There's a free Google Earth Flight Simulator available now that you can pilot over 3D maps using a web browser.

This is so cool: Google Earth (download) has a slightly hidden flight simulator. Press Ctrl-Alt-A (on a PC) to bring it up the first time. After that, Ctrl-A or a selection from the "Tools" menu ...

No less than six years have passed since the Google Self-Driving Car Project started testing on public roads. During this time span, the fleet of vehicles that make up the project drove 1,419,672 ...

Google on Tuesday announced it will launch a simulation tool for eligible advertisers. The tool will provide insight into how automated bidding would affect a live data-driven attribution campaign.

Thank you to GEB reader Paul Moskowitz for bringing to our attention the fact that opening the flight simulator in Google Earth Pro automatically turns off the 3D buildings layer. The reason for this ...

When Google Earth was first released, one of the first thoughts that many users had was “wow, this could be an amazing tool for a flight simulator”. With the the release of Google Earth 4.2 back in ...

Google, it has emerged, has built a 'Matrix-style' simulation of the entirety of California to test its self-driving cars. While this in itself isn't massively surprising given Google's history as a ...

The less-than-anticipated fidget spinner mania seems to have finally reached Google. Redditors have spotted that the internet giant has added a hidden fidget spinner virtual simulation straight into ...

Somewhere in the Googleplex, Google has a digital simulation of the entire Californian road system to test its self-driving cars. This, says Google, allows it to perform “decades worth of testing” in ...

We’ve always known that Google has wanted to challenge Microsoft’s desktop dominance in a number of areas, but to date we didn’t know that extended to gaming. Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret ...