Google has just made the history and geography nerd in me very happy. The company has announced that Google Earth is getting historical imagery of areas through satellite and aerial captures dating ...

Last fall, a little-known Google Maps feature went viral for letting users get a glimpse of lost loved ones, old family pets, childhood homes, and even their younger selves. Those memories are getting ...

Amateur history buffs can tap into the 'Historical imagery' feature on Google Earth and check out imagery dating back to the World War II era in some of the world’s largest cities. Based in London, ...

Who among us hasn't wished for the ability to time travel. Unfortunately, you can't hop in a DeLorean, gun it to 88 miles per hour, and visit the past. However, Google Earth has the next best thing ...

Over the last 20 years, Google Earth has enabled us to explore the globe through billions of images from aerial photography, satellite imagery, Street View, and 3D images. The globe explorer debuted a ...

Google is no longer a young company, and many of its products have been in existence for over two decades. Its "not an April Fools joke" email service turned 21 earlier this year, and now, Google ...

Google Earth turns 20 this Saturday, and to celebrate, Google is giving it a new feature: historical street view. In addition to exploring up-to-date ground-view versions of places around the world, ...

The effects of World War II were far-reaching, but hard to put into perspective from the texts of history books. From the bombed-out streets of London to devastated monuments in Paris, Google is ...

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

With a vast trove of images from the past, the massive cartographic search tool lets users travel back in Earth’s time Google spent eight years collecting historical imagery — aerial and satellite ...