Immersive view coming soon to Maps — plus more updates

Google Maps helps over one billion people navigate and explore. And over the past few years, our investments in AI have supercharged the ability to bring you the most helpful information about the real world, including when a business is…
Winter is coming: 9 ways to enjoy it with Google

As a native Oregonian, I thought living in California would be an incredible break from the nine months of rain I’d endured growing up. What I didn’t realize was that 70-degree winters felt…wrong. Where were the mittens? The down jackets?…
New developments coming with the NGS 2022 datum change

Heraclitus (Photo: NPR.org) A famous quote applies to almost everything in our lives: “There is nothing permanent except change.” This well-known saying is generally credited to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (500 B.C.E.), although many historians and philosophy experts tend to…
What’s coming to AUVSI Xponential + UAV misHAPS

AUVSI Xponential 2019 — the huge exhibition and conference built around unmanned everything — will run at the West Building, McCormick Place Convention Center, April 29 to May 2 in Chicago. This is the premier show for the Association for Unmanned…

A new GPS + IRNSS module is being developed by Indian firm Ramakrishna Electro Component (REC) in partnership with STMicroelectronics and Shanghai Mobiletek, according to press reports. The module will rely heavily on the Indian navigation satellite constellation IRNSS (also…