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Ocean follows Google Earth
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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Nearly four years after Google Earth enabled users to zoom in to view streets, and later explore galaxies in the sky, the latest version of the software allows virtual travellers to dart across miles of unchartered territory underwater. "Oceans cover...
Tags: Google Earth, Google Ocean, Google Inc., Monterey Bay Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences
Google Earth maps a marijuana plantation
Shanghai :: China | 10 months ago
Credibility Police was investigating an alleged drug ring in the northeastern state of Thurgau and that the discovery was part of a large operation of an ongoing investigation that has so far led to the arrest of 16 people and the seizure of 1.2 tons of marijuana...
Tags: Google Earth, Google Maps Loves Guns, baby deer, street view
Cheney's Veil Lifted on Vice President's Residence
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The official residence of the vice president, obscured until Dick Cheney 's last days in office and residence, now shines in satellite sunlight. A reader tipped us off that Google Maps now showed a clear overhead image of One Observatory Circle (above),...
Tags: Google Maps, Dick Cheney, vice president, official residence, Google Earth, Washington
Prado and Google bring masterpieces to Web
Madrid :: Spain | 10 months ago
Credibility Google and the Prado Museum here are making it possible for Web-surfing art lovers to study 14 of the museum's greatest works in minute detail without ever setting foot in Spain. The project allows users of Google Earth to zoom in on high-resolution images...
Tags: Prado Museum, Google Earth, prado museums, art lovers, Madrid, Spain, Diego Velazquez, bring masterpieces, Francisco de Goya, real things
Fortune hunter certain treasure buried near Gulf Coast
Houston :: TX :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testified today that he not only used Google to spot a buried treasure in South Texas but he also checks updated satellite images to monitor whether anyone else is snooping around the possible loot. Smith, a 39-year-old musician...
Tags: treasure, Nathan Smith, Texas Gulf Coast, using google, Google Earth, South Texas, buried treasure
Lost and can't get home...just Google it
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility The news that the cartographically challenged have been waiting for is here. And it is a gadget that lets you find your way from A to B without ever having to look at a map again. Welcome to the world of Google Street, to be unleashed inBritain this spring....
Tags: google, street, street view, google street view, view, Google UK Street View, google earth, Google Maps
Google Earth helps discover new life forms
We already knew Google Earth was a great way to kill time and engage in fantasies of flying around the globe. Turns out it is a whole lot more than that. Julian Bayliss was in search of a conservation project and used Google Earth to isolate high altitude...
Tags: Google Earth, animals, plants, conservation
Why terrorists delayed attacks
Mumbai :: India | 11 months ago
Credibility Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives who are in the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad's custody, have revealed that the attacks in the city were delayed due to two reasons. First, the fear that Ansari's confessions to the Uttar Pradesh...
Tags: terror, terrorist, attack, google, terror attack, terrorists, attackers, india, Google Earth
Indian court asked to ban Google Earth
Mumbai :: India | 12 months ago
Credibility Images of sensitive sites in India do not appear to have been removed so swiftly. Yesterday, the layout of the country's most important atomic research facility remained accessible on Google Earth, despite officials voicing concern more than a year ago.
Tags: google earth, google, Google Earth Concerns, Indian Space Research Organisation, Times of India, Mumbai, ban google, expressed concerns
Google Earth Umbrella
Ok, this is just too weird. Some students in Human-Computer Interaction Design at Keio University, Media Design, Okude Lab in Japan, have developed an umbrella for viewing Google Earth. The umbrella has a GPS, computer, WIFI, and a projector built into...
Tags: Google Earth, Umbrella
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