Ultra precise Chinese lattice clock joins international system, challenging decades of US dominance in global timekeeping ...

Many iOS apps ask for precise location tracking permission by default the first time you open them. But it can be easy to forget how many or which apps you’ve given that permission. Here’s how to turn ...

PPP. It’s one of the many acronyms (or initialisms, if you prefer) associated with the uses of global navigation satellite systems. It stands for precise point positioning. But what is that? Isn’t all ...

IT WAS 1999. That was the year when the first mobile or cell phones equipped with GPS became available. Garmin introduced the NavTalk Pilot aimed at aviators and Benefon, a former Finnish cellphone ...

A modern smartphone uses navigational satellites—sometimes drawing from multiple orbital systems—as well as cellular towers, Bluetooth hints, and Wi-Fi router locations to produce an awfully precise ...