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A forthcoming Android upgrade could mean a goodbye to the trouble of navigating with an erratic blue spot on Google Maps. A post on the Android Developers blog gives details about this potential upgrade. It describes the Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) API, which promises better device orientation across all Android phones. The next Android update promises sharper navigation on Google Maps The annoyance of phones misinterpreting direction will soon vanish with FOP since it combines accelerometer, gyroscope, and…

Does It Ever Drive You Crazy The singer recently kicked off The Show: Live on Tour and has been moving through selections from One Direction's discography from city to city Most of the arenas Niall Horan has booked out on The Show: Live on Tour, in support of his third studio album The Show, he first performed in with his four One Direction bandmates by his side. On Tuesday evening, he headlined Manchester’s AO Arena, more than a decade after the boy band’s Take Me Home tour…

Google Maps has seen several new features being launched over the past few months, making it one of the best navigation apps out there. Now, the company is rolling out the most awaited feature announced in early 2023 - Google Maps glanceable directions. This was first discussed in February last year, but Google did not make the feature public to the users till now. Google The update is rolling out on Android and iOS devices and it will make your navigation experience easier and more immersive.Google Maps' glanceable…

Photo: Kyoto University An MIT-led team revealed a “guidebook” for how to tune surface properties of perovskites, a silicon alternative – here’s why that’s huge for solar. Perovskite solar cells, inspired by the mineral with a similar crystal structure, have been a serious topic of research within the renewable energy sector for some years now. Their potential to redefine the solar energy landscape is vast, offering a tantalizing combination of high efficiency, low manufacturing costs, and…

Artie Beaty/ZDNETIf you use Google Maps for navigation, a new feature will not only make your driving safer, it'll make your phone's battery last longer. Also: The best rugged phones: Expert testedStarting today, Maps users on both Androidgain access to glanceable directions (or turn-by-turn navigation), updated ETA, and the next turn, right from their phone's lock screen. The feature works for driving, walking, and cycling.Not only does this make your navigation more distraction-free, but it also cuts down on…

After announcing that it was bringing glanceable directions to its Maps app more than a year ago, Google has finally started to make good on its promise. The feature, which is starting to roll out to people with seemingly no geographic restrictions, allows people to see their travel directions on the iPhone's Lock Screen for the first time.Google announced its Maps glanceable directions feature back in February of 2023 and then things went suspiciously quiet. There was no sign of the feature in the Google Maps app on…

There’s some good news for Google Maps users worldwide. Finally, the new glanceable directions feature has started rolling out to users across the globe after a long waiting period. Google developers introduced this feature as part of wider improvements throughout 2023 aimed at creating an immersive view for Maps. Google Maps’ glanceable directions make navigation easier than ever Originally announced in February last year, glanceable directions bring key information like real-time ETA and turn-by-turn directions right…

Google Maps on Wear OS now incorporates transit directions as part of the app’s latest update on smartwatches. The launch of this particular feature for Maps on your wrist has been a long time coming, but users can rest easy now that the wait is just about over. Google announced the update as part of everything going on at Mobile World Congress this week. It also launches alongside other Wear OS changes that Google says are intended to help optimize and improve battery life and performance. This is in addition to the…

Google is finally giving Android smartwatch owners a feature they’ve been wanting for years: Google Wallet passes. Among its many announcements at MWC, Google said today that it’s officially bringing boarding passes, event tickets, gym memberships, loyalty cards and other passes that might be stored in your Google Wallet to Wear OS. It’s one area where Wear OS has lagged way behind the Apple Watch, which has long had passes.While some users have sporadically reported seeing the feature pop up over the last month or so,…

Google Maps for Android has reportedly received an important quality-of-life update, which will make it much easier to navigate through parts of the interface. According to a report, Google has reworked how the user interface (UI) while searching for directions is displayed in the app, ditching the full-screen in favour of a bottom sliding sheet layout. Additionally, Google Maps has also made upgrades to the Location interface which pops up when a user clicks on a landmark site for more information about it. It is not…