These aren't actually Persian rugs you can throw in your foyer. But artist David Thomas Smith's photographs are certainly inspired by the colorful Mid...
Compare the 2012 homicide rate in each New York City police precinct to the national homicide rates of countries, as compiled by the United Nations.
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BANGKOK (AP) ā Navigating the streets of Bangkok can challenge even the most seasoned of travelers. Roads wind into each other instead of running pa...
By mapping all of 311's graffiti complaints by neighborhood, Gothamist has created a handy guide that most likely best reflects which areas of New Yor...
Illustrating the maps for The Lands of Ice and Fire was a large commission. The final result is 12 maps, each 2 feet by 3 feet - 72 square feet of cartography in total, many of which link up and overlap. The trick with a project of this size and complexity is organization.
There is something disappointing about the austere potential perfection of the new maps. The satellites above us have seen all there is to see of the ...
Juan Manuel Santos, incumbent President of Colombia, which has fought a long-time war on drugs with the support of the U.S., has just signed a public letter questioning that war on grounds of efficacy, cost, side effects, and fairness.
Google Maps is most often used to show us how to get from point A to point B. But over the years, this service has evolved into a much greater piece o...
apple-maps-dokdoFrom the it-had-to-happen-sooner-or-later department: Apple is in the midst of its first international territorial dispute over its ne...
Ever wondered how many cyberattacks occur across the world every second? The non-profit Honeynet Project attempts to give you a sense of where and how...
Apple's maps are bad. Even Tim Cook knows this and apologized for them. Google's maps are good, thanks to years of work, massive computing resources, ...
We have become so used to decimal-notated releases that we blindly accept whatever we are told and put up with inferior products and services that we would never accept in our off-line real world.
(Reuters) - Phone maker Nokia Oyj is expected to announce a deal that will give customers of technology company Oracle Corp access to Nokia's mapping ...
Recent reports claim that Apple ended its iOS mobile maps contract with Google a year early. But the result, Apple's home-brewed Maps app, has left ma...
I didn't realize that getting my dad a GPS for his birthday would affect my parents' household ecosystem. Suddenly there were a few boxes of outdated,...
The serendipity of wandering off on intellectual tangents once brought on by thumbing through a card catalog file has now gone digital and it is a lot easier on the back in some cases.
In 1815, English geologist William Smith published the first geological map of Britain -- these findings formed the basis for theories the age of the Earth and were even a major contributor to Darwin's theory of evolution of the species.
Has the sheer quantity of information and the increasing pace of life so overwhelmed us that we no longer have the time or temerity to fact-check when what we hear doesn't make sense