Once you have the new app, follow these steps: Open Google Maps. Navigate to Settings in the slide-out panel on the left side of the app. At the bottom of the settings list, select “Sign out of Google Maps.” Tap the Multitasking button on your phone and swipe away Google Maps. Re-open Google Maps. Open the slide-out navigation panel on the left side of the app. You should now see a “Start driving” button on the list of options. Navigate to Settings and sign back in to Google Maps.
Android: Google Maps’ Navigation feature has been one of Android’s best for a long time. It would be nice, however, if you could see things like traffic updates and nearby gas stations without entering a destination. Now, you can.
“I liked the vivid colors from the parasols and the towels, the curve of the waterline, and the bathers across the scene,” says Joe Navin, who took this shot from a road above a beach in Ortigia, Sicily. “The road gives an unusual perspective for a beach shot and it worked well with a wide-angle lens, so it was quite quick to frame and shoot.”
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Ridership increased 24 percent in 2015 – including seven days in which ridership exceeded 50,000 trips, twice during the Papal visit in September.
Citi Bike has far and away the highest ridership volume of any bike share system in the nation, and is on par with the largest bike share systems in the Western hemisphere. There have been nearly 9 million trips taken on Mexico City’s similarly sized EcoBici bike share in 2015, and London’s larger Santander Cycle Hire was on pace for 9,943,074 trips in 2015.
As for the 10 millionth trip taker, he or she is receiving a free year of membership, plus three gift memberships to share with family and friends, per the statement.
In December 1948, a blizzard (remember those?) covered New York in almost 20 inches of white powder. An army of more than 18,000 men shoveled and plowed the snow as it fell all night.
But they didn’t clear away the snow from the two library lions, Patience and Fortitude, who have been guarding the main entrance of the New York Public Library since 1911.
After days of cold, late autumn rain, the sun appears in Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaido, Japan. “He [seemed] to have eaten no mouse for several days,” writes Your Shot member Hiroki Inoue of this fox, captured as it lifted its head to the rays.
Inoue’s shot was recently featured in the Daily Dozen.
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i could totally read 52 books a year if they didn't insist on "age appropriate" literature. I tell ya its discrimination it is!
A couple months ago, a reader named Claire asked a great question: “I’ve found it’s easy to come across children’s books with wonderful male heroes, but now that I’m expecting a little girl, I want more books with female heroines — for my daughter’s sake, as well as my sons’.” So, for all the little ones out there, here are 18 children’s books featuring leading ladies…
Pizza boxes are functional, collectable, customizable, recyclable and now: toxic. More specifically, three types of chemicals used to produce pizza boxes and other food packaging have been found to be toxic to humans, resulting in cancer and birth defects. Three types of perfluoroalkyl ethyl are set to be banned by the FDA, who have declared there is "no longer reasonable certainty" that harm does not come from exposure to these chemicals. [ more › ]
Did you know, according to the Global Strategy Group, that 56% of Americans would rather get stuck in traffic or go on a blind date than sit in the middle seat on a full flight? [ more › ]
As we warned you earlier this week, thousands of people will risk communicable diseases by throwing pants-derived caution to the wind and taking part in the annual No Pants Subway Ride this Saturday. But if you are someone who appreciates all the advantages of having a thin layer of cloth wrapped around your body, you might feel a bit alienated by the theatrical event and its stoic, fleshy participants. Well you're in luck this year, because Tony Zaret feels that way as well, and has decided to do something about it: start a coinciding Extra Pants Subway Ride. Because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with no pants is a good guy with extra pants on. [ more › ]
Winter has arrived, according to the frost on my window, and though we were able to booze in backyards through December, it's time to move our drinking indoors. Any bar is a good bar (provided it's not in Murray Hill), but the best winter drinking hole is one with a fireplace, where you can sip a hot toddy and freak yourself out by remembering that fire ghost episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark (NEVER STARE INTO THE FLAMES OR THE GHOST WILL COME). Here are our favorite fireplace bars in the city; as always, leave yours in the comments. [ more › ]
Planning to shoot a rare supermoon, Your Shot member David L. Labrie went camping in the wilderness of Quebec, Canada, with his girlfriend, pictured here. Labrie was setting up his equipment when he noticed the high grass in the water. He asked his girlfriend to take the kayak and hold steady while he captured a long exposure. But a small breeze made it difficult to keep the kayak still. “We had to take several before we achieved this result,” he writes.
