"This breakthrough enables scientists to do something that was impossible until now," according to the system's creators.

Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research arm, announced the release of AlphaEarth Foundations on ...

Still, the new map is an intriguing and precise way to look at the world, and it's a good reminder that the map we have grown accustomed to is highly flawed. You can pick up your own copy of the ...

By Loz Blain November 04, 2016 The Authagraph World Map: not much use for navigation, but a very clever way of projecting the globe onto a flat surface without size distortion ...

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire ...

But he found no takers. The 400th anniversary passed, two world wars and the cold war engulfed Europe, and the Waldseemüller map, left alone in its tower garret, went to sleep for another century.