Google Earth

Google Earth's Stunning Images Of Earth

Posted 03.17.2012

Google Earth has long been a favorite for techies, people bored at work and armchair travelers. Now there is even more reason to play with the awesome...

Google Removes Fabled Sunken City From Maps

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 02.06.2012

Google has crushed the hopes of Atlantis hunters everywhere by removing from Google Earth an image that had been rumored to be of the lost city. Th...

LOOK: Google App Gets HUGE Makeover

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 01.28.2012

Google Earth just got a much less patchy -- and a little more social. The search giant rolled out an update to its virtual globe application on Thu...

PHOTOS + VIDEO: Google Earth's Gorgeous Glitches

Posted 01.13.2012

Postcards from Google Earth, Bridges from clement valla on Vimeo. A glitch is a shortlived fault in a system, and when it malfunctions it gives way...

Healthy Rivers, Not Dammed Ones, Needed to Combat Climate Change

Lori Pottinger | Posted 01.30.2012

Lori Pottinger

A new 3-D Google Earth video illustrates three key reasons that large dams are the wrong response to climate change.

Bianca Bosker

Google Earth Celebrates 1,000,000,000

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.05.2011

Google is throwing quite a party for Google Earth. Since Google released Google Earth in 2005, the 3D virtual globe has been downloaded over 1 bil...

Make Every Day International Peace Day: At Home or at School

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 11.21.2011

Homa Sabet Tavangar

How can we create a sense of International Peace Day every day? It takes work, and mindful effort, but it doesn't have to be complicated.

Islands with Heart

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 09.26.2011

Stefanie Michaels

Galesnjak, an island off Croatia's coast, became all the rage virtually overnight thanks to Google's Earth's aerial view of its perfectly heart-shaped mass.

Lee Speigel

UFOs Exist ... At Least On Google Earth, If You're Gullible

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.25.2011

At first glance, Google Earth has given us the smoking-gun UFO photos many of us have been waiting for all our lives. On second glance, it's back ...

Jason Gilbert

Inside The Tech-Lover's Dream Car

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 09.22.2011

In my written review of the 2012 Audi A7, I called the $60,000 sedan a tech-lover's dream car, due to its jet pilot display, handwriting recognizing t...

Jason Gilbert

How Driving This New Audi Is Like Flying A Jet

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 09.15.2011

When the folks at Audi contacted me here at HuffPostTech and asked if I wanted to test drive the new A7, I thought maybe they had meant to email our f...

6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth

Cracked.com | David Moye | Posted 09.13.2011

Since Google Earth hit the Web in 2005, besides instantly turning all office desk globes into decorative accessories, it has opened the world up to gl...

Google's Other Big Announcement

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 08.29.2011

Google made two major announcements yesterday. One was about a new Google social network, Google +, expected to compete with the likes of Facebook. Th...

13 Places Google Doesn't Want You To See

TruTV.com | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011

Google Earth is a great tool for seeing where you're going on vacation or where you've been on vacation. But there are some spots that, inexplicabl...

Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Paying Twice in Colombia to Grow and Kill Legal Crops

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 08.15.2011

Jim Fruchterman

The US government pays one group of people to help convince people to switch to growing legal crops, and then while paying another group of people to kill illegal crops, they accidentally kill the legal plantings.

13 Stunningly Surreal Google Earth Bridges

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

The 3D mapping service Google Earth grants users a bird's-eye view of craggy mountaintops, sprawling suburbs, and crowded cityscapes. Users can even t...

Blog Watch: Collapsing Time And Space On DailyServing

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Recent advancements in technology such as Google Earth and street-view, has given anyone with a computer and an internet connection the ability to col...

HuffPost Video Exclusive: Only Son's "It's A Boy," Plus Conversations With Tom Higgenson of Plain White T's, Cake's John McCrea, and The Cult's Ian Astbury

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Ragogna

NYC-based songwriter Jack Dishel discusses his new music video for "It's a Boy," premiering on the Huffington Post today: "I've always been interested in the way that technology and human beings relate to one another."

Green News Report: November 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: After fai...

Google Earth Gets A Major Upgrade

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Google has just introduced the newest version of Google Earth, Google Earth 6. This latest incarnation follows last June's Google Earth 5.2 and adds...

Looking at China From Across the Pacific and Across the Himalayas

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Beijing's increasingly far-flung economic footprint and diplomatic clout is triggering anxiety throughout the world. But the global phenomenon of worrying about China always has local inflections.

Google Ocean: Google's Digital Activism

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Lee Schneider

It's pretty hard to describe Google Ocean without experiencing it. This is turbocharged armchair traveling, powered by the collective knowledge of the world's best ocean scientists and explorers.

ART AND TECHNOLOGY: Digital Dada from Motherboard.tv

Motherboard | Posted 05.25.2011

Since the days of dial-up, the mysterious artists behind jodi.org have been turning the web into a Dadaist canvas through deranged ASCII-leaking websi...

Mapping the World Bank's Footprint

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Dennis Whittle

The World Bank, in collaboration with AidData and the Development Gateway, have just announced the release of a service that allows you to use...

Google Earth Animation of Brazil's Disastrous Dam Accompanies "Avatar" Re-Release

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011

Patrick McCully

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government wants to build a massive, nasty dam called Belo Monte. The hydropower plant has long been at t...