Fitbit Announces New Apple Watch Rival ‘Versa’ and Kid-Friendly ‘Ace’

Fitbit today announced the Fitbit Versa, which the company described as the “smartwatch for all.” The Versa has a few features that directly compare it to the Apple Watch, as well as an overall design that looks similar to Apple’s wearable device. Alongside the Fitbit Versa, Fitbit announced a kid-focused Fitbit Ace device and female health tracking coming to the Fitbit iOS app.

Fitbit said the Versa is the “lightest metal smartwatch” in the United States market, with a case made out of ultra-thin, anodized aluminum that is slightly tapered and angled so it fits small or large wrists. The device’s touchscreen supports a brightness of up to 1,000 nits, allowing users the ability to read the screen in bright environments, and it has a battery that will last for 4+ days.

The Fitbit Versa has many of the expected features seen in previous Fitbits, like 24/7 heart rate tracking, onscreen workouts, onboard music storage, automatic sleep tracking, and wallet-free payments on the Fitbit Versa Special Edition with an NFC chip. Fitbit will also sell a variety of accessories, ranging from stain-resistant classic bands to Horween leather, stainless steel links, metal mesh bands, and a designer collection.

“As the wearables category continues to grow, Fitbit Versa fills a critical need in the market by delivering a beautifully designed, full-featured smartwatch that is easy to use at a very competitive price,” said James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit. “Versa brings consumers the advanced health and fitness features Fitbit is known for, along with broad compatibility across mobile platforms and 4+ days battery life to provide users with a better picture of their overall health, making it stand out from any smartwatch available today.”

The new smartwatch will launch with Fitbit OS 2.0 for the company’s line of wearable devices, which will include a new personalized dashboard for a simplified overview of a user’s health and fitness data. Users will be able to see daily and weekly health stats, historical activity, heart rate, exercise summaries, motivational messages, tips, and daily guidance, all from their wrist.

Over time, Fitbit said this dashboard will become more personalized, offering reminders, celebrations, logging, insights, sleep summaries, and social challenges, all with prompts to take actions based on each user’s own data. This ongoing personalization aspect of Fitbit OS 2.0 is said to launch later in 2018. Here are a few other features available on Fitbit Versa with Fitbit OS 2.0:

Music on your device: Listen to phone-free music anywhere using Bluetooth headphones like Fitbit Flyer, including 300+ songs from your personal music collection, your favorite stations from Pandora, and now your own or curated playlists as well as Flow from Deezer.

Apps and clock faces you want: Personalize your device by choosing from a wide range of apps and clock faces in the Fitbit App Gallery, including those from Fitbit, Fitbit Labs, and popular brands like E*TRADE, Flipboard, Hue Lights, Nest, Starbucks, Strava, Surfline, United Airlines, Weather powered by AccuWeather, and Yelp. The Fitbit App Gallery has more than 550 apps and clock faces available today, many of which developers are working to make available to Versa users soon.

Fitbit Ace, the kid-focused wearable band, will include many of Fitbit’s features in a pared-down hardware model. Kids eight and older wearing the device will see that it automatically tracks steps, active minutes, and sleep on a five day battery. Using a Fitbit family account, parents will be able to monitor and control who their kids connect with in the Fitbit app and other features of the Ace band.

The band will remind kids to move, and reward them for listening to such reminders with collectible badges. Coming soon, Fitbit will launch daily and weekly challenges where families and friends can compete against one another in certain health goals. There will also be a “Family Faceoff” that challlenges family members in a family account to earn the most steps in five days.

Fitbit Ace can be pre-ordered today on Fitbit.com for $99.95, and will launch in Q2 2018. Fitbit Versa is available to pre-order today on Fitbit.com and at select online retailers tomorrow, priced at $199.95. The smartwatch will come in the following colors: black with a black aluminum case, gray with a silver aluminum case, and peach with a rose gold aluminum case. Band accessories will start at $29.95 and cap at $99.95. For those who want the NFC-enabled Fitbit Versa Special Edition, that model will be $229.95. The device will officially launch worldwide in April.

