Google Maps will show you which cars are the lease crowded on some train lines. Google Google on Wednesday announced several new features for Google Maps. It’s expanding a feature that shows you how crowded a transit line is to 10,000 cities across 100 countries. But it’s also testing something even more granular: the option to see which cars on a specific train are the most crowded on New York’s Long Island Railroad and for transit lines in Sydney, Australia. Both features may help you avoid… Source link

Google Maps is rolling out more accurate indicators of transit crowdedness. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo The world is slowly opening back up. You might be finding yourself using public transit for the first time in ages and trying to figure out how to get around. Some helpful new Google Maps features could help us all navigate through this time, both literally and figuratively. For folks finding themselves back on a bus or a train, Google is expanding its transit crowdedness predictions. The… Source link

Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding. The number of cities covered is increasing from around 200 today, to “over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries,” the company says. As well as crowdedness, Google says Maps is also being updated to offer more information about past travel. Google Maps’ crowdedness information originally launched pre-pandemic in 2019, but over the past year social distancing has made it more… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Growth, value, and rates — all in one place It was a Turnaround Tuesday on Wall Street yesterday.  After a brutal sell-off to start the week, each of the major averages gained nearly 2% on the week’s second trading day. A solid rebound after a decline in markets on Monday that perhaps felt worse than it really was.  But… Source link

A bad update to Chrome OS, version 91.0.4472.165, has left some users unable to log in to their accounts, or reportedly with boot-looping computers (via Android Central). If you’ve found yourself locked out of your Chromebook, help is on the way: Google posted on its system status page that it’s working on a fix, which it expects to release on Wednesday. It’s also pulled the update, which should prevent more users from experiencing the issue. According to Google, the only options to… Source link

Google and Mukesh Ambani’s Jio are hoping to crack one of the world’s largest untapped smartphone markets, launching a device they hope will be cheap enough to convert 450m Indians on “dumb” handsets into smartphone users. The JioPhone Next, a successor to Ambani’s earlier-generation JioPhone, has been designed by the companies to run a custom version of Android. It will offer a blend of Google and Jio apps, with voice assistance in multiple Indian languages for… Source link

FluxFactory / Getty Images In your 20s, as you start your career and make real money for the first time, your spending changes. After living with Mom and Dad or in a college dorm, you can afford a place of your own and might want to splurge on the place with the amazing rooftop deck. You might have some disposable income for the first time — even after making the monthly payment on those student loans — and want to take a weekend trip each month with friends. Find Out: 50 Best (and Worst)… Source link

Stock futures rose in Tuesday evening’s after-hours trading, following a session in which investors momentarily cast aside their fears that a resurgence of COVID-19 cases might derail a red-hot economic recovery.  The week started out with major benchmarks suffering their worst declines of 2021, which took the spotlight from quarterly earnings that have almost uniformly reflected a strong rebound. The rising case count driven by the Delta variant — a more communicable form of COVID-19 —… Source link

Chipotle (CMG) on Tuesday posted a second-quarter earnings report that smashed Wall Street expectations, thanks to the mass return of customers after COVID-19 restrictions, and ongoing strength in digital sales. Here’s what the California-based company reported, compared to Wall Street’s expectations, according to a Bloomberg consensus estimate: Revenue: $1.9B vs. $1.88 billion expected Adj. earnings per share (EPS): $7.46 vs. $6.54 per share expected Same-store sales: 31.2% vs. 29.8%… Source link

On May 8, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on “Saturday Night Live” after having tweeted about cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) for months. Since that appearance, the digital asset is down nearly 80%. Dogecoin’s value peaked right before the show aired on the expectation that Musk, who had become known as a doge bull, might plug the coin, sending it higher, or “to the moon.” Musk did talk about it during the Weekend Update segment – he was asked repeatedly by hosts… Source link