After 16 years and $8 billion, the military’s new GPS software still doesn’t work

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for ...
WMUR

Consumer Reports warns parents about GPS, smartwatch privacy when tracking kids

CONSUMER REPORTS THAT PARENTS WILL WANT TO SEE. KEHLANI VASQUEZ TRACKS HER DAUGHTER’S LOCATION WHILE SHE TRAVELS WITH HER SCHOOL’S SPORTS TEAM. FOR ME, IT’S MORE ABOUT PEACE OF MIND, BEING ABLE TO SEE ...
Wall Street Journal

The World Is Full of GPS Dead Zones. Here’s What Comes Next.

The world is filling up with GPS dead zones. Nations and individuals alike are deploying cheap but increasingly sophisticated electronic-warfare systems, mostly to thwart attacks by drones and smart ...
CNN

GPS jamming is emerging as an increasingly prevalent — and troubling — weapon of war

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 ...
AZFamily

Child tracking devices collect more than location data, Consumer Reports warns

PHOENIX (Consumer Reports) — More parents are using GPS trackers and kids’ smartwatches to monitor their children’s whereabouts, but a new Consumer Reports investigation reveals potential privacy and ...
Space.com

SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force (video, photos)

Liftoff of the GPS III-SV09 mission occurred at 11:53 p.m. ET on Tuesday (Jan. 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...
ABC7 San Francisco

What parents need to know about tracking their kids with GPS

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you track your children's location using tech, you're not alone. A 2024 survey by Pew Research Center found that one in four parents monitor their kids' whereabouts using GPS ...
Education Week

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...
The Washington Post

GPS is key to the global economy. It’s also surprisingly easy to attack.

The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System was going haywire, ...
Ars Technica

GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it

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 ...
MIT Technology Review

Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...
Science Daily

Why GPS fails in cities. And how it was brilliantly fixed

Our everyday GPS struggles in “urban canyons,” where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. NTNU scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections ...