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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Law enforcement agencies are encouraging the public to download the what3words app. The app identifies precise locations. Every 10-foot square is given a unique combination of three words. Police ...

Armed with nothing more than Google Maps and a trusty old travel guide, navigating as a tourist in 2018 is a fairly painless experience. But what if the place you’re visiting doesn’t have a reliable ...

Technology and collaboration helped first responders find a lost hunter in the Jackson marsh. Officials had the hunter use ...

A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which ...

'Changing human behaviour and challenging the status quo in any market, and any category is a challenge. But the beauty of what3words is that when people who struggle with addresses, and those who are ...

Since WIRED selected what3words as startup of the week in May 2015, the company has gone from strength to strength. Most recently, its grid system was adopted as an addressing standard by La Poste ...

What3words divides the entire world into three-by-three metre squares and assigns a unique three-word labels to each. The company, which divides the world into three-by-three metre squares and assigns ...

When a young hunter suffered a serious injury and was bleeding uncontrollably in a remote wooded area in Wisconsin, teamwork and technology helped to save their life. Deputies with the Iowa County ...

While mindlessly wandering the venues of this year’s CES in a sleep-deprived and jet-lagged state, we stumbled into Pepcom’s Digital Experience, a small-ish convention outside of the main CES hall.

What3Words is a navigation startup that began life as a consumer product, but pivoted to B2B. A major milestone was signing Mercedes-Benz as a client in February 2019. While now boasting 100 employees ...