​​There's a good chance you can't remember the last time you unfolded a paper map or committed a route to memory before leaving the house. For most people, navigation has been outsourced entirely to a ...

One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites is out in the ether, ...

Thanks to GPS, your car, your phone, even your watch knows exactly where you are on the planet, by listening to a satellite signal from 12,000 miles over your head. GPS is always on, you don't pay ...

Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. Of all the missions the Space Force performs daily for a grateful nation, there is none more ubiquitous and essential than GPS. Today’s soldiers and sailors depend on ...

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 ...

Our widespread reliance on a vulnerable technology should be a wake-up call. A single sustained outage could cost the U.S.

Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in ...

The SpotOn GPS Fence was the first company to incorporate wireless GPS technology specifically into dog fences back in 2019. After half a decade in the game, their GPS dog collar has features like ...