For years, the portable receivers that use Global Positioning System satellite signals for navigation have been niche products. They have been favored by hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, by ...

WASHINGTON — You can’t always trust your GPS gadget. As scientists have long known, perplexing electrical activity in the upper atmospheric zone called the ionosphere can tamper with signals from GPS ...

Quantum properties may improve precision of object locators while adding security. Laser-based position location systems are entering a new era that is based on quantum mechanics. The research could ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, El Segundo, Calif. — A U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite built by Boeing was successfully launched today. The fourth GPS IIF satellite, Space Vehicle ...

Researchers Find Way to Use Starlink Signals As Alternative to GPS The research, which was sponsored by the Army Research Office, shows Starlink could be used as a backup to the US's Global ...

Nearly 50 years since its founding, the U.S. Global Positioning System is in danger of losing its cachet as the world’s gold-standard location service. The U.S. military, which runs GPS, is upgrading ...

Global positioning system (GPS) wildlife collars have revolutionized wildlife research. Studies of predation by free-ranging carnivores have particularly benefited from the application of location ...

CISA has released an Industrial Controls Systems Advisory (ICSA) detailing six vulnerabilities that were discovered in MiCODUS MV720 Global Positioning System Tracker. Successful exploitation of these ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambidexter, a Russian team of indie developers, has announced the soft-launch release of its flagship project – mobile AR RPG UnderVerse in New ...

Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...