Many portable electronic devices, like smartphones and tablets, now include a built-in GPS receiver with a variety of mapping apps that can be used to detect the location or provide directions to ...

Quantum science—one of the Pentagon’s top research priorities—may be about to deliver on its longtime promise of an alternative to GPS. A team of scientists from Sandia National Laboratory has ...

The Pentagon’s biggest quantum challenge isn’t just the tech itself—it’s making the technology relevant and relatable to commanders and troops. But a push to develop and deploy quantum sensors for ...

How can we navigate airliners or allow military vehicles to stay on course without GPS or satellite signals? This is a problem for which quantum inertial sensors offer a solution. Harnessing quantum ...

We’ve come to expect the U.S.-based global positioning system (GPS) to be available and ubiquitous for the countless military, commercial, and consumer applications dependent on it. Its diverse uses ...

As commercial interest in quantum technologies accelerates, entrepreneurial minds at the University of Waterloo are not waiting for opportunities—they are creating them. Among them is Alex Maierean ...

Advances in global navigation satellite systems and miniaturised sensors embedded in smartphones have revolutionised the automated detection of transportation modes. By capturing spatiotemporal ...

TaylorMade’s new commitment to a holistic approach to serving its customers through a revitalized app launched last month got another boost this week when the company joined with Arccos to offer the ...

Inside a tank, a mine drift, or a ship hull, the Global Positioning System usually drops away fast. That is where the answer to how do drones navigate without GPS becomes practical rather than ...