Fox NewsNews Mom uses GPS to locate daughter, 17, trapped under car 25 feet down mountainsideFox News - Danielle WallaceA North Carolina mom used a phone tracking app to find her missing teenage daughter who had been pinned underneath her car for more than seven hours after careening 25 feet down the side of a mountain.
zhogfanadded this to CONSUMER HOME DIY FAMILY.SALEMaps Study reveals how screwed we’d be during a GPS outagebgr.com - Andy Meek The US government’s National Institutes of Standards and Technology recently decided to sponsor what appears to be the most comprehensive look to …
gregpimenteladded this to Revolutionary Tech Maps GPS outage could cost $1 billion per day, study findsTechSpot - Isaiah Mayersen The big picture: It shouldn’t surprise anyone to know just how dependent on technology the American economy is, but what you should be thinking about …
AAdnan Nasanadded this to SecurityMaps Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1 billion per dayArs Technica - Eric Berger 90 percent of the technology's financial impact has come since just 2010. Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global Positioning System …
archwizardadded this to Tech | Gear | InternetVerizon The Verizon Smart Locator is a $100 Tile competitor with LTEandroidcentral.com - Jason England • Verizon is now selling its own Smart Locator device for $100 with one free year of LTE service. • After the free year, service will cost you $3 per …
AudioburstSatellites Listen: NASA overcomes military's GPS tweaks to peer inside hurricanesAudioburst - Science Magazine Podcast "Now we have Paul vision, a staff writer for SCI. He's here to talk to us about gauging the speed of hurricanes, or at least trying to gauge the …
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Cargo Magazinadded this to Cargo MagazinNOAA NASA overcomes military's GPS tweaks to peer inside hurricanessciencemag.org - Paul Voosen A mission to probe winds deep inside hurricanes, where most satellites cannot see and few aircraft venture, is showing signs of success despite an …
Unsecurityadded this to How to delete or hide your DatazSatellites Satellites Are Quietly, Constantly Watching Us - VICEVICE - Ziya TongIn a few short decades, the movement and activities of large swaths of Earth's humans can be tracked at all times. Ziya Tong is the author of 'The Reality Bubble,' a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look
Daily Mailadded this to Science + TechMaps US military will begin testing 'jam-resistant' GPS this fall that can help combat Russian interferencedailymail.co.uk - James Pero The US military is looking to expedite the deployment of 'jam resistant' GPS units in an effort to guard against interference from Russian …
Garmin Garmin Edge 830 GPS computer reviewbikeradar.com - Alex Evans With an impressive array of interesting and useful — if a little clunky at times — features, the Edge 830 is a true class-leading GPS that really …
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Seeking AlphaMaps Harris delivers navigation payload for GPS III satelliteSeeking Alpha - Yoel Minkoff Harris (HRS -2.5%) has provided Lockheed Martin with its seventh of 10 advanced navigation payloads contracted for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III …
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Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesTelecoms Telecom company wants to pay someone $1,000 to use a flip phone for a weekFox News - Anna HopkinsA telecommunications company wants to pay one lucky person $1,000. The only catch: you have to trade in your smartphone for a week and use a flip phone. Javier Mendoza, a corporate Vice President at Frontier
Montreal Gazetteadded this to Montreal Gazette NewsTransit Transit aims to improve bus time accuracy with machine learningmontrealgazette.com - Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette Millions of transit users across hundreds of cities all have one thing in common: they love to think their transit agency is the worst. Read More
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) Ground System Upgrade to Control More Powerful GPS Satellitesyahoo.com - PR Newswire Second GPS III Satellite Readies for Launch; Third Satellite Declared "Available for Launch" DENVER, June 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The next step in …
bbaldar odensonadded this to MilitaryU.S. Army The US Army will test a new GPS that’s resistant to jamming this fallThe Verge - Andrew LiptakThis fall, the US Army will test a jam-resistant GPS to try and overcome the problem, Breaking Defense, following suspicions that Russia has jammed GPS signals in Europe and elsewhere. GPS jamming can
ZDNetadded this to NewsTechnology US Army to trial anti-jammer GPS tech in the fieldZDNet - Charlie Osborne Alleged Russian interference with GPS signals has prompted the tests. The United States military is planning to test out technology able to prevent …
Hindustan Timesadded this to India NewsFloods Now, satellite data to forecast flood in UPhindustantimes.com - HT Correspondent The FMISC has issued advisory for establishment of 48 flood control room across the state that will collect data, monitor water levels. The Flood …
Michael Gensealadded this to Drones in Law Enforcement Drones Man Accused Of Droning Contraband Into Lincoln Correctional Centeriheart.com Officers with the Lincoln Police Department arrested a man after an investigation into a drone that was found carrying contraband near the Lincoln …
Michael Madded this to Running LongUltramarathons Kilian Jornet’s two Everest summits disputed in new bookrunningmagazine.ca - Anne Francis The possibility that the greatest mountain runner in the world did not actually summit Everest twice without oxygen or fixed ropes in May 2017, as he …
The Motley FoolGarmin Why Shares of Garmin Plunged 10.8% in MayThe Motley Fool - Travis Hoium First-quarter results were good but investors are anxious about the rest of 2019. Shares of Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN) fell 10.8% in May, according to data …
NBC Newsadded this to Top StoriesFalcon 9 NASA to put a toaster oven-sized atomic clock in space. Here's why.NBC News - By Mike Wall, Space.comThe agency's Deep Space Atomic Clock is designed to make deep-space travel more efficient. A new atomic clock that will help spacecraft navigate autonomously through the final frontier will get its first
Scooters Scooter companies can self-police themselves using technology | Opiniontennessean.com - Douglas Small, Guest columnist I use GPS as the primary source of navigation for my flights. I am almost always under the watchful eye of air traffic controllers who know my exact …
The Washington Postadded this to Post Editors' PicksHippocampus Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain.The Washington Post - By M.R. O'ConnorIt has become the most natural thing to do: get in the car, type a destination into a smartphone, and let an algorithm using GPS data show the way. Personal GPS-equipped devices entered the mass market
MIT Technology ReviewSpace Weather Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention.MIT Technology Review - Erin Winick Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late. Holed up in a …
GGareth Samueladded this to Science StoriesNASA NASA Releases a Mesmerizing X-Ray Image of the Night SkyHYPEBEAST - Jeff Yeung Part of its initiative to build a GPS for space travel. In 2013, NASA started its NICER — Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer — project, which, …
WIREDMaps The New Arms Race Threatening to Explode in SpaceWIRED - Garrett M. Graff In the midafternoon of January 11, 2007, US Air Force major general William Shelton sat at the head of a table in a command center at California’s …
Juliana Villavecesadded this to Big data 2Computer Science How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?cryptographyengineering.com - Matthew Green At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone“, which uses cellular communication …
