Have you ever felt like you’re missing out on a secret shortcut in Google Maps—some hidden gem that could make navigating unknown places less stressful, and ...

Google Street View is a valuable tool that allows you to see panoramic views of streets around the world. The interactive feature, which is available on Google Maps and Google Earth, can be used to ...

Traversing the virtual mirror of the real world created by Google Earth and Google Street View has become something of a global pastime, putting everywhere (as long as there’s a road, at least) within ...

Did you know it’s possible to have a first-person point of view of various places worldwide on Google Maps? With Street View, you can explore landmarks, see natural wonders, and virtually step inside ...

Justin Yu covered headphones and peripherals for CNET. Street View is convenient if you just want to check out a snapshot view of an address or an intersection, but clicking the arrows left and right ...

Three years ago, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and moved the entire island by 8 feet, changing the way the Earth spun on its axis in the process. The devastation of the ...

Google Street View has saved us hours walking around new cities and let us pass boring Friday afternoon office hours by looking up friends' houses from when we were kids. But its skills run much ...

How does Google get those really neat 360 photos of the street? The technology is less complicated than you think. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...

In Street View mode, you can see 360-degree images of Ollivanders Wand Shop. — -- The shops of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter are now on Google Maps' Street View. It's no Marauder's Map, but ...

Since its launch in 2007, Google Street View has given us freeze-frames of life around the world–the mundane, the funny, the strange (video), and of course, the disastrous. As if playing a Web 2.0 ...