Google Maps now has wheelchair accessible routes

Google Maps improves its functionality for wheelchair users with its latest feature. The navigation app can now identify routes that are wheelchair-accessible. These routes are useful not just for those who use wheelchairs but also those who are on crutches or have children in strollers with them. The feature comes to a handful of cities at the moment, including London, New York, Tokyo, Mexico City, Sydney, and Boston, but Google promises it’s working with transit agencies and its users input to add this information in other areas.

To access this feature, enter your desired destination into Google Maps and then tap Directions and then select the public transportation icon. And then select Options and then you’d find under Routes, the “wheelchair accessible” option. Google Maps will then show you possible routes you can take.

Source: 9to5Google

Rihanna calls out Snapchat for ad that makes light of domestic violence

Snapchat just keeps making things worse for itself. The latest controversy it finds itself in involves an offensive ad that had Rihanna taking to her Instagram Story to call out its competition. The ad for the smartphone game called Would You Rather appeared on the service over the weekend asking users if they’d rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown, which is seen as a thinly veiled reference to the infamous 2009 incident where Brown violently assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna.

Snapchat has pulled the ad and apologized saying, “The advert was reviewed and approved in error, as it violates our advertising guidelines.” The service says they’ve blocked the app as an advertiser and that the game isn’t affiliated with the service and that it supports the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the group’s executive vice president sits on Snapchat’s Safety Advisory Board. But the singer is having none of it saying in her Instagram Story, “I’d love to call it ignorance, but I know you ain’t that dumb!”

Source: The Verge

New ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ trailer drops

With Avengers: Infinity War hitting theaters in a few weeks (April 27^th, to be exact), Marvel is stirring the pot and getting us all excited for the film. The new trailer giving us a peek at how gigantic the film is going to be with almost all the superheroes the Marvel Cinematic Universe has introduced in the past decade. In this trailer alone we see Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther, Chris Evans’ Captain America, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, the rest of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. Of course, Josh Brolin’s Thanos makes an appearance and looms large as he tries to gather the six Infinity Stones. And as the trailer demonstrates, it’s not going to be easy to stop him.

Ava DuVernay will direct DC Comic’s ‘The New Gods’

Director Ava DuVernay continues to break the glass ceiling. Aside from being the first woman of color to direct a movie with over a US$100 million-dollar budget, she will now be the first woman of color to direct a major comic book movie. She has been tapped to helm The New Gods, an upcoming DC Comics movie based on comics by Jack Kirby. Its story focuses on all-powerful beings that live on two different planets—one resembling paradise while another like hell.

It can be considered a dream project for DuVernay as she was quoted on Twitter before admitting that Big Barda from the comics is her favorite superhero. When the news broke out she was directing the film, she tweeted the words, “‘Our dreams make us large.’ Thank you, #JackKirby.”

Source: Refinery29