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more about #google kolacek: @DaveyNC: I live slightly above sea level at Crown Memorial State Beach along the San Francisco Bay. In my 40+ years I've watched almost 99 percent ... more » Insomnia Bob: That's not a ghost. And it's not a woman, either. Hm. Long coat. Absurdly long scarf. Mop of curly hair on top of the head... All that's missing is ... more » DaveyNC: I'm thinking the folks in Greenland will enjoy having more land to grow crops on or raise livestock on. Should make them more self-sufficient. You k... more » GreyHammer: oh awesome we get a global warming argument today. here i thought i would be bored at work. we still dont know our impact on the change in temperatur... more » skippitymonster: Does it have Google Map directions from Clavius to the Monolith? I know it's tourist-y but I missed it last time because I was calibrating the antenna... more » Plague: Well, Spandau Ballet IS reforming, so that could explain it. more » Liz Weinbloom: "because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this." Clearly the expert quoted has never been to Cardiff, for as far as I was able to tell, the... more » Dunny0: ... so much hate in one post. I guess the internet is just not ready for Welsh Ghost humor. more » Magicant: C'mon you guys. Certainly the rift in Cardiff could lead to all sorts of strange activity that Google happened to pick up. Shoot. Am I mixing up ficti... more » Peter Pixie: Google maps is also used to find Yeti (aka Snow Bigfoot) [english.pravda.ru] I dont know if dracula has been listed on google maps yet, but maybe it's... more » AmishJohn: It's a viral marketing ploy for a Laudinum and lacework website. more » Brine: A medium is quoted as saying the image is clearly a ghost, because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this. False. more » Balius: Did the people calling for examination not look at the picture? The legs aren't missing because of extradimensional ghostiness, the picture just wasn... more » WiseGuy487: It's a glitch. Next. more » entertheoctopus: The Loch Ness monster has confirmed to me that this is indeed the lost city of Atlantis. Nessie and Bigfoot are joining Leonard Nimoy for a special re... more » bonniegrrl: I wish Google Maps would concentrate on finding something I care about like Nessie. more » The Curse of Millhaven: Argh! Plato made it up for a morality story. That's it! There is no frakking Atlantis! God damn Edgar Cayce, his minions and George Lucas! more » robfagen: That must be one big-ass cable. Each of those trenches appears to be about a mile across. Likewise, the apparent depth of some of the trenches appears... more » jovestar: "caused by its own terrain mapping equipment, which sometimes drags a line behind it as the seafloor is measured"... Hard to imagine; they'd need to b... more » Slatz_Grobnik: That's exactly what Google wants you to think! Where do you think the technology for the internet came from, hunh? Aliens? Bell Labs? So, yeah, I'm su... more » -
#climatechange
Want To See Climate Change In Action? Google It
Wondering how you too can warn people about the dangers of global warning? Google have created a way to make all of us into mini-Al Gores, by adding an Estimated Climate Change option to Google Earth. More » -
#virtualspacetravel
Google Earth Flies You to the Moon
To celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing, Google has added the moon to the list of celestial bodies you can visit on Google Earth. The latest version features both Martian and lunar geography, including mission sites. [Google Earth] -
#pseudoscience
Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
This creepy image was snapped by Google for its Street View map feature. It shows what seems to be a floating Victorian ghost in Cardiff, right near the Torchwood headquarters. More » -
#pseudoscience
Google Maps Reveal Lost City of Atlantis?
On Friday, Google maps spawned another web myth. A mysterious grid of lines revealed by the company's new undersea terrain maps had the interwebs buzzing about the lost city of Atlantis. More » -
#googlepocalypse
Server Farms of the High Seas
So Google has a satellite in orbit, and now it wants to take over the oceans too? The New York Times' Ashlee Vance just reported that Google has taken out a patent to create "water based datacenters," which are essentially barges that house cargo container-sized server farms. Is the mega-company about to create a floating data island on the high seas? More » -
#artificialintelligence
Google's "Suggest" Feature Brings Net One Step Closer to A.I.
You may notice a new feature called "Suggest" when you use Google this week — the search engine will now suggest possible searches you might want to do. So, for example, if you type something like "Invasion of . . . " into the Google search bar, Google will helpfully suggest things like "invasion of privacy" or "invasion of Georgia." The search engine's anticipation of what you want may feel like a crude form of A.I., but it can't figure out truly important things, such as the fact that you were actually searching for "Invasion of the Booby Snatchers." Still, these kinds of search features are making it obvious that A.I. will probably emerge out of services like Google Search that aggregate data and make inferences based on it. More » -
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#mangobot
Mac Funamizu's Gadget Designs of the Future
Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Mac Funamizu is a tech geek, designer, and futurist who has created quite a lot of buzz among design circles for his innovative gadgets from the future. The 38-year old Tokyo native has always loved Apple, Google, and Starbucks, but he always felt inconvenienced by the extra steps involved in using them. (Why mouth off a complex multi-conditional order of coffee when you could just customize your cup of joe online? Why doesn't Google Maps give you more than just a topographic image of what you're looking at?) At first, his ideas were just rough sketches in his Moleskine. But then he started posting his neat, provocative ideas online, and now developers are contacting him to try and make some of them a reality. More »
