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Google Maps makes navigating unfamiliar cities frustration-free and straightforward. It has an innovative feature that you’re probably not taking full advantage of: Street View. Sure it’s great for looking at your childhood home. But, you can use it for things like creating your own stories and even going indoors. Street View can be especially handy when you are looking at real estate. The timeline feature shows you what a home or commercial building looked like last month or many years… Source link

As the pandemic renders physical product testing a thing of the past, top tech giants are doubling down on virtual makeup try-on to drive e-commerce sales.  In December, both Snapchat and Google launched AR makeup try-on initiatives with beauty tech partners. Google announced its new AR makeup tool on December 17 via partnerships with Perfect Corp and L’Oréal Group-owned ModiFace. It allows users to access virtual try-on for specific beauty products in Google’s mobile app via its main… Source link

Stocks fell Monday in the first session of 2021 after briefly rising to touch fresh record highs earlier in the session. All three major indices dropped more than 1% intraday on Monday, after the S&P 500 and Dow earlier ticked up to record intraday levels. The S&P 500 closed out December with a 3.7% one-month gain and 16% gain for 2020, capping off an extraordinary year in markets despite the backdrop of the pandemic. Bitcoin prices (BTC-USD) also extended their recent rally over the weekend,… Source link

If you’ve ever had a Father’s Day ad offering great deals for your dead dad sail into your inbox, you know that online advertising can be disturbing sometimes. Children’s gifts for people struggling to get pregnant, pet toys for your deceased doggo, the list goes on. Google is taking a small but helpful step to help people control which ads they run into. Starting with YouTube in the U.S., users will be able to toggle off ads for alcohol and gambling — two subjects that are… Source link

Midway through Chicago’s 24-17 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, injured Bears running back Tarik Cohen decided to say the quiet part out loud, for the whole world to hear. “We can’t get s- – – going,” Cohen tweeted. “F – – -.” It was in the second half, and the Bears were being shut out at the time, trailing by 17. Cohen’s tweet proceeded to rack up 214 comments, 318 retweets and 3,700 likes at the time of this column, with more than a few Bears fans, many of whom were… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is a mild-mannered software engineer who is not good at games of verbal fisticuffs with US politicians. He received a drubbing last month during the “big tech” congressional hearing. Pichai can, however, summon lawyers and lobbyists galore as soon as the game gets more serious, which it definitely has. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) last week launched a huge and historic antitrust case against Google, accusing the… Source link

For the second straight week, Tony Finau came up short on Sunday with an elusive trophy in sight. Last week Finau had a share of the 36-hole lead at the Memorial Tournament before fading over the weekend, including a final-round 78 to fall into eighth place. That finish prompted a caddie switch, as Finau had swing coach Boyd Summerhays on the bag for this week’s 3M Open. He once again played his way into contention and was the highest-ranked player to make the cut, only to falter once again… Source link

Dee Lescault, owner of Muti Hair Design Studio in Costa Mesa, is having to close her studio again, which she reopened for only 13 days. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Dee Lescault got the bad news from her landlord. Her Costa Mesa hair salon had reopened on June 1 after being dark for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, dealing a painful economic blow to the 66-year-old stylist. And now, Coronavirus Shutdown 2.0. “Is it asking too much to wear a mask?” Lescault tweeted in a rush… Source link