Google announces updates for Search to help users find dishes near them; Maps, including expanding Live View; and Shopping, adding AR tools for makeup shopping (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Google announces new features for Maps, including the ability to visually soar over some areas, added landmark views, enriched neighborhood info, and AR search  —  Google is gearing up to launch several new updates for Maps in the coming months, the company announced today at its Search On event.

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Meta updates Stars on Facebook including testing automatic onboarding for creators, bringing Stars to images and text, and Stars Party to Facebook Reels  —  Meta announced today that’s introducing a number of new creator updates across Instagram and Facebook.

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YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature to make it easier for creators to select and manage questions from viewers in the chat during livestreams  —  YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature that is designed to make it easier for creators to interact with viewers during livestreams.

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Facebook adds Pages features to let creators endorse each other, make content exclusive to top fans and subscribers, earn “rising creator” labels, and more  —  Facebook is introducing new Pages features that are designed to help creators get discovered and connect with their followers, the company announced on Tuesday.

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Instagram debuts transparency tools to let users with professional accounts, like businesses and creators, know if their content is ineligible to be recommended  —  Instagram announced today that it’s introducing new transparency tools so you can see whether your photos and videos are recommended in the app.

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TikTok begins testing its research API, announced in July, with members of its Content and Safety Advisory Councils, and is working on a content moderation API  —  Earlier this year, TikTok announced that it’s developing a research API to improve access to public and anonymized data about content and activity on its app.