Новости за 04.08.2018

In recent months Google Maps has gotten pretty persistent about letting me know where there are restaurants it thinks I should try or new places opening up in my neighborhood — and I hate it. As it turns out, I don’t really need the app to tell me what’s going on around me, and with each hot tip I get more and more…

Growing up, my mom would always turn on NPR when we would leave the house. Her idea was that if a potential burglar was scoping out the place they would hear the radio and either think the speakers were in the house, or at the very least think there was someone at home listening to the broadcast. I’m not sure how…

McDonald’s is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac this week. To celebrate, it started passing out MacCoins at its stores yesterday, a currency of sorts that can be used to, well, buy Big Macs. You get one by purchasing a Big Mac from the company using real money, making it essentially an elaborate buy one,…

It feels like Google has held the market on “point your camera at it to learn more” technology for some time now, first through its Translate app, which let you target signs in foreign languages with your smartphone’s camera and receive translations on the fly, and now via Lens, which expands this technology to give…