Neowin News Feed for: Gps

Google's Waze gets The Wizard of Oz driving experience

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:16:01 +0000

Google has introduced a new driving experience for its other navigation app Waze. It's available for users globally. Read more...

Tractive GPS collar review: Keeping tabs on your pet's health and location

Christopher White — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:00:01 +0000

We all love our pets, but how would you find your fur-baby if it ran off in the night? We take a look at Tractive, a GPS monitor for your pet that also has some health monitoring and game features. Read more...

Science is almost ready to "redefine the second" with this new research

Sayan Sen — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:20:02 +0000

Scientists have been researching how to measure time even more accurately and with this new study, they are getting ready to "redefine the seconds." Read more...

Climate change causes South Africa to mysteriously rise instead of sink. NASA helps find why

Sayan Sen — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:14:01 +0000

A study has finally revealed why South Africa keeps rising against the ocean instead of sinking and how climate change is also causing this. Read more...

Google's Waze adds a new Minion-themed driving experience

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:30:01 +0000

You can try out the new Minion-themed special driving experience in Google's Waze navigation app. It's available to users across the globe with support for voice directions in multiple languages. Read more...

Google's Waze onboards Dashie to voice your daily commute

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 17 May 2024 20:38:01 +0000

Google-owned Waze has added a new special experience to its navigation app. It features YouTube's popular gaming commenter Dashie, who gives voice directions in the app in a humorous tone. Read more...

Google Maps gets trending lists, customization options, and AI summaries for places

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:24:01 +0000

Announcing new features for Maps, Google said it will show curated lists from publishers and community when looking for select cities. It will also add new customization options for the lists. Read more...

Waze adds new Ghostbusters navigation experience to its app

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:12:01 +0000

Waze has added a new special driving experience featuring the Ghostbusters. The feature is available globally and includes the guest navigation voice of the paranormal expert Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd). Read more...

Google's Waze makes it easier to navigate roundabouts, warns in advance about speed limits

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:32:01 +0000

Google-owned Waze has announced some new features, including better navigation when going through roundabouts. The app will also provide detailed information about 30,000 parking garages. Read more...

Waze brings two new driving experiences for the holiday season

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:18:01 +0000

Waze has added two new special driving experiences to its navigation app for the holidays. One of them is Spicy Gingerbread Man which comprises a custom Slay Ride car icon and Snappy Mood. Read more...

Waze gets crash history alerts for accident-prone roads

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:28:01 +0000

Waze is launching a new security feature for its users called crash history alerts. The community-driven navigation app will warn users when they're about to enter an accident-prone stretch of road. Read more...

India plans to make NavIC support mandatory for all smartphones from 2025

Mehrotra A — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:16:01 +0000

The Indian government has proposed a new rule that will see smartphone and automobile manufacturers offering NavIC, India's home-grown navigation system as an alternative to GPS from 2025. Read more...

Waze adds tennis star Roger Federer's voice to its navigation app

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:32:01 +0000

Waze said it has teamed up with the former tennis legend Roger Federer. His voice is now used to power the app's navigation feature while driving. The feature is available on Android and iOS globally. Read more...

Vodafone launches new GPS pet tracking pack to its IoT range

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:30:01 +0000

Vodafone has launched a new Curve GPS pet pack which includes a clip that you can fasten to your pet's collar. This will be helpful if your pets get lost or if you want to see where they go. Read more...

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Samsung Galaxy S20 owners complaining of GPS lock issues

Rajesh Pandey — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:08:01 +0000

A number of Samsung Galaxy S20 owners are reporting GPS issues with their units. Their devices are taking a long time to get a GPS lock and even then, the location data is all over the place. Read more...

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Garmin announces the vívoactive 3 Music smartwatch

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:10:01 +0000

The Garmin vívoactive 3 Music is a GPS smartwatch featuring the Garmin Pay contactless payment app, music storage capacity of up to 500 songs, and a heart rate sensor, among others. It costs $299.99. Read more...

Google wants to use AR to make walking navigation easier in Maps

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 08 May 2018 23:42:01 +0000

Google today unveiled its vision for walking navigation aided by Augmented Reality in Google Maps. The feature would instantly recognize the user's position and provide clearer directions. Read more...

Liam Neeson can now give you directions in Waze

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 02:54:01 +0000

If you yearned for Liam Neeson to give you directions while navigating the streets of the U.S., your wish has now been granted, as Waze has added the popular actor to its list of available voices. Read more...

Apple will fix iPhone 8 and iPhone X GPS issues soon

Paul Hill — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:44:01 +0000

Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone X users have been reporting GPS issues with their devices. It looks as though Apple is already on the case though, fixing issues with iOS 11.1 and iOS 11.2. Read more...

