Tag: GOOGLEEARTH

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Geek drivers probably know about GPS provider TomTom, and that the company has recently released new voices for your dash-mounted navigator -- straight out of 'Star ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The latest episode in the intensifying iPhone 4G soap opera seems to indicate that the ambiguous, and perhaps dangerous, gadget will indeed provide video chat capabilities. Director Sam Mendes has also apparently been tapped to create iPhone 4G ads, prompting an excited auditioning actor to drop an f-bomb in a tweet. Yeah, ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Whoa! Have you checked out Google Maps lately? The search engine giant recently began to incorporate Google Earth into Maps, resulting in an entirely 3-D environment ...

Share Google is rarely afraid to toot its own horn, so when scientists at Witswatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa announced that they had discovered an entirely new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, the company's Official Blog was practically elated. What is Google's role in this discovery? It turns out that Professor Lee Berger, the lead scientist on the ...

A Florida police officer recently used Google Earth to track down the person who had illegally dumped an old boat into an undeveloped subdivision about 15 miles from Pensacola. According to the Pensacola News Journal, after discovering the 18-foot boat, Deputy Gregory Barnes scoured fuzzy satellite images of nearby neighborhoods on Google Earth. Barnes noticed a large boat sitting in the driveway ...

As the war in Afghanistan continues to lurch forward, U.S. and Western coalition forces are increasingly implementing initiatives to help impoverished Afghans pick themselves up and get on the road to economic recovery. Among these programs is "cash-for-work," a set of projects run by NATO and U.S. development organizations, whereby organizations give money to local communities for creating ...

Earlier this week Google released an updated version of Google Earth, with a new feature that allows users to look at its database of historic aerial photography. One of the more interesting aspects of this feature is to see the European Theater before and immediately after the destruction of World War II. The available World War II-era cities include Warsaw, Poland, Lyon, France, Naples, ...

While the people of Haiti are struggling to find survivors and loved ones, not to mention food, shelter, and water, many of the rest of us are simply trying to wrap our heads around the level of sheer destruction and incomprehensible death toll. Like the tsunami of 2004 that killed almost 300,000 people, the scope of the tragedy in Haiti is beyond words, tears, and human understanding. And while ...

This is not to say that scientists aren't cool. Really, it's not. But back in the day, when dank laboratories were festooned with wacky schematics and bright bubbling beakers, when workshops were cluttered with ratcheting Thing-A-Ma-Jigs and whirring What-Cha-Ma-Call-Its, scientists were really cool. And coolest among them, the James Deans of scientists, were the archaeologists and ...

These days, the long arm of the law stretches farther than ever, thanks in no small part to the Internet (like the burglar who checked his Facebook account mid-robbery). In fact, if it weren't for 'World of Warcraft,' Howard County Sheriff's Department deputy Matt Robertson might never have found his man. After speaking with several sources, Robertson learned the fugitive he'd been tracking for ...

The stockings are hung with care, the tree is glowing bright, and Santa's list has been checked and re-checked. With two days until Christmas Eve, there's nothing left to do but let the anticipation build. One necessary part of that Christmas preparation is tracking Santa's flight path through the night sky. There are several ways to track Santa this year, but if you're looking for experienced ...

If you have the cash to drop on a brand-new Audi, you're probably not going to choose one with baseline features. Leather seats, a first-class sound system, a navigation system -- all luxury must-haves. But if you purchase the 2011 Audi A8, according to Engadget, you'll be one of the first drivers on the streets with a built-in navigation system that's equipped with Google Earth. So while you're ...

In 2007, Google Earth joined forces with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to help raise awareness of the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. According to Google's Lat Long Blog, the joint venture is now providing "the most detailed picture to date of the scope and nature of the destruction" of more than 3,300 villages, which left 2.5 million people homeless and resulted in 200,000 civilian ...

People have been using Google Earth to find all sorts of crazy things: secret military installations, marijuana crops, sunken ships, and pools for "dipping." Thieves have even used the satellite imaging app to seek out lead roof tiles. So it should come as no surprise that other criminals are now making use of the tool to steal fish. (Well, maybe kind of surprising.) According to the Telegraph, ...

During Kim Jong Il's reign as leader of North Korea, the nation has been shrouded in mystery, with the government only periodically breaking its silence in order to tout fantastical accomplishments of the ruler and his nation. The veil of secrecy is now slowly being lifted, though, thanks to surveillance work carried out by ordinary citizens using Google Earth and information gleaned from news ...