Google Maps gets improved live view and eco-friendly routing in the latest update

While live and aerial view have already been rolled out, eco-friendly routing will be available to developers later this year

Google last week shared that it will be bringing four new features to Google maps. These updates, according to the company’s blog, will include features like the addition of aerial views of 250 plus landmarks across the work, improvements to live view and nearby search and addition of eco-friendly routing for delivery and ride sharing companies.

Updates to nearby search or “neighborhood vibe feature” will give users the chance to select a neighbourhood and see the most popular spots. These will be represented with images right within the Google Maps app. This will also include 250 photorealistic aerial views of global landmarks across the globe. The addition of an aerial view is part of the immersive view that Google announced at its I/O event held earlier this year.

The immersive view will use predictive modelling to learn the historical trends of a place to provide users with the information they might need to plan their visit around these landmarks. In live view, the updates will add a search with a live view which will be used to find more information for areas around users. This information will include ATMs, coffee shops, grocery stores, and transit stations. It will also include information like business hours and how busy a place is during different times of the day.

Search with a live view will initially be rolled out starting with cities like London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Tokyo in the coming months on Android and iOS.

Google also shared that its eco-friendly routing was recently launched in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Eco-friendly routing, according to the company’s blog, helps users choose the most fuel-efficient routes using data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the European Environment Agency.

The company also shared that this feature will allow delivery and read-sharing service providers to measure fuel consumption and savings in single trips for a vehicle as well as measure these metrics for their entire fields.

Additionally, the feature rolling out for developers later this year will allow them to select engine types to get more accurate energy efficiency estimates.

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Airtel partners with Google Cloud, Cisco to launch 'Airtel Office Internet' for small businesses

New Delhi [India] August 5: Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced it will partner with Google Cloud and Cisco to launch 'Airtel Office Internet' - a unified enterprise-grade solution for emerging digital connectivity needs of small businesses, SOHOs and early-stage tech start-ups.

In a regulatory filing, the company said that Airtel Office Internet will provide users secure high-speed data connectivity, conferencing and business productivity tools as a unified solution with one plan and one bill. More than ever, emerging businesses across India are looking for reliable connectivity and digital productivity tools that enhance their agility, efficiency and enable them to serve their customers better. Importantly, these businesses want to access these solutions with the convenience of a single relationship. Among the services that Airtel Office Internet will provide FTTH broadband with symmetric speeds up to 1 Gbps along with unlimited local/STD calling. The superfast and reliable connectivity comes with built-in enterprise-grade security from Cisco and Kaspersky to block malicious and unwanted domains, viruses, crypto-lockers and attacks. It will also provide Complimentary Google Workspace licenses that allow businesses to use Gmail for all professional email communication along with an entire range of productivity and collaboration tools from Google. With growing requirements for video conferencing, Airtel Office Internet also offers a free Airtel BlueJeans license for unlimited and secure conferencing with HD quality. I

t will provide digital self-serve portal for businesses to manage all these services at one place. Plans start at Rs. 999 with a range of add-on services like Static IPs and parallel ringing. Ajay Chitkara, Director and CEO, Airtel Business said: "The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation journeys of businesses of all sizes. Emerging businesses are looking for trusted partners to help them in their journeys by eliminating the complexity of managing multiple relationships. Airtel Office Internet is yet another innovation from Airtel in this direction. It brings together Airtel's network and world-class partner ecosystem to bring to market tailor-made solutions for India's unique needs." Bikram Singh Bedi, Managing Director at Google Cloud India said, "Telecommunications firms are increasingly differentiating by offering a wide range of tools that are helping Indian businesses accelerate their digital transformation with the cloud.

The combination of Google Workspace's collaboration and productivity tools combined with Airtel's robust pan-India connectivity solutions will be a great growth enabler for small businesses in India." Daisy Chittilapilly, President, Cisco India & SAARC, said, "As the threat landscape grows exponentially, cybersecurity becomes an urgent challenge for any business, regardless of size. This is particularly true for small businesses, given that they typically operate with limited resources and investments. Our partnership with Airtel is built on our joint vision of enabling enterprise-grade security for small businesses, grounded in AI and automation, so they can focus on areas that will have the biggest impact on their recovery and growth."

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Google bans several malicious India-linked domains

Washington [US], July 3: More than a dozen malicious India-linked domains and websites that were being used in attacks targeting users worldwide by hack-for-hire groups have now been banned by American tech giant Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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To warn users about the threat, the company recently published a blog post where they listed these banned domain links which used to inject spying tools into users' PCs/laptops by appearing as fake login pages for websites or apps.

The blog post read, "As part of TAG's mission to counter serious threats to Google and our users, we've published analysis on a range of persistent threats including government-backed attackers, commercial surveillance vendors, and serious criminal operators." "We're sharing intelligence on a segment of attackers we call hack-for-hire, whose niche focuses on compromising accounts and exfiltrating data as a service," it continued.

Below is the list of these banned India-linked domains:

- dtiwa.app[.]link

- share-team.app[.]link

- mipim.app[.]link

- processs.app[.]link

- aws-amazon.app[.]ink

- clik[.]sbs

- loading[.]sbs

- userprofile[.]live

- requestservice[.]live

- unt-log[.]com

- webtech-portal[.]com

- id-apl[.]info

- rnanage-icloud[.]com

- apl[.]onl

- go-gl[.]io

Whenever a user typed in their login credentials on these domains, their details were secretly sent to the hacker, who could then use them to break into the user's system and take complete control over it.

Government organizations to AWS and Gmail accounts have been the targets of these phishing messages. Apart from India, Google has also provided examples of the hack-for-hire ecosystem from Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in order to help users.

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