Google Maps has become a highly valuable tool for world exploration, not only thanks to the street-level imagery provided via Street View but also thanks to the high-resolution satellite data it ...

In the weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the Kremlin has received a great deal of attention for blocking Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But less attention has been paid to a ...

A Moscow court has ordered a Russian internet giant to hide maps and images of oil refineries from its search engine results after a spate of Ukrainian drone attacks on the country’s fuel ...

Google has silently exposed Russia’s military sites on Google Maps, as the company has removed the blurred images protecting the country’s secret locations. While the Mountain View-based search giant ...

A Twitter account with the handle @ArmedForcesUkr shared images of Russian military establishments taken from Google Maps on April 18th, 2022. The account suggested that the publicly visible content ...

One month after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Vladyslav Lysenko surveyed the damage to his egg warehouse outside Kyiv. Russian soldiers had occupied the building for ...

Beginning in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia steadily escalated into one of the ...

4:29 pm ET update: A Google spokesperson told Ars that the company hasn’t changed anything with regard to blurring out sensitive sites in Russia, so perhaps none of us were looking closely until now.

Google will still continue to provide its free services in Russia. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Google is filing for bankruptcy in Russia, stating that the Russian government has ...

Google's Russian division submitted a notice of intention to declare bankruptcy after officials seized its bank account. That "has made it untenable for our Russia office to function, including ...

Russia has spent months either driving out American tech firms or watching them leave of their own accord over its war in Ukraine. But the country now finds itself stuck in a stalemate with one big ...