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Google Maps adds ‘Fire’ as a top-level layer, bringing ‘Tree Canopy’ tool to 100 cities

September 30, 2021
During its “Search On” event this afternoon, Google announced new changes and updates in an effort to better track climate change. Google Maps is adding a new “Fire” layer to its apps as Google’s “Tree Canopy” tool is set for expansion. Starting on Android this week and on iOS next month, Google Maps will show active wildfires as a top-level layer in the app, an expansion of…
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Rolls-Royce unveils first electric car, Spectre, and will go all-electric by 2030

September 30, 2021
Rolls-Royce announced today that its first electric car is going to be called “Spectre,” and it’s unveiled the first prototype. The automaker also confirmed that it is going all-electric by 2030. In 1900, Charles Rolls experienced an early electric car that was then competing with gasoline-powered vehicles. He said: The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or…
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Google’s new ‘Address Maker’ app will let communities create functional addresses quickly

September 30, 2021
Google introduced Plus Codes back in 2018 as an open-source version of typical street addresses, and now the company is ramping up that effort to make it useful to local communities that lack that structure. This will come in the form of a new app, “Address Maker,” which Google will make available for free. Address Maker is designed to let communities that lack typical street address…
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The British have a gas shortage, so they’re Googling electric cars like crazy [Update]

September 30, 2021
Analysis of Google search data revealed that online searches for electric cars in the UK exploded 1,600% on September 24 – the day that gas shortages became a widespread problem across the country. Google “electric cars” September 29 update: UK car-buying comparison website carwow reached out to Electrek today to let us know that it, too, like Carguide (see below), has experienced a…
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