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Using GPS too much may be bad for your brain, science says

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev Jun. 06, 2019 Health & Wellness

A person using Google Maps on their smartphone. Photo credit: Ingo Joseph/CC 2.0, via Pexels

When people get in their cars in LA, one of the first things they do is type a destination into a smartphone. Millions of people worldwide use GPS. Now new science says it could affect our brains in serious adverse ways.

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