Designer Lauren Manning’s documents some of the most breathtaking swatches of the earth’s surface on her Tumblr, Earth Patterns. Here, an area she dubbed the Sequin farms, in Al Jawf, Saudia Arabia. Photo: Google Earth Manning guesses these are solar farms. Photo: Google Earth Escher farms, Ankara, Turkey. Photo: Google Earth Villarino, Buenos Aires, Argentina....Read More
ESPN reached a deal with Google, under which the Internet giant will feature the sports programmer’s in-progress and post-match highlights in search results — Google’s first such pact for real-time sports video content. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. FULL COVERAGE: 2014 FIFA World Cup Under the pact, Google will provide links to ESPN FC, the network’s...Read More
With reporting by Forbes contributor Ewan Spence. Google Google is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company’s plans. It will launch the service at the Google I/O conference for developers, being held on...Read More
The battle for the sky continues. Google (GOOG) has spent $500 million to buy Skybox Imaging, a company that uses small satellites to transmit high-resolution images from space. Tuesday’s announcement comes only two months after Google acquired Titan Aerospace, which beams Internet signals from high-altitude drones. In March, meanwhile, Facebook (FB)spent $20 million on Ascenta,...Read More
The illustration on Google’s homepage on Monday may look pretty whimsical, but it’s spotlighting a very serious issue: clean water. Not bad for an 11-year-old from Long Island. Audrey Zhang, a fifth-grader from Levittown, N.Y., is the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition, rising to the top of some 100,000 entries on the...Read More
This undated photo made available by Google shows a campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Connie Zhou—AP Google and other technology companies are strengthening their defenses against NSA intelligence gathering Google is stepping up its technological arms race against National Security Agency surveillance as Silicon Valley firms aim to make it...Read More
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Google is starting to accept requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the world’s dominant search engine. The demands can be submitted on a Web page that Google opened late Thursday in response to a landmark ruling issued two weeks ago by Europe’s highest court. The decision gives...Read More
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Justin Lane—EPA The real potential for Project Tango lies in devices that are much smaller, or much larger. “Project Tango†is reportedly headed to tablets, as Google tries to sell developers on the idea of 3D tracking. First revealed in February, Project Tango uses cameras, sensors and a special, low-power chip to detect its surroundings...Read More
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