Google Maps And Earth Just Got A Huge Boost: New, More Detailed And Higher Contrast Images and other top stories.

• Google Maps And Earth Just Got A Huge Boost: New, More Detailed And Higher Contrast Images

  

  An image of the Columbia Glacier, Alaska, taken by the Landsat 8 satellite, which uses new processing technology techniques to offer greater clarity and cloud-free images when compared to predecessor Landsat 7.  ( Google Maps Blog ) With more than a billion users, Google Maps is possibly one of the most popular virtual atlases around. The Google Earth tool is handy for discovering the world from above. Every couple of months, Google invests its energy on improving its satellite i..

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• Scientists Find "Life-Saving" Stash Of Precious Helium Gas

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• Google Adds Firepower to its Education Arsenal

  

  Google has launched new tools that will further enhance its presence in the classroom. It has launched four tools that are free to use and will be helpful at schools as well. The tools announced at the ISTE in Denver include Cast for Education, Quizzes within Google Forms, creative apps on Google Chromebook, and the launch of Expedition app. Google’s Chromebook has turned out to be a major success for both students and teachers due to their cost-effective nature. The company wrote in its blog p..

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• Microsoft Lumia 550 Drops To Just £50 In UK: Here's The Deal

  

  Microsoft Lumia 550's price slashed to less than £50 in the UK. The handset is currently among the cheapest Windows 10 smartphones available in the market.  ( Microsoft ) Britain's exit from the European Union, or Brexit, is the hottest topic of debate in the UK, but smartphone enthusiasts in the country have another reason to be pleased as the cost of Microsoft Lumia 550 has dropped to below £50. British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is selling the Lumia 550 for £39.9..

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• Facebook App Takes on Movie-Making Feature in iOS 10 With 'Slideshows'

  

  Facebook is shifting the movie-making Slideshow feature from its Moments app to its flagship iOS app in an attempt to counter Apple's Photos update in iOS 10. For those unfamiliar with Apple's big addition to its Photos app coming in iOS 10, a new feature called Memories uses facial- and object-recognition to automatically cluster photos based on people, scenes, dates, and locations, and intelligently creates mini-movies of occasions like vacations, birthdays, and weddings. Similarly, Fa..

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• Jazz Up Photos With Twitter's Searchable #Stickers

  

  Jazz Up Photos With Twitter's Searchable #Stickers The new feature is rolling out to iOS and Android users over the coming weeks. Twitter is putting a visual spin on the hashtag with #Stickers. The new photo-editing tool lets users add digital accessories, emoji, and props to photos uploaded to the social network. When editing a photos, tap the smiley-face icon at the bottom of the screen to access a library of labels; skim through various cate..

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• NASA's Juno Mission Is to Be Captured by Jupiter

  

  “One of the primary goals of Juno is to learn the recipe for solar systems,” said Scott Bolton, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio who is the principal investigator for the $1.1 billion mission. “How do you make the solar system? How do you make the planets in our solar system?” Photo The Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter, the yellow planet on the right, and several of its moons on June 21. Credit NASA Jupiter is the titan among p..

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• Meet the team hacking Sundar Pichai and Channing Tatum

  

  If you follow tech executives or famous actors on Twitter, you’ve probably seen references to something called OurMine several times over the last few weeks. That’s because a group of three hackers called OurMine have been finding their way into accounts belonging to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and “Magic Mike” star Channing Tatum. In a series of messages, an OurMine member told TechCrunch that he or she is part of a three-person team of teenagers ..

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• Volkswagen to Pay $14.7 Billion to Settle Diesel Claims in US

  

  Photo Matthias Müller, left, chief executive of Volkswagen, and Hans Dieter Pötsch, the company’s chairman. Credit Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Volkswagen has agreed to pay up to $14.7 billion to settle claims stemming from its diesel emissions cheating scandal, in what would be one of the largest consumer class-action settlements ever in the United States.The proposed settlement involving the federal government and lawyers for the owners of about 475,000 Volkswagen v..

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