Google has the official post on their latlong blog, but here are the highlights of what’s new with the change of status for the program. Use Free Google Professional Photographers To Photograph Your Business In select cities, you can now apply for a free photoshoot of the interior of your business. These pictures load to the current gallery on Google, so if you don’t have a camera or an eye for photography you might want to apply now....

In addition to the iOS update it rolled out yesterday, Google today has announced another new feature for Google Maps on iOS. In a blog post this afternoon, Google announced the addition of a new feature called Your Timeline, which allows you to keep track of the places you visit. The new Timeline feature is accessible from the slide out menu in Google Maps for iOS and staring today, you should see the new “Your Timeline” option in the menu....

If you’re looking for something to entertain kids aged 8-12 over the summer, and the chance for them to learn some useful tech skills into the bargain, you may want to register them for this year’s Apple Camp. Apple holds annual workshops at its retail stores intended to help kids make creative use of technology. This year’s workshops are focused on coding & robotics, movie-making and story-telling. Campers can work with visual blocks and solve puzzles while programming Sphero robots....

Grand Theft Auto 3, the 10 Year Anniversary edition, for iPhone and iPad gets a nice update today that brings iPhone 5 widescreen support, as well as the ability to save games using iCloud so you can pick up playing where you left off on any device. The update also now lets users create a custom playlist by simply titling an iTunes playlist “GTA3”. What’s New in Version 1.30 iPhone 5 widescreen support iCloud save game support for seamless progression across all your iOS devices....

There are many reasons to love Grey’s Anatomy. The compulsively watchable show features impossibly quotable dialogue, epic romances and insane medical cases set to an awesome soundtrack. Currently wrapping up its 15th season, the series was recently renewed for two more, so fans won’t have to say goodbye any time soon. One of the defining characteristics of Grey’s Anatomy has become its revolving cast of characters. The doctors that populated Seattle Grace in the pilot are now almost completely different, with very few mainstays....

The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise has some incredibly complex characters and Gamora might just be one of the most difficult to work out. Her hard exterior gives way to a soft heart, as she continues to repent for her past. There’s a number of shameless things that Gamora has done though. Perhaps some of these actions she has since regretted but in the moment she felt no guilt over her choice....

As one of the most loved and most different installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy showed audiences just how much heart and humor a single comic book movie could contain. Despite its lack of easily recognizable characters, Marvel’s first foray into the cosmic realm easily became the highest grossing domestic release of 2014. Despite facing a much tougher lineup in 2017, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 still holds a spot as number 2 of Screen Rant’s Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 - coming in as the top comic book movie....

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It also has some other challenges as well. Individuals have to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform and download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform. Note: Only write-ups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, named Sneaky, is retired....

If you are the adventurous type and want 4G wireless (and it is available in your place of residence), you now have a few more options, thanks to your friendly neighborhood hackerz. If 4G WiMAX from Sprint is what your are after, you can pick up the Clear iSpot for $100 and connect all of your (up to 8 ) iOS devices to it for $25/month (deal!). However a simple hack allows you to take it a bit further and connect those bandwidth-heavy Macs (and PCs and Androids and Linux if you are into that sort of thing) to your $25/month iSpot....

Popular camera app Halide is today releasing a new update on the App Store. The release focuses on two points the company thinks will make your photos look even better. Announced on its blog, Halide 1.12 adds an RGB histogram. The company says that even if a photo is well-exposed, one of the color channels may be clipping. In the most basic of terms, a histogram creates a graph that shows where your color values are and reveals data such as brightness levels, shadow information, and how much color is visible within the photo....

Looking for a way to protect your AirPods and charging case without giving up features like wireless charging and easy access to your earbuds? Check out our hands-on with the CAPSULE IMPKT for AirPods to get a closer look at this ultra-durable and functional AirPods case and get 15% for a limited time with code 9to5mac. As you’ll see in our hands-on video below, LAUT’s CAPSULE IMPKT for AirPods offers rugged protection while keeping functionality like wireless charging and the flick-open lid....

The Harry Potter series spent years building up to one huge fight. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we finally got to see it as the good guys took on the Death Eaters and the rest of Voldemort’s followers. This war was dubbed the Battle of Hogwarts. Everyone recalls the huge moments and the fact that Harry Potter and his friends came out on top. As with any battle like this, there were plenty of casualties on both sides....

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series. Because of this, it’s no wonder that there are many details from the book that weren’t able to make it into the movie. This is one of the Harry Potter movies where there are a lot of obvious differences between the book and the film. While the movie does a good job at focusing on the most important plot points and characters, there are still some things that won’t make a lot of sense for people who have only seen the movies....

Long before the Fantastic Beasts, there was Harry Potter, the franchise where young children enchanted and dreaming of the prospect of becoming witches or wizards attended a castle of a school. The final installment of the series entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, was released a staggering nine years ago and brought JK Rowling’s epic story to a satisfying and action-packed conclusion. The movie does a brilliant job of bringing the book to life but, despite that, Warner Bros were unable to cram in every little detail and individual....

A year after its debut, Nvidia is raising the cost of its GeForce Now cloud gaming platform. Starting today, the GeForce Now “priority” tier will cost users $10 per month, double the entry price. Nvidia GeForce Now offers its services for free to anyone who wants to try it out, but the free tier has limits. Game sessions can only be an hour long, and you’ll probably need to wait to get your session started in the first place if demand is high at the time....

Gerard Way is an internationally known singer, songwriter, and musician who was the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. In 2007, he wrote the offbeat superhero comic book The Umbrella Academy, which is now an upcoming Netflix series. Steve Blackman has been an executive producer on Legion, Fargo, and Altered Carbon. He was also the co-showrunner on ABC’s medical-drama Private Practice. Now he’s the showrunner for Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy....

One of the most popular Japanese mangas ever is set to get the live-action treatment later this month, when Ghost in the Shell hits theaters worldwide. The project has not been able to avoid a fair amount of backlash after casting Scarlett Johansson (usually a fan favorite actress in any project) due to outrage over Paramount whitewashing the lead role. While there are still those that remain unhappy with this decision, the visual style of the marketing has begun to win back former naysayers....

Even though the 3o minute sit-com is a classic format that seems to be used only for serialized cartoons these days, there are some old shows from back in the day that we still watch. Hotels, restaurants, and even AirBnBs are taking on The Golden Girls as a theme, and people love it. That cruise is already sold out, by the way. More than 20 years later, and this TV show still gets a lot of love....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLxVQi0lRQ4&hl=en&fs=1] Google has chosen to integrate search across its platform and inside most applications, including Maps and Android Market. “We’ve made Search easier to use by providing suggestions. As you type, the list of suggestions refines itself, and you’ll immediately jump to that search with a simple touch,” the company reveals on its blog. Essentially that sounds like predictive search – should be useful on a mobile device. Google has also done something even smarted, and has integrated search across the platform so that applications can share search capabilities with each other....

Google will be removing support for tracking cookies from their Chrome browser in 2022, in a move that they hope will please both users and advertisers. This comes as a compromise to the stance Google took when they first announced their Privacy Sandbox initiative, where they suggested tracking cookies dissuaded advertisers from using browser fingerprinting. Cookies are bits of data that are sent from a website and stored onto a computer....