TechMap Live
A world map of technology news, plotted where it actually happened.
72 free public tech feeds, read every five minutes. Model releases, rocket launches, chip news, funding rounds, robotics and breaches — each one pinned to a headquarters, a launch pad or a factory, with a link back to the article it came from.
It is the sibling of WarMap Live, running the same engine against the technology desk instead of the war desk. No account, no paywall, no cookie wall.
At a Glance
72
Public tech feeds
5 min
Refresh interval
11
Languages
$0
Free, no account
Seven kinds of event, one world map.
Anything the feeds report that can be tied to a real place gets a marker. Everything else is dropped rather than pinned somewhere plausible.
AI
Models, labs, releases
Chips
Fabs, supply, export rules
Space
Launches, orbits, missions
Robotics
Hardware, autonomy, factories
Software
Platforms, launches, outages
Cyber
Breaches, attacks, ransomware
Other
Everything else that fits
Money
Deal size, as reported
An arc is drawn when a story has two ends — an acquirer and the company it bought, an investor and a startup, an attributed attack and its victim. Everything else gets a plain marker.
From an RSS item to a marker on the map.
Four stages run every five minutes. Most articles never reach the model at all, which is deliberate.
Read the feeds
72 free public technology RSS feeds are fetched on rotation. No paid news API is involved. Every one of them was probed live before it was added, because a feed that answers with a healthy 200 while serving items from years ago is the failure this pipeline has already shipped twice.
Score and skip
Each article is scored on technology and event words in eleven languages, and most are dropped before any model runs. What is left is diffed against what has already been seen, so a quiet interval calls the model zero times instead of burning a request on nothing.
Classify and locate
The model may only classify the event, estimate where it belongs and copy out a figure the article already stated. It is never allowed to supply a source URL, an outlet name or a timestamp — those come from the feed entry. Anything that fails validation is dropped, never repaired.
Plot it, with the source attached
The event is written to the database and appears on the map within the refresh cycle, carrying a link to the original article and a permanent page of its own that can be cited.
A number on the map is a number from the article.
Reported, never estimated.
A funding round shows $40M because the article said $40M. Nothing is inferred from a valuation, rounded up from a range, or converted out of a currency the reporter did not use.
When a story named no figure, the marker simply carries none. An empty value is an honest answer and a guess is not.
No seed data, ever.
The map ships empty and fills itself. There are no example events, no demo markers and no placeholder deals — on a site that presents itself as live reporting, an invented event is fabricated news.
The time window is absolute too. A quiet hour renders as a quiet hour, and the wider windows are one tap away.
A fork, not a rewrite.
TechMap Live is WarMap Live's codebase retargeted at a different desk. The map, the server-side rendering, the eleven languages, the caching rules and the embed system are the same engine, which means every production lesson learned on the conflict map arrived here already fixed.
What changed is the domain model: seven technology event types instead of six weapon types, a reported dollar value instead of a casualty count, actor-to-target arcs instead of attacker-to-target, and a Nasdaq and Bitcoin ticker instead of a crude oil one.
Rendered where
On the server
Works with JS off
Everything but the map
Embeddable
With a free key
Filters are ordinary links rather than buttons, so every filtered view is a real URL that works without scripting; the map upgrades them to in-place updates when JavaScript is available.
What this map is not.
These limits are published on the site itself, in its documentation and in the file it offers to AI assistants, because a map that overstates its own reliability is worse than no map.
It is an aggregator, not a newsroom. There is no human review in the pipeline and no reporting of its own.
Coordinates are estimates. An event is usually pinned at a headquarters or a launch site, not at the exact place it happened.
An attribution is a claim. A cyberattack arc reflects who the article blamed, not a proven origin.
Early figures get revised. A deal size is whatever the article said on the day it was published.
Coverage follows the feeds. Well-covered companies and regions produce more markers than under-covered ones.
An empty area is not silence. It means no monitored feed published a matching report.
Not suitable for investment, procurement, security or legal decisions without checking the original source.
One worker, one database, one map.
The whole thing runs on Cloudflare, including the scheduled job that reads the feeds. There is no server to keep alive and no separate backend.
The map is the product.
Open it and you get the current window straight away — no account, no cookie wall, and every event one click from its source.
TechMap Live aggregates public news reporting. It is not a newsroom and carries no warranty of accuracy. Always check the linked source before relying on anything you see here.