The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application that takes the company's existing mapping apps and extends them to new levels of interactivity with data-rich ...

Overall, the new layer is somewhat useful, but it doesn't seem like a very serious effort, and it pales next to the wealth of weather apps and sites already available. To add the weather layer to a ...

Google on Wednesday announced a new layer it's adding to Google Maps that will let users see timely, critical information about multiple major wildfires at once. The feature could be particularly ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...