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Time-Travelling Victorian Torso Found on Google Street View

Google Street view has given us so much, especially in the realm of embarrassing drunken escapades. Here’s something new: A time-travelling torso from Victorian England captured “coincidentally” at the most supernatural site in Wales. https://gizmodo.com/google-streetview-captures-british-people-drunkenly-vom-5175366 Sure, some of you are probably thinking this is some kind of joke based on the one and only chance…

Google Street View Captures Dudes Peeing Together in the Middle of a Busy Highway

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What It’s Like to Drive the Google Street View Van

This is what it’s like driving the Google Street View van across the Golden Gate Bridge. Seems a bit choppy: Click to view[Flickr via BuzzFeed]

God Caught on Google Street View Giving the World a Hug

It looks like Street View caught God on camera. Apparently, El Goderino is on a road trip to LA and he stopped at Hartsburg, Illinois, to give the world a much-needed hug. [Google-Thanks Rob]

Google Street View Completes Tour of Real America With Dude Carrying Rifle

Google’s really trying to get in touch with their inner red state lately, aren’t they? [Google Maps via The Smoking Gun via Valleywag] https://gizmodo.com/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-g-5141974

Google Street View Discovers Rift in Spacetime Contiuum

Pre-medieval warriors! Battling to the death! In Pittsburgh! (Appropriately, at Samsonia Way.) Obviously a serious tear in the spacetime contiuum, since it even replaced their iron weapons with modern foam-rubber. [Google Maps – Thanks tipster!]

Google Street View Captures Image of Two-Story Giant

A race of giants roams the streets of LA. Google Street View captured an image of one as it boldly exposed itself in broad daylight, examining the street view truck like a Hot Wheels car. Typically nocturnal, after generations spent away from civilization, it’s unknown if these giants understand normal little people speech, so if…

Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime

Usually when we hear Google Street View news, it’s over kitty-cat privacy issues or people peeing in the street. But this time around, the mayhem monitor actually helped solve the kidnapping of a young girl. https://gizmodo.com/google-street-view-invades-cats-privacy-265157 Police in Massachusetts were trying to track down a missing 9-year-old girl who had allegedly been kidnapped by her…

Google Street View Captures Prototype Porsches

First Google Street View captures a person peeing on the street, and now they drive right by a bunch of Porsche prototypes in Colorado. https://gizmodo.com/google-street-view-captures-man-woman-peeing-in-the-str-5117122 We’re not sure how old these photos are, but they’re supposedly of updated “Boxters, Caymans and even a 911”. Is nothing safe? Do I have to put on my pants…

iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 2 Goes Out to Developers: Still No Copy/Paste

So here’s the deal. You don’t get copy/paste. You don’t get image or videos over MMS. And you still can’t type your emails or text messages in landscape mode. BUT! If you’ve been dreaming about Google Street View, or, uh, walking directions… well, you’re in luck, because Apple is listening to you and nobody else.…

iPhone 2.2 Update Finally Brings Google Street View to Maps?

After being sent out to developers last week promising only “compatibility testing” enhancements, the pre-release version of iPhone software 2.2 is starting to spill its secrets. The folks at Mac Rumors have dug up evidence that appears to indicate Google Maps’ Street View finally making it into the Maps app, after popping up in the…

Pretend You’re Actually Venturing Outside With Wii Balance Board and Google Street View

Sort of like the hacked Wii Balance Board that’ll surf Google Earth, but a little more down to earth, this mod will let you act like you’re strolling through town with Google Street View. You walk to move forward or lean on one foot to turn—it actually seems to work pretty well. With a giant…

Tour Infinite Loop With Google Street View

If you’ve ever wanted to take a street tour of the center of the Apple universe, now’s your chance. The Google Street View car has finished making its rounds at Infinite Loop, so you can zoom around like you belong there from your computer chair. There aren’t any pictures of Steve Jobs passed out drunk…

Tour Tokyo’s Tech Paradise, Now On Google Street View

Google’s dutiful camera vans have finished canvassing Tokyo, which means today you can now tour some of the world’s most geek-friendly real estate in “electric town” Akihabara without the 14 hour plane flight. The folks at Mars Mag have put together a tour of some of their favorite Linux Maid Cafes, Dream PC builders, arcade…

Google: ‘Complete Privacy Does Not Exist’

If you’re looking for one statement to neatly sum up the world we live in right now, allow me to present to you this one, made by Google lawyers in their defense during a Google Street View lawsuit: “Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist.” I mean, I…

Face-Swapping Tech Keeps Your Privacy Online By Making You Look Horrifying

People don’t like showing up in Google Street View. Nobody wants their face to show up on Google Maps when they were just minding their own business buying home pregnancy tests, hemorrhoid cream and slim-fit condoms. Well, this new “Face Swapper” software found on Boing Boing automatically switches out features on peoples faces with features…

Google Street View Car Drives Into Microsoft Campus, Gets Laughed At By Windows Live Maps

Reader Don sends in this fantastic tip about a Google Street View car actually driving around and taking pictures inside a Microsoft campus. The GooCar—shown here photographed by Microsoftees—wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus. That’s ballsy. What’s even funnier, says…

Camera Shy Minnesota Town Bans Google Maps Street View

The townsfolk of North Oaks, Minnesota, want to be able to pick their nose, flash cars, conduct drug deals and fall down on the sidewalk without the whole world knowing about it, so they’ve forbidden Google Maps Streetview cars from crossing city limits. At least those are the only reasons I can think of as…

Google Street View Blurs Faces, Still Shows Privates

Google Street View will soon cease to be fun. Because while we were once able to enjoy the antics of strangers photographically busted outside of kiddie strip clubs, Google has announced that they will begin blurring all faces and license plates in Europe’s soon-to-be-launched version of Google Street View. And according to a Google rep,…

A few more cities like LA, SD, Denver, Houston, and two in the Wang of America were added to Google’s Street View. [Google]