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Man Awarded $12,500 After Google Street View Photographed His Ass

The case really exposed a crack in Google's policies...and this guy's backside.

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger Jul 28

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Did you know you can go back in time using Google Maps?

Gadgets Dua Rashid Apr 25

Apple Maps Quietly Added Boston to Its List of Cities With Full Color 3D Landmarks

Apple Maps silently added Boston to its total of 17 cities that show off various landmarks with 3D models.

Tech News Kyle Barr Mar 17

Aerial View and Other Features Come to Google Maps

Google Maps wants to help coordinate your summer plans with three new features.

Tech News Gabriella Sotelo Jul 27

Google Brings Historical Photos to Street View Apps, Apple Music to Waze

The company's also made a cute little robot for taking new Street View pics.

Tech News Florence Ion May 24

9 Uses for Google Maps Street View Besides Checking Out Your Old Neighborhood

Street View has been with us since 2007, allowing us to spy on our old neighborhoods, see our front door on the internet, and generally travel the globe without getting up from the sofa. This ever-expanding digital library of locations has more uses than you might realize—and here we’ve listed some of our favorites. 1)…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 18

Here’s Your Reminder That Google Has Always Been Evil

After nearly a decade in court, Google has agreed to pay $13 million in a class-action lawsuit alleging its Street View program collected people’s private data over wifi from 2007 to 2010. In addition to the moolah, the settlement—filed Friday in San Francisco—also calls for Google to destroy all the collected data and teach people…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 23

New AI Searches Google Street View For Street Signs That Need Repairs

Take a moment to think about all the street signs that blur past as you’re driving. Stop signs, speed limits, and traffic warnings all add up to a massive amount of infrastructure for a city that’s challenging and costly to maintain. But piggybacking on Google’s hard work, scientists have found a clever way to streamline…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 19

These Birders Flock to Google Street View to Spot Birds Around the World

I noticed something in the distance while clicking along rural U.S. Route 59 in Minnesota, 80 miles southeast of Fargo, North Dakota. Two grainy heads appeared out of the water like a pair of Loch Ness monsters. I couldn’t make them out for certain, but given the location (Minnesota) and time of year (summer), I…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Dec 7

An AI Accurately Guessed Race and Voting Patterns by Counting Cars on Google Street View

A robust, timely census is vital to democracy. Censuses sketch the changing face of our nation by charting both political and demographic shifts, including changes in wealth and neighborhood transitions. Most crucially, they influence how resources and political power are doled out: Cities use census data to set budgets and the Constitution mandates a national…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Dec 20

Watch This Photoshop Master Use a Clever Trick to Make an Ugly Crane Disappear

A crane left parked in front of a sugar factory for months in Baltimore, Maryland, prevented photographer Paul Frederiksen from getting the exact shot he wanted. He had assumed that using Photoshop to erase the obtrusive crane was all but impossible, until Denyer, a UK-based photographer, performed a photo-editing miracle. The challenge with removing such…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Oct 17

Skip Astronaut Training and Explore the ISS Right Now in Google Street View

Sometime between your marine biologist and professional ninja phases, you probably dreamed of being an astronaut as a kid. But have you seen all the work that goes into actually becoming one? Save yourself years of G-force training and wearing onesies and just shortcut your way onto the International Space Station, which became available for tour through…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski Jul 20

Google Street View Won’t Let Me Jump Inside This Volcano

Imagine my excitement when I saw the Google blog post about a new Street View adventure that took you inside of a volcano. I’ve always wanted to jump inside of a volcano! Then can you imagine my disappointment when I learned that the new Volcano View only lets you peer into the lava from the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 15

All-Seeing Car Fails to Watch Road

After gazing long into the abyss that is our daily lives, Google finally found the abyss gazing back this week when a Reddit user snapped a picture of a Street View car following “an unexpected error.” https://gizmodo.com/google-car-captures-guys-awful-day-at-work-for-all-eter-1786032702 “I was so stoked to see the Google car that I whipped my phone out,” wrote Nurse-Patches on…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Oct 4

Google Car Captures Guy’s Awful Day at Work for All Eternity

We’ve all had bad days at work, but most of us can just soldier through and move on. Unfortunately for Joshua Justice, Google Street View will never let him forget one particularly terrible shift. Two months ago, Justice was working at Houston’s Flying Saucer Draught Emporium when he spilled “half a cleaning keg” on his…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Sep 1

Man Arrested for Attacking Google Headquarters With Molotov Cocktails

A 30-year-old Oakland man was arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly attacking Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California with Molotov cocktails. According to an affidavit, Raul Murillo Diaz launched two of the flaming projectiles—specifically, Blue Moon beer bottles, one of which still had the wick attached—at a Google building on May 19th. They landed near…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Jul 5

Is This a Police SUV Disguised as a Google Street View Car?

Earlier today, security researcher Matt Blaze tweeted out this photo of what’s allegedly a Pennsylvania State Police SUV. It looks like it’s outfitted with a license plate reader (see those cameras on the top?). Blaze contends that not only is this a police vehicle, but it’s disguised as a Google Street View truck. Wait, what?…

Tech News Matt Novak May 11

Climb Europe’s Highest Mountain From Your Bed With Google Street View

Google’s all-seeing cameras have seen a lot more than just the streets: scary mountains, underwater gardens, and Venetian canals have all been visited before, and with the help of an elite team of mountaineers, Google can take you all around Mont Blanc, the 15,777-ft high point of Europe. Unlike previous Street View outings, Google went…

Tech News Chris Mills Jan 24

Check Out These Fantastic Urban Makeovers Documented By Google Street View

Everyone loves a good before/after image, whether it’s a house flip or themakeover montage from Clueless. A group of Brazilian urbanists are expanding the genre to include public space transformations—as documented by Street View. It’s called Before | After, and it’s an ever-growing collaborative database of urban spaces that have been dramatically improved by shifting…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 4

In Case You Want To Prowl Around Japan From the Point of View of a Cat

We have the technology, and the time is now: We can roam alleyways from a cat’s POV. Onomichi, a city in Hiroshima prefecture, is rolling out Hiroshima Cat Street View. As the name implies, it allows internet users to scope out Onomichi’s shops from cat height. If you speak Japanese, you can click on the…

Biology Bryan Lufkin Sep 3

Google Street View

Man Awarded $12,500 After Google Street View Photographed His Ass

Hidden Google Maps Features You Should Know About

Apple Maps Quietly Added Boston to Its List of Cities With Full Color 3D Landmarks

Aerial View and Other Features Come to Google Maps

Google Brings Historical Photos to Street View Apps, Apple Music to Waze

9 Uses for Google Maps Street View Besides Checking Out Your Old Neighborhood

Here’s Your Reminder That Google Has Always Been Evil

New AI Searches Google Street View For Street Signs That Need Repairs

These Birders Flock to Google Street View to Spot Birds Around the World

An AI Accurately Guessed Race and Voting Patterns by Counting Cars on Google Street View

Watch This Photoshop Master Use a Clever Trick to Make an Ugly Crane Disappear

Skip Astronaut Training and Explore the ISS Right Now in Google Street View

Google Street View Won’t Let Me Jump Inside This Volcano

All-Seeing Car Fails to Watch Road

Google Car Captures Guy’s Awful Day at Work for All Eternity

Man Arrested for Attacking Google Headquarters With Molotov Cocktails

Is This a Police SUV Disguised as a Google Street View Car?

Climb Europe’s Highest Mountain From Your Bed With Google Street View

Check Out These Fantastic Urban Makeovers Documented By Google Street View

In Case You Want To Prowl Around Japan From the Point of View of a Cat

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