Your smartphone could be broadcasting your location without you knowing it. Find out how this happens and how to keep your ...

Scientists have found a way to make GPS remarkably accurate in city "urban canyons," where navigation has long gone wrong.

The National Parks Service app is a must-have for exploring US national parks, offering interactive trail maps, self-guided ...

After a water crossing, overheating, and vibration destroyed my phone, Garmin's new Zumo XT3 proved there's still a place for ...

Gladys West had an “insatiable thirst for knowledge.” She used computers, radars and satellites to make calculations that led ...

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YAPHANK, Long Island (WABC) -- The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office is rolling out new high-tech tools to stop dangerous police chases. It's a first-of-its-kind system using GPS-tracking darts to tag ...

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office is equipping some deputies with dart-launching devices that fire GPS trackers, a move aimed at reducing the need for high-speed pursuits. The launcher, mounted in ...

We rely daily on the GPS on our phones to get to many different places in our lives. However, the technology stops working in the depths of the ocean, which is why submarines need something different.

Modern smartphones have replaced so many standalone consumer devices, including cameras, MP3 and media players, calculators, flashlights, and even dedicated GPS units. But while they certainly do a ...

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military’s most ...

Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a ...