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When GPS goes wrong

Over the past two decades, the Global Positioning System has woven itself into the fabric of every business that needs to move something from Point A to Point B. But a recent wave of disruptions has shown that GPS isn’t as infallible as most of us believe. Fortune’s Katherine Dunn reports on a crisis of navigation.
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