Psychology suggests that people who always use GPS while driving are rarely forgetful. They are often responding to the way ...

GPS is a radio navigation system that uses radio waves between satellites and a receiver inside your phone to provide location and time information to any software that needs to use it. To use GPS on ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

Large-scale GPS location datasets hold immense potential for measuring human mobility and interpersonal contact, both of which are essential for data-driven epidemiology. However, despite their ...

Fitness apps and the power of live satellite tracking have allowed runners, cyclists and others to draw hearts, animals, birthday wishes — and even homages to Vermeer — across their local landscapes.

Getting stuck in traffic is the proverbial nightmare. Too many cars on the road, too many red lights, too many people all trying to get to the same location, all make traffic something we dread. As ...

Highways chiefs in Hertfordshire are tapping into data transmitted by modern internet-enabled cars, in a bid to make the ...

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority recently published a statement presenting its position and recommendations on privacy protection as it pertains to the ...