A Berlin artist says he faked a major tailback in the German capital by hacking Google Maps. His aim: to flag concerns over the concentration of data in the tech giant’s mapping service on its ...

For the experiment, Weckert ran Google Maps on a cart loaded with 99 smartphones. He then had someone wheel the car around the streets of Berlin. One of the locations included the area outside the ...

GOOGLE has apologised after a major square in Berlin regained its Nazi-era name "Adolf Hitler" on its Maps page for a few hours. A spokeswoman for the German unit of the US Internet giant, Lena ...

In a story reported by NBCNews.com’s World News, the popular Berlin square Theodor Heuss Platz was momentarily renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” on Google Maps.