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This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.The main street in Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesvos, wraps around the green-tinted Aegean like a horseshoe. Brightly painted buildings line the road while wooden sailboats bob near the pier. It's beautiful.It's also where I bump into Waleed, a young boy I'd met earlier that day at the gate of the Kara Tepe refugee camp just outside town.He was fis...

Enlarge ImageThe two Koreas. Google South Korea has delayed its reply to Google's request for mapping data, a Reuters report said Wednesday. The Alphabet property first reached out to South Korea in June, requesting access to govement-held mapping information for distribution to outside servers. This would allow Google to offer complete Google Maps services there. South Korean officials had previously agreed to re...

[embedded content] Blizzard unveiled a new map for its team-based shooter Overwatch at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany this Tuesday. Eichenwalde, set in Stuttgart, Germany, joins the 12 other inteational destinations that serve as arenas for players to explode each other over control points and payloads.Eichenwalde is an Assault and Escort hybrid map, which looks like it will have the attacking team escort a battering ram up to the castle gates before s...

Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, thousands of refugees and migrants fled war and chaos in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and headed to Europe seeking shelter. A year later, many are living in squalid camps and abandoned buildings in Greece, waiting for asylum or a chance at legal residence in the European Union. During a 10-day trip in June, we talked to officials, migrant...

How much is it worth to Uber to reduce its dependence on Google Maps? Try half a billion dollars.That is how much the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company is getting ready to invest in an ambitious global mapping project, the Financial Times reports Sunday. In addition to weaning itself off Google's map app, which currently powers Uber, the investment is expected to aid the move to driverless vehicles, according to the report.Fresh off raising $3.5 billion last month, the 6-year-old company ...

Another big free update arrives for Doom tomorrow, July 29, and will be followed soon after by the game's first premium downloadable content. That consists in part of new maps, something that could be problematic for the game's player base, but developer id Software has a plan to avoid that.Typically when a multiplayer game receives premium DLC maps, it breaks up the user base--those without the DLC can't play with those who do have it except on servers only running the original maps. That will ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryApple Maps, Parkopedia team up to make parking, charging easierEnlarge ImageIf you want more info than is displayed on Apple Maps, you can click over to Parkopedia's website or iOS app. Andrew Krok/Roadshow From poorly labeled pricing to a lack of lights or any semblance of security, finding good parking is a pain in the ass. Your phone's map might not offer much help, either. But that's c...

We're kicking things off this week by acting like excited children after seeing the new line of Star Wars drones headed to retail shelves later this year. They're even equipped with lasers!In other news, scientists are just about ready to begin using a new brain map for studying evolution and neurology. The new map was created by combining healthy humans' patient data and machine leaing. ...

Google Maps now contains "areas of interest" that are covered with an orange shade. Google Google on Monday unveiled a new version of Maps that has a cleaner look and incorporates smart areas of interest. The new look does away with elements that aren't absolutely required, like road outlines. This allows for more room to display useful information, such as traffic and transit lines. In addition, the typography ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryFord pumps cash into company creating maps for self-driving carsDearbo's on a bit of a spending spree, but it's still cheaper than trying to do all this by itself. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Knowing that the road ahead is best forged with teamwork, automakers are throwing serious money behind tech startups with an interest in self-driving cars. Ford is already deeply involved with these so...

A major congratulations to NASA, as the space agency successfully completed a second test on a rocket booster created for the SLS program. This is part of NASA's roadmap to Mars, so it's exciting to see progress being made toward sending a crew into deep space. We're also taking a look at Zero Latency's newest partnership. One of our own reporters checked out a test run of Zero Latency's demo last year (and it looks/sounds amazing); now, the company is teaming up with Sega to bring its tether-fr...

The upgraded satellite image of New York shows details like skyscrapers and baseball fields compared with the older version on top. Google If you've just tued on satellite imagery for your Google Map or Earth apps and wondering if your eyesight has gotten better, well, the answer is probably no. Google has rolled out an update that upgrades the satellite imagery on both apps with a lot more detail and better colo...

Open up Google Maps on your phone and, depending on where you are, you'll see some streets, some buildings and a blue dot. That blue dot is you, in "YOU ARE HERE" form. When you move, it moves. The dot is helpful when you're walking around outside, but if you're indoors -- in an airport, a mall, or even a conference venue, like I am today -- you might as well be in no-man's land.Google wants to change that with something called Tango.The initiative, previously called "Project Tango," is Google's...

RoadshowNewsEarth, Google and Fire: Some jerk apparently tried to torch a Google mapping carEnlarge ImageWhile Google uses satellite imagery for Google Earth, I'm assuming the MVPD meant to call it a Google Maps car, as it regularly uses vehicles to flesh out its cartographical knowledge. Stephen Shankland/CNET Human beings do dumb crap all the time, there's no surprise there. But when people start going after pe...

Facebook/Screenshot by Andrew Hoyle/CNET With Facebook's new interactive map, you can see the locations of all the live video streams users are broadcasting anywhere in the world. The Live Video map can be found under Apps in the left hand panel of Facebook.com. It shows the locations of all current streams as tiny blue dots. The dots will be larger the more viewers they have, however. If you hover your curs...

Enlarge ImageThe Pleiades. NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech Not a lot is known about the Greek poet Sappho. She was probably bo sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and she is thought to have died in around 570 BCE after retuing to Lesbos from exile. Thanks to a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, we now know for certain that she was alive until at least 570 BCE. This is because of a poem fragme...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIts intentions seem clear. Except they're not. Matt Blaze/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I bring good news.If you live in Philadelphia and you're conceed that Google's Street View vans are spying on you, relax.It might merely be your friendly local police instead.I deduce this after Matt Blaze, a...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNot a good thing to come home to. WFAA-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The motto of Billy L. Nabors Demolition, a Seagoville, Texas, company that razes buildings, says it all."We could wreck the world."As WFAA-TV reports, the company was sent to demolish 7601 and 7603 Cousteau Drive, a toado-damaged du...

Rocket League is becoming even more community focused with the introduction of Rocket Labs, a new way for developer Psyonix to let players try out new and unique maps before releasing them officially.Psyonix revealed exclusively to GameSpot that Rocket Labs will be included in the February update releasing today and will allow players to give feedback to Psyonix on new stages. These maps won't use their final artwork assets, instead opting for a virtual reality-like aesthetic.The first levels be...