Oftentimes Google’s Autofill feature teaches us things about ourselves and our surroundings in startlingly accurate ways. Autofill is Google’s automatic text population feature that fills in the ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google today announced the launch of Tree Canopy Lab for Los Angeles, a ...

Google Map’s Street View technology now plays a significant role in Google Maps as part of the new version 6 of the mapping software. Google Earth version 6 was released Monday giving new meaning to ...

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a partnership Wednesday with Google on a program that will track the city’s canopy density to show where more trees need to be planted, providing residents ...

Trees improve urban life, but they’re not equitably distributed. As cities try to fix this, they now can quickly get a sense of what neighborhoods and streets need them most. A new map of Los Angeles ...

As Mountain View warmly embraces high-tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, the Silicon Valley city is also poised to get rid of hundreds of other giants: Namely redwood trees, cedars and oaks.NBC ...

Google has updates for a handful of tools aimed at helping people use Maps for more, or get on them in the first place. The company is improving wildfire tracking, expanding a tool for calculating ...

Google Maps is getting a few new features to help people better understand our burning planet. The first is a new "fire" layer in the main map view, which will let you view the exact boundaries of a ...

It looks like money does grow on trees—and that’s not a good thing. The City of New York has quietly awarded a Google engineer who sustained life-altering injuries from a falling tree limb in Central ...

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