China's BeiDou navigation system about to go global

Paul Hill — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:22:01 +0000

China has launched its first BeiDou-3 satellites marking the beginning of the global expansion of the Chinese navigation system. Phones will likely support BeiDou in the West in several years time. Read more...

Cambridge Consultants have developed a drone that delivers into your hands

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:14:01 +0000

Rather than using your address, the DelivAir system, developed by Cambridge Consultants, can deliver directly to you by using the GPS from your phone. Which means it can deliver almost anywhere. Read more...

This week in science: say good-bye to Jurassic Park; coral reef bleaching; new NASA mission

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 22:14:01 +0000

Paleontologists have reanalyzed the collagen from fossils and determined that Jurassic Park may never exist; Great Barrier Reef bleaching is worse than ever; and NASA's first neutron star mission. Read more...

China marks significant progress on its BeiDou satnav network

Paul Hill — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:06:01 +0000

China's BeiDou satellite network now works with a new chip that enables the system to pin a device's location accurately to one or two metres, putting it on par with the EU's Galileo satellite system. Read more...

Europe's sat nav system Galileo to go live this week

Chandrakant Isi — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:40:01 +0000

Europe's satellite navigation system Galileo is said to be more accurate than GPS and GLONASS. The ambitious project has cost the European Union over a 10 billion euros. Read more...

A new satellite tracking system could help eliminate airplane disappearances

Jett Goldsmith — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:50:01 +0000

Two US companies are working on a new satellite tracking technology which will allow an airliner to be tracked from nearly anywhere in the world, bypassing the limitations of current tracking systems. Read more...

Uber said to invest $500 million to develop global mapping system

Shreyas Gandhe — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 19:20:01 +0000

In order to reduce its reliance on Google Maps and also help its autonomous car research, Uber is said to be investing around 500 million dollars in developing a global mapping system of its own. Read more...

Google launches Emergency Location Service for Android to help users in emergencies

Jett Goldsmith — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:42:01 +0000

Google has launched its Emergency Location Service feature for Android devices in the UK and Estonia. The feature sends location data to emergency services, and will be expanded internationally. Read more...

Here's how to catch them all in Pokémon GO from the comfort of your own couch

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:56:01 +0000

Pokémon GO can be a fun game if you really like to walk. But what if you don't? Here's how to spoof your location, catch all the Pokémon, and probably get banned, from the comfort of your own home. Read more...

Xiaomi's smartwatch for kids has a panic button, route tracking and a pricetag under $50

Steven Johns — Sun, 01 May 2016 10:02:01 +0000

Xiaomi has announced a new smartwatch aimed at kids called the Mi Bunny. Coming in both pink and blue, it has a number of features including route tracking and the ability to make voice calls. Read more...

Buggy 'Find My Phone' recovery tool on multiple phones sends people to one US home

Chris Schroeder — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:00:02 +0000

One couple living in their Atlanta home are learning first-hand how buggy those 'Find My Phone' features can be after receiving numerous visitors looking for lost smartphones. Read more...

You need to calibrate your Microsoft Band: Here's how

Brad Sams — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:22:01 +0000

If you have a Microsoft Band, you need to calibrate it so that the device accurately records your steps but how to do it has not been talked about so far as it was private information. Read more...

CO-GPS from Microsoft Research: better GPS with incredible battery life

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:17:41 +0000

We all know Microsoft Research does awesome stuff but this time they seem to have outdone themselves. CO-GPS might bring better location services with only a tiny fraction of today's energy usage. Read more...

FourSquare served lawsuit over patents on GPS usage

Paul Ferson — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:46:54 +0000

Location networking service FourSquare has been hit with lawsuits for infringing on two obscure U.S. Patents relating how GPS is used to share information. Read more...

Track your deceased relatives with a coffin GPS

Christopher White — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:56:37 +0000

Afraid you'll forget where your loved ones are buried? Want to make sure they don't start eating people's brains in the zombie apocalypse? The Preserve has a solution for you! Read more...

US Supreme Court: Police need warrants to use GPS

Christopher White — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:59:23 +0000

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker on a suspect's vehicle as it is now considered a "search," and covered by the 4th amendment. Read more...

LightSquared says US goverment tests were "rigged"

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:24:18 +0000

LightSquared claims that the recent tests by the US government that showed LightSquared's wireless network interfere with GPS signals were "rigged" by the government "to produce bogus results." Read more...

Microsoft issued patent that keeps you out of the ghetto

Brad Sams — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:08:55 +0000

We all know that companies patent nearly any idea they can think of and Microsoft has done just that with its 'Avoid Ghetto' feature for GPS devices. Read more...

LightSquared's network affects majority of GPS units in US

John Callaham — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0000

The results of a new test of LightSquared's proposed 4G wireless network showed that it causes disruptions in 75 percent of the GPS units in the US. Read more...