Thu. 02/06 - Google Maps Freshens Up For Its Birthday

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

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Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint, it turns out you WILL be able to unlock your car via iPhone and really soon, Huawei is suing Verizon, Twitter impresses investors, Casper has a rollercoaster IPO, and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad-load Rubicon? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Podcorn.com Links: Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge) New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac) Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge) Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge) Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch) Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC) The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (ZDNet) Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC) U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme right home for Thursday, February 6th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint.
0:12.0	It turns out you will be able to unlock your car via
0:14.9	iPhone and really soon.
0:17.0	Huawei is suing Verizon. Twitter impresses investors.
0:19.7	Casper has a roller coaster IPO and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric
0:24.0	basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad load Rubicon.
0:28.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	Feels like there's been a lot of birthdays in the tech world recently.
0:36.4	The latest is Google Maps, which is turning 15 and in honor of the occasion has rolled out
0:42.0	a whole app refresh.
0:44.4	Now when you go to Google Maps you'll see five tabs,
0:48.0	explore, commute, saved, contribute, and updates.
0:52.6	Also there's a new icon and a bunch of new features which will actually be coming in March,
0:56.7	quoting The Verge.
0:58.1	The first is increased crowd-sourced information for public transit.
1:01.7	Before Google Maps could only tell you
1:03.9	whether a trainer bus was expected to be crowded, but the new update allows users to
1:09.0	submit other details like temperature, wheelchair accessibility, or whether there's a women-only carriage or
1:15.1	on-board security.
1:16.9	The other update is coming to Google's augmented reality live view feature, which is getting
1:20.8	a more lightweight mode that will simply show the location
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