Google Maps tests out new feature that enhances your restaurant experience

Confused? Well, we can’t blame you. Google Maps is trying out a new feature that doesn’t have anything to do with navigation. Instead, it might make life easier for you to decide where to eat as you plot your course within the navigation app. Google is adding a “Popular dishes” feature within the app that shows food menus with photos crowdsourced from users in search results. If you check out restaurants in Google Maps, some of these already offer a Menu tab sans photos. This could change with this test. This Menu tab has different sections and the photos show up in the Popular tab. As the report from 9to5Google notes, it seems only items that are frequently cited in reviews get pictures. This might seem like a useful feature for some users, but others might think this adds bloat to the app. It does bring the app closer to becoming a Yelp competitor. What do you think? Is this something you need?

Mozilla works on fix for bug that prevents Firefox extensions from working

There's a bug affecting Firefox that's preventing users from installing as well as using existing extensions. According to Mozilla, the problem is because of a certificate expiration and that it is working on a fix right now. It has begun rolling out a fix for users and there's nothing from your end that you should do. Mozilla discourages users from deleting and re-installing extensions because this will remove any accumulated data. Right now this fix doesn't apply to Firefox ESR and Firefox for Android, but the organization is working for a patch there as well.

The fix being rolled out now uses the Studies system, so you'll need to enable that if it's not turned on from your end. You can check the blog post to see if feature is on from your end. Mozilla says they're also working on a fix that won't require the system to be enabled.

Source: The Verge

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George R.R. Martin gives update on ‘Game of Thrones’

George R.R. Martin gives update on ‘Game of Thrones’

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With Game of Thrones reaching the end of its run, we might have to say goodbye to this part of the story but we aren’t saying goodbye to Westeros completely. There are a handful of shows in development, which A Song of Fire And Ice’s writer George R.R.  Martin detailed on his blog for a bit. The author of the books which inspired Game of Thrones previously announced that we were getting five spinoff shows, which he refers to as successors. HBO has ordered a pilot for one of them, which Martin says he shouldn’t call The Long Night and is sent thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones. That series is expected to begin shooting this summer with Defenders and Jessica Jones’ S.J. Clarkson directing.

But aside from that one show, Martin claims two other projects are also “moving forward nicely.” These two are still in the script stage, but are “edging closer.” Whether all five shows get made isn’t certain. And what these stories might be about, Martin won’t go into detail. Instead he says, “maybe some of you should pick up a copy of Fire & Blood and come up with your own theories.” The book is about the history of the Targaryens in Westeros.

Source: The Verge