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☆ A pilot landed a plane in the wrong city, nearly 200 miles from where it was supposed to be: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A pilot landed a flight in a city some 198 miles from its intended destination. Passengers said the pilot announced he had received the wrong flight path. AdvertisementA pilot on a Nigerian airline landed a plane in a city nearly 200 miles away from its intended destination, local news outlet The Cable reported on Saturday. Apparently, our pilot was given wrong flight plan from Lagos," he wrote. And in 2019, a British Airways flight bound for Düsseldorf, Germany, mistakenly landed in Edinburgh, Scotland after the airline filed the wrong flight plan.

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☆ A father-son duo took their Tesla on a 28-day road trip and slept in it every night
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Tesla owner took his 12-year-old son on a 28-day road trip. Wong said the experience was a major contrast to horror stories some have shared about EV road trips. AdvertisementWhile some EV owners have shared horror stories about taking an electric car on a road trip, other Tesla owners are bucking that narrative. Tesla owner Simon Wong told Business Insider, referencing an EV road trip where even Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he struggled to find working chargers. AdvertisementWong shared a map of the course his road trip followed.

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☆ Ex-Google maps designer doesn't like the app's new look, says it's 'colder' and 'less human'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A former Google Maps designer said the app's new color palette feels "colder" and "less human." 15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps. Other Google Maps users echoed Laraki's critiques around the app's new colors. — Sasha Luccioni, PhD 💻🌎🦋✨🤗 (@SashaMTL) November 23, 2023"Why has Google maps all of a sudden changed the colors?" In other words, Google Maps users may've switched to Apple Maps for a good reason.

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☆ OpenAI ditched the only 2 women on its board. So far, it's replacing them with men.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI announced a new male-dominated board after Sam Altman won the battle to return as CEO. 'Please, more representation and balance'The departure of Toner and McCauley has put the makeup of OpenAI's new board in the spotlight. Emily Bell, a founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, wrote in a post on X : "OpenAI fires women on the board — board chair who oversaw fuck up stays." Tom Williams/Getty ImagesOne of OpenAI's main rivals also weighed in on the lack of diversity on the new board. Within the private sector, research from Crunchbase in 2022 showed that women held 16% of board seats among more than 660 companies they analyzed.

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☆ San Francisco Bay's only private island is on sale for $25 million — but there's a catch
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

San Francisco Bay's only private island is on the market for $25 millionRed Rock Island lacks basic infrastructure like power and running water. AdvertisementSan Francisco Bay's only private island is on the market for $25 million — but there's no electricity or running water, reported The Wall Street Journal. The island has been put up for sale several times in recent years for between $5 million and $22 million, Durning told WSJ. In September, a private island in Solano County, California was put on the market for $75 million. And in August, a private island in Maine with a cottage and lighthouse was listed for $400,000.

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☆ Fact Check: Clip does not show Israeli forces placing flag at Al Shifa hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video showing soldiers placing an Israeli flag on the roof of a school in Gaza has been miscaptioned in online posts that claim it shows the Al Shifa hospital. Israeli troops entered Gaza’s biggest hospital Al Shifa on Nov. 15, with Israel saying its forces found weapons as well as an underground structure it called a Hamas tunnel shaft after two days of searching the hospital complex, while Hamas denied the assertion. A post (archived) on social media said: “This is the IOF putting up a flag at Al-Shifa Hospital. The video circulating online, however, does not show the Al Shifa hospital. The video shows a UNRWA school in Gaza, not the Al Shifa hospital.

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LONDON (AP) — TikTok and Facebook owner Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice. The Digital Markets Act will take effect by March, with a list of dos and don'ts for big tech companies aimed at giving users more choices and threatening big penalties if they don't comply. Labeling TikTok a gatekeeper undermines the DMA’s goal by “protecting actual gatekeepers from newer competitors like TikTok,” the company said, adding that the video-sharing app is “arguably the most capable challenger” to bigger social media rivals. Political Cartoons View All 1250 ImagesAmazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft also were given the gatekeeper label in September, along with TikTok parent company ByteDance and Meta. Meta is not arguing with being designated a gatekeeper, but the company thinks the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, was wrong to specifically single out Marketplace and Messenger as core platform services.

