The new Google Maps update is perfect for last-minute shoppers

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Google Maps launched a series of new updates ahead of the holiday season.

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Ex-Google staffers are building a social-mapping platform for online and IRL communities

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Carlo Jörges and Helena Jaramillo are building mapping platform PamPam.

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I tried to kill my smartphone addiction with a dumbphone. Here's how it went.

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Some screen junkies are ditching their smartphones for dumbphones that cut out the juicy apps that keep users' eyes locked on the screen. Our tech reporter Jordan Hart tried out one of these dumbphones in the wild streets of New York City to see if it could really curb her screen addiction.

Google is trying to solve one of Americans' top concerns about having an EV

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EVs with Google's built-in maps should show nearby chargers along the route in the coming months.

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Tourists say Google Maps mistakenly led them into the wilderness, forcing them on a grueling trek for more than a week

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Google Maps fail led to grueling trek through wilderness, say tourists.

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Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police

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Google Maps location history will soon be stored locally.

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Ex-Google maps designer doesn't like the app's new look, says it's 'colder' and 'less human'

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Google Maps updated its app design with new colors (R).

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Google Maps and Waze suspend live traffic updates in Israel and Gaza in effort that could help prevent live-tracking troop movements

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Google has disabled live traffic updates in Israel and Gaza amid the conflict.

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Family sues Google, saying it's responsible for a man's death after Maps told him to drive over a bridge that collapsed 9 years ago

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A view of the broken bridge at Hickory, North Carolina, where Philip Paxson died.

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