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Starting yesterday, Google opened up the Canadian Arctic to Street View users. In August 2012, an extensive mapping of Cambridge Bay in conjunction with residents and the Nunavut Tunngavik group improved the coverage of a very remote and virtually unknown area.As described on the official Google blog, viewers can get ...

Aside from being one of the internet's best procrastination tools -- OMG! Look, it’s my house! -- Google Street View is also said to be a nifty tool for something or other. It has in no way been connected with any form of art however. Well, that is, until ...

Two women washed clothes in the dark water of the Rio Negro as a boat glided past with a camera-laden Google tricycle strapped to the roof, destined to give the world a window into the Amazon rain forest.A “trike” typically used to capture street scenes for Google’s free online mapping ...

Google has added extra imagery to its 13 established Street View countries in its "biggest update yet". The countries include Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Romania, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.Users can now enjoy everything from the landscapes of Tuscany ...

As leaders gather in Paris for the G8 summit on Tuesday, the world's most powerful internet and media giants will join them in a show of strength amid international rows over online access, copyright and regulation.Top executives from online giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft will tout the economic ...

Google unveiled the Art Project on Tuesday, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums which enables people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.Over the last 18 months Google has worked with 17 art museums including the Tate and ...

Google has pledged to strengthen its privacy and security practices after its "Street View" mapping service gathered private wireless data, including emails and passwords, in dozens of countries."We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we're acutely aware that we failed badly here," Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice ...

Following Tuesday’s launch of Google Street View in South Africa, RE/MAX of Southern Africa announced that it has become the first real estate franchise in the country to integrate the new technology into their website.Google Street View is a service linked to Google Maps and Google Earth that provides users ...

It’s not every day that you find an elephant in Street View, or for that matter get to visit most of the new soccer stadiums in one day. But from today people can do both with Google’s newly released Street View images and 3D models in Google Earth.Seven of South ...

Google have released new footage of their Street View trikes capturing images of key parts of South Africa, including recently completed Fifa World Cup stadium, Moses Mabhida in Durban.Google Street View trikes arrived in the country in November last year, when they started collecting imagery of historic landmarks, ...