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Apple Music Growing at Record Pace With Two Million Subscribers Added in Just Five Weeks

Apple’s services chief Eddy Cue, who spoke at the SXSW media festival in Austin, Texas this week, revealed that Apple Music now has 38 million paying subscribers worldwide. Cue also said there are over eight million customers that are currently taking advantage of Apple Music’s free three-month trial period.

The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Apple Music had 36 million subscribers in a February 4 report, so it appears the streaming music service has gained around two million subscribers in just over five weeks.

The numbers suggest Apple Music is growing at a clip of roughly 400,000 subscribers per week, or 1.6 million per month. Accordingly, it would appear to be Apple Music’s fastest growth rate since it launched in June 2015, at least based on the figures that Apple has publicly shared over the past three years.

Apple Music Subscribers

• Oct 2015: 6.5 million
• Jan 2016: 10 million
• Feb 2016: 11 million
• Apr 2016: 13 million
• Jun 2016: 15 million
• Sep 2016: 17 million
• Dec 2016: 20 million
• Jun 2017: 27 million
• Sep 2017: 30 million
• Feb 2018: 36 million
• Mar 2018: 38 million

Spotify maintains a sizeable lead over Apple Music. The streaming music service revealed that it had 71 million paying subscribers as of the end of 2017, so it should be around twice as large as Apple Music by now. Spotify also has a free, ad-supported tier, giving it over 159 million listeners overall around the world.

Spotify launched in 2008, and expanded to the United States in 2011, while Apple Music debuted in over 100 countries at once in 2015. Both platforms offer individual subscriptions for $9.99 per month, student plans for $4.99 per month, and family plans sharable with up to six people for $14.99 per month.

Apple Music has the benefit of being preinstalled on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads. It’s also available on Mac, PC, Android, Apple Watch, Apple TV, vehicles equipped with CarPlay, Sonos, and HomePod.

At SXSW, Cue estimated there are around two billion people that have access to and a means to pay for streaming music, suggesting the market is ripe for growth. Apple Music and Spotify have around 110 million subscribers combined, so there is clearly an opportunity for both services to continue growing.

The harder task for Spotify will be turning a profit, which it has yet to do. Apple Music executive and record industry mogul Jimmy Iovine recently said streaming music services are “not making any money” due to a lack of margins, suggesting that a standard $9.99 per month subscription is not profitable.

Apple Music’s profitability is likely less of a concern for Apple, as it sells a wide range of other products and services. Apple’s broad services category brought in a record $8.5 billion revenue last quarter, up 18 percent year over year.

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Third Report Says Apple’s AirPower Charging Mat Will Launch in March

Apple’s new AirPower inductive charging mat will be released by the end of March, according to Taiwanese website DigiTimes.

The report, citing industry sources, claims the AirPower will have a maximum charging performance of up to 29 watts, compared to 7.5 watts for other single-device wireless charging pads like the Belkin Boost Up and the Mophie Wireless Charging Base for the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X.

AirPower is an oval-shaped accessory that can inductively charge multiple Apple devices at once, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, and Apple Watch Series 3 models. It will also be able to charge AirPods when they are placed in a new inductive charging case set to launch alongside AirPower.

The mat’s ability to charge multiple devices will be achieved with a propriety technology being developed by Apple. Apple said it will work to have its technology become part of the universal Qi standard supported by the latest iPhones.

Apple said the AirPower will be released in 2018, but it hasn’t provided an exact release date or pricing. Apple blogs Mac Otakara and The Apple Post also reported that the charging mat will be released in March, which is a common month for Apple to introduce new products, including a new 9.7-inch iPad last year.

It’s still unclear if Apple will announce the AirPower’s availability at a March event alongside other new products, via press release, or quietly with an update to its online store. If there is an event planned, Apple will likely send invitations to the media by Thursday at the absolute latest.

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NASA’s acting chief retires with no obvious successor

Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. has been heading NASA’s efforts ever since the previous administrator, Charles F. Bolden Jr., stepped down with President Obama. Since he never officially became Bolden’s replacement — he was acting administrator for 14 months — his previous job as NASA’s third highest-ranking official was never filled. The second highest position in the agency also remains empty, so now that Lightfoot has decided to retire on April 30th, NASA has no clear successor to take over his duties.

