Cuba and Google signed a deal Thursday moving the island one step closer to having a state-of-the-art connection to the modern internet.
Telecom
Mar 28, 2019
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Cities around the world are changing to become more "walkable". As more and more people move to cities, the benefits of encouraging people to walk are clear. Aside from making the urban environment more pleasant, safer and ...
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2019
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Sixty-seven percent of smartphone users rely on Google Maps to help them get to where they are going quickly and efficiently.
Security
Feb 11, 2019
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Can you name the river closest to where you live? Have you ever seen that river on a map? How would you react if you saw that river, and others near you, in a map unlike others you have seen before?
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2019
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Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) in the Netherlands and their collaborators shed new light on the origin and function of hormone-producing cells in the intestine and open new avenues ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 31, 2019
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Video games have long been criticised for encouraging violence and antisocial behaviour. And parents often express concern that they could have detrimental effects on their child's learning abilities.
Education
Jan 22, 2019
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Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. "I travel all over the world," ...
Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2019
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Tourism operators in Australia's vast outback say wild inaccuracies in Google Maps are making remote hot spots appear out of reach, deterring people from visiting the region.
Business
Jan 16, 2019
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A new global field size data set collected as part of a crowdsourcing citizen science project by IIASA researchers has shown that the proportion of smallholder farms may be much larger than previously thought, contributing ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2018
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Google may not know whether you've been bad or good but it knows when you're sleeping and when you're awake. If you use an Android device with the Chrome browser running, the tech giant knows whether you are traveling by ...
Internet
Nov 2, 2018
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