Many people “drop a pin” when they want to send their location to someone else, but what if you don’t have a good connection or need to speak where you are? Now, an app called what3words can help.

If you’re at a house or business, it’s easy enough to communicate where you are: just give an address or a google-able name. But if you’re trying to meet someone at their blanket on the beach, or ...

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 ...

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what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. They’ve divided the world into 10-foot squares and given each one a unique combination of three words which ...

How do you translate an address into 26 languages so that it sounds perfectly natural in each one? London-based startup what3words has given every location on Earth a three-word English address; now, ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Have you ever been asked to meet at Disneyland? What about the Staples Center? How do you remember where you parked your car? If you are trying to find someone or something at a ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – It’s the crucial tech on your mobile phone that most people don’t even realize they have, and it made a difference last week in the rescue of three boaters on Lake Drummond.

Thanks to a simple partnership between two mapping companies, satnavs in millions of new cars across North America and Europe are set to get an upgrade that should make them more accurate and far ...

A recognizable location was chosen: the Washington Square Arch in Washington Square Park in lower Manhattan. The ZDNet journalist dressed conspicuously: a black hat, black sunglasses, and a puffy ...

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 ...