Explore the world in 3D with Google Maps 5.0 for Android. Now, you can tilt, rotate, zoom smoothly, and enter compass mode to orient yourself in the world with Google Maps. You’ll also get better offline reliability for Maps if you lose your Internet connection
Bulgarian Cybercrime Blogger Resurfaces After Mysterious Disappearance
Bulgarian cybercrime blogger Dancho Danchev mysteriously vanished a few weeks ago, worrying his colleagues and the Internet. He’s back! But what happened to him? According to one report, he was confined to a psychiatric hospital.
“Catching up in progress… inbox looks pretty messy” Danchev tweeted today—his first tweet since October. So, that’s a relief. Now, on to the rampant speculation: What has Danchev been up to?
Clues initially pointed to some sort of weird government trouble. Danchev’s colleagues at ZDNet published a cryptic email he’d sent to a friend. Included was a picture of what Danchev believed was a surveillance device in his bathroom, placed there by Bulgarian law enforcement who have been “building a case, trying to damage my reputation.” It looked really scary!
But, there’s probably more (or less) to the story than Danchev being disappeared by Bulgarian cops. According to the Bulgarian news site Dnevik.org, Danchev had been hospitalized in a Bulgarian psychiatric hospital since December 11th of last year. “He is now stabilized and will soon be discharged,” Dnevik wrote on Wednesday.
And, now, Danchev’s back. We’ll take this as a cautionary tale for all bloggers: Once you start seeing surveillance devices in everyday household items, it might be time to take a break and go outside.
Foursquare Will Totally Show You the Best Spots to Pick Up Desperate Chicks
Dude…it’s like 1am and that chick you bought 5 drinks for totally bailed with her cockblocking grenade friend. SUCKS BRO! Luckily there’s this new Foursquare utility, which’ll lead us to the promised land of drunk-ass breezies down to hook up!
So this thing, called Ratio Finder or something, will make maps using stuff that Foursquare, like, um, tells them. (Bro Speak Translation: Ratio Finder pulls data from the Foursquare API and uses it to plot density maps based on gender.) Bro, we can totally creep on girls, and narrow it down to ones who are eating, shopping, or clubbing, Then it will use pink circles to tell us where there are mad chicks, and blue circles to warn us about sausagefests.
But if you don’t live in San Francisco or New York, you’re totally not getting laid…bro.