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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Topic: Google Maps

Fortuner fiasco shows navigation apps can go rogue. Keep your wits about you

Kushan Mitra -
Navigation software can open up whole new scenic routes. But sometimes they can guide you into wild goose chases—or a set of stairs.

How the CCI anti-trust battle involving Google played out for map app wars in India

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Google lost its Supreme Court appeal against an antitrust order last month. It came as good news for companies like MapmyIndia, which started the maps game in India.

Google Maps gave new direction to driving. This app can make navigation even smoother

Kushan Mitra -
The ‘What3Words’ app should feature on upcoming Mahindra. Tata Motors is also integrating the system into their navigation application.

How Google maps are helping fight wildfires

Sean Fleming -
Wildfires can move at up to 22 kilometres per hour and are unpredictable. Staying one step ahead of a wildfire can mean the difference between life & death.

Google to release data on how movement in cities has changed due to Covid-19

Gerrit De Vynck -
Google said the mobility reports don’t impinge on privacy as only data from people who have agreed to share their location with the company is used.

14 years since launch, Google Maps will no more be free for certain advertisers

Gerrit De Vynck -
Google is increasing the ways advertisers reach Maps users while raising prices for businesses that use the underlying technology.

Use Google maps to solve road jams & help improve air quality: NGT tells traffic police

PTI -
The National Green Tribunal's (NGT) directive is aimed at cutting down traffic jams to decrease Delhi's severe air pollution.

GLOBAL PULSE: More U.S. troops to Afghanistan is not “America First”, Asia’s ageing population & Google Maps on Durand Line

ThePrint Team -
WILL TRUMP SEND MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN? The war in Afghanistan did not come up much during the U.S. presidential campaign, but it now threatens...

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Opinion

Pakistan finance minister should learn from Manmohan Singh and engineer an economic revival

F.S Aijazuddin -
Muhammad Aurangzeb has been clamped with more manacles than he has wrists. His immediate task is to negotiate a new loan programme with the IMF.

Iran and Israel don’t have free will to start a war. It’s contingent on geopolitics

Rajeev Chandrashekhar is modern, moderate. But tragically loyal to bigoted BJP

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Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

‘No brides for Agniveers’: In Rajasthan’s ‘Shaheedon ki nagri’, few takers for defence coaching centres

Sushil Manav -
Coaching centres for Army aspirants in Jhunjhunu are shutting down due to plummeting admissions in the face of a lack of job guarantees under Agnipath Scheme.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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