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Finally, a New Way to Detect Fake Profile Pictures

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

Surely we are not better training the robots to know exactly who the humans are and where to aim their lasers? (Nervous laughter.)

Posted inNews

Google Doodle Celebrates Late We:wa, Zuni Two-Spirit Weaver and Potter

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 1, 2021November 2, 2021

On the first day of Native American Heritage Month, an interactive “Doodle” by Mallery Quetawki greets visitors on Google’s homepage.

Posted inArt

Google Arts & Culture as an Agent of Ethnic Cleansing

Avatar photo by Nevdon Jamgochian November 13, 2020December 11, 2020

After Azerbaijan declared victory following six weeks of brutal conflict, the state has gained control of the Armenian-governed area of Artsakh, increasing fear of erasure of the millennia-old Armenian monuments in the area.

Posted inIn Brief

Google Updates Its Photo Search Engine to Make Photo Licensing Easier

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia September 1, 2020November 5, 2020

The “Licensable” badge will now appear on images in Google searches, potentially helping photographers, publishers, and artists make money.

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“Doodle for Google” Competition Asks K-12 Artists: How Do You Show Kindness?

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 24, 2020January 22, 2020

The winner of this year’s competition will receive a $30,000 college scholarship and have their Google Doodle featured on the company’s homepage.

Posted inArt

A New Website Tells the Stories of Over 4,000 Lynchings in the United States

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 16, 2017

The Equal Justice Initiative, with the support of Google, launched an online interactive that visualizes lynchings from the Civil War to World War II in 20 American states.

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Artist Invites Havana Locals into His Studio for Free High-Speed Wifi

by Claire Voon March 25, 2016March 25, 2016

Artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who works under the pseudonym Kcho, has partnered with Google to bring high-speed wifi to the Cuban public at rates nearly 70 times faster than services currently available — and at no cost to users.

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The Bauhaus Connection in Google’s New Logo

by Sarah Archer September 2, 2015September 3, 2015

When the news broke yesterday that Google had a brand new logo — the biggest change to its visual identity since its inception in 1998 — the design twitterverse exploded with commentary about the thickness of the new letterforms and their conspicuous lack of serifs.

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Google’s New Visualization Tool Slips Slimy and Furry Creatures into Art History

by Claire Voon July 7, 2015July 8, 2015

You may have thought Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” could not get any more trippy, but researchers have developed new software that proves that yes, the Netherlandish painter’s baffling triptych just needs a little bit of code to become a complete mind-bender.

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Google’s Online Museum Adds 3D Animal Skulls and Sculptures

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 10, 2015April 11, 2015

The Google Cultural Institute, known for empowering internauts to Street View their way through museums and look very, very closely at digitized two-dimensional artworks, has ventured into the third dimension.

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Run from Ghosts in Real Cemeteries with Google Maps Pac-Man

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

Today is a glorious one for your idle time, as Google Maps made a function available to turn any street view into a game of Pac-Man.

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A Google Earth Perspective on Land Art

by Jillian Steinhauer April 1, 2014October 22, 2015

Earlier today @museumnerd tweeted out a link to a view of Michael Heizer’s land work “Double Negative” (1969) in Google Maps. Viewed in satellite, from high above, Heizer’s 1,500-foot-long trenches looks almost incidental, like cuts made with scissors into the skin of the earth.

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