This 360-degree video tour shows you where Google stores all your data. 360-degree videos, while not quite as immersive as virtual reality, can transport you to any place in the world.
With the ability to look in all directions, it's almost like you're really there — without the need to actually travel. Google just put up a fantastic 360-degree video tour of one of its massive data centers, showing off how its Google Cloud platform works. If you've ever wondered where and how your data is stored, this immersive video is definitely one worth checking out.
The 8-minute-long, 360-degree video is viewable on the web (just use your mouse to move around in the video above) and in Google Cardboard for Android with the YouTube app. iOS isn't currently supported. For best results in your browser, we recommend watching it in 4K (2160p) if you can. Fondamenta Bragadin, 584, 30123 Venezia, Italy.
Venice's canals now navigable via Google's Street View. "And not just the streets we also loaded the Trekker onto a boat and floated by the famous gondolas to give you the best experience of Venice short of being there.
" Google employees walked 265 miles and travelled 114 miles by boat to capture 360 degree, panoramic photographs of the city of Marco Polo. In addition to photographing sights such as St Mark's Square and the Rialto Bridge, Street View captured some of the lesser known but no less intriguing parts of the city, such as a synagogue in the first Jewish Ghetto, the "Devil's Bridge" on the island of Torcello and a mask to scare the Devil away from the church of Santa Maria Formosa. "Unfortunately, Street View can't serve you a cicchetto (local appetiser) in a classic bacaro (a typical Venetian bar), though we can show you how to get there," Google said as it launched the feature.
Launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, Google Street View has since expanded to dozens of countries. Google Street View captures Stonehenge. He said: ''Stonehenge was first on the list and they have now mapped it from both inside and outside the stones. ''We don't yet know when it will go live but there were a lot of interested tourists when the tricycles were pedalling around. ''It will give everyone a chance to look at the stones, so people who haven't been before see how fantastic they are and perhaps come and visit one day. ''It's amazing that anyone from anywhere in the world can access it because everyone has heard of Stonehenge but not everyone has a chance to visit.''
Harry Potter's Diagon Alley added to Google Maps. A secreted-away location in the centre of London, it took six months to create over 20,000 products to line Diagon Alley's shops' shelves, which can be found by searching for Warner Bros.
Studio Tour London, Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, Hertfordshire WD25 7LS. Maps users can virtually amble down the cobbled streets where Harry purchased his first ever wand and peer into the windows of Slug & Jiggers apothecary and Flourish and Blotts bookshop. The street received a Royal visit in April when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry took time out from their duties to duel with wands and explore the set. Other locations to explore on the tour include the cupboard under the stairs at Privet Drive, Harry's living quarters during his time with the Dursleys, Dumbledore's office and a 1:24 scale model of Hogwarts Castle. The tour has won several awards since its opening, including a 2013 Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement and 2012 Group Leisure Award for the best UK attraction.
Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ Create a social network or risk everything.
That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass. Gundotra, described by colleagues we spoke with as charismatic and politically-savvy, eventually persuaded Larry Page, the Google cofounder who returned as CEO at the beginning of 2011 after a decade behind the scenes, to turn the company upside down for this cause. "Vic was just this constant bug in Larry's ear: 'Facebook is going to kill us.
Facebook is going to kill us,'" says a former Google executive. Google Lets Photographer Into Secretive Data Centers, Beautiful Photos Ensue. Look around on the web, and you’ll find plenty of photographs of Google’s colorful offices in Mountain View (AKA the Googleplex) and around the world.
Finding images shot from inside the company’s tightly-guarded data centers is much harder, since only a handful of employees are allowed to roam the spaces where the “web lives.” However, Google recently invited photographer Connie Zhou inside a number of its high-tech data centers. Gorgeous photographs resulted — images that show incredible scale, mind-numbing repetition, and quirky colors. Leaked Pictures Hint at Gmail Redesign. Leaked screenshots of a new web interface for Gmail reveal that Google may be quietly testing a major design overhaul.
The pictures, which were first published on Geek, show a collection of potential new features, though the screenshots haven't been verified. The new features are similar to the updates reportedly in the works for Gmail's mobile app. A new "pin" feature would let you drag and highlight an email at the top of your inbox — a function that would replace the existing "star" feature. Google SEA View: Explore world beneath Sydney Harbour and Bondi Beach. Using underwater scooters, divers are documenting harbour sea life and deep waters of Bondi and Manly beachesSo far ship wrecks, pink boulders, bull sharks, bright green kelp beds and discarded bathtubs have been uncoveredThe first ever tablet-operated underwater camera is being used to take footage which will be available in November By Ellie Zolfagharifard Published: 16:05 GMT, 6 March 2014 | Updated: 13:10 GMT, 7 March 2014 Not content with journeying to remote lands, Google Street View has now decided to go underwater.
