The United Nations estimates as many as four billion people live in places where there are no street names or numbers. And the simple lack of an address can have big consequences. A U.K. tech startup ...

Those three words helped Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) find a woman who was lost at night on the Walter Bean Trail in Cambridge, Ont., earlier this month. The woman was using the app ...

Chris Sheldrick, co-founder of what3words, got frustrated trying to get bands and their equipment to the right entrances of venues, so he came up with a simple system: combining three random words to ...

The What3Words (W3W) geocoding algorithm creates potential for confusing different nearby addresses, with potentially hazardous implications in emergency situations, according to a new ...