Want to really annoy someone who relies on Google Maps for satellite navigation? Researchers have come up with a novel way of stealthily sending people in the wrong direction, using $250 of equipment ...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A recent surge in GPS “spoofing”, a form of digital attack which can send commercial airliners off course, has entered an intriguing new dimension, according to cybersecurity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A British-flagged vessel owned by Stena Bulk was the victim of technology designed to fool navigation systems when it was lured ...

A recent tour of an old WWII-era aircraft carrier reminded us how hard navigation was before the advent of GPS. It used to be the work of skilled people to sight the sun or the stars and use giant ...

GPS III satellites, like the one being transported here, are built to carry M-Code, a more secure GPS signal built for the military. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin) Industry leaders and government ...

A devoted Nintendo DS hacker, Alexei Karpenko, has managed to rig up a Lassen iQ module to the handheld system, transforming the top screen into a GPS system. Downloading information from Google Maps, ...