Mojang should see this release (and its subsequent success) as a major kick in the butt.

ou book a flight, open the seatback map, and notice something strange. Instead of a clean, straight line between two cities, your aircraft appears to arc, bend, or take a wide detour. At first glance, ...

A Flat Earther attempts to fold a flat map over a globe to prove the Earth is not curved. The demonstration seems straightforward at first. But once the map is applied, problems appear immediately.

Just nine months since its launch, NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a jaw-dropping map of the cosmos unlike any we have seen before. Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch ...

Someone built a tool using Google Maps' 3D view that lets you actually see the water rise, meter by meter, on familiar streets. It's pretty jarring. This tool is the "Sea Level Rise 3D Map," by ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. As the holidays approach, millions of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

A brush fire that ignited around 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles on Thursday morning has reached nearly 500 acres in size and prompted numerous evacuation warnings. The King fire began as a brush ...