There are two things I refuse to do on that run, however: Look like a tourist and pull out my phone to peek at a map. No ...

From smartphone maps to precision weapons, satellite navigation underpins modern life and war. Global navigation satellite systems have become indispensable, and that's made them vulnerable to ...

Google Maps is getting two new features that make using its navigation app even easier while driving. Here's how the new features work.

Sygic has just announced an app update that could make some Google Maps users consider a switch. GPS Navigation has just been updated with support for a new vehicle profile called "motorbike." There's ...

People on social media have reported strange events on delivery and navigation apps—drivers appear to be in the middle of the sea, or a 10-minute trip home suddenly jumps up to 30 minutes. For ...

The world is filling up with GPS dead zones. Nations and individuals alike are deploying cheap but increasingly sophisticated electronic-warfare systems, mostly to thwart attacks by drones and smart ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GPS inteference resulted in tracking data showing clusters of commercial ships falsely positioned at a nuclear power plant, middle ...

Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a ...

GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in space and counterspace capabilities designed to ...

The term "GPS" has become ubiquitous in American life. You know it as the foundational technology of navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze, but in most of the world, GPS is just a meaningless trio ...

TrustPoint's low Earth orbit navigation system ground station. Credit: TrustPoint WASHINGTON — TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, ...

Quantum sensors are transforming how we measure and navigate, offering levels of precision far beyond classical systems. By exploiting atomic superposition, cold atom interferometers, and diamond NV ...