Google Hands Street View Trekker Over To A Local To Get Imagery Of Canada's Arctic Territory
We know that Google’s Street View team has been making its technology smaller and more mobile, especially when it comes to people snapping images for Google Maps. Today, the team has shared some imagery from Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut. The difference is that unlike with the Grand Canyon, the person carrying the Trekker on their back wasn’t a Google employee. It was a resident of Nunavut, Chris Kalluk, who works at a nonprofit organization called Nunavut Tunngavik, which is working along with Google to collect imagery and build more detailed maps of the Canadian Arctic. Much like the Street View team did for its snowmobile mission during the Olympics, the Trekker has been prepped to handle below freezing temperatures, which are the conditions in Canada’s Arctic about eight months of the year, Kalluk explains in the post: “Winter up here is a way of life. And the only way to truly understand it is to see it for yourself.” Here’s what Kalluk had to share about his experience, ...
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What Happens When Pollsters Are No Better Than Psychics?
I'm going to get a little political here, but bear with me, this is a tech post in the end. I'm in the midst of a trip from my new home in Berkeley, through my old stomping grounds in New York City, to my hometown in Canada. Politically, almost everyone in all three places falls in one of two camps: either they view the US Republican Party as evil incarnate, or (like me) they're fiscal conservatives who might once have been vaguely sympathetic to their avowed goals, but now see Republicans as the party of delusional magical-thinking cargo cultists. Whether we're right or not isn't the point. (Although we are.) The point is that almost no one in any of my filter bubbles can even imagine a person who is not evil, insane, and/or an idiot voting for Romney/Ryan. And yet--according to the polls--they're practically neck and neck with Obama/Biden. If the Republicans win November's election, the people I know will be disappointed...but we won't be in a state of shocked disbelief. Because of the ...
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What Happens When Pollsters Are No Better Than Psychics?
I'm going to get a little political here, but bear with me, this is a tech post in the end. I'm in the midst of a trip from my new home in Berkeley, through my old stomping grounds in New York City, to my hometown in Canada. Politically, almost everyone in all three places falls in one of two camps: either they view the US Republican Party as evil incarnate, or (like me) they're fiscal conservatives who might once have been vaguely sympathetic to their avowed goals, but now see Republicans as the party of delusional magical-thinking cargo cultists. Whether we're right or not isn't the point. (Although we are.) The point is that almost no one in any of my filter bubbles can even imagine a person who is not evil, insane, and/or an idiot voting for Romney/Ryan. And yet--according to the polls--they're practically neck and neck with Obama/Biden. If the Republicans win November's election, the people I know will be disappointed...but we won't be in a state of shocked disbelief. Because of the ...
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