Robert Lightfoot has announced that he will retire on April 30. He has been Acting Administrator since January 2017. pic.twitter.com/DaN7wQIfWw

— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) March 12, 2018

In the letter announcing his retirement, Lightfoot said he will work with the White House on a smooth transition to the new administrator. The White House has yet to reveal who’ll take over Lightfoot’s duties, but the president nominated Representative Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma last year. It doesn’t sound like he’d easily be able to assume the position, though: the Senate hasn’t voted to confirm him yet, and according to The New York Times, all 49 Democrats in the Senate are ready to oppose his appointment.

Bridenstine has no scientific background and has pretty controversial views about climate change. During a speech in 2013, he told the Congress that global temperatures “stopped rising 10 years ago,” which is far from true. He also said that “global temperature changes, when they exist, correlate with sun output and ocean cycles,” dismissing the role greenhouse gases play. In addition, he introduced the “American Energy Renaissance Act” in 2015 and proudly retweeted an article calling it a “push back against climate change alarmists.”

As NASA administrator, Bridenstine will also be in charge of the agency’s Earth Science program, which oversees studies on climate change and weather patterns. It’s already in trouble as is after the White House slashed the program’s budget by $102 million — a small amount if you take NASA’s $19.1 billion budget into account, but big enough to kill four of its projects. One of them monitors how the oceans and the atmosphere respond to climate change, while another measures the distribution of carbon dioxide around the planet.

That said, Bridenstine promised to be apolitical if he becomes NASA’s chief. In November 2017, he at least admitted that humans do play a role in climate change: “I believe that the scientific consensus is that humans are contributing and have contributed to the climate change that we have seen,” he said. Whether Bridenstine is replacing Lightfoot remains to be seen — we’ll likely know for sure in the coming weeks leading to April 30th.

Source: The New York Times

GM may test a carsharing program this summer

GM’s Maven is basically the equivalent of a car rental service; for a fee, users can borrow a loaded GM vehicle for up to 28 days at a time. Now, it appears that GM may be looking to expand the service. According to Bloomberg, GM will operate pilot program this summer to test allowing GM users to rent out their personal vehicles through Maven. We’ve reached out to GM for confirmation.

This program would only be open to GM owners, and GM would take a slice of the revenue. It basically would work like an Airbnb for cars. While startups like Turo and Getaround do exist in this space, no existing companies has the clout or resources or reach of GM. The company also has an advantage because of the wide owner base it can draw from.

It makes sense that, with the success of Maven, GM would want to expand the program. And by turning the program over to current car owners, rather than using its own fleet of cars, it gives GM access to many more vehicles without having to actually own and maintain them.

Source: Bloomberg

What we’re buying: Philips OneBlade shaver

Men don’t get much when it comes to the bathroom-gadget oeuvre, and Engadget usually deals in two kinds of them: established devices given a new twist, and extreme futuristic-use cases for the future of our bathroom — typically aimed at women. Not so in this week’s IRL.

Bureau Chief Mat Smith’s recommendation is for our more… hirsute readers. It’s an electric shaver/beard trimmer from Philips. Don’t roll your eyes so quickly because things are a little different this time, and for the scruff-loving, sensitive (skinned) Mat, it’s game-changing. Calm down with the hyperbole, Mathew.

Mat Smith
Bureau Chief, UK

Terrible shavers, the OneBlade is for you. I wouldn’t tally many man-points in regard to either my shaving prowess or the amount of facial hair I’m able to make. I can’t grow a proper beard, and my sensitive face doesn’t respond well to repeated close shaves, wet, dry or otherwise.

The OneBlade, which sounds like a weapon from fantasy lore, doesn’t look like other electric shavers. It doesn’t look like a beard trimmer and couldn’t look more different than the company’s standard Philishave range. It’s like a Bic razor in its ultimate, electrified form.

I make that comparison because of the blade-sized cutter at the end of the shaver. This apparently moves (more like vibrates) at 200 times a second, offering the appropriate amount of snip to chop at facial hair. I might be wrong; it seems to cut at the edges, even if the flat side of the razor looks like it might be able to cut things. Because these very obvious edges are where the action happens, it makes it easier to… sculpt your facial hair, if that’s your thing. For me, and probably most of the prospective OneBlade customer base, it ensured lots of control around sensitive areas, like the lip, while also being able to cut literal swathes through flat areas, like my cheeks.

