Everyone’s starting to use drones for mapping these days and Apple is apparently no exception. The company plans to use drones and new indoor navigation features to improve its Maps service and catch longtime leader Google, according to sources close to the story. The Cupertino, California-based company is assembling a team of robotics and data-collection […]
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After months of rumors, Netflix has added an offline viewing feature to its application, as seen in the newly released Netflix 9.0.1 app for iOS. According to Netflix, “many favorite streaming series and movies are already available for download, with more on the way.” Some of the content that’s ready to download includes Orange Is […]
This smacks of the spiffy. Google has just released PhotoScan, its new app for Android and iOS that allows you to scan your prints, eliminate any glare you’d get from taking a picture of them and organize them in digital form. The PhotoScan app allows you to take an initial photo of a photo, wherein […]
If nothing else, Apple Pay is gaining traction. Just over a month after launching Apple Pay on the web to bring the payments service to website checkouts via its Safari web browser, new data shows Apple has already made it into the top five payment technologies online. Analystics firm SimilarTech’s platform tracks over 30 billion […]
Speedy wireless broadband is coming your way via Google. In a recent Federal Communications Commission filing, Google noted that it has been testing a new wireless-transmission technology using the 3.5-GHz band in Kansas City, but the heavily redacted FCC filing suggests that it wants to dramatically expand to testing “experimental transmitters” at up to 24 […]