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☆ How to use Google Maps to decide when to leave for Thanksgiving
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jake Piazza | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The new updates will start to roll out in the next few weeks, according to the company's blog post. More than 1 billion people use Google Maps every month and Google has made concerted efforts to continually update the service to make travel easier. These holiday tools are Google Maps' second batch of updates in the last month. Google Maps is also allowing for more discourse within their content review. Google Maps says it's an effort to help its users "make a more informed decision," and that rollout begins now.

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☆ I moved from New York to Taiwan for work. I had to take a pay cut to my $40,000 salary — but I have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Alex Teachey is a New Yorker who moved to Taiwan in 2020. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alex Teachey, a 38-year-old astronomer and New Yorker who moved to Taiwan in 2020. I landed my current job as a postdoctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, that same year. It's in a neighborhood that I love, in New Taipei City, the enormous donut that sprawls around the center of Taipei. I live a 20-minute bike ride from my office — I never could have have afforded anything remotely similar if I'd stayed in New York City.

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☆ Fake Reviews Are Rampant Online. Can a Crackdown End Them?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Stuart A. Thompson | More About Stuart A. Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His review was fake — part of an effort to boost the online ratings for Dr. Mohrmann’s business using phony positive reviews, according to an analysis by Fake Review Watch, an industry watchdog. Last month, Dr. Mohrmann agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty to settle with New York’s attorney general on charges of deceiving the public with fake reviews. The fake review for Dr. Mohrmann is just one example of the billion-dollar fake review industry, where people and businesses pay marketers to post fake positive reviews to Google Maps, Amazon, Yelp and other platforms, and deceive millions of customers each year. Fake reviews are as old as the internet itself, and they are illegal and banned by online platforms. But fake review businesses have continued to blossom anyway.

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☆ A volcano could erupt in Iceland within hours, but maybe don't cancel your international flights yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But that shouldn't affect your travel plans, though the Blue Lagoon may be off-limits, experts said. AdvertisementAdvertisementThere's no reason to cancel your travel plans to Iceland, despite the country warning of potentially dangerous volcanic activity happening within the next few hours or days, experts told Insider. Iceland declared a state of emergency after an unexpected acceleration of activity at Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano near the town of Grindavik. It is always difficult to know exactly how a volcanic eruption will develop, but the latest developments in the peninsula took volcanologists by surprise, McGarvie said. "It is not something that's ever been observed in Iceland, certainly monitored in Iceland, in the last few decades," he said.

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☆ A volcano could erupt in Iceland within hours. Experts say you shouldn't cancel your flights — yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementThere's no reason to cancel your travel plans to Iceland, despite the country warning of potentially dangerous volcanic activity happening within the next few hours or days, experts told Insider. Iceland declared a state of emergency after an unexpected acceleration of activity at Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano near the town of Grindavik. It is always difficult to know exactly how a volcanic eruption will develop, but the latest developments in the peninsula took volcanologists by surprise, McGarvie said. While the Reykjanes peninsula was known to have volcanic activity, and its volcano had had fairly mild eruptions over the past decade, this activity accelerated drastically since mid-October. "It is not something that's ever been observed in Iceland, certainly monitored in Iceland, in the last few decades," he said.

☆ Fact Check: Clip of Israel police apprehending girl at Damascus Gate from 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of Israeli police violently apprehending a girl in Jerusalem in 2022 has been falsely claimed online to be filmed during the Israel-Hamas war that broke out in October 2023 and has been continuing unabated. Ramouz’s caption on the post, dated Feb. 28, 2022, reads: “Assaulting a girl and launching stun grenades at those present in Damascus Gate”. The clip was featured and referenced in local news reports on Feb. 28, 2022, about clashes at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, where people had gathered to observe a Muslim holiday. Using satellite imagery on Google Maps, Reuters confirmed the location of the video to be Damascus Gate. Landmarks (archived) visible in the background in the video can also been seen on Google Maps.

