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Enlarge Image Google 2016 was a big year for VR, and it's about to get bigger. Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a matter of weeks, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform. Much of this is going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and shooting 360-degree videos, many of which include YouTube stars, according to the publication. Daydream is being built into the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, which launched this week. It said back in May that Samsung, HTC, ZTE, Huawei, Xiaomi, Alcatel, Asus and LG had agreed to make "Daydream ready" smartphones. The idea of the ...

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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 has been improved to make street names, point of interest, transit stations and so on, more distinguishable from other items on the map. A new feature called "areas of interest," not to be confused with "points of interest," is also part of the update. These areas are covered with a s...

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 colors.Using the new Landsat 8 satellite launched in 2013, the search giant has been busy building up a new mosaic of the world to replace the images obtained with the previous Landsat 7 satellite. If you're a numbers person, Google says the mosaic was compiled from "nearly a petabyte of...

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 University of Pesylvania assistant professor of computer and information science, tweeted a photograph of a van that had a Pesylvania Police Department placard and a Google Maps logo on its window.As Motherboard reports, he espied it near the Philadelphia Convention Center. It was e...

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 duplex in Rowlett, Texas. Somehow, 7601 and 7603 Calypso Drive, another toado-damaged duplex a block away, was to down. The owner of one half of the duplex, Lindsay Diaz, told WFAA that she drove up to the property, only to discover it was gone. Calypso. Cousteau. Calypseau. A little s...