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GPS Chips That Work Indoors Will Mean You’ll Never Lose Your Nan Again...
GPS navigation has made us all lazy mongrels when it comes to hitting the road, meaning we never, ever, have to faff around with a paper map ever again. And even pirates sailing the seven seas get some...
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This Is What Happens When Your Car GPS Blows Up
What happens when you leave your GPS in the car under a blazing sun and its batteries are not in the best of conditions? Well, it may explode and burn—like this one in the photo—melting your dashboard....
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Satnavs Make us Crappier, Less Safe Drivers
Simple satnav instructions like “turn left” and “carry on, you’re doing very well” are easy enough for us to comprehend while driving, but anything more complex and we lose focus, start to swerve...
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Google Maps Adds Live Man-Tracking to its Enormous List of Features
A new update to Google Maps will soon let companies track their staff, automatically generating map data of their whereabouts. If you said you’re at home in bed, you’d better be at home in bed. Or at...
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The New Nike+ GPS Running App Is Smarter, More Social, and Now Available for...
The new and improved Nike+ GPS Running app was released today, and it has some pretty impressive improvements to be aware of. Firstly, the app is now available for Android. And the already-available...
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Friendshake Is Facebook’s New Way to “Friend” the People Around You
A new Facebook feature has been made publicly available with not so much as an announcement. Friendshake uses your phone’s GPS to find the people around you on Facebook and easily add them as...
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Future Drones Will Autonomously Navigate the Skies Without GPS
Military drones rely heavily on GPS for navigation guidance while in the air. But in areas where a signal can’t be found, or where someone is using a GPS jammer, a drone will find itself in a...
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Royal Mail Might Earn Those Enormous Price Increases by Making GPS Better
The Royal Mail is putting its fleet of vans and people to work in a clever new way, using the daily rounds of its crews in East Anglia to augment existing GPS data and add super-accurate details of...
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LOCOG, Not Tweeters, Blamed for Olympic Cycling GPS Balls Up
The timing failure witnessed during the men’s Olympic road race could have been avoided, say those in the mobile industry, if only race organisers had told the mobile networks they were planning on...
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Lost In Your Own Home? Nokia, Samsung, Sony and Their 22-Strong Coalition...
When you get indoors, God help you if you get lost, because your GPS is utterly useless. A band of brothers companies, including the likes of Sony, Samsung and Nokia, wants to rectify that with their...
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Navigate The Streets With TomTom’s New Android Navigation App
So you have an Android device, and Google Maps isn’t quite cutting it? Not up to your standard, eh? Well, check it out, the GPS dudes over at TomTom have devised a new navigation for Android, and it’s...
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You’d Never Get Lost With a Pair of These GPS Shoes
The concept of GPS shoes is nothing new, but this pair designed by Dominic Wilcox don’t report your whereabouts to Mom, or an authoritarian government or something. Instead, they’ll help you shuffle...
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Nestle Is Playing Real-Life Willy Wonka
Goodbye America! I’m moving to the UK, where I will eat my weight in chocolate. Coincidentally, Nestle’s just kicked off a campaign where it’s embedding GPS trackers in chocolate bars. If you unwrap...
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TomTom Navigation for Android is Released (With a Slight Hitch)
Looks like TomTom has delivered on its October promise for the company’s Navigation app for Android, which features offline driving directions, 2D/3D views, voice guidance and updates for the lifetime...
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Vice Magazine Just Accidentally Revealed Where John McAfee Is Hiding
Next in line at the great journalistic jungle buffet is Vice, which sent down two dudes to chat with paranoid/fugitive John McAfee and reprint his various insane thoughts. And more: they forgot to...
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Move Over GPS, a New Positioning System Has You in Its Sights
GPS is now so widespread that we take it for granted. But it’s not always perfect—so what if a new technology could achieve more than those triangulated military satellites in the sky? In fact, a team...
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Woman Drives for 900 Miles Instead of 90 thanks to GPS Error
I’ve read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete...
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Help Solve Low-Level Local Crime With Manchester Police’s iOS App
Greater Manchester Police has launched an iOS app, which uses location-based services to fill users in on local events, missing people bulletins and even features the unsettling option of browsing any...
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Man Shot Dead After GPS Error Leads Him to Wrong House
When Rodrigo Diaz set out to pick up his friends and go ice skating, he was in high spirits. But when his GPS navigation system took him and some friends to the wrong house, he was assumed to be