Vaguely blonde facial hair, like mine, combined with long-sighted eyes, means I need all the help I can get shaving, and the OneBlade worked perfectly. I could glide around, and it never got caught up on a stray whisker, nor did it irritate my skin. And this was the case even when using it without gel, water or anything. In fact, in my first three months (Philips advises a blade change every four months) it hasn’t tugged on my facial hair once.

As a working professional (aren’t we all?), I jumped ahead of the basic model, opting for the Pro edition, with an adjustable dial comb. This offers a bigger degree of control when it comes to facial-hair topiary, but I also found using the comb, compared to the blade as-is, takes a few more laps across my chin and hairier regions. Not that I care: It’s painless and effortless. As even Philips notes, however, it won’t shave as closely as a traditional blade, but I don’t mind.

I really want to stress the painless experience shaving has turned into. Compared to wet shaves, those flat rotational Philishave razors and the rest, this is the best shaver I’ve ever owned. It’s not even a competition. I’ve already convinced two friends and one colleague to take the plunge. No complaints from them either.

The most basic model still comes with a trio of “stubble” combs, and while you get more length with the Pro model, the cheapest model — which comes with combs at 1-, 3- and 5-mm settings — probably would’ve been completely fine. All the OneBlade models can be rinsed under the tap and are also rechargeable.

It isn’t, however, for everyone. As I’ve already noted, for anyone who’s really into closer shaves, you might have to stick with your multi-blade Gillette for now.

For interested parties, there’s also body blade you can use for all-over manscaping, but I’m afraid I haven’t tested it that extensively. Just be aware that there is an option — and that you probably shouldn’t use the face blade… elsewhere.

Intrigued? Well, don’t buy one immediately: Shop around for a bargain (either at your local drug stores or on Amazon) as discounts on the model — typically with a couple of spare blades thrown in — seem to happen a lot.

“IRL” is a recurring column in which the Engadget staff run down what they’re buying, using, playing and streaming.

Apple Drops Over Twenty Spots in Latest Company Reputation Survey

In a new survey that looks at the reputation of corporate brands, called the Harris Poll Reputation Quotient survey, Apple dropped from its previous position at #5 on the list and now sits at the #29 spot. As reported by Reuters, Apple has been sliding down the rankings over the last two years, falling from #2 in 2016.

To determine the results, the poll surveyed 25,800 adults in the United States from December 11, 2017 to January 12, 2018 on the reputations of the “most visible” corporate brands. Similarly to Apple, Google fell this year as well, from #8 in 2017 to #28 in 2018.

Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema theorized that the reason behind Apple’s and Google’s dips on the list was because of a lack of major, “attention-grabbing” device launches in the last few years.

John Gerzema, CEO of the Harris Poll, told Reuters in an interview that the likely reason Apple and Google fell was that they have not introduced as many attention-grabbing products as they did in past years, such as when Google rolled out free offerings like its Google Docs word processor or Google Maps and Apple’s then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

“Google and Apple, at this moment, are sort of in valleys,” Gerzema said. “We’re not quite to self-driving cars yet. We’re not yet seeing all the things in artificial intelligence they’re going to do.”

In the #1 spot was Amazon, which the company has held every year for the past five years except in 2015 when it was at #2. Tesla climbed the rankings from #9 to earn the #3 spot and Facebook was #51, which was an improvement for the social media company. In total the top 10 companies on the reputation list were:
Amazon.com
Wegmans Food Markets Inc
Tesla Motors
Chick-fil-A
The Walt Disney Co
HEB Grocery Company LP
United Parcel Service Inc
Publix Super Markets
Patagonia Inc
Aldi Inc In another recent ranking, Apple earned the top spot as the “most intimate brand” for millennials in the United States. Fast Company also named Apple as the world’s most innovative company for “delivering the future today,” and specifically for its approach to hardware and software engineering that creates the overall user experience surrounding its products.
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Google Assistant Now Available on iPad

Google Assistant for iOS has been updated with native iPad support today. The design looks essentially the same as the iPhone version, but with an interface optimized for the larger 7.9-inch to 12.9-inch screen sizes of Apple’s tablets.

