The Columbus Board of Public Works and Safety approved an agreement for use of a software platform that compiles analytics using GPS data. The city is paying location analytics company Placer.ai ...

It's a high-tech alternative to police chases. A GPS dart fired from a cop cruiser latches onto the getaway car. Officers can ...

GPS is a radio navigation system that uses radio waves between satellites and a receiver inside your phone to provide location and time information to any software that needs to use it. To use GPS on ...

There’s no doubt about it: modern Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy has improved by leaps and bounds since the days of Transit, the first global satellite navigation system developed in the ...

Getting stuck in traffic is the proverbial nightmare. Too many cars on the road, too many red lights, too many people all trying to get to the same location, all make traffic something we dread. As ...

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a GPS 3 satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, June 17, 2021. Credit: U.S. Space Force For decades, the Global Positioning ...

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 ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite network handles location services for everything from phones to planes, but what if the network went offline? The over-the-air broadcasting industry has ...

A surge in EV charging cable thefts is putting the reliability of the UK’s charging network at risk and undermining trust among drivers. InstaVolt is the UK’s largest network of fast chargers, and ...