The omnipresent system that people use for navigation and positioning is increasingly vulnerable. Can it be improved?

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

Illegal GPS jammers have interfered with a GPS-based precision landing system at Newark Liberty International Airport since at least 2009 , and so far it appears the Federal Communications Commission ...

It's the stuff of spy movies: someone plants a GPS tracker or Apple AirTag in your car without your consent and uses it to ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...

Frances Gatta is a freelance health writer with experience covering health care technology, general health, mental health, femtech and personalized nutrition for companies and publications like Oura, ...

Learn how GPS in sports tracks athlete movement, workload, and performance using wearables, metrics, and real-time data ...

Want to access region-locked services? Need an IP address in a specific country? We explain how to fake your GPS location to access websites and services that are usually blocked. While a Virtual ...