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SCOUT· 39%18m·2026-08-26·ScienceHow GPS shaped our world
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GPS is such an essential part of our lives that it’s easy to forget there was once a world without it. But, like many tech advancements of the 20th century, GPS was originally created by the U.S. military. So how did it become a part of daily civilian life? And how vulnerable is it to manipulation? Katherine Dunn has…
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