Tech Updates: Maps, Apple Innovations, and Market Trends

Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint, it turns out you WILL be able to unlock your car via iPhone and really soon, Huawei is suing Verizon, Twitter impresses investors, Casper has a rollercoaster IPO, and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad-load Rubicon?

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• Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge)
• New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac)
• Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge)
• Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge)
• Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch)
• Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC)
• The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (ZDNet)
• Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC)
• U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters)

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