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Apart from Waze, Google Maps is also one of the most used apps to navigate around Malaysia. That said, Google just updated the app with a new feature - adding emojis to your favourite places.

Google Senior Vice President (VP) Prabhakar Raghavan has revealed that TikTok and Instagram are becoming competitors to its core services, Search and Maps. During a discussion about the evolution of search, Prabhakar revealed that younger users are now turning to TikTok and Instagram instead of Google services for discovery purposes.

Google has officially unveiled a new feature to Google Maps called Live View, which helps you navigate to your destination more easily than ever before. The feature utilizes augmented reality (AR), which will display various important information such as direction and distance markers which you can follow to get to your destination quickly.

In a collaboration between Waze, U Mobile and SMART tunnel, it is now possible to use navigation apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving inside the SMART Tunnel. This is thanks to a bunch of Waze Beacon which utilizes Bluetooth technology in order to transmit GPS and traffic data, instead of relying solely on mobile data.

There were a lot of big announcements from Apple's WWDC 2020 today and one of them is the iPadOS 14. So what's in store for the tablet users? Plenty, there are upcoming new features and designs such as the Multi-Touch display, Siri interactions, new design for FaceTime and network calls, and many more. Besides that, there are new Apple Pencil features too so let's take a look at them. 

Based on a statement by AndroidAuthority.com, Huawei is currently developing their own 'Google Maps replacement' called the Map Kit. However, it seems that the Map Kit isn’t developed with consumers in mind. Instead, it caters more towards developers who want to integrate mapping capabilities onto their Harmony OS applications.

ZDNet and Reddit have spotted a recent addition to Google Maps, which enables the application to detect speed limits as well as speed traps in more than 40 countries. The aforementioned features were initially available on another Google-owned application, Waze.