A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

Google staff are being investigated over a Global Positioning System (GPS) failure that led a family to drive off an ...

Apple and Fitbit are two of the biggest names in the wearables business, but they take drastically different approaches to ...

Google Maps has quietly altered how incident reports work, with a new "Police" option that replaces speed traps.

A bridge in India was marked as safe to cross on Google Maps, despite being washed away by flooding earlier this year ...

A nice quality-of-life improvement for Google Maps on Android and iOS are new stair “callouts” when getting walking directions.

Three men in India died after Google Maps reportedly told them to drive their taxi off an incomplete bridge spanning the Ramganga River. Portions of the bridge were washed away during a flood months ...

Tragedy struck when three men died after their car rolled over an under-construction bridge, misled by GPS directions. Police ...

In the latest episode of Blueprint Explosive Exclusive, Meghna Deka discusses horrific incident in Uttar Pradesh. Three people died after their Google Maps wrongly led their car to an ...

Sygic has recently announced a new update for its navigation app; it includes a feature Google Maps once had, but users also ...

Relying on Google Maps to reach a wedding venue proved fatal for three Indian men after the GPS wrongly led their car to an unfinished bridge, where it fell into a river in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly ...

One thing I find is superior is the Apple Maps traffic view, where Google seems to overdo it by marking roads in green when traffic is moving normally, Apple Maps only adds splashes of yellows and ...