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Image: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s biggest tech company, Yandex, announced on Thursday that it’s removing all borders from its maps app. The move comes as the invasion of Ukraine still rages on, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin openly talks about expanding the country’s borders, and Ukrainians fear Russia will use sham referendums to annex parts of the country.  “Yandex Maps is a universal service that helps people find organizations and places nearby, choose… Source link

The reconfiguring of Russia’s digital landscape in the wake of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine continues to play out at a macro and micro level. Here’s a development on the latter front: Local tech giant Yandex has quietly removed national borders from its maps product. Users of Yandex’s maps app, which is popular in countries in the CIS region, can still see country names displayed — but lines depicting exact borders between nations are no longer visible. We understand the… Source link

The reconfiguring of Russia’s digital landscape in the wake of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine continues to play out at a macro and micro level. Here’s a development on the latter front: Local tech giant Yandex has quietly removed national borders from its maps product. Users of Yandex’s maps app, which is popular in countries in the CIS region, can still see country names displayed — but lines depicting exact borders between countries like Ukraine and Russia are no longer visible. We… Source link

Google is telling users of the Android Auto for Phone Screens app that it’ll no longer work soon via an in-app pop-up message (via 9to5Google). The app enables a simplified in-car interface of Android that is safer to use while mounting the phone on a car dashboard, a great feature for those who don’t own newer cars with the version of Android Auto that runs on the infotainment screen. This is actually not Google’s first warning that it was putting Android Auto for Phone Screens in… Source link

Google announced today that it’s combining two of its video-calling apps, Duo and Meet, into a single platform. Pretty soon, there will be only Google Meet, and Google’s hoping it can be the one calling app users need for just about everything in their lives. By bringing them both together, Google’s hoping it can solve some of what ails modern communication tools. “What’s been really important is understanding how people make the choice as to what tool they’re going to use,… Source link

The Google TV app, which aggregates content recommendations from numerous streaming services and lets you create a universal watchlist of your favorites, is now available on iOS. Google says that it’ll replace the previous Google Play Movies and TV app in the App Store, so if you’ve already got that installed, you should be able to update it to the Google TV experience sometime today. The software, already available on Android, also allows you to rate what you’ve previously viewed… Source link

Google has announced the Chrome OS 102 update for Chromebooks with new features. With the latest update, the tech giant is rolling out its note-taking app Cursive to all Chromebooks that work with a stylus. It launched the Cursive app to select devices last year. “The Cursive app makes it easy to capture, edit and organise handwritten notes on your Chromebook,” it said in a blog post. Beyond handwritten notes, users can also sketch out drawings, or paste images within their notes. They… Source link

Later this year, YouTube Go will shut down after being deemed no longer necessary. In a possible sign of things to come, Google’s “Gallery Go” app this week lost its “Go” branding. Android Go debuted in 2017 (8.0 Oreo) as a version of the operating system optimized for lower-end hardware. This initiative extended to first-party apps that were redesigned for the OS variant. The initial wave of apps that appended “Go” to the name included Google Search, Assistant,… Source link

By Bryan Koenig (May 27, 2022, 6:38 PM EDT) — Google is following in Apple’s footsteps with a newly announced deal resolving claims from app developers even as it continues to battle antitrust allegations over the Android Play Store from Epic Games, state attorneys general and consumers who sought class certification Thursday. Developers behind smaller apps — in the Google case, those with $2 million in annual sales or less — have so far been the only plaintiffs willing to settle… Source link

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.Patrick T. Fallon / Getty Images Coinbase is experimenting with having employees rate each other, The Information reported Monday. Staff are reportedly asked to evaluate one another after meetings and other interactions based on how well they model 10 core values. Employees can give their colleagues a thumbs up, thumbs down, or neutral review, the report says. Coinbase is reportedly asking employees to rate each other after interactions as part of an app-based pilot… Source link