How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2393 words)

The Most Dangerous Gamer

Like many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2632 words)
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