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 ...

Visualizers used to be very much in vogue, something you’d gasp in at amazement when you’d fire up Winamp or Windows Media Player. They’re largely absent from our modern lives, but [Arnov Sharma] is ...

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 ...

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...

Our everyday GPS struggles in “urban canyons,” where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. NTNU scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections ...

For decades, the Global Positioning System has been the backbone of the modern world. From stock trades to power grids, aircraft to smartphones, GPS delivers the precise positioning, navigation, and ...

As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...

It won’t whip the llama’s ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera’s Dynamic Themes, ...

Self-driving cars need to know exactly where on the road they are located at all times. A new invention could revolutionize the development of driverless vehicles—and give us more accurate GPS on our ...

Civil aviation and maritime operators face a growing threat from GPS jamming and spoofing that can disrupt satellite navigation and put safety at risk. That was the message from a coalition of ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was flying into Bulgaria when her plane's GPS system was jammed in a suspected Russian operation, forcing pilots to rely on backup navigation and old ...