As part of its continual effort to rebuild Apple Maps, Apple has added detailed terrain features to the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico as well as the southern portion of Nevada, including the city of Las Vegas. The additional data is derived from Apple’s street-level data gathering via LiDAR-equipped vehicles, which Apple has […]
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Apple won’t be building its own self-driving car. Now, according to five unnamed sources, the company, which sought partnerships with the luxury carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz to develop an all-electric self-driving car, has signed a deal with Volkswagen to turn some of the carmaker’s new T6 Transporter vans into Apple’s self-driving shuttles for employees. This […]
Apple’s data map collection efforts haver expanded from the Bay Area and gone to the east coast and to the southwest. As noted on the company’s Apple Maps vehicles webpage, Apple is continuing its Apple Maps data collection in New England with camera and sensor-equipped vans for the first time. The expansion to Connecticut marks […]
It looks like Comcast could enforce its promised bandwidth cap sooner than you might think. The company recently announced a 1 terabyte bandwidth cap for Xfinity Internet customers, which are currently in effect in 16 regions, will become enacted within another 18 regions getting the bandwidth cap on November 1st. Comcast settled on the 1TB […]
Apple has confirmed that that camera-laden van driving around your town is part of a Maps project, not a self-driving car project. The company is even listing when the vans will be in specific areas. Apple now has a webpage showing where its Maps vans will be between June 15 and June 30, which includes […]