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Canonical, the company behind the popular Debian-based Linux operating system ‘Ubuntu’, recently announced the launch of a new platform called Anbox Cloud which containerized workloads using Android as a guest operating system to help enterprises distribute mobile applications from the Cloud.

Canonical’s new platform, Anbox Cloud is making it easier for business and service providers to deliver mobile applications at scale, more securely and regardless of a device’s capabilities.

This opens up a selection of use cases for Anbox Cloud including mobile device virtualization cloud gaming, software testing, and enterprise workplace applications.

Now, take a quick look at some of the key features of Anbox Cloud:

• Supports both public and private clouds
• Works on ARM and x86-based architectures
• High container density
• Support for GPU and GPGPU
• High standards for application security and data privacy
• 24/7 commercial support

Anbox Cloud: Put Your Android in Cloud

Stephan Fabel, Director of Product at Canonical explained how the new Anbox Cloud platform will help developers deliver an on-demand application experience to a large scale of users.

“Driven by emerging 5G networks and edge computing, millions of users will benefit from access to ultra-rich, on-demand Android applications on a platform of their choice. Enterprises are now empowered to deliver high performance, high density computing to any device remotely, with reduced power consumption and in an economical manner.”

With the adoption of cloud gaming on the rise, Anbox Cloud allows high-end graphic intensive games to be scaled to vast amounts of gamers while maintaining responsiveness and ultra-low latency.

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Anbox Cloud provides game developers with a protected content distribution channel to deliver an on-demand experience for gamers, eliminating the need to download games locally on a device.

Service providers and businesses of all sizes can now employ Anbox Cloud to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by providing workplace applications straight to employee’s devices while maintaining the assurance program that uses practices for compliance and data privacy.

Moreover, Anbox Cloud can also help enterprises reduce their internal application development costs by providing a single application that can be used across different form factors and operating systems. Organizations can also run Anbox in the public cloud for infinite capacity, high elasticity, and reliability or on a private cloud edge infrastructure where data privacy and low latency are a key priority. 

Providers of both public and private cloud computing services can integrate Anbox into their offering to facilitate the distribution of mobile applications in a PaaS or SaaS-model.

Telecommunication companies can also provide innovative value-added services based on virtualized mobile devices for their 5G, LTE, and 4G mobile network users.

Google Maps is efficient to do more than just show you locations, navigation routes, real-time traffic congestion, act as a translator, and be your driving assistant. That’s right! It has more features than we knew apart from offering satellite imagery, aerial photos of monuments and well-known places, street maps, street views, etc.

Some of the exclusive features of Google Maps are highlighted below for you to explore.

Best Hidden Features of Google Maps:

1.) Incognito Mode

This is the recently introduced feature in Android and iOS devices which have been brought out with the purpose of protecting the privacy of people’s commuting details who prefer to keep it that way. The technique remains the same as the Chrome browser, where you can switch to the incognito mode by choosing it from the dropdown menu of the profile section of the Google Maps app.

The benefit of this feature is that once this mode is on, it will no longer track the information of visited locations on the Timeline. It will also not record the search history on your Google account or recommend places based on the previously available historical data.

Apart from this, they have also incorporated the auto-delete option which can enable you to retain the location data of a specific period as per your choice.

2.) Messages

This facility is available for select businesses that have kept the messaging option turned on. Users can directly message them if they wish to enquire about something.

Users can opt for messaging by exploring the suggested list of places. Supposing you have a query with a restaurant, then tap the “restaurants” icon available on the top section of your map screen and then select your restaurant.

You can type your queries or message and send them across to the respective business. Once they respond, it will become a part of the message thread. A new message will be indicated on the message icon with a red dot. To view your messages, you can go to the message section in the application and tap on the menu, followed by going to messages.

If you want to block a business from spamming your message section or report a business due to inappropriate behavior, then you can open the message conversation and tap on “more” to choose the “block/report spam” option.

Further, you can also delete a conversation by opening the message and then go to the “more” option to choose the “delete” option.

3.) Speedometer

This feature functions by displaying the actual speed of the vehicle and highly resembles the speedometer of your car or bike. The attractive thing about Google Maps speedometer is that it can indicate when a vehicle is crossing its speed limit by changing the color.

Create a list of favorite places

You can open the list of Google Maps app to add a list of favorite places in it by tapping on the menu segment, then clicking on the visited areas and further the saved ones. Once you have saved the location, look towards the bottom right and tap on “add”. You can update the name of the place, along with a brief description of it in 4000 characters.

4.) Share Location Feature

With the “share location” feature, you can send your real-time locations to selected people. There is also a “ride-share” feature to help share the in-transit information.

5.) Timeline

This feature of Google’s mapping service lets you manage the location information history. You can also view the location history from this section and delete the data as well. This feature is privately available only to the user.

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6.) Street Light Availability

Google is reportedly engaged in developing another challenging feature that can immensely help those who need to head out at the dead of the night. According to reports, they are working towards the “lighting” feature that can indicate the availability of street lights on a particular road or path.

It will function by highlighting roads that are brightly lit with a yellow colored indicator and thereby help users to avoid streets in considerable darkness. Thus, this feature can possibly help in the reduction of unfortunate mishaps.

Thus, the awareness of the concealed features of Google Maps will enable you to use the web mapping service more efficiently for multiple purposes.