Google Maps is a popular navigation app worldwide. But even so, there are a few valuable features missing from it. For instance, Google doesn’t offer the ability to find a halfway point between two ...

Ever thought your GPS system said you’d gone further than you expected? A new study dives into the statistics behind the satellite-based positioning service—and finds that overestimates in distance ...

I'm feeling stupid, so maybe better minds can help me with this algorithm question. I have a set of points. I'd like to compute the distance from each point to every other point. The naive approach is ...

Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s conjecture, a simple but far-reaching hypothesis about the distances between points. They’re finally getting close. Scatter three points in a plane, ...