Google Maps hack creates urban jungle out of Street View

If you’ve wondered what our cities would look like post-apocalypse, a new hack for Google Maps gives you a peek of what that world would be like. Urban Jungle Street View gives you a look into concrete jungles filled with vegetation and whatnot. Einar Öberg designed the experiment with the use of Google Street View’s depth data. It helped him plot the grasses and trees on the road and have ivy crawling up buildings. It can supposedly work in any location but you would probably see greater effects in city centers.

Source: CNET

Rogers leaks official specs of HTC One (M8)

The official launch for the All New HTC One (M8) has been set for later today but if you want to take a look at the official specs beforehand, Rogers has leaked the specs of the new device on its site. Some of the features include a 5-inch 1080p HD Super LCD3 display, UltraPixel camera, 5MP front-facing camera, 32GB internal storage with expandable storage up to 64GB, and Android 4.4.2 OS.

Source: Droid Life, Rogers

BlackBerry joining the Personal Assistant fray with "Intelligent Assistant" feature

Siri, Google Now and Cortana are going to be getting competition in the voice activated personal assistant fray from BlackBerry. A recent leak shows videos a test build of  10.3.0.140 version of the BlackBerry OS that features an apparent Personal Assistant app. The leaked images of the BB 10.3 OS show revised and flatter looking icons as well as functionality that may make it to the final release of this particular update.

Source: Engadget

Google Now coming to Chrome browser

Google Now is the de facto personal assistant and notification service running on Android smartphones and tablets. The latest build of the Chrome browser is going to start featuring this location-based feature. This means PCs and Macs running Chrome should soon get the option to get voice search, reminders for flights, sports events movie times as well as commute times. The service is tied into users who already enable Google Now on their mobile devices.