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Google Maps Adds More Color to Help Users Better Identify Landscapes Google Mapsis getting an update that the company says will bring new visual improvements, offering“even more details and granularity”and making it easier to understand what an area looks like. According toGoogle, the incoming update incorporates a new color-mapping algorithm that can translate high-definition satellite imagery into more colorful, vibrant maps. “Exploring a place gives you a look at its natural features – so you can easily distinguish arid beaches and deserts from blue lakes, rivers, oceans and ravines....

Google Will Make it Easier to Search for Jobs, Recipes, and Products Google is making it easier for users to search for things like jobs, recipes, and products. The company is today making changes to Activity Cards and making them more useful when people useGoogle search. For the unaware, Activity Cards show up in Google Search to help you pick up where you left off last time you were searching for similar keywords....

Here’s a List of Redmi, Poco Phones That Will Get MIUI Update to Remove Banned Apps A couple of weeks ago, Xiaomi announced that it willstart rolling outa new version of MIUI – free of any of thebanned Chinese apps– in India over the coming weeks. The company’s built-inMi Browserwas also banned by the government recently. While the Mi Browser app was removed from the Play Store, Xiaomi is yet to roll out an update to let users uninstall the browser from existing devices....

How to Automatically Reduce Loud Headphone Audio in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 Introduced in iOS 13,Hearing Healthis designed to help users avoid being exposed to high levels of sound, especially when wearingheadphonesfor a long period of time. With detailed information about the headphone audio levels over the last hour, day, and week, the health feature makes the process of tracking exposure to loud sound quite straightforward. With iOS 14, Apple has further enhanced it by including the ability tomeasure volume level of headphones in real-time....

How to Use the New Guides Feature in Apple Maps iOS 14is a big update for iPhone users, bringing tons ofprominent and hidden features. One of those features is the new Guides feature in Apple Maps that aims to help users discover new places to eat, shop, and explore whenever they visit a new city. To make this feature useful, Apple has partnered with third-party services including, Lonely Planet, the Washington Post, AllTrails, and more....

Instagram Replaces Nametags with QR Codes for Sharing Profiles Merely a month after WhatsApp gained support forQR code-based contact sharing, Facebook-owned Instagram has added the feature. You cannow generate and share QR codes for quickly adding Instagram users. As reported byThe Verge, Instagram has been testingQR codesin Japan since last year. The company is now widely rolling out the feature. You might recall that Instagram has had a similar feature calledNametagsfor a while now....

iOS 14 Beta 5 Released with New ‘Tall’ Widgets, a Better Hidden Album, and More Late last night, Apple released the fifth developer beta foriOS 14with the usual boilerplate description of ‘bug fixes and improvements’. However, the new update brings a couple of changes to your iPhone (or iPad if you’re installing iPadOS 14 Beta 5). For starters, beta 5brings back the time picker wheel that was removed with iOS 14 originally....