Researchers at De Montfort University in Leicester have secured £113,000 in funding to develop a navigation device that can gather information from a variety of satellite systems. The sat-nav device ...

This is after 17 years of development and billions spent. We tend to use “GPS” the way we use “Kleenex” or “Band-Aid”—as a brand name substitute for the generic “satellite navigation system.” But the ...

Europe's Galileo sat-nav system, a rival to America's GPS, took a step closer to becoming operational Tuesday with the launch of a fresh pair of satellites to join a dozen already in space. Orbiters ...

31 Jan 2024, 16:44 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Blindly trusting GPS navigation once again has serious consequences, as a driver went off a ramp and over a median as he was following the sat-nav 26 Jan ...

Sat-nav systems can not only sometimes send motorists the wrong way but also impair driving, a study suggests. Researchers at University of London and Lancaster University tested drivers in a car ...

New research by Comscore has underlined something we always knew, but perhaps we weren’t expecting to be so significant: Cellphone satellite navigation use in Europe is rocketing skywards at an ...

ESA plans to use its upcoming Lunar Pathfinder mission to experiment with expanding sat-nav coverage to the Moon. By tuning in to the radio signals leaking from the Galileo and GPS satellite ...

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has revealed details of a New Zealand trial of the satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) mdash; which is intended to improve the accuracy of GPS mdash; that it ...

London’s taxi drivers have to pass a grueling test to earn a license, memorizing the ins and outs of central London. Research has shown that certain regions of the aspiring drivers’ brains actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tech companies are updating their navigation applications after a crash which caused two deaths was caused by faulty directions ...