Month: September 2021

Google Maps adds a wildfire info layer, rolling out to Android this week and iOS and desktop in October, expands its Tree Canopy tool to 100 cities worldwide (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google Maps adds a wildfire info layer, rolling out to Android this week and iOS and desktop in October, expands its Tree Canopy tool to 100 cities worldwide  —  “Fire” will be a top-level layer just like traffic, satellite, and transit maps.  —  Google Maps is getting a few new

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GM’s new software platform will enable over-the-air updates, in-car subscriptions, and maybe facial recognition

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge General Motors announced a new “end-to-end” software platform for its cars called “Ultifi” — a play on the name Ultium, which is the automaker’s new electric vehicle battery architecture. GM says the new software will enable over-the-air (OTA) updates, in-car subscription services, and “new opportunities to increase customer

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Akamai says it has acquired Tel Aviv-based Guardicore, which protects cloud workloads from cyber threats, for $600M to help combat ransomware attacks (Eva Mathews/Reuters)

Eva Mathews / Reuters: Akamai says it has acquired Tel Aviv-based Guardicore, which protects cloud workloads from cyber threats, for $600M to help combat ransomware attacks  —  Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM.O) will acquire Israel-based Guardicore for about $600 million, it said on Wednesday, to beef …

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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleads guilty to violating US sanctions law following a crypto and blockchain presentation at a 2019 North Korean conference (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleads guilty to violating US sanctions law following a crypto and blockchain presentation at a 2019 North Korean conference  —  Griffith was charged with violating sanctions law by giving a cryptocurrency and blockchain presentation at a North Korean conference in 2019.

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Google announces online shopping tools, including a Lens upgrade coming first to iOS and Chrome desktop that helps users find products seen in images and videos (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Google announces online shopping tools, including a Lens upgrade coming first to iOS and Chrome desktop that helps users find products seen in images and videos  —  New search tools designed for shopping from home  —  Shopping online isn’t always a convenience.

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