If it's possible for a concept to have fifteen minutes of fame, "metadata" had its own a few weeks ago, when it was revealed that Verizon was passing the stuff off en masse to the National Security ...

With all the cool viral map articles flying around the internet these days, I figured it's high-time to get in on the action. If you've been online for more than eight seconds recently you've probably ...

Who ever said that maps have to be 'boring'?

Humans have managed to put a whole bunch of stuff in orbit around the Earth, and keeping track of it all is a serious endeavor. Visualizing the sheer number of objects we've managed to send into space ...

The real world is very complex, unlike what you see in movies and on TV. Our planet, with its varied cultures and societies, is not unlike a giant, cosmic onion. There are lots of different layers of ...

If you were born in the last 30 years, there’s a good chance you’ve never actually had to rely on a paper map. You might have seen them at amusement parks or folded up in the glove compartment of your ...

Africa is not a country. It's an entire continent filled with an amazing, unparalleled diversity of languages, peoples and nations, some of the latter among the most heavily urbanized places on the ...

Ever since Google released Google Maps in early 2005, the search giant hasn't taken its foot off the gas. Over the last 17-plus years, Google has steadily added a plethora of new features to its ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The ...

As we all know, people don’t like change. And chances are, if you’ve already upgraded to iOS 6, you’re missing Google Maps. Apple’s Maps app is homegrown, organic, free-range, and not fed any ...

In the age of Google and Waze, maps may seem redundant. But Betsy Mason, co-author with Greg Miller of All Over the Map, published by National Geographic Books, explains that maps can do much more ...