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After announcing it at I/O 2019, teasing it in 2020 and finally launching it officially last year, Google is shutting down the Assistant Driving Mode dashboard, 9to5Google reported. The feature gives users an Android Auto-lite experience on their smartphone while driving, and was effectively a replacement for the Android Auto smartphone app, which itself was killed last year. Assistant Driving Mode shows a home screen-style page with Google Assistant up top, a music player and volume controls… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s small textile mills, which make products ranging from bedsheets to towels mainly for consumers in the US and Europe, are starting to shut after devastating floods wiped out its cotton crop. Most Read from Bloomberg As many as 100 smaller mills have suspended operations due to a shortage of good quality cotton, high fuel costs, and poor recovery of payments from buyers in flood-hit areas, said Khurram Mukhtar, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Textile Exporters… Source link

The dream of flying cars zipping around in the air has suffered a major reality check. Last week, the secretive air-taxi start-up Kittyhawk, run by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun, announced on Twitter that it was going to “wind down.” It was one of a handful of companies working to bring a “Jetsons” like reality to the world, where electric-powered cars, planes and helicopters become commonplace and offer clean-burning modes of transportation to a world of clogged and polluted… Source link

Google announces it’s shutting down market research product Google Surveys. The service will be unavailable after November 1, and users will have another month to download historical data. Google began informing users about the impending Surveys shutdown this week, sending out emails that look like the one below: Nooo…Google Surveys is getting killed?? Say it isn’t so. pic.twitter.com/7v3dFlggJL — Sucharita Kodali (@smulpuru) September 20, 2022 A link in the email leads to a Google… Source link

Google-owned navigation service Waze is shutting down its six-year-old carpooling service, citing shifting commuting patterns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting in September, the company will begin the process of winding down its carpooling service, which had been available in the US, Brazil, and Israel. Waze said it will explore other ways it can help serve the 150 million customers worldwide that use its navigation app. “While Waze was predominantly a commuting app… Source link

Contrary to what you may have heard in the past few days, Google says it’s not shutting down its Stadia gaming service. The company issued the statement after a rumor began circulating earlier this week that suggested it would sunset the platform later this year. “Stadia is not shutting down,” the official Stadia Twitter account in a tweet . “Rest assured we’re always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro.” Some Stadia fans were convinced Google… Source link

Lincoln College says it will close this week in the wake of a attack that took months to resolve. While the impact of severely impacted activities such as recruitment and fundraising, the cyberattack seems to have been the tipping point for the Illinois institution. The college has informed the Illinois Department of Higher Education and Higher Learning Commission that it will permanently close as of May 13th. As notes, it’s the first US college or university to shut down in part because… Source link

Google has confirmed it’s shutting down the standalone “Android Auto for Phone Screens” app with Android 12. Instead, anyone who wants a driving-friendly interface for their Android phone should use the Google Assistant driving mode, which is available within Google Maps, or the native Android Auto interface available in select cars. “For those who use the on phone experience (Android Auto mobile app), they will be transitioned to Google Assistant driving mode,” Google said in a… Source link

Yahoo Mobile is shutting down on August 31 as a result of Verizon’s sale of the Yahoo brand to the Apollo Global Management investment firm. On August 31, Yahoo Mobile — an unlimited call, text, and data smartphone plan currently owned by Verizon — will shut down. The plan was only launched in March last year, but it will be shuttered as part of Apollo Global Management’s acquisition of Verizon Media, of which the Yahoo brand is a part. The deal is… Source link

It’s the end of an era for Yahoo Answers, the Q&A platform that launched 16 years ago and invited a slew of questions that ranged from the mundane (“Can wall tiles be used on floors?”), to the philosophical (“What is the true meaning of life?”). The site will no longer accept new questions beginning on April 20, and the platform will completely cease operations on May 4. While some users appeared earnest, Yahoo Answers became known throughout its run… Source link