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Google Maps embarrassed again: Android robot seen urinating on Apple logo

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In another incident of map spam, search engine company Google Inc. had to meet with an embarrassment again when its one of the most popular services, Google Maps, showed an inappropriate third-party generated image of the Android robot urinating on the official logo of the rival company Apple Inc.

According to the reports, a small region in Pakistan was edited to make the disgraceful changes in the maps.

Currently, Google allows users to add and edit maps, just like Wikipedia, through a crowd-sourced program called Google Map Maker.

The user-generated image appeared as a green land region just south of Rawalpindi in Pakistan.

The image appeared on both Android and desktop versions of Google for a few hours on Friday till it was finally removed by the company.

The image was also accompanied by a digital mischief art creation that featured a sad face along with a message “Google review policy is crap”.

Extending apology for the inapt content, Google spokesperson Caroline Matthews said, “We’re sorry for this inappropriate user-created content; we’re working to remove it quickly. We also learn from these issues, and we’re constantly improving how we detect, prevent and handle bad edits.”

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“The vast majority of users who edit our maps provide great contributions, such as mapping places that have never been mapped before,” Matthews added.

This is not for the first time when any user-generated inappropriate content on the Google Maps has brought embarrassment for the search engine giant. Recently, Edward Snowden appeared on the Google Maps sitting in the White House. The Google Map also showed a snowboard shop, called “Edward’s Snow Den”, inside the American President’s residence. It was accompanied by reviews such as it was a “great source of classified information”.

Google’s ‘on-body detection’ keeps Android phone unlocked

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androidFinally it is time to get rid of hazels of unlocking the phone several times when the user is operating the phone. Google is soon coming up with the new Android feature known as ‘on-body detection’ for its smartphones.

This new feature will make sure that once if the phone is unlock then it will stay unlock until the owner is holding the phone or keep it in pocket but once the phone is not within the user’s reach then it will get locked and so the user need to unlock it again to operate it and this is solving the problem of unlocking the phone several times.

How it works? Most of the cell phones have accelerometer fitted within it, so the lock feature can feel when the gadget is in the grasp and when it isn’t by figuring out whether the phone is consistently in move.

Android police who gave the detailed report on this new feature added that the motive behind the phone getting locked once it is out of reach of the user is to save the data from potential threat and to maintain privacy and security of data. If the phone is left somewhere then the phone gets locked and no other user can check on it.

But if the phone is handed over to other person when the phone is unlocked then the phone will not get locked because the phone cannot sense users touch or which pocket it is in.

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