Is the online travel industry headed for a major shakeup? Getty Is the travel industry heading for a new world order? There remains little doubt among travel experts that tech goliaths Google and Amazon will dominate the online travel arena, threatening to bust up the duopoly of Expedia Group (which owns Expedia, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Orbitz,...Read More
Google’s Equiano subsea cable will connect Portugal, South Africa, Nigeria and likely other nations. Google Google’s third undersea network cable will shuttle high-speed data from Portugal to South Africa and countries in between starting in 2021, a fiber-optic line called Equiano. The fiber-optic line is part of Google’s massive investment in computing infrastructure — an...Read More
CLOSE If you want to use certain Google features, you’ll get a notification urging you to turn the feature on. USA TODAY MORRO BAY, Calif. – I stepped out of the car and took a visit to a local hotel here right off the main road. It was so easy to find, I didn’t have to...Read More
Caroline Ige of Silver Spring, Md., woke up recently in the middle of the night with sharp pain in her lower abdomen. She was nauseated and had chills. Hoping to avoid a potentially long wait time at the emergency room, her husband did a Google search for a 24-hour urgent-care center nearby. Google listed one...Read More
DOES IT FEEL LIKE POLITICS IS AT A BREAKING POINT? It sure feels that way to me, and here at Mother Jones, we’ve been thinking a lot about what journalism needs to do differently, and how we can have the biggest impact. We kept coming back to one word: corruption. Democracy and the rule of...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Google pledged $1 billion worth of land and money on Tuesday to build affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, the latest effort by tech industry leaders to address housing shortages near their headquarters. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said in a blog post that the company planned to repurpose at...Read More
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“This national expansion comes at a significant moment for Google. For 21 years, we’ve pursued a timeless mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” Pichai said. Gov. Kevin Stitt thanked Google for being an early adopter of Oklahoma’s tech future. “I can’t underscore enough the importance that we continue...Read More
Google appears to be testing a new safety feature for Google Maps that will alert you if your car or taxi deviates from its route by more than 500 meters (0.3 miles). The feature was first spotted by XDA Developers, and it appears to be exclusive to India for now. “Off-route alerts” can be found...Read More
Google has been busy updating Google Maps in the past month, first rolling out speed limit indicators and then speed camera alerts. The latest feature to join Google’s mapping app is a speedometer that shows up while you’re driving. While yes, of course your car already has one, the idea is to be able to...Read More
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