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Google Maps is getting an update that will add toll road prices and more map details like stop lights and stop signs, Google announced on Tuesday. The company is also adding iOS improvements, including a new pinned trip widget and the option to get directions on Google Maps directly from your Apple Watch. The company says it’s adding toll prices on Google Maps for the first time to make it easier for users to make the choice between taking toll roads or regular… Source link

Google is announcing a handful of updates to Google Maps, including one that will show toll prices before you start navigating to where you want to go. “We look at factors like the cost of using a toll pass or other payment methods, what the day of the week it is, along with how much the toll is expected to cost at the specific time you’ll be crossing it,” Google said in a blog post. If a toll-free route is available, that will be shown as an option as well. The feature will begin… Source link

Entrepreneur and self-made business mogul Emma Grede knows a few things about building successful businesses with the Kardashians. Together they have co-founded several: Good American, SKIMS, and Safely. “I have a very long relationship [with the Kardashians], going back to my former career where I’d worked with the family, for I guess near enough 10 years now,” Grede told Yahoo Finance Live Presents (video above). “So it’s been a relationship that’s taken a very long time to form. We’ve done… Source link

The war between Russia and Ukraine being fought on the battleground — and in cyberspace. Just ask Dyma Budorin, a Ukrainian web security entrepreneur turned cyber warrior currently based in Spain after leaving Kyiv just days before the Russian invasion began. “It’s an official cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine,” Budorin, co-founder and CEO of Hacken, a Ukrainian cybersecurity consulting firm, told Yahoo Finance. Budorin says almost his entire 70-member team relocated. They’re still handling… Source link

Google Photos’ portrait blur feature on Android will soon be able to blur backgrounds in a wider range of photos, including pictures of pets, food, and — my personal favorite — plants. It’s one of a host of updates coming to Google’s apps and services on Android, which also includes tweaks to Google TV, a new screen time widget, and wider deployment of a Gboard feature that helps improve your grammar. Google Photos has previously been able to blur the background in photos of… Source link

Facebook parent Meta (FB) is warning Ukrainian users that a Russia-linked hacking group is trying to take over user high-profile accounts to spread disinformation about Russia’s invasion. According to Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Meta, a Belarus-based group, known as Ghostwriter, is trying to compromise high-profile Ukrainians’ user accounts to sow discord among the local population amid Russia’s physical attack. “They were targeting and taking over, or attempting to… Source link

Along with being expected to start a rate hike cycle in March, the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to stop purchasing assets to add to its $9 trillion balance sheet. And while multiple rate hikes seems to be largely factored into the stock market, winding down the balance sheet — i.e., start selling assets into the market as opposed to buying — is a less understood variable. “When… the most reliable buyer with its own printing press and an incredible willingness to buy – when they… Source link

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last week celebrated Tom Brady’s retirement by hailing him as “an incredible competitor and leader” and noting “his stellar career is remarkable for its longevity” and “sustained excellence.” Just seven years ago, Goodell and the NFL were using media allies to brand Brady as a cheater, wrongly suspending him after a federal court battle, and eventually ending and hiding the results of an experiment that would have all but cleared him of… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. App Annie said global spending across iOS and Google Play is up to $135 billion in 2021, and that figure will likely be higher when its… Source link

Weber’s secret weapon in its most recent quarter is one they have relied on time and time again to perform well in periods of high supply chain stress (such is the case now). Making more grills and components where the products end up being sold, says Weber CEO Chris Scherzinger. “We are the only major grill brand who makes our own grills and do it locally in the continent,” Scherzinger said on Yahoo Finance Live. Weber operates three manufacturing facilities in Illinois that handle metal… Source link