OpenAI is testing a new search engine that uses generative artificial intelligence to produce results, raising the prospect of a significant challenge to Google’s dominance of the online search market, writes Nick Robins-Early on The Guardian. “SearchGPT will launch with a small group of users and publishers before a potential […]
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Mapbox have announced New Dynamic 3D Urban Environments. The new Mapbox Standard core style enables a highly performant and elegant 3D mapping experience with powerful dynamic lighting capabilities, landmark 3D buildings, and an expertly crafted symbolic aesthetic. The new ready-to-use style currently in public beta enhances wayfinding and spatial orientation […]
An unsecured database containing personal information of millions of users of a higher education social platform was recently discovered by a security researcher. The social platform, formerly known as CampusKudos and now called PeopleGrove, left an internal database exposed to the internet without a password, allowing anyone with knowledge of […]
OpenStreetMap Foundation corporate member OpenCage has announced a new collaboration with popular geospatial podcast MapScaping to help encourage the growth of small OpenStreetMap-based projects. OpenCage has purchased four episodes worth of MapScaping advertising slots, and will donate these slots to small OpenStreetMap projects. Each selected project will receive a 30 […]
PenaltyBeGone (PBG), announced the introduction of a new proprietary platform that targets Google’s most pervasive and destructive penalties – Google manual actions and their algorithm updates known as the Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird. Google’s punitive actions are well documented in message boards dating back to 2011 and continuing to the […]
Evernote for Android has been updated with: “Better Attachments One of the things that makes Evernote so useful is that you can keep everything related to a project — text, images and audio — together in one note. The new Android update lets you not only add attachments, but it […]
:For the past few years, we’ve worked with museums around the world to make their collections available on the Google Cultural Institute. Now, we’ve opened up the technologies behind this project so that anyone with cultural content can publish it, creating exhibitions that tell engaging stories on their own website. […]
Dropbox has updated it’s Android app to version 2.3.11. Features include: New notifications feed for quick access to recent activity • Send photos and videos to contacts (adds contacts permission) • New payment options for Pro (adds camera permission) For more information about why we request these permissions: Contacts: https://www.dropbox.com/help/1979/ […]
Google are launching a new community site called Views that makes it easy for people to publicly share their photos of places by contributing photo spheres to Google Maps (photo spheres are 360º panoramas that can be easily be created with your Android phone). Photo spheres can be created with […]
Monarch Software Designs today announced the immediate availability of their Facebook-powered auction application, Monarch Market. The free service allows anyone with a Facebook account to signup with one click and start selling. There are no fees of any kind, other than those to your payment provider. “Thanks to Facebook’s platform […]
EE, the UK’s digital communications company, has launched a range of new unlimited home broadband and call plans designed to make it as simple as possible for customers to choose a great value bundle to meet their needs. Available immediately across all EE channels including retail shops and online, customers […]
Twitter have released updates to their iPhone and Android apps. Tweeting is now even easier and more seamless. Photos: When you add a photo to your Tweet, you’ll see a full preview of your photo, not just the cropped version. We’ve also redesigned the experience to make it easy to […]