Friday has rolled around once more, but the latest tech news doesn’t wind down, it just steams on through. Catch up with all the headlines here first in techie breakie and prep yourself for plenty more to come.
Tagged ‘google earth’
Google is putting Google Earth to work in the service of fundraising for the Haiti earthquake relief response. It’s put up a page showing the damage that’s been done, with the latest satellite imagery and easy links to donate.
Nvidia’s 3D Vision system is about to get a lot more useful: the graphics giant just confirmed it’s adding support for Google Earth and in-browser 3D. Flickr in the third dimension, anyone?
Google Building Maker is a brand new tool for Google Earth that any Sim City overlords and would-be Norman Fosters will go crazy for: it lets you make 3D buildings quickly and easily from the big G’s own snaps, and the best ones get to go on the official 3D building layer!
It’s lunchtime o’clock folks, so you know what that means… all the tech headlines served up to you as a gourmet meal, ready for you to gobble up, right here in the Lunchtime Lowdown. Knives and forks at the ready…
Fish lovers beware! Your colourful aquatic vertebrates could be under threat from online mapping service Google Earth. Over the last three weeks, the city of Hull has experienced a spate of exotic koi carp thefts and Humberside Police says all the evidence points to thieves using the internet to pinpoint their marks.
Google Earth has British intelligence up in arms after close up aerial views of two nuclear submarines, as well as MI6 and GCHQ, were found on the free mapping service. Find out what other military secrets Google is giving away after the jump!
Google Earth has led Swiss police to a massive drugs bust, in possibly the most ingenious, or lazy, piece of detective work we’ve ever heard of. Who needs a search warrant when you’ve got Google?