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Google has posted images of its server farms to its Street View gallery. Engadet has the slideshow.

Clip description: Google Maps strives to provide people around the globe with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world – including the underwater world. This ocean collection includes six of the world’s most incredible underwater spots, including coral reefs (and their inhabitants) in Australia, the Philippines and Hawaii. This imagery is available to millions of people through …

There’s an app for the Android that works as a Grindr for local hookers and some folks are pissed at Google about it. The issue of sex trafficking of minors is hyped all too frequently by culture warriors and law enforcement to restrain civil rights and hound those engaged in what is a legal and regulated profession in many parts …

The Google Doodle celebrating the 46th anniversary of Star Trek is interactive. Go play. (Tipped by JMG reader Bstewart23)

That would be the people who have sit all day, every week, and scan for child porn, human mutilations, and every other repulsive concept a diseased human mind can concoct. One such monitor tells his story to Buzzfeed: I had no one to talk to. I couldn’t bring it home to my girlfriend because I didn’t want to burden her …

The Federal Trade Commission has fined Google $22.5M for secretly placing tracking cookies on the users of Apple’s Safari browser after telling them that they wouldn’t. It’s the largest tech fine in FTC history. In its complaint, the FTC charged that for several months in 2011 and 2012, Google placed a certain advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari …

Only in six stations to start, with another 30 stations by the end of the year.

In a column published today by Gizmodo, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak calls for federal regulation of internet data storage services. “I’ve had too many personal experiences get messed up just because companies change things on the cloud. I’ve come to a depressed state of feeling that I own nothing on the cloud and have no ability to keep things working …

Verizon has been fined $1.25M for charging customers who used a third-party app to evade their tethering fee. The company had asked Google to remove “tethering” apps from its Android Market. Tethering allows users to plug a smartphone into a computer and use the phone’s cellular connection to power the computer’s Internet access. The apps circumvented Verizon’s own tethering service, …

Launched yesterday by Google Maps: Have you ever arrived at a subway platform only to find that the train you intended to take is skipping stops, rerouted on another line, or isn’t running at all due to scheduled maintenance? Now when you click on any of the 468 New York City subway stations labeled on Google Maps, you’ll see whether …

“Thanks to a new campaign, Google’s approach to traditional values is to search—and destroy. The web giant just kicked off a worldwide push called ‘Legalize Love,’ aimed at breaking down the barriers to homosexuality around the globe. Their biggest targets? Countries that have moral objections to same-sex relationships. [snip] After watching Target and J.C. Penney take a financial hit after …

Yahoo went fishing in the executive offices of rival Google for their new CEO. The appointment of Marissa Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and was one of the few public faces of the company, is considered a surprising coup for Yahoo, which has struggled in recent years to attract top flight talent in its battle with competitors …

Posted to Google’s diversity page: Legalise Love: LGBT Rights Are Human Rights Though our business and employees are located in offices around the world, our policies on non-discrimination are universal throughout Google. We are proud to be recognised as a leader in LGBT inclusion efforts—but there’s still a long way to go. At Google, we encourage people to bring their …

Yeaaah, good luck with that.

Google has announced that it has launched a global campaign in support of marriage equality. The “Legalize Love” campaign officially launches in Poland and Singapore on Saturday, July 7th. Google intends to eventually expand the initiative to every country where the company has an office, and will focus on places with homophobic cultures, where anti-gay laws exist. Google’s Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe …

Tech sites have lit up on the rumor that Apple is planning an October release for the iPad Mini, which analysts say is meant to challenge the low prices of Google’s Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire. Google’s small tablet ships next week. Claims from the Bloomberg news agency come about a week after Google launched a $200 7-inch tablet, …

Microsoft has announced an unprecedented $6.2B quarterly charge due primarily to its flagging battle with Google over search term advertising. The non-cash charge announced Monday could saddle Microsoft with a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter ending in June. Analysts polled by FactSet had predicted Microsoft would earn about $5.3 billion for the period. Microsoft is scheduled to release its …