Can GPS support a greener, more sustainable planet? The answer is an emphatic “yes,” and it is already doing so today. GPS has become a fundamental technology across nearly every sector of the U.S.

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...

Have you ever gotten lost while driving? Probably not recently thanks to GPS navigation. The touchscreen navigation/infotainment system in every new car or truck that some colloquially refer to as ...

No audio available for this content. It may be hard to remember — or imagine — life without the Global Positioning System (GPS). From finding the nearest Dunkin’ Donuts to making ATM withdrawals, GPS ...

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 ...

Two recent court decisions — one in New York and the other in Wisconsin — highlight the continuing struggles that courts around the country are having over law enforcement’s use of GPS devices to ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

Around 12,500 miles above our heads, the satellites that make up the Global Positioning System (GPS) quietly keep the world running. A blackout would result in almost instantaneous chaos. “You would ...

A Global Positioning System device is able to constantly track its position using the GPS satellite-based navigation system. When included in a wearable fitness tracker, the GPS chip is able to use ...

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 ...