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Google Doesn't Need Cars In The Desert. This is The Street View Camel [VIDEO]
How do you capture a desert view, if you didn't want to drive? You use a camel of course. That's what Google's Street View is doing at the Arabian desert. The camel's name is Raffia. The camera is strapped on Raffia, and it gives us a 360-degree vi...
Find Every Street, Place, or Anything With Your Name
So apparently, I have an airport named after me. Want to find a place, street or anything using your name? This handy little app finds every street, river, garden, park, castle, or cave with your name on it. The app comes from artist and scientist S...
Google Raced Top Gear in a Street View Car and Obviously Lost [VIDEO]
Can a Street View car drag race well? Here's a video showing what happens when the folks from Google decide to race the folks from Top Gear. It seems somewhat unfair, since they pitched the Street View car against a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. At least ...
Google Street View Uses Neural Network To ID House Numbers
How does Google Street View know the numbers on houses? By using a crazy neural network of course. Because finding the number on a house is quite a task, Google engineers built a "deep convulutional neural network" that operates on pixels of the ima...
CERN Hid Lego Figurines During Google Street View Shoot and Now They're Having a Contest to Find Them
CERN's computer security officer, Stefan Lüders, has a secret treat for nerds. Just before Google Street View came to visit, he and his crew hid Lego figurines all over the computing center. There are a total of 20 of them, and they include aliens, ...
New York Replacing 250,000 Street Lamps with LEDs
New York city is preparing to replace its street lamps with LEDs. That's right, all 250,000! The project was announced by Mayor Bloomberg, and he pointed out that the shift to LED would save the city $6 million in energy costs and $8 million in main...
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