China’s BeiDou has emerged as a formidable alternative to GPS.The Chinese system is provided by 56 satellites, which is nearly double the number providing GPS, and is supported by 120 ground ...

A total outage of GPS could cost the country at least $1 billion a day. And there's no backup. Russia and China have backups, but the U.S. doesn’t.

GPS receivers and processing chips also plummeted in cost, from around $3,000 in their earliest iterations to about $1.50, making the tools abundantly available for all manner of civil uses.

The BeiDou satellite navigation system, China’s answer to GPS, cemented its leading position in the Chinese market last year, as its economic footprint grew more than 7 per cent and it expanded ...

The team at Tern AI, which is building a low-cost GPS alternative, says that’s because the current technology is limited by its reliance on satellite positioning.

Myanmar is the epicenter of GPS jamming in Asia. A map from Flightradar24, the aircraft tracking website, shows a cluster of red hexagons blanketing the country’s southern region. The pixelated ...

We tested the best GPS watches from Garmin, Coros, Suunto and Apple to help you find a watch that meets your needs. Here are the top options in 2024.

As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft's essential Global Positioning System ...