Google and Time Magazine have partnered to create a brilliant new project called Timelapse that shows satellite imagery of earth during the course of nearly 30 years, giving us a better understanding of how our planet is transforming.
This morning Google announced that the next major version of Google Earth, available today, will support input from Leap Motion's innovative new gesture control technology. In other words, you'll be able to fly virtually around the planet, using your hand to guide and direct the software.
With the new Google Earth, you may never have to step out of your door ever again.
I guess it's only appropriate that a company started by a Navy Seal and a marine is now run by an astronaut.
Google Maps is probably the gold standard when it comes to modern maps, as Apple found to its chagrin when it swapped out Google's maps app for its own a few months ago. But even the best aren't perfect.
Between Google Earth with its 3D imagery and realistic flyovers and flythroughs, and Google Maps with underwater "street view" panoramas in the Great Barrier Reef, there are precious few places you can't virtually travel anymore.
So there could be something to the recent Consumer Reports review that said Apple's new Maps application doesn't suck. While it's met with widespread anger and certainly lacks some data, Apple Maps shows images that are too good for some.
Jiujitsu is the art of using your opponent's strengths against them. Apple may be applying precisely that strategy against Google in the middle of its seeming Maps debacle.
Google has announced the newest hotness for Google Maps: offline mapping for Android and an insane wearable Street View camera (meaning more Street View images than before).
For Google Earth, the company is outfitting airplanes with Street View-like camera gear …
Google rolled out a new version of its Google Earth software, replacing the patchy, quilt-like mapping graphics with smoother, more cohesive graphics.
“The Google Earth globe is made from a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs taken on different dates …
Google announced today that it’s bringing its 3D mapping tool Google Earth to Android tablets.
The product was demonstrated at the Social-Loco conference during the presentation from Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of location and local services. I’m not a …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
4chan founder: Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity — Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image …
Aerial photos taken over Japan reveal just how bad the devastation is across the affected regions hit by the quake and tsunami. On ABC’s site, these photos show a before and after view of areas such as the Sendai airport …
This morning, Google released version 6 of its desktop-based 3D mapping tool, Google Earth. The update adds integrated Street View, 3D trees, and an easier way to access historical imagery.
The features, while not likely to matter in the short …
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Google’s latest move on maps is impressive, and knocks out Microsoft’s latest effort to spruce up its maps with 3D imagery.
Separately, scared out of the shadows is a Waltham, Mass. start-up, Everyscape, which has a similar offering, but …
(Updated) Round-up in Silicon Valley:
Google working on a Google Earth version of Second Life? — So says venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg, a partner at Benchmark capital, the firm that invested in Second Life, citing a rumor from the …
The latest tech news in Silicon Valley:
The mobile TV revolution continues, and MobiTV is hot — MobiTV, of Emeryville is one of the start-ups on the forefront. It offers TV programming from networks and cable providers. It started out …
