In what appears to have been a severe case of “a bad day at the office,” a Texas-based demolition firm recently tore down the wrong home, apparently blaming a ...

Paper-based road maps are pretty much a thing of the past thanks to sat-navs and smartphones. Google Maps does the job for many people now, its Directions feature offering multiple routes and voiced ...

It’s the go-to app for many people when it comes to navigation, but an error on Google Maps has led to police missing the location of a body for 18 months. Police ...

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A pair of German tourists were led into the vast Australian wilderness by Google Maps. The tourists faced multiple challenges including crossing a crocodile-inhabited river. Google apologised for the ...

ROWLETT, Tex. — A woman whose house was damaged by a tornado late last year now owns nothing but rubble. A demolition crew destroyed her building by mistake on Tuesday after Google Maps provided wrong ...

A Nova Scotia couple is fed up with dozens of hikers walking through their property because of a glitch on Google Maps. For 25 years, Paul Susnis and his wife have lived on a park-like two-hectare ...

As the world's number one mobile navigation app, Google Maps is currently running in millions of vehicles on the road, with drivers relying on its data to find ...

Google is being sued by a widow who says her husband drowned in September 2022 after Google Maps directed him over a collapsed bridge in Hickory, North Carolina. Google failed to correct its map ...

One of the most important benefits of navigation apps is the added predictability, as they make driving to a destination safer by providing drivers with turn-by-turn guidance, traffic data, and hazard ...

If you are a regular Google Maps user and you noticed that the app has stopped on your Galaxy Note10+, it may not mean anything, or that may be a sign of something more serious. Some apps may crash ...

We've seen our share of GPS-guided mishaps, but what happened to the owners of a Texas duplex is particularly heartbreaking. Their house was torn down by mistake (no, this isn't the first time that's ...