These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. The world according to Google Street View: This map shows Google’s official Street View coverage as of 15 October 2024. The US, Western Europe, Japan and India among others are all really covered.
However, China, most of Africa, and large parts of South America, Canada and Australia are all missing. See more at brilliantmaps.com .
DM Tech’s race to go nuclear is exciting. It’s also going to be really frickin’ hard: Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing in small modular nuclear reactors to meet growing energy demands from AI and data centres. Despite nuclear power’s efficiency, past projects have been plagued by high costs, long build times and safety concerns.
These new reactors promise faster, cheaper and safer construction, though none has yet come online, making the investments risky but potentially transformative. Read more on Gizmodo . DM Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks: Recently on Bookmarks we posted about Winamp putting its code on GitHub.
Well, it didn’t last long. The repository has been entirely deleted after it either bumped up against or broke its strange hodgepodge of code licences, seemingly revealed the source code for other non-open software packages and left a poor impression on the open-source community. Read more on Ars Technica .
TS 200 Bandai Namco employees reportedly moved into .