You can do so much with modern smartphones in addition to navigation ... Battery life is another point of consideration. For a phone, running GPS-based apps takes a lot of effort.

That, in a nutshell, is the conceptual foundation of modern GPS. That GPS receiver in your phone or on the dash of your car learns its location, rate of speed, and elevation by measuring the time ...

The first GPS satellite in the modern fleet launched on Feb. 14, 1989. The Air Force had planned to use the space shuttle for this launch in 1986 but was delayed by the Challenger disaster and ...

Most modern technology, including smartphones, runs on GPS. But the system might be more vulnerable to failures than you think. The U.S. lacks backup geolocation technology, meaning outages or ...

Waiting for GPS to fail, or for hostile powers to spoof it, is waiting until it is too late. GPS needs to be more resilient for the modern era.