Google Chrome crash epidemic

Here is a technical term used often by Google: "Oops." If Google Chrome was a car, the National Transportation Safety Board would order a complete fleet recall. Who knows what is going on? They don’t,...

10 Global Mysterious Events

10 Global Mysterious Events The first “Floating Car” was spotting on Google Earth at Point Walter in the affluent south western Perth suburb of Bicton in January, 2006. An American girl accidentally...

Total Lunar Eclipse December 2010 Live Stream Via Google Earth

Slooh Space Camera To Live Stream Total Lunar Eclipse For December 2010 Via Google Earth 500 years ago, the last time a total lunar eclipse coincided with the Winter Solstice the notion of an online space camera capturing a full moon crossing through the Earth's shadow would...

GeoEye Haiti Satellite Pics, Before and After, Haiti in Turmoil

The GeoEye Haiti Satellite images released to the public show just how much destruction happened to the capital building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and how much work is going to have to be done to rebuild the country. The left image shows rubble, while the one on the right...

U2 YouTube Live Streaming: Millions Of Fans Watching Globally

The live stream of the U2 360 concert that took place via YouTube yesterday has attracted the attention of million fans who watched the stream all over the world, and thousands of fans who simultaneously Tweeted...

Loch Ness Monster Caught on Google Earth: Plesiosaur Proof?

The famed Loch Ness Monster has been found! Well, maybe; Jason Cooke was browsing satellite images of the earth using everyone's favourite omnipotent eye in the sky, Google Earth, when he spotted what could...

NASA, Google Earth Display Astronauts' Best Earth Photos

Ever dreamed of being an astronaut so you could look back at the planet and enjoy the view? NASA and Google Earth have teamed to make it easier for everyone to see striking Earth photographs taken by astronauts from the International Space Station and space shuttle.By...

Heart-shaped island found on Google Earth

A heart-shaped island in the Adriatic has become a hit on Google Earth for Valentine's Day.  The uninhabited island is only 130,000 square yards and is called Galesnjak. The onwer didn't even know how perfectly...

Prado Museum, Google Earth to offer high resolution snapshots

The Prado Museum in Spain has joined forces with Google Earth with the intention of offering the public the opportunity to zoom in on a number of the galleries finest pieces.  In true Google Earth fashion, one...

Google Earth a Boon to Terrorists?

"According to a Mumbai crime branch official, the ten terrorists had not come to Mumbai before this to conduct any 'recce' and they had learnt about the locations with the help of Google Earth. -...

Google Earth will feature undersea landscapes

Google Earth will be adding a new feature - undersea landscapes. These will include the habitats of threatened species that everyone with the program will be able to look at and explore.The new project will...

Soviet tree slogans visible on Google Earth

Google Earth has picked up messages - Soviet slogans planted as trees in the 60's and 70's. The slogan's have only been visible to pilots and space travelers until now. What messages one wonders would our...

Nine Inch Nails Tracks Downloads of 'The Slip' via Google Earth

This is the first time I've seen this done.  Pretty cool.  Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they...

Google Earth and the Campaign to Wipe Israel Off the Map

Andre Oboler is a social media expert and  Ph.D. in computer science from Lancaster University, UK and  a Post-Doc in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is currently a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor in Jerusalem and edits...

Google begins to blur faces in Street View

In response to privacy concerns, Google has developed a face-blurring technology for its Street View service."The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faces, then blurs...

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