Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle ...

In fact, Google is promising “more 3D updates in the coming months.” Google Earth and Google Maps will likely remain separate for many more years, but we wouldn’t be surprised if the company merged ...

A very cool (but for me, almost unusable) version of Virtual Earth was released today by Microsoft called "Virtual Earth 3D". Instead of using a separate application to view 3D imagery, everything can ...

Google Maps is launching a few new features today, and, after a decade of trying, Google is finally launching Street View in India. What took so long?! First up, we have a few new features from Google ...

Ever wonder how designers make models in 3D? Check out this free program from Google that lets you create, view and edit 3D plans quickly and easily. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

Google Earth is going through an evolution. Back in 2019, photographers Larry Strange and Joe Del Tufo traveled 1,200 miles to buy one of only two Seitz Roundshot VR Drive cameras in the United States ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...

It’s time to add another treasure to our folder of enlightening scientific visualizations, which has grown thick over the past few years thanks in large part to researchers attempting to understand ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...