Google Maps
Google Maps car snaps vital clue in Spanish missing person case
Image of man leaning into boot of a car on a street in northern Spain helps lead police to make two arrests
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
18, Dec, 2024 @4:46 PM
The curious case of South Sudanese streets named after Australian rugby league greats | Kieran Pender
Darren Lockyer Road, Mal Meninga Drive, Arthur Beetson Way … either the game has really taken off in Juba, or someone’s having a laugh. We launch an investigation to find out
Kieran Pender
05, Dec, 2024 @2:00 PM
Google and Meta could face defamation risks over AI-generated responses, Australian experts warn
Lawyer says tech platforms could be held liable for what their AI ‘spits out’, as Google Maps rolls out new features with Gemini
Josh Taylor
03, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM
TechScape: My pet theory that Google’s Waze will help drive Starmer to No 10
In this week’s newsletter: Hear me out … but the traffic-dodging app may have started a domino effect that will bring down the Tories
Alex Hern
12, Mar, 2024 @11:51 AM
Scrawled bits of paper and an A-Z: How I went cold turkey on Google Maps | Ned Vessey
The more I navigated using my phone, the more unsettled I felt. Was it robbing something from me, asks freelance writer Ned Vessey
Ned Vessey
11, Dec, 2023 @8:00 AM
Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert
MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future
Dan Milmo and Edward Helmore
26, Oct, 2023 @8:00 AM
Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed US bridge
Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago
Abené Clayton
21, Sep, 2023 @5:00 AM
From Google Maps to Pokémon Go, John Hanke is programming the future
The CEO of Niantic has helped create technologies that have changed the way we live. How does he see the future of play?
Tom Regan
06, Apr, 2023 @7:30 AM
Google IO: Pixel 6a, Pixel Watch and Android 13 unveiled
New Pro earbuds and upcoming Pixel 7 phones, tablet and software shown off during virtual event
Samuel Gibbs
11, May, 2022 @7:00 PM
Mauritius asks Google to label Chagos Islands as part of its territory
Row breaks out over Google Maps definition as UK insists it still maintains sovereignty
Owen Bowcott and Bruno Rinvolucri
21, Feb, 2022 @5:24 PM
Should the world map be more realistic? We ask an expert
Geography professor Donald Houston on why the 16th-century projection that exaggerates the western world and diminishes the size of Africa is misleading
Coco Khan
28, Jan, 2022 @3:00 PM
Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after Google Street View sighting
Convicted murderer Gioacchino Gammino tracked down in Galapagar, where he had lived undetected for 20 years
Angela Giuffrida
05, Jan, 2022 @6:05 PM
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