"We're shifting from our job being mappingtheworld to our job being mappingyourworld," Jen Fitzpatrick, Google's vice president of geo, local and maps, said during a press roundtable Tuesday in San Francisco. You can also share your route with a friend. Google But the new feature could ...
Last but not least, Google agreed to pay $13 million to end long-running litigation over claims that it violated a U.S. wiretapping law when vehicles used for its Street View mapping project captured data from private Wi-Fi networks. The settlement agreement filed Friday in San Francisco fede...
Despite its critics, Silicon Valley remains hugely successful and influential, with 21% of employed people working in tech, according to a 2017 Federal Reserve Bank report. Though the region’s economy has shown some signs of slowing, job growth in Silicon Valley has been more than double the ...
without peeking at the official genome map. That’s a difficult task requiring significant investment in computing and know-how. But Calico got the right answer, so it’s confident of accurately mapping the genome of the naked mole rat
A Twitter mapping project by Michael Altamirano, Nico Giraldo, Adrian Lobdill, and Elif Sezgin. Live App Wouldn’t you like to know where people are tweeting about tacos? Twitter has some search features, but not a great way to geolocate tweets. Thanks to Tweet The Bay, you can now see...
Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center, University of New Hampshire,believesthat mapping the entire world ocean with multi-beam echo sounders will cost almost $3 billion, given that it would take a single ship costing $45,000 per day more than 65,000 days to complete the job. ...
The distinctions are revelatory for anyone interested in mapping the future of American politics. “Increasingly, technology entrepreneurs are using their personal wealth and firms’ power to exercise political influence,” the survey’s authors observe. “For example, recent federal candidates have ...
While this actually comes in handy when you’re using mapping services like Google Maps or geotagging photos for social media, there are times when you do not want your actual location revealed, such as when you’re attempting to access geo-restricted content, or when you simply don’t want...
The Google Ride Finder is ostensibly a mapping service to find nearby taxis and airport shuttles in major metro areas. While it’s useless for getting a ride with these centrally booked services, it really functions as a very engaging advertisement for these companies. (And, while we’re at...
Where it ran a cropper was the ad tech companies’ incompatibilities in data gathering, reluctance to share proprietary granular information, and privacy–an international battleground. Facebook turned out to be clueless in mapping mobility as a proxy or input to calculate contact rates, since it...