One expert says the federal government needs to develop a secondary system to avoid a disaster in the event the GPS system goes down. It would affect transportation, banking and emergency ...

When the USS Essex shut off GPS and sailed 1,800 miles with nothing but maps and sextants, it exposed a serious question: what happens when satellites go dark? In a world where everything from ...

Before GPS and radar, pilots flew by instinct and math. When those failed, the results were devastating - and often never spoken of again.

Self-driving cars need to know exactly where on the road they are located at all times. A new invention could revolutionize the development of driverless vehicles—and give us more accurate GPS on our ...

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The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other methods fail.

Building an indoor positioning system requires technology beyond GPS. While GPS trackers excel outdoors, indoor positioning systems need Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology to achieve centimetre-level ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

(NEXSTAR) – It may look like an innocuous garden feature to you, but to arborists, these piles of mulch are an atrocity. They’re nicknamed “mulch volcanoes” – essentially a mound of moisture-retaining ...