Many people “drop a pin” when they want to send their location to someone else, but what if you don’t have a good connection or need to speak where you are? Now, an app called what3words can help.

CEO Chris Sheldrick's startup is used by Mercedes cars and the Mongolian post office. China's biggest carmaker just invested, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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Traditional addresses don’t work. That’s the argument of London startup what3words, which says such addresses are expensive to provide, restrictive and prone to ...

Thanks to a simple partnership between two mapping companies, satnavs in millions of new cars across North America and Europe are set to get an upgrade that should make them more accurate and far ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – It’s the crucial tech on your mobile phone that most people don’t even realize they have, and it made a difference last week in the rescue of three boaters on Lake Drummond.

Three seemingly nonsensical words can help family members meet at a new trailhead, a nervous person find the right park bench for a first date or a rescue team save a hiker who made a wrong turn. At ...