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☆ Stranded hikers were rescued from a cliff edge after apparently following a trail on Google Maps that didn't actually exist
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

North Shore Rescue said it seems the hikers were following a nonexistent trail on Google Maps. Rescuers said hikers should not rely on urban map apps like Google Maps in the wilderness. AdvertisementAdvertisementOn several occasions hikers in Canada had to be rescued after getting stranded on a cliff edge in a steep, dangerous area — and rescuers say they seemed to be following a non-existent trail that was listed on Google Maps. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt's unclear why the non-existent tail was showing up on Google Maps. NSR said Saturday they had previously contacted Google to have the trail removed but had not gotten a response.

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☆ This throwaway line in a Stephen Colbert interview should make Google nervous
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

"Grandpa Google" is being threatened by TikTok, according to late night's new host. Nearly 40% of Gen Z preferred TikTok over Google in 2022. "TikTok is Google for children," she explained to the audience and 59-year-old Colbert. Nearly 40% of Gen Z prefers using TikTok and Instagram to search over Google, according to Google's internal 2022 data. It looks like money may not be enough to buy Gen Z.

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☆ An ancient missing continent was finally rediscovered 155 million years after it vanished
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A chunk of land that broke off from Australia 155 million years ago seemed to have vanished. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe continent of Argoland, which seemingly vanished after splitting from Australia 155 million years ago, has finally been discovered, according to a new study. The discovery could help explain something known as the Wallace line, which is an imaginary boundary that separates Southeast Asian and Australian fauna. With this work, they were finally able to bring Argoland's journey over the past 155 million years back to life. A map shows an approximate location of the Wallace line.

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☆ We moved to Texas from Europe. We're paying much more for our house, but the neighbors are friendly and the weather is great.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

John Brunner and his wife, Manon, moved from Avignon, France, to Kyle, Texas, in 2022. The couple chose the area in part because California and Austin, Texas, were too expensive. The Austin area came up in our search. Kyle, Texas. Center Street, a main drag in Kyle, Texas.

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☆ Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Rescue missionIt was around 4 p.m. when Menachem Klemenson got a four-word WhatsApp message from his brother Elhanan: “Packing, going down south,” it read. As the Klemensons and their nephew drove around extracting families, kibbutz residents jumped out of their hiding places. I am a father.”In the girl’s case, as with the bodies of other kibbutz residents the trio found, they did not know their identities, nor was Reuters able to identify them. “Either you leave the dog or I shoot it,” Menachem recalls his brother Elhanan saying. Politicians and the military had violated a fundamental compact with the residents of Be’eri, said kibbutz secretary Pauker.

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☆ Bill Ackman went on a crusade to publicly out Harvard's anti-Israel students. He's having second thoughts.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bill Ackman seems to be reconsidering his earlier calls to out anti-Israel Harvard students. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter calling on Harvard University to reveal the names of students who signed an anti-Israel letter last month, billionaire Bill Ackman isn't so sure anymore. Compare the generational differences on support for Hamas," Ackman wrote. The poll also found that 48% of those between the ages of 25 and 34 felt Hamas' attacks were justified. AdvertisementAdvertisementFollowing Ackman's tweets, scrutiny on the Harvard letter prompted some co-signees groups to publicly withdraw their support for the statement.

