Just as cartographers have created manageable maps of our planet and enabled travel and development, our brain maps our diverse sensory inputs to our credit-card sized cerebral cortex to enable ...

Dark modes have become super-popular in the software world, and the whole thing happens for a very good reason. They make the interface easier on the eye, and for people using these apps during the ...

Google announced many new software treats at Google I/O today. Aparna Chennapragada introduced one of the best new features: visual guidance and Visual Positioning System in Google Maps Navigation. We ...

Google Maps is rolling out a striking visual makeover that has left people wondering if the tech giant is taking a page from Apple's book. The changes are more than just skin-deep, as Google ...

Maps have played an important role in scientific progress. Claudius Ptolemaeus transformed our understanding of the world with his map of Earth and Tycho Brahe our understanding of the Universe with ...

Google is rolling out an update to its Maps app, giving it a refreshed visual style, more easily recognizable markers, and context-aware information. If you’re prone to getting disoriented using ...

Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks. Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates ...

Cat visual cortex contains a topographic map of visual space, plus superimposed, spatially periodic maps of ocular dominance, spatial frequency and orientation. It is hypothesized that the layout of ...

How to make a map -- What's your map for? -- Mappable data -- Map making tools -- Geographic framework -- The big picture of map deisgn -- The inner workings of map design -- Map generalization and ...