At a time before cell phones and GPS, a friend invited me to Chicago, and as I approached the city, I pulled out my newly printed map. Even with my friend’s directions, before long I was lost.

During her time at CNET, Kim Wong-Shing loved demystifying the world of wellness to make it accessible to any reader. She was also passionate about exploring the intersections of health, history ...

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U.S. Google Maps results for "Gulf of Mexico," automatically changed to "Gulf of America" and showing the location's label as "Gulf of America." Credit: Mashable screenshot / Google Late last ...

There was a team in 2016 with some scientists at Northeastern and other universities that actually built a tool to read or scrape the maps from Google from all of its localizations, so they could ...

Apple Maps and Bing Maps are both joining Google by changing their Maps software and apps to now display Gulf of America on the body of water that's been known as the Gulf of Mexico since the 16th ...

“It’s official!” his post read. This is not the first time Google has used different names on its maps for a single location. It labels the body of water between Saudi Arabia and ...

You have reached your maximum number of articles. Log in or create an account FREE of charge to continue reading. The name change from the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" began rolling ...

The name of the body of water in Google Maps will depend on where a user is located. U.S. users will see Gulf of America, while users in Mexico will still see Gulf of Mexico.

For as long as road maps have been around, men have complained that women cannot read them. Now a team of scientists have concluded that there are very real biological reasons behind the cause of ...