Making 3D models on the computer is great and all, but have you ever wanted a real-life, physical, breaks-if-you-drop-it object to hold in your hands? Of course you have — we’ve all been spoiled by Captain Picard’s replicator. But we might have to wait awhile for “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” to become a reality.
Until then, [...]
When I first saw the Google Earth Plugin I thought, “That’s cool, we have to showcase that on the 3D Warehouse!” So we changed our 3D Model Map to use it. But, my real goal was to use the plugin to show users their fully navigable geo-models on Earth, right in the web page. [...]
Ever since the first Gmail users began trusting Google with their private information, keeping people’s data safe has been one of our top priorities. Today, more than a million businesses, plus thousands of schools and organizations using Google Apps rely on us to safeguard their critical information.
We’ve published some of the ways we keep sensitive [...]
The world just got a little bit smaller. Google Earth is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allowing you to fly to the far reaches of the world from the palm of your hand. Since we launched Google Earth for the desktop in 2005, we’ve had over 400 million unique downloads, and people [...]
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The core of the Inform and Empower initiative lies in the access to timely, relevant information that can empower government leaders and citizens to improve the delivery of vital public services. So I was delighted to hear that yesterday one of our grantees, Pratham-ASER, was a gold winner of the 2008 Excellence in Information Integrity [...]
A scanner is a wonderful tool. Every day, people all over the world post scanned documents online — everything from official government reports to obscure academic papers. These files usually contain images of text, rather than the text themselves.But all of these documents have one thing in common: someone somewhere thought they were they were [...]
