fringe festival venues exclude people with disability, cities need to act on access

It’s about time city councils did more to make our cities accessible. I recently tried to buy tickets to two Sydney Fringe Festival events, only to be told by the box office that the venues were not wheelchair-accessible.

The Independent UK

13-year-old girl accused of stabbing 7-year-old sister to death over argument about ‘flushing the toilet’

‘She was very calm and just showed no emotion,’ police said of teenage suspect after she allegedly stabbed sibling 10 times

Android Auto finally gets Google Maps feature that's been on CarPlay for months

Those who use Google Maps on Android Auto can now report incidents to help other drivers.

TechRadar

Google Maps, Street View, and Google Earth all get major updates – including a time travel feature

Look out for new, sharper imagery and pictures going back through time in these Google products.

Android Central

Google Maps expands Street View to more places and launches a time machine

Google detailed several updates preparing to hit its Maps and Earth apps.

TechRadar

Google Maps will now warn you about businesses with fake reviews

You can now see warnings in Google Maps when a business has had fake reviews detected and removed.

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