How Your Smartphone Detects Your Location: The Secrets Behind GPS 📱
Discover how your smartphone pinpoints your exact location using GPS and other technologies, making navigation and local searches effortless.
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7 views • May 20, 2025
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GPS location apps on a smartphone can be very handy when mapping a travel route or finding nearby events. But how does your smartphone know where you are? Wilton L. Virgo explains how the answer lies 12,000 miles over your head, in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics. <br /><br />Lesson by Wilton L. Virgo, animation by Nick Hilditch.
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May 20, 2025
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