How do you save frequently visited locations to Maps for easy access? It’s simple! Updated February 2017: Now properly reflects how to do this in iOS 10. Whether you want your iPhone to remember your best friend’s house or your local gym, adding and naming locations is easy with the Maps app for iPhone and […]
Android phones have been collecting information about their users’ whereabouts and sending it to Google since the start of 2017, according to news site Quartz. The site reports that even when location services were disabled, locations of nearby cell towers were logged and sent to Google by the system Android uses to manage messages and […]
Back in December, Google finally added accessibility details to Maps. It was a long awaited addition, but an extremely welcome one for the more than three million people in the U.S. who require wheelchair accessibility. As we noted at the time, however, the available information still left a lot to be desired. Maps has currently […]
According to its Feature Availability page, Apple today introduced a number of new features for Apple Maps. Several new Flyover locations have been added, and available maps for indoor malls have expanded. In some of these locations, the updates may have actually rolled out a few months ago, but Apple’s updated list lets us know […]
Users of Grindr, the popular dating app for gay men, may have been broadcasting their location despite having disabled that particular feature. Two security flaws allowed for discovery of location data against a user’s will, though they take a bit of doing. The first of the flaws, which were discovered by Trever Faden and reported […]
What’s worse than companies selling the real-time locations of cell phones wholesale? Failing to take security precautions that prevent people from abusing the service. LocationSmart did both, as numerous sources indicated this week. The company is adjacent to a hack of Securus, a company in the lucrative business of prison inmate communication; LocationSmart was the […]
With multiple bike-share services to choose from, it can be a pain to open up two or three apps just to see which has the bike closest to you. Transit, an app that shows (you guessed it) transit options nearby and recently raised $5 million, now tracks multiple services on its maps of Seattle and […]
After players complete the Destiny 2: Forsaken campaign, one of the first things many players are going to do is repair the Ace of Spaces exotic hand cannon. The Ace of Spades was Cayde-6’s signature weapon, and now players are tasked with repairing it to its former glory. One of the quest steps for the […]
Niantic announces it’s no longer taking requests for new Pokemon GO Gym and PokeStop locations, while also adding a form to request the removal of a Gym or PokeStop. One of the most surprising results of the Pokemon GO craze is the amount of business that the augmented reality game has driven to various brick and […]
style=”display:block” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-6830082075718194″ data-ad-slot=”1132902868″ data-ad-format=”auto”/> For those who use the Windows operating system, then you probably know about the Windows Search Index. It’s a very useful tool that helps those who want to search for particular files around their system. It makes things faster and keeps you working efficiently. But there will be times that it […]