Most people today use Google Maps to find local schools, malls, and the closest Starbucks, according to this year’s Google Zeitgeist, which catalogs the top searches of 2011. But there was more to ...

A WHOLE NEW WORLD. Google Maps now offers a refreshing new angle of Earth. That is: a more accurate one. Google recently announced that its map would now depict a round Earth, according to The Verge.

Google Maps is the undoubtedly the king of online mapping. With directions for bikers, walkers, public transit users, as well as traffic and street views, Maps can get you anywhere. Now, Google is ...

If you're looking for a bit of an escape on a Friday afternoon, you can probably get away with it thanks to some more updates to Google Maps and Earth. Google announced today that it's rolling out an ...

Google is keeping the string of Maps launches going -- it's just rolling out very, very detailed 3D maps for technology like Google Earth, using a "new process" to get extra depth. In some areas, such ...

The latest battleground for the world's biggest tech companies is one of its oldest forms of data: maps. Apple plans to release a new maps app this autumn featuring live traffic information derived ...

It might be overcast in your area of the globe, but the skies are all clear on Google Maps and Google Earth. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

A new study has, for the first time, estimated the total volume ofgroundwater present on the Earth. The results show that we're usingup the water supply quicker than it can be naturally replaced, ...

Space data shows gravity warping Earth into a lumpy, technicolored potato -- but what does it actually mean? After nearly two years in space, a European satellite has collected the raw data needed to ...

NASA has turned its attention to a ghostly shroud of hydrogen that stretches far beyond the familiar blue edge of our planet, ...