It's an illuminating idea which its creators hope will help drive up energy efficiency and bring down buildings' carbon emissions.
A federal judge has denied Google's request to dismiss several lawsuits accusing the company of illegally collecting private information from open Wi-Fi networks.
Facebook's computer systems will soon be able to recognize familiar faces.
For Mike Smith, Facebook is a fort for communicating freely with friends online.
So, at this point, the only Valentine's Day cards left on the shelves are going to have dirty jokes or Garfield on them.
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee checks out Google's virtual tour of galleries round the world.
With Google's Street View, Web surfers can pinpoint and zoom into many parts of the world -- in some places, right down to street level.
Google agreed Friday to delete data it inadvertently collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks when compiling its Street View mapping service in Britain, authorities said.
As more technology goes mobile, "where" has become one of the key pieces of context in daily life. And the answers to "where" increasingly are provided through geographic information systems (GIS), a technology that is being explored, debated and celebrated today in public.
Bob Mewse went on a diet after seeing an unflattering photo of himself online
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether Google broke the law by collecting personal information from Internet users while gathering data for its Street View mapping technology.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has called off its investigation of Google's "Street View" mapping program without issusing fines to the company, according to a letter sent from the FTC to Google on Wednesday.
This week, Google announced that it had accidentally collected passwords, e-mails and other personal information from random Wi-Fi users while working on its Street View feature.
Google admitted in a blog post Friday that external regulators have discovered that e-mails, URLs and passwords were collected and stored in a technical mishap, while the vehicles for Google's Street View service were out documenting roadway locations.
Google Chairman & CEO Eric Schmidt explains what his company knows and doesn't know about people like Kathleen Parker.
Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of privacy probes after the company said it unintentionally captured fragments of unencrypted data.
CNN's Errol Barnett talks to Google spokesman Brian Richardson about increased concerns about user privacy.
The sound of the 'Google Alarm' is hard to miss.
A coalition of 38 states is pressing Google to answer for its unintentional collection of personal data through unsecured private wi-fi networks from its Street View cars.
The U.S. Congress' interest in probing Facebook's and Google's privacy practices keeps growing.
Authorities in both Germany and the US are expected to begin inquiries into Google's "accidental" collection of Wi-Fi payload data by its Street View cars.
Google disclosed Friday that its Street View cars had mistakenly collected data about the Web sites users were visiting on open wireless Internet networks.
You might be surprised to learn who's following you on Twitter, or who your Facebook friends really are.
Microsoft's Bing took a major step forward Wednesday in adding rich mapping and image data to its search engine, but until it assembles more data, pretty pictures aren't enough to beat the Google Maps juggernaut.
Internet giant Google has been stopped from gathering images in Greek cities for its Street View service until it provides further guarantees about privacy.
Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher on Saturday denied that he is the man shown pointing at the Google Street View camera as it drove past his local pub in London last summer.
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