Like rivals Siri, Alexa, and Cortana, Google Assistant is a digital assistant that can set reminders, schedule calendar appointments, answer questions, and provide other information through machine learning techniques.

Apple only allows third-party assistants to function within their apps, however, limiting their usefulness versus Siri on iPhone and iPad. For example, Google Assistant can’t be invoked with a voice command when an iOS device is locked.

Nevertheless, iPad users now have one more option to choose from alongside Siri, Alexa, and Cortana. Google Assistant is free on the App Store.

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14 tips for keeping your vault-dwellers alive in ‘Fallout Shelter’

Fallout Shelter, a resource management sim, is a major departure for a studio best known for sprawling RPGs such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. But Bethesda has put its own spin on the genre, making an equally sprawling management game that’s playable on your phone or tablet. In the years since launch, the game has come to PC and Xbox One, and the team has added new enemies, rooms, and even a novel questing system.

Whether you’re new to the game, a veteran returning from the wasteland, or a longtime overseer looking to get the most out of your vault dwellers, we’ve put together a few pointers to help you get off to a good start and build a thriving vault that will be the envy of scavengers and super mutants around your post-apocalyptic neighborhood.

Build for the future

In the beginning it’s easy to build new rooms haphazardly as they become available. Scroll down and see how deep your vault can run, however, to see how much room there is to expand as your population booms. Larger, connected rooms are more efficient than an equal total of smaller rooms of the same type. Because rooms max out at three across, always leave space for them to expand. Extending the initial elevator directly down leaves you room for three-wide rooms on either side. It may be a little more expensive to build elevators down instead of using more of the horizontal space, but the long-term efficiency of this simple, two-column structure can’t be beat.

Rooms require more power to operate the further they are from a power plant, so be sure to space your reactors out evenly to maximize their efficiency. Don’t build too fast, though! Diners and water treatment facilities use power even if no one is operating them, so building facilities you can’t utilize yet is a waste of precious power. Even if you do have the personnel, sometimes it is better to focus on training them to work more efficiently in the rooms you do have instead of building new ones. Power generating rooms are the exception, though. If you are producing  surplus of electricity, you can safely build more facilities to increase your storage capacity without putting a strain on your resources.

SPECIAL snowflakes

All of your dwellers have the main Fallout games’ SPECIAL stats, standing for Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck. These abilities correspond to how effective the dweller will be in a particular room, so let them guide where you assign them to work. Strength increases production in power plants, Perception helps at the water treatment facility, endurance helps them survive longer in the wasteland, charisma helps them breed more quickly in the living quarters and attract new followers with the radio station, intelligence aids in producing StimPaks and RadAway, and Agility aids in producing food at the diner and garden.

Luck helps dwellers in any job be more likely to succeed when you rush production, and also increases the odds of your wanderers finding good loot. Once you gain access to the training rooms, buff up dwellers’ strongest stat to maximize their efficacy in a given job. Luck is a good second stat to focus on for anyone, followed by Charisma to make repopulating faster for everyone.

Busy bees

You can sort the list of your vault dwellers by different columns, including their current job. Anyone on “Coffee Break” isn’t taking a breather from the power plant–it’s just a euphemism for unemployment. Without a job your dwellers are just soaking up food and water, so be sure to periodically check and make sure everyone is busy either working or training. They are happier when they are busy, so you have no reason not to strive for full employment. When assigning dwellers to rooms, holding them over a given room shows the net change (either positive or negative) on its efficiency. This is an easy way to make sure your dweller assignments are the most impactful, especially when trying to fulfill the objective of assigning dwellers to the proper room.

Second Amendment lover’s paradise

After your wanderers start bringing in weapons, the best thing place to store them is in the hands of every adult citizen you have. Your biggest and most powerful guns, such as alien blasters and the Fat Man, are best saved for those wanderers to stay safe out in the wasteland. Most of the guns you find will be less powerful, like rusty sawed-off shotguns and pistols. You can sell these for a few caps, or build a storage room to keep them, but it’s best first to arm every one of your citizens. Having guns at least some guns in every single room ensures that they will remain safe in case of a radroach infestation or if raiders break through your defenses. It really does embody the NRA’s policy position that a populace armed to the teeth is safer than not.

Don’t bother arming your pregnant women, though. When disaster strikes, pregnant dwellers flee to the bunks in order to wait it out, so guns won’t do them any good. Also don’t bother with weapons that only do 0-1 damage. That’s not any better than the damage they will do with their bare hands, and extra caps are always useful.

Dress for success

Just like with guns, the best place to store the outfits your wanderers bring back is on the backs of your vault dwellers. Outfits boost particular combinations of SPECIAL stats, so try and give everyone an outfit that boosts their strongest stat, corresponding with their job. Endurance and Strength boosting outfits are best saved for your wanderers to keep them safe out there. The nightwear’s Charisma boost is an easy way to help anyone breed more quickly in the living quarters. For lack of anything better, the formal wear’s Luck boost is useful for rushing any room.

Guard duty

Raiders will occasionally harry your vault, but a little preparedness goes a long way. You can assign two vault dwellers to your entrance in order to guard against attacks, but this is often unnecessary, since they are otherwise not producing anything or improving at all. Put two of your more powerful weapons with dwellers who work in the room nearest the entrance on the first floor and then upgrade the vault door’s health early on. When raiders come knocking, simply move your two designated guards from the nearby room to the entrance to fend off the attack. You don’t even have to drag them back afterwards — once the raiders are put down, your guards will run back to their previous job unprompted.

As you dig deeper, more challenging threats like feral ghouls and deathclaws will also come knocking. If you find your attackers are beating your guards to the door, upgrading your vault door will buy you extra time so they can get into place before the enemy breaches.

Medic!

Accidents happen, and sometimes your dwellers will take a beating from raiders, radroaches, or fires. They will gradually heal back up to full if left alone after the problem is resolved, but sometimes a series of unfortunate events or a poorly-armed room means that a few may be gravely wounded in the course of duty. Rather than paying caps to revive them after the fact (since no one ever dies permanently), it is much more effective to select dwellers that you see running low on health and immediately apply Stimpaks, which restore a substantial portion of their health instantaneously. Radiation reduces their maximum health (as indicated by a red bar that grows from the right), so be sure to use RadAway before wasting Stimpaks on your irradiated dwellers. If they do kick the bucket, don’t despair! Anyone who dies, whether at home or wandering the wasteland, can be revived. It’s expensive, but it’s better than losing your favorite citizens forever.

Apple Maps now shows the nearest bike-sharing stations in 179 cities

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Apple has just given iPhone users another reason to use its Maps app, at least, if you’re a fan of bike-sharing schemes.

The locations of bike stations in 179 cities in 36 countries is now searchable in Apple Maps thanks to transportation data company Ito World. To find the nearest stations, simply type “bike sharing” in the search box when you open the app, then select the top result, which should have a “nearby” label with it.

The map will then populate with the closest bike-sharing stations, and will include both city-operated and privately run offerings.

Apple Maps already surfaced a number of such schemes for users of the app, according to TechCrunch, but the latest data injection is a major improvement on what went before.

The downside is that at the current time the information isn’t as detailed as you’d want it to be, so it only shows the locations of the bike stations rather than information on bike availability. Hopefully it can add that kind of data in a future update.

Still, if you’re visiting a new city, the feature will come in handy as a quick reference tool to pinpoint all the bike stations. If you’re within walking distance, you can simply stroll over to see if any bikes are there and ready to ride. Alternatively, if the station is a little further away, you can download the app specific to that service to find out about bike availability before you start making your way there.

It’s gotten a lot better

Since Apple Maps’ disastrous launch back in 2012, the company has been steadily building out the app in a bid to make it a worthy alternative to Google Maps. Most recently, Apple started adding layouts for some of the world’s biggest airports to help travelers find their way around the transportation hubs.

Like any maps app worth its salt, Apple’s effort comes with all the basic navigation features you’d want, plus extras like travel suggestions according to your previous activity or linked to events in your calendar. As with Google Maps, you can also grab lots of details on any establishment you’re thinking of visiting, with website links and reviews also accessible in a couple of taps.

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