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Almost a decade before the world finally realised how tedious April Fool’s Day pranks are, Google revealed a farcical 8-bit port of Google Maps for

There are more trees in Africa than initially thought, with the latest FAO study showing there are about 7 billion trees on the continent, not counting the continent’s major woodlands like the Congo rainforest.

Image: Asobo Studio I was down the South Coast with my partner recently for a funeral. A family member had passed away; the whole week had been the sort you want to forget. Nothing went right. On the way down, my partner pointed to something out of the window. “Hey, it’s Shellharbour Airport,” she noted. We’d flown through and by it virtually only the night before, checking out her favourite spots and identifying the location of her parents through  Microsoft Flight Simulator the night before. There was just something calming about seeing home, even streamed through the combination ...

Qatar Foundation supported project develops map to help drivers to find best routes  03 Jul 2021 - 8:28 Photo by Abdul Basit © The Peninsula Fazeena Saleem | The Peninsula A group of scientists at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a mapping service that will help find the best routes for motorists in Qatar.  The team led by Rade Stanojevic, a senior scientist at QCRI of Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a member of Qatar Foundation, use machine learning with the data from Karwa taxi service to figure out the best way to adjust the travel time estimates depending on...

Marking the return of one of the world’s most ambitious simulation games,  Microsoft Flight Simulator enables players, even in this COVID-19 world, to take to the skies and journey across any part of the planet in one of several dozen aircraft. The development team at Asobo Studio has taken full advantage of technological advances in the last decade, including implementing world map data from Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap. While this has led to a more realistic experience for players, the data used has not always been perfect. From Essendon’s 212-stories high Tower of Babel to the Bucking...