Google Maps now shows live data about how crowded places are

Google is announcing some new updates to Maps today, and one of them should help you avoid the crowds on Black Friday. It's basically an extension of the already available Popular Times feature, which has so far let you see how busy a place typically is on different days of the week. From now on, though, this works in real-time. So you get live data about how crowded a place is - and in this context a "place" means a business, a public space, or any number of other things that people have added as such. Moving on, you also get an estimate of how long people typically stay at any...