IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines

Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology.

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Mass. receives money for broadband mapping

Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years.

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US, Canada Arctic expedition to start

A joint U.S.-Canada expedition sailing next month to the icy waters off the northern coastline both countries share will help map the farthest reaches of the North American continent, but it won't deal with a long-running dispute over a resource-rich part of the Beaufort Sea.

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California lawmaker targets Internet mapping sites

A California lawmaker wants to force Internet mapping services to blur detailed images of schools, hospitals, churches and all government buildings, reviving a debate over whether such images can assist terrorists.

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Researchers Map the Internet

It took two months and nearly 3 billion electronic probes for researchers to create a map of the Internet. Now comes the task of making sense of their data — and figuring out what they missed.

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For too long maps have been owned by governments and large corporations. Now a very detailed, very accurate map is becoming useful that is available for anyone to use as they like.

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Can the asymmetric distribution of craters on the Moon be explained by the known distribution of near Earth asteroids that are thought to have caused them? Their answer is a cautious "no". More Articles

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Illustrations provide insight on sustaining humanity and alternative energy spending. From Atlas of the Real World

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Babies born from 2019 onwards will have their genetic code routinely mapped at birth, Jay Flatley, one of the world's leading genome sequencing experts has predicted.

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A SATELLITE, sponsored by Google, has beamed its first picture back to Earth in a successful test of a camera that will supply images for the internet giant's free online map and navigation services.

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Citizens of the russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite QuickBird would cross above their city. QuickBird takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps. They created a giant smiley face.

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It turned out the "apparatchik from central office" was looking at the wrong backyard but Mr Rahr was outraged that his council could monitor anyone's home: "It gave me a nasty feeling. It was just like Big Brother, like something out of 1984."

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If George Etzel Pearcy had his way, Lynyrd Skynyrd's famous song would have been called "Sweet Home Talladego." In 1973, the California State University geography professor suggested that the U.S.

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The recent conflict in Georgia has raised some questions about how Google Maps has handled mapping in that part of the world.

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Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening.

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Consider Wilfred Mworia, a 22-year-old engineering student and freelance code writer in Nairobi, Kenya. In the four weeks leading up to Apple's much-anticipated release of a new iPhone on July 11, Mr.

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QUEENSLAND Deputy Premier Paul Lucas has asked Google to update its satellite images to show the state's new infrastructure. Mr Lucas said the state was developing so rapidly, the popular website Google Maps did not accurately depict its landscape.

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"One of the really valuable things is that once we have the topographic data, and the true heights and dimensions of the levees, we can run the whole range of climate models through the system," Kusky says. "Then, If Mr. Conservative X says this will happen, and Mr.

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Wow, we're absolutely stunned, but we just won first place at the NetSquared Challenge! That means we have a check for $25,000 that we can spend on further development of the Ushahidi Engine (version 2).

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Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a new project launched today.

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We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean.

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We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean.

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A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has been cracked — by a 63-year-old immigrant who once had to work as a security guard.

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The Pentagon has banned Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases.

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A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.

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It's flu season, and you're feeling woozy. Have you caught that thing that's going around? To find out, head over to Who is Sick?, a Google map-based tool that lets users report their symptoms. Plug in your zip code to find nodes of contagion near you.

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Iri Plug-in For Nasa's Servir

Users of IRI's Malaria Map Room and desert locust monitoring tools for Africa can now take advantage of SERVIR, NASA's high-tech satellite visualization system, thanks to a new plugin developed by scientists at the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology [IAGT] and …

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To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps, John Higham scoured scores of photos plotted along his route on a digital map for clues to the steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or camp sites. These images were just like all the other vacation photos shared by trav …

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The top ten oldest trees in Britain list -- includes photos and list. The public is encouraged to help hunt for champion trees still standing in what is called the Ancient Tree Hunt.

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LOS ANGELES (Nov. 15) - A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday.

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