Mountain rescuers have questioned the accuracy of using a location app, citing dozens of examples where the wrong address was given to their teams. What3Words (W3W) divides the world into ...

HERE and what3words have partnered up to offer the next generation of precision in-car navigation. OEMs using HERE Technologies can now include what3words as an in-car navigation feature, with drivers ...

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 ...

Daimler is investing in the startup that maps the entire planet with three-word labels and is building the tech into some smaller cars. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

'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 ...

London-based U.K. startup what3words has set itself the ambitious task of reinventing postcodes/ZIP codes. Instead of a tricky-to-remember string of letters and/or numbers, it’s created three-word ...

Delivering parcels and letters isn’t always straightforward in Ivory Coast, where street addresses are few and far between, and large settlements often have no address system at all. The postal ...

What3words divides the world into 57 trillion squares, each with a unique three-word address Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is ...

Customers can discover their what3words address via the free what3words app (available for iOS and Android) or the online map at what3words.com. Last week, GRAB, the Mumbai-based last-mile logistics ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finding the entrance to the office of London tech start-up What3Words is not easy. You can almost see it from ...

Mountain rescuers have questioned the accuracy of using a location app, citing dozens of examples where the wrong address was given to their teams. What3Words (W3W) divides the world into ...

Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is it and how does it work? Kicked. Converged. Soccer. These three randomly chosen words saved ...