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☆ Porsche to integrate Google Maps, Assistance into future cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A Porsche logo is seen on a vehicle displayed during an event a day ahead of the official opening of the 2023 Munich Auto Show IAA Mobility, in Munich, Germany, September 4, 2023. REUTERS/Angelika Warmuth Acquire Licensing RightsBERLIN, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Porsche (P911_p.DE) will integrate Google Maps, Google Assistance and other apps from Google Play (GOOGL.O) into its future cars, it said on Monday. Porsche said in January it was considering fully integrating Google software into its car cockpit, following the end of its cooperation with Volkswagen's Cariad unit on software research and development. Carmakers including General Motors, Renault, Nissan and Ford use embedded Google technology in their vehicles via a Google Automotive Services (GAS) package, offering features like Google Maps, Google Assistant and other applications. Reporting by Victoria Waldersee; editing by Matthias WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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That’s very different than how Google defines Flatbush:Prospect Park Holy Cross Cemetery Flatbush by google maps Flatbush by readers Prospect Park Holy Cross Cemetery Flatbush by google maps Flatbush by readersLet’s look closely at Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, which has mostly sharp edges and one very blurry one:Sharp prospect heights Sharp blurry Sharp Prospect Park Sharp prospect heights Sharp blurry Sharp Prospect Park Crown heights Prospect Park Crown heights Prospect Park prospect heights ? Crown heights Prospect Park prospect heights ? Racial composition of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights residents, 2000-2022 80% 60 Black 40 White 20 2000 2022 80% Racial composition of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights residents, 2000-2022 60 Black 40 White 20 2000 2022 Source: Furman Center, N.Y.U. prospect heights Condo for sale crown heights Prospect Park prospect heights Condo for sale crown heights Prospect ParkStreetEasy lists the unit as being in Crown Heights. A local grocery store on Classon Avenue — two blocks east of Washington,prospect heights Key Food Prospect Heights crown heights Prospect Park prospect heights crown heights Key Food Prospect Heights Prospect Parkused to be called Gala Fresh Farms.

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The White House, Google Maps and Google Arts & Culture launched a new virtual tour of the famous mansion on Friday, which is also National Civics Day. “Not everyone can make the trip to Washington, D.C., to tour the White House, so she's bringing the White House to them,” Alexander said. Political Cartoons View All 1220 ImagesThe tour is the first Google virtual tour of the White House to include audio captions for people with disabilities. It is also Google's first virtual tour of the White House to have Spanish translation. The tour is available on the White House website, as well as on Google Maps and the Google Arts & Culture page.

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☆ Google Maps just got another update, here's what's new
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Jake Piazza | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google Maps is expanding preexisting features and unveiling some new ones, according to a Thursday announcement. The company said artificial intelligence allowed for improvements to Google Maps' EV charging station feature, more specific recommendations of nearby activities and more in-depth visualization. New ways to search for things to doGoogle Maps is offering new ways for people to search for activities to do near them as well. Instead of getting a random list of activities near you, Google Maps will return a categorized list of activities grouped by topic. So, Google said, if you search for things to do in Tokyo, you will get responses such as "anime," "cherry blossoms" and "art exhibitions," and you can get more granular from there.

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CNN —When Google Maps users navigated to the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Tuesday, they might have seen placenames that included, “F**k Israel,” and “May god curse Israel’s Jerusalem.”Cyber activists appeared to have targeted the service to post anti-Israel messages, likely by taking advantage of a feature on Google Maps that allows people to create and contribute information about businesses and landmarks that appear on the service. The company did not say if the action was at the request of the Israel Defense Forces. Google took the same action at the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year after online researchers used live traffic data to track the movements of Russian troops. It is unclear if the targeting of Google Maps with anti-Israeli messages was the result of the company’s decision to disable live traffic data. After CNN shared several examples of fake anti-Israel placenames with Google on Tuesday, a company spokesperson said, “On Google Maps, we strive to strike the right balance of helping people find reliable information about local places, and reducing inaccurate or misleading content.

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☆ Google Maps and Waze suspend live traffic updates in Israel and Gaza in effort that could help prevent live-tracking troop movements
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google has suspended live traffic updates in Israel and Gaza amid the war. Google Maps also suspended live traffic updates in Ukraine in 2022 amid Russia's invasion. It turned off live traffic updates in Ukraine, reportedly because the apps were being used to track military movements. Google Maps' live traffic updates work by getting data from smartphones that have the app installed. Those in the area will still be able to use Google Maps and Waze to help with navigation.

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