Topic: Google
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The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
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Videos
Let a Robot Mix You a Drink at Google I/O
This new robo-bartender that's slinging rounds in San Francisco is just great.
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Toilet Tuesday
Google's Inside-Business Photos Sure Are Getting Surreal
Yes, that is a body being sucked down a toilet, and it only gets weirder.
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Videos
Streetview Hack of the Day: Animate Segments of the Road
A new site lets you turn any stretch of Streetviewed road into a hyperlapse, a timelapse with a mobile camera.
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Maps
Here's What Would Happen if a Huge Asteroid Hit Your City
Would you dissolve in fire or would your clothes simply ignite?
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How This Year's Flu Managed to Outsmart Google
Scientific hindsight shows that Google Flu Trends far overstated this year's flu season, raising questions about accuracy.
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Unless You Live in Takoma Park, Beverly Hills, or Reno, You're Probably Going to Get the Flu
Google knows.
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How Google Street View Could Help Post-Sandy Staten Island
Residents worry the photos will hurt property values. But the site could raise the kind of awareness the "forgotten borough" will need as it rebuilds.
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Disaster History, Brought to You By Google
On Japan's tsunami-battered coast, a new way to remember the devastation.
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Maps
Even Tim Cook Would Not Use Apple's Maps
The CEO apologizes, suggests users bookmark Google maps.
