To protest this phenomenon, Chicago-based digital creatives Ben Doessel and James Lee released a new font, named “Gerry,” that renders maps of gerrymandered districts into letters of the alphabet.

Essentially, it’s a font for creating maps of the United States. A symbol font, to be precise, just like the Word 2000-era favorite Webdings, but instead of planes and pictograms it generates ...

Digital maps can find the nearest coffee shop, the boundaries of a neighbourhood or a street view of the house where you grew up. What they can’t find are fundamental pieces of Canadian ...

AP Technology Writer PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI ...