Category Archives: IT
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Easter Egg Brings Offline Mode Back To Google Maps App
Greg Kumparak
The new Google Maps for Android just started shipping late last night, but folks are already bein’ all grumpy about the sudden disappearance of one of Maps’ old features: offline map mode. In previous releases of Maps, users could save chunks of the map for later use (like when you’re traveling abroad on a roaming plan and downloading a few megabytes of data would cost you somewhere between seven and eight billion dollars.) In new Maps, you can’t.
Google says the feature just wasn’t totally ready for the new version yet. But wait! There’s an easter egg that kinda-sorta brings it back.
Phone display will kill the Bacteria
Future of phone displays: non-reflective, antimicrobial, made with Corning
by Daniel P
We’ve heard that Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass that protects your smartphone or tablet display, is cooking up something in terms of anti-reflection and anti-microbial abilities, and for the first time the firm gave it some pep talk in public at the MIT Mobile Technology Summit.
Dr. Jeffrey Evenson, senior vice president and operations chief of staff for Corning took the stage and gave the usual demos we’ve seen before like a four-pound steel ball dropping on a 1mm sheet of Gorilla Glass with the proverbial trampoline effect.
Corning reiterated some of the main advantages of its glass technology in the bullet points below:
The Google Graveyard
If you are interested in seeing all of the products killed by Google, here they are:
