Topic: Google Earth

Niantic, the game maker best known for creating Google Earth, will cancel production of its NBA and Marvel games amid a restructuring that will see 230 employees lose their jobs as the company increases its AR focus.

Google is cutting an unknown number of jobs from the Waze mapping service it acquired for $1.3 billion in 2013. The layoffs come as Google merges Waze into the company's Geo division.

A computer engineering major at South Dakota Mines is offering virtual tours of the university after building a digital model of the campus in popular video game "Minecraft."

A shipwreck lost nearly two centuries ago off the eastern shores of Lake Michigan has been rediscovered by a pair of adventurous scuba divers.

Researchers with the United Nations have developed a new tool that generates instant, accurate street-level resolution maps of floods worldwide since 1985, the agency announced Friday.

China could be increasing its military presence near Taiwan, according to a recent press report.

North Korea has been building additional oil storage in Nampo port, with more than 30 new tanks completed since 2018, according to a recent press report.

Researchers using cadaver dogs will sniff out 170-year-old graves in an Idaho national preserve this summer to uncover clues about pioneers who died as their wagon trains traveled the Oregon and California trails.

Vulnerable species are most at risk on private lands, according to a new study. On federally protected lands, rates of habitat loss and extinction are diminished.

A German farmer's unusual marriage proposal involving a corn field and a camera drone had an unexpected side effect -- it's visible on Google Earth.