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Here’s a trick that’s been around for a while but may have passed you by: secret category codes added by Netflix engineers that can help you narrow down your on-demand video choices. From classic war movies to Brazilian dramas, here’s how to dig deeper into the Netflix library.
Artist Michael Neff has created a Suspended Forest, built from the many discarded Christmas trees currently littering the sidewalks of New York. Neff has done this before, under the BQE, but this time he's got a legal space to display the arborcide in—no longer in the open air, the space is stuffed with the scent of pine and death. [ more › ]
A pair of broken rails wreaked havoc on last night's evening commute, halting N/Q service between Manhattan and Queens and screwing around with service on the B, D, F, and R trains. Unsurprisingly, things were a mess: [ more › ]
Hamilton, a musical that will probably go down in history as the way more upbeat King Lear of our time, is sold out through next fall, and even then tickets are only available for fairly prohibitive prices. But mere plebians, fear not—you can now score $10 tickets through an online lottery, provided you have some serious luck on your side. [ more › ]
Your Shot member Andy Chisholm was taking a break from a rigorous surfing session when he captured from the flybridge of his boat this photo of a “feeding frenzy.” The rock towering above the waves—Eddystone, an ancient remnant of the mainland—is about 27 kilometers (17 miles) off the coast of Tasmania, Australia, and some seabirds have been recorded nesting there. In this photo, New Zealand fur seals join albatrosses and seagulls in the apparent feast.
Chisholms’s shot was recently featured in the Daily Dozen.
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Eastlyn Bright Tolle, a National Geographic Your Shot member, submitted this image of Niagara Falls. From her vantage point, “right on the other side of a wall that separated [her] from this perilous drop,” she was able to create a unique and thrilling perspective: one that doesn’t allow the viewer to consider the safety of the overlook from which the photo was taken.
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Brooklyn-born painter George Tooker depicts the disquietude of a mundane trip into a contemporary subway station in The Subway, on display at the Whitney Museum.
“Made in 1950 with egg tempera paint, George Tooker’s The Subway, takes as its subject the alienating effects of modern life,” states the museum website.
“Just as the positioning, color, and facial expressions of figures in the painting suggest a dark side to modern life, so too does Tooker’s choice of subject matter: a subway station,” according to the website.
“This location emphasizes feelings of alienation, as any New York subway passenger knows. Subways are labyrinthine and almost prison-like, with low ceilings and barred areas. Tooker accentuates this effect by removing all signs from the subway station of his imagination, so that a person who is lost might never find his or her way out.”
Your Shot member Adrian Theze made this photograph at Staðastaður on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Iceland. “I awoke to … perfect weather,” he writes, “so I decided to make the three-hour drive from Reykjavík to Snaefellsnes. As I drove the dawn skies were stunning, matching the scenery perfectly, and I [stopped] the car every few miles to take pictures. Driving along Snaefellsnesvegur toward Arnarstapi, I could see patches of light illuminating the mountainside in a kaleidoscope of pattern and color—but I needed a foreground subject to make my photograph. All I could see were fields and mountains, and I was beginning to give up hope, but then the church came into view. The sun broke through the clouds, bathing the church and mountainside in golden light.”
Theze’s shot was recently featured in the Daily Dozen.
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Your Shot member Carsten Krüger submitted this otherworldly photo of Namibia’s Dead Vlei: withered trees anchored in a white-clay pan, standing in striking contrast to an intensely colored, towering sand dune. The trees have been there for hundreds of years, reminders of when river waters cooled and hydrated this now scorched earth. Krüger writes, “[It was] a surreal island of silence and heat … We hiked one lonely mile without navigation and maps to find Dead Vlei … [It was] a masterpiece of nature: abstract shapes and unbelievable bright colors.”
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Taking the train to work bites, especially in the winter. To add some joy to an otherwise miserable experience, a group of friends in Wales decided to turn their 8:08am train from Abergavenny to Cardiff into a mobile Christmas party. ITV reports that, on…
Someday, winter weather will finally come (maybe) and then, it will be time to indulge in one of the season’s most underrated delicacies: hot chocolate. Here are a few mugs and cups of molten chocolate we're looking forward to clutching this season. [ more › ]
The history of sports includes lots of nutty ideas. One of the strangest took off big in Brooklyn in the 1860s and 1870s: baseball on ice.
The game was huge in Brooklyn in the decades after the Civil War. Ice skating was trendy too. Why not combine the two into the ultimate winter activity, right?
Local papers covered the games enthusiastically. “Today a grand match at base-ball on ice will be played on the Capitoline Pond, Brooklyn, 2 pm., the contestants being the best players of the Mutual and Atlantic Clubs who are also good skaters,” wrote the New York Times in January 1871.
Problems cropped up though. First, regular skaters complained that the ballplayers messed up the ice. Then there was the freezing cold.
On January 5, 1879, the New York Times wrote about a game at the Prospect Park Lake, which attracted a “half-dozen shivering spectators.”
The game “was anything but interesting to the scorer and umpire, who became so thoroughly chilled by the fifth inning that they refused to act longer, and thus the game was brought to an untimely end.”
Pizza boxes are functional, collectable, customizable, recyclable and now: toxic. More specifically, three types of chemicals used to produce pizza boxes and other food packaging have been found to be toxic to humans, resulting in cancer and birth defects. Three types of perfluoroalkyl ethyl are set to be banned by the FDA, who have declared there is "no longer reasonable certainty" that harm does not come from exposure to these chemicals. [ more › ]
Did you know, according to the Global Strategy Group, that 56% of Americans would rather get stuck in traffic or go on a blind date than sit in the middle seat on a full flight? [ more › ]
As we warned you earlier this week, thousands of people will risk communicable diseases by throwing pants-derived caution to the wind and taking part in the annual No Pants Subway Ride this Saturday. But if you are someone who appreciates all the advantages of having a thin layer of cloth wrapped around your body, you might feel a bit alienated by the theatrical event and its stoic, fleshy participants. Well you're in luck this year, because Tony Zaret feels that way as well, and has decided to do something about it: start a coinciding Extra Pants Subway Ride. Because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with no pants is a good guy with extra pants on. [ more › ]
Winter has arrived, according to the frost on my window, and though we were able to booze in backyards through December, it's time to move our drinking indoors. Any bar is a good bar (provided it's not in Murray Hill), but the best winter drinking hole is one with a fireplace, where you can sip a hot toddy and freak yourself out by remembering that fire ghost episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark (NEVER STARE INTO THE FLAMES OR THE GHOST WILL COME). Here are our favorite fireplace bars in the city; as always, leave yours in the comments. [ more › ]
Artist Michael Neff has created a Suspended Forest, built from the many discarded Christmas trees currently littering the sidewalks of New York. Neff has done this before, under the BQE, but this time he's got a legal space to display the arborcide in—no longer in the open air, the space is stuffed with the scent of pine and death. [ more › ]
We can live with cats, dine with cats, drink with cats and shop with cats and, starting this Friday, we can watch movies with cats. Koneko, a newish LES cat cafe that serves alcohol, begins a new movie night this week so felines and their friends can chill out and enjoy some cinema in the cafe's cozy cattery. [ more › ]
A pair of broken rails wreaked havoc on last night's evening commute, halting N/Q service between Manhattan and Queens and screwing around with service on the B, D, F, and R trains. Unsurprisingly, things were a mess: [ more › ]
Hamilton, a musical that will probably go down in history as the way more upbeat King Lear of our time, is sold out through next fall, and even then tickets are only available for fairly prohibitive prices. But mere plebians, fear not—you can now score $10 tickets through an online lottery, provided you have some serious luck on your side. [ more › ]
Someday, winter weather will finally come (
