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Google Street View to include the UK's canals and rivers
Google / photography / portable / transport

Google and Canal & River Trust team up to put the UK’s canals and rivers on Google Street View

Friday, Aug 16, 2013 - by mike s

Viewers will soon be able to virtually strut alongside many of the UK’s canals and rivers, thanks to a collaboration between the Canal & River Trust and Google which will see …

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Try to work out where in the world you are with the addictive GeoGuessr quiz website
gaming / web

Try to work out where in the world you are with the addictive GeoGuessr quiz website

Saturday, May 11, 2013Saturday, May 11, 2013 - by Alex S

We’ve found ourselves whiling away long hours at this fabulously addictive website which invites you to look at a scene from around the world and guess where the chuffing heck it is.

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Take a stroll around Google's hi-tech data centre
Google

Take a Street View stroll around one of Google’s hi-tech data centres

Friday, Oct 19, 2012Friday, Oct 19, 2012 - by Lee J.

Protected by laser firing Android robots and shards of flesh ripping code, regular folks have usually got as much chance of getting inside a Google data centre as they have of finding a shred …

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Google / stuff

Google Street View invites users to take a walk in the park

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011 - by mike s

The Google Street View team has been busy, with the pedals on the Street View trike powering the cameras across the 22 different countries to snap some of the world’s most beautiful …

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Google / web

Historypin mashes up archive photos with Google Street View

Saturday, Jun 26, 2010 - by mike s

An interesting new site called HistoryPin lets users ‘pin’ old images on to Google’s Street View to provide an instant ‘then and now’ view.

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Google

Google face lawsuits over Wi-Fi Street View data privacy

Wednesday, May 19, 2010Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - by mike s

The fall out continues after Google’s Street View cars were discovered to have been scooping up samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks. Despite posting a comprehensively …

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Google / web

Google Street View- Japan cartoon style!

Friday, Mar 19, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

This delightful cartoon from Google Japan shows how the Google Street View is created, with a cute little camera-bot rolling through a landscape of wooden trees and buildings. It’s all …

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Google / web

Make way! Google Street View Trike coming through!

Friday, Oct 16, 2009 - by mike s

Google has come up with a foxy way to capture street view data in areas inaccessible to their traditional camera cars: the Street View Trike. Basically a three wheel trike …

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