Most Speedometers Are Inaccurate, But Is GPS Any Better?

While automotive speedometers are typically inaccurate, to a certain degree, GPS is usually more reliable, depending on your ...
PE Hub

Warburg Pincus’ Andrew Sibbald: Price divergence to rise in 2026

The discrepancy between high- and low-performing assets will grow as more portfolio companies come to market, says the head ...
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 ...
Forbes

AI As The New GPS: Reimagining How Businesses Navigate Complexity

Most of us never reach for a map while driving anymore, nor are we printing directions before a family trip. We navigate with our phones, guided by the pinpoint accuracy of GPS. It gets us to vacation ...
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GPS Outages and Military Navigation: How the U.S. Navy Prepares for the Unthinkable

In February 2022, the USS Essex experienced a unique navigation scenario: all electronic navigation systems on its bridge were intentionally disabled for five days. This forced the crew to traverse ...
GPS World

NASA’s GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection catches wave in real time

A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed a critical component just the day before. A recent tsunami triggered by a ...
GitHub

Consultation on Error When Loading DGPS Module in Mavproxy and Local Serial Port Differential Data Forwarding Solution

Differential GPS - Describe the issue/suggestion and improve the title. Please keep a link to the original article if relevant. I'm using it to access NTRIP. The client's requirement is to send data ...
Jalopnik

How Often Do You Need To Change Differential Fluid?

Let's be honest, the average person has never thought about whether differentials even have fluid. They're not like engines, which require oil changes after about 5,000 to 10,000 miles (or 12,500 if ...
Interesting Engineering

2 tiny spacecraft launched to attempt world’s first GPS-only satellite docking

AVS US staff perform a solar illumination test on a CubeSat in preparation for launch aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 14 rideshare rocket, as part of the UND ROADS mission.AVS US/Provided In a ...
MIT Technology Review

Inside the race to find GPS alternatives

Startup Xona Space Systems hopes to provide an unspoofable alternative to increasingly threatened GPS. Later this month, an inconspicuous 150-kilogram satellite is set to launch into space aboard the ...
Wired

A GPS Blackout Would Shut Down the World

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 ...