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Someday You May Be Able To Find Flights Right On Google Maps

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 05.15.2013 | Technology

Last week, we got a little peak at some rumored Google Maps updates, and were struck with how much the new Google Maps reminded us of Apple Maps. This...

This 'Murder' Caught On Google Earth Isn't What It Seems

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 04.19.2013 | Technology

Redditors love to try to solve crimes. As many of them gathered to pool clues to the Boston bombing case on Wednesday, there was another group on the ...

Indian Police Have A Problem With Google Maps

Reuters | Devidutta Tripathy | Posted 04.06.2013 | Technology

By Devidutta Tripathy NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police in India are investigating to determine whether U.S. Internet Google Inc violated r...

Did A Google Earth Mistake Cause A Couple's Brutal Murder?

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 02.13.2013 | Technology

Google Earth is not a perfect mapping tool -- but could an error within the service have caused an innocent couple's murder? That's the question po...

You Can See A North Korea Prison Camp From Google Earth

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 01.29.2013 | Technology

Earlier this month Google executive Eric Schmidt embarked on a journey to North Korea, one of the world's most secretive and Internet-restrictive coun...

Mysterious 'Structures' Spotted On Google Earth Identified

Posted 01.14.2013 | Science

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 01/10/2013 05:53 PM EST on LiveScience Buildings captured in a mysterious set of satellite imag...

Google Earth Reveals This Country's Dark Secrets

Reuters | Paul Eckert | Posted 03.12.2013 | Technology

By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's visit to North Korea this week has been met with sharp c...

Climate Advice to New York City: Act Like an Island

Alexia Parks | Posted 02.02.2013 | Denver
Alexia Parks

With billions of federal dollars flowing toward the shores of New York and New Jersey, isn't it about time for politicians and civic leaders to sit down with the new kid on the block and come to an understanding of who is really in charge here?

Betsy Isaacson

Google's Mapmaker: Meet The Man Behind Google Earth

HuffingtonPost.com | Betsy Isaacson | Posted 11.30.2012 | Technology

Ed Parsons is Google’s chief geospatial technologist, responsible for evangelizing the ā€œwhat," ā€œhowā€ and ā€œwhyā€ of Google's mapping activit...

Ancient Temple's Big Secret Exposed By Google Earth

| Posted 10.15.2012 | Science

By Traci Watson Scientists have long known that the sandstone blocks used to build the famous Angkor Wat temple and other monuments in the ancient C...

An Orphaned Boy's Google Earth Quest

Vanity Fair | Posted 10.08.2012 | Technology

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years late...

LOOK: Google Introduces Incredible New Project

AP | By TRACIE CONE | Posted 09.27.2012 | San Francisco

FRESNO, Calif. -- Imagine being the only driver on a two-lane asphalt highway as the stark desolation of Death Valley National park passes on each sid...

LOOK: Mysterious Satellite Image Triggers 'Drone' Speculation

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 06.19.2012 | Science

A satellite image of what appears to be an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, at a Lockheed Martin facility has fueled speculation about what th...

Andrea Stone

PHOTOS: Exclusive Satellite Images Show Syria Massacre

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.31.2012 | World

WASHINGTON -- New satellite images of the besieged Syrian region of Houla provide stark evidence of last week's massacre of more than 100 civilians, m...

Google Earth's Stunning Images Of Earth

Posted 03.17.2012 | Travel

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 | Technology

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 | Technology

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 | Arts

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 | Green
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 | Technology

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 | Parents
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 | Travel
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 | Weird News

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 | Technology

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 | Technology

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...