Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location back to a central database? That’s tomorrow. Today, Google is tracking wherever your smartphone goes, and putting a neat red dot on a map to mark the occasion.

A new map of broadband speeds shows which Americans enjoy the fastest and slowest internet connections.

Or at least answer burning global questions, such as "Which country has the hairiest men?"

The Largest Video Game Worlds

As you can see on the map, there are Canes fans all over the world representing The U! Where do you represent the Canes? Mark your location on the map and spread The U all over the world!

Islam transcends the Middle-Eastern corridor with which most Westerners associate it, stretching from the western coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean. These four maps, ‘Percentage of Muslims Per Country,’ ‘Number of Muslims Per Country,’ ‘Presence of Sharia Law,’ and ‘Traditions of Islamic Jurisprudence’ give a compelling account of where Asian Muslims live and how they understand the world. Explore the Muslim world by scrolling over these interactive maps.

In more than 130 years of recorded weather history, June 2014 is the globe's hottest June.

A new report provides the latest checkup on the health of the global climate system.

Here’s something nice: Researchers working out of a Yahoo lab in Barcelona are building a maps application that doesn’t just spit out the fastest path from A to B but instead endeavors to show you the most enjoyable one. What a concept! Is it too much to ask that the entire tech industry follow their lead?

Short version: They drive a lot.

From the equatorial highlands to the alluvial plains

Models show summers are going to keep warming as emissions continue. What will this warming feel like? Our new analysis illustrates.

When droughts or crop failures cause food prices to spike, many Americans barely notice. The average American, after all, spends just 6.6 percent of his or her household budget on food consumed at home. (If you include eating out, that rises to around 11 percent.)

Don’t forget that our independence from those imperialistic, tax-happy Brits was hard won, and the Declaration of Independence, signed 238 years ago today, was just the beginning. Actually, it was more like a dramatic middle act in a decades long struggle to break free of colonial rule and set a fledgling nation on the path to prosperity. The maps in this gallery tell that story.

A passport from the United States allows its citizens free access to 172 other countries. But not all travelers have such an overwhelming spread of choices: Residents of Iraq, for example, can access only 31 countries with their passport. Venturing away from Afghanistan? Your options dwindle to 28 countries.

The U.S. was far and away the most popular hacking target in the world.

Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Oklahoma, has pinpointed the locations and original names of hundreds of American Indian nations before their first contact with Europeans.

For would-be Transportation Czars who have grander ideas for the buses and trains in your town, Transitmix helps you draw a fantasy transit system for your city that's specific down to the block. And it's got a bunch of real-world features that can help you calculate everything from ridership to operating costs.

Storm map with live lightning strikes for the USA and Canada, based on data from the lightning detection network Blitzortung.org.

The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that does not require some form of paid time off for new mothers.