Niantic Spatial’s Scaniverse app captures physical spaces, reconstructs them as 3D models and enables precise localization within them. (Niantic Spatial Images) Niantic Spatial, the company spun out ...

The robots are coming—and they’ll need a good map to get around, whether they’re delivering our packages, driving us around, or doing any of the myriad of other tasks robotic helpers may perform for ...

In recent weeks, Google has been busy adding AI features to all of its most popular apps. Following Gmail and Chrome, Maps is now the latest service to get a Gemini makeover, with a redesign of the ...

Google Maps is getting its biggest update in over a decade as the company is rolling out a new driving experience known as “Immersive Navigation.” It ushers in a new era with a fresh look and useful ...

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The space between galaxies is not empty. In a new map of the early universe, those “blank” stretches take on a faint, hydrogen-blue glow that had mostly escaped surveys until now. Astronomers working ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

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NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial ...

Conducting research on the main quarry of Easter Island is challenging in ordinary circumstances. The easternmost Polynesian island is a six-hour flight from the nearest airport and reaching parts of ...