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A North Carolina man’s family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was driving home from his daughter’s ninth…

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Strava, a popular fitness tracking app with a tinge of social network built into it, announced Thursday it would make its vast library of user-uploaded photos available to paid subscribers in its Route Builder. All those photos you’ve uploaded for public viewing will help hikers and bikers who subscribe to Strava…

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From the time I knew what intersections were, I said my family lived at the crossing of Inwood Road and Preston Road in North Dallas. I asserted that fact certainly for the better part of a decade. Then I found out those two roads ran parallel to each other. Then we moved to a different house. I did eventually learn…

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Even in this day and age, you can’t always guarantee a strong cellular connection to a mobile network everywhere you go, especially if you’re on vacation. That can cause a problem when you’re trying to make your way from A to B using your map app of choice. The solution is to download and cache sections of the map…

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Worried you’re going to be woefully ill-prepared for an inevitable attack by invaders from outer space one day?

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A local animal charity asked Gacek's fans not to give him any more snacks.
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Google's new maps features will include a "very fast charging filter" to help EVs charge in a hurry, Google Geo head Chris Phillips said.