Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...

The FBI confirms it’s buying location data on Americans again, using data brokers to access movement history without a ...

Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden cosmic web of galaxies and gas by mapping hydrogen light from the early universe.

OpenData.org, the world's largest open global entity graph, today announced the release of its comprehensive U.S. dataset featuring 86 million organizations, 101 million contacts (people-company ...

Researchers have produced the first global map showing how ocean tides travel upstream into coastal rivers, a dataset that ...

To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite ...

MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by "seeing" through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating ...

Microsoft’s geospatial data service is designed to help research projects using public satellite and sensor information.

A long-running fight over the government’s purchase of Americans’ phone location data resurfaced Wednesday at the Senate Select Committee.

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing hidden galaxies and gas from 9-11 billion years ago. By analyzing faint ...

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.