Google Maps gets offline navigation, Apple kicks off iPad Pro marketing, & more

Google Maps Gets Offline Navigation And Search | After Pulling In 5.6M Viewers, Twitch Is Keeping Bob Ross On The Air | Apple Kicks Off iPad Pro Marketing With Ads Focused On Split-Screen And Pencil | Fb Messenger’s Facial Recognition “Photo Magic” Reminds You To Send Friends Photos Of Them | Meet The Ticwatch, An Impressive Apple Watch Competitor From China | Airbnb Safety Practices Challenged By Story Of A Father’s Death | Microbot Push Is A Smart Button For Dumb Devices |

DAILY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Drew Olanoff Google Maps Gets Offline Navigation And Search It’s 8am and you’re in your garage. You have to head into a different direction today, but you can’t fire up Google Maps until you’ve... Read More… Sarah Perez After Pulling In 5.6M Viewers, Twitch Is Keeping Bob Ross On The Air Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streaming site, stumbled into an incredible source of new traffic when it kicked off the launch of its “Twitch... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Hardware Battlefield Applications Are Open Now for CES Hardware Alley is TechCrunch's premier hardware event, taking CES by storm again this year. Applications for TechCrunch's Hardware Battlefield are now open. Submit your application by November 18 at 9pm PT to compete for free demo space at the Consumer Electronics Show, $50,000 prize and the Metal Man trophy. Learn More… Matthew Panzarino Apple Kicks Off iPad Pro Marketing With Ads Focused On Split-Screen And Pencil Apple has kicked off iPad Pro marketing with ads airing tonight during Monday Night Football. Pun intended. The spots use a galactic theme similar to the one we... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT HipChat Maker Atlassian Files for IPO Apple announces iPad Pro release date, Facebook is testing a facial recognition service called Photo Magic, The LucidCam is a new consumer VR camera, Google open-sources the machine learning behind Google Photos Search. Watch Now Josh Constine Fb Messenger’s Facial Recognition “Photo Magic” Reminds You To Send Friends Photos Of Them We are busy and lazy, so we forget to send friends the photos we take of them. But Facebook Messenger‘s newest feature Photo Magic scans your newly taken... Read More… Jon Russell Meet The Ticwatch, An Impressive Apple Watch Competitor From China Apple may be killing it in China with the iPhone, but the U.S. firm faces a pretty impressive young competitor in the smartwatch space on Chinese soil. It isn't... Read More… Anthony Ha Airbnb Safety Practices Challenged By Story Of A Father’s Death Journalist Zak Stone recently published a gripping, thought-provoking account of his father’s death while staying at an Airbnb rental in Texas. As told by... Read More… Nitish Kulkarni Microbot Push Is A Smart Button For Dumb Devices South Korean startup Naran launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo today for a smart button meant to control analog devices ranging from speakers to your... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior UX / UI Designer, Healthnotes Posted: November 10 UI Design Expert (Web&Mobile), nestpick Posted: November 9 UX Specialist, nestpick Posted: November 9 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service