Using scooters with specially-designed cameras, divers are currently documenting sea life from the bottom of Sydney Harbour as well as the waters of Bondi and Manly beaches. The Doctor has landed: Google Street View places the TARDIS outside Earl's Court Underground station - and now you can take a peek inside. Google is allowing anyone to take a look inside using its Street View mapIt added the feature to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor WhoHundreds of fans have already reviewed the site, with one commenting: ‘They must have had a pest problem - I kept hearing someone shouting "Exterminate!
Exterminate! "' By Ellie Zolfagharifard. Google Trekker backpack: Cruising the canals from the comfort of your armchair. Trekker system will capture 200-year old waterway networkCanal & River Trust will walk more than 100 miles to capture images By Anna Edwards.
How to Find Out if You Were Googled. Google and Nasa unveil superfast quantum computer that can cure diseases, stop global warming and learn to drive a car. The D-Wave computer is 3,600 times faster than a normal computerIt's classed as a 'quantum computer' because it uses qubits that can be perform multiple calculations at the same time These faster speeds mean it can tackle more complex problems, such as disease, climate and robotics By Victoria Woollaston Published: 10:06 GMT, 16 May 2013 | Updated: 07:09 GMT, 20 May 2013 Google has bought only the second commercial quantum computer ever made. It can perform tasks 3,600 times faster than normal computers and the two organisations are hoping to use it to find cures for diseases, fix climate problems and help robots better understand human speech.
Google hits back at Apple with 'biggest ever update' of its Street View maps (and you CAN see them on an iPhone) Search firm has added over 250,000 miles of road to the serviceComes days after Google made Street View available on the iPhone via a web browserMove seen as critical for Google's plans for driverless cars By Mark Prigg Published: 17:00 GMT, 11 October 2012 | Updated: 06:41 GMT, 12 October 2012 Google has hit back at Apple in the war of the map apps with the biggest ever update of its street view service, adding over 250,000 miles of roads around the world the the service. It comes days after Google made Street View available to iPhone owners via a web browser, after Apple dumped Google's map app for its own. Experts say the move is the latest round in the 'maps battle' between the two tech giants. Scroll down for video. Google Doodle lets you take part in the Olympics at home (...or in the office)
By Eddie Wrenn. A massage parlour, dance studio and rooftop garden: It's not a luxury resort, it's Google's new London headquarters. By Ian Garland Published: 21:40 GMT, 5 August 2012 | Updated: 07:05 GMT, 6 August 2012 A dance studio, gym, massage parlour, secret garden and numerous 'relaxation rooms'. Google Maps is going 3-D: Incredible new feature will let users zoom around like they're in 'their own personal helicopter' 'Your own personal helicopter': New version of Maps will let you dive round exact 3D replicas of citiesHi-tech 'Google Planes' amass enough data to recreate buildings, bridges... even treesRe-vamp comes just as Apple 'plans to ditch Google Maps on the iPhone and iPad' By Eddie Wrenn Published: 20:07 GMT, 6 June 2012 | Updated: 16:18 GMT, 7 June 2012.
Google and Bing allow you to navigate within shopping centres and train stations. Google Maps offers rotating 3D views of 40 indoor venues around LondonBing Maps provides maps for nearly all shopping centres within the UK By Eddie Wrenn. How Google is becoming an extension of your mind. SAN FRANCISCO -- It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you. Internet Freak-out Over Google's New Privacy Policy Proves Again That No One Actually Reads Privacy Policies. Google Starts Showing Users Alerts For Accounts Hacked By "State-Sponsored Attackers" Google's Big Problem They Don't Want You To Know About. How Google Buzz Validates but Marginalizes FriendFeed. When FriendFeed debuted on the scene in late 2007, it was one of the simplest ways to aggregate all of my updates from the social outposts I have all over the Web, see friends' updates and have a discussion around their shared items.
Now part of Facebook, the product continues to have an extremely loyal, albeit relatively small, community, who embraced the technology and made it a platform for social interaction. The site, which was among the pioneers of real-time streams and the surfacing of popular items, has seen its technology mimicked and imitated by many, but its complexity helped to reduce its total impact, contrasted with single-purpose sites like Twitter.