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Month: April 2022

11 New 3D Cities are now available – #incaseyoumissedit #bing #bingmaps #webxt #services #gps #mapping #3D #cities | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Bing Maps Adam E. Williams

It is no secret the Microsoft Maps team partners with world builders from the video game industry to create experiences like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (https://www.flightsimulator.com/). Microsoft takes petabytes of high-definition aerial imagery from specialized cameras and feeds them into a specialized Azure pipeline to automatically create detailed, fully textured, 3D models. This rich 3D

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Elon Musk and the $43 billion bid: all of the updates about his takeover of Twitter – #twitter #elonmusk #tesla #takeover #buyout | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge What’s next for Twitter and Elon Musk? Continue reading…

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Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company for $44 billion, the company announced in a press release today. Musk purchased the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14th. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town

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Thief steals $1 million of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs with Instagram hack – #incaseyoumissedit #nft #crypto #thief #boredapeyatchclub #instagram #hack | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

A hacker has stolen NFTs worth millions of dollars after compromising the official Instagram account for Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and using it to post a phishing link that transferred tokens out of users’ crypto wallets. The hack was disclosed on Twitter by BAYC just before 10AM ET on Monday morning. “There is no

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Use Bing Maps to calculate an isochrone to reach your customers – #incaseyoumissedit #bing #bingmaps #webxt #services #gps #mapping #footprints #isochrone | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Bing Maps Adam E. Williams

Imagine you are a store owner and would like to target customers that live within a 15-minute drive from your store with advertising for your weekly specials. You could draw a circle on a map, guessing that is about 15 minutes away, but it will not truly represent the time it will take for customers

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EU-U.S. data agreement an important milestone for data protection, Microsoft is committed to doing our part – #microsoft #incaseyoumissedit #services #dlp #ransomware #attack | #RoadmapforSuccess
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Microsoft has released new and updated building footprints – #incaseyoumissedit #bing #bingmaps #webxt #services #gps #mapping #footprints | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 12, 2022 Bing Maps Adam E. Williams

Microsoft continues to make significant investments in deep learning, computer vision, and AI. The Microsoft Maps Team has been leveraging that investment to identify map features at scale and produce high-quality building footprint data sets with the overall goal to add to the OpenStreetMap and MissingMaps humanitarian efforts. As of this post, the following locations are available

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