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Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions

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Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last year. Image Credits: Google. Google Maps can now also identify landmarks around you to give you better guidance and a clearer idea of where you are in a city.

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Google promises better 3D maps

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Google is announcing a handful of major updates to Google Maps today that range from bringing its Live View AR directions indoors to adding weather data to its maps, but the most tantalizing news — which in typical Google fashion doesn’t have an ETA just yet — is that Google plans to bring a vastly improved 3D layer to Google maps.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

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Google today announced that it has partnered with Sony Pictures Imageworks , Sony’s visual effects and animation studio, to launch OpenCue , an open source render manager. Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform.

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Google Expands in Silicon Beach

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subsidiary Google moved into the Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista Oct. Alphabet Inc.-subsidiary 3, two years after it began leasing the space.

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Google Cloud will launch its Los Angeles region in July

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It’s no secret that Google has long planned to open a cloud region in Los Angeles. But as Google announced today , the new Los Angeles cloud region will go live in July, making it the company’s fifth region in the U.S. That’s not what Google is focusing on today, though. West Coast was in the works, after all.

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Google Releases High Resolution Montecito Disaster Satellite Map

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Google and its navigation app subsidiary, Waze , have just released incredibly detailed satellite maps of the disaster zone around Montecito, California, as part of efforts of Google's "Crisis Response" team.

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Sonos Continues To Battle Google Over Patents

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Santa Barbara-based smart speaker manufacturer Sonos is continuing to battle Google over patents, asking the U.S. Sonos called the Google changes "half-baked" and "trivial". Sonos sued Google in January of 2020, alleging patent infringement on a number of its patents, as Google's smart speakers have cut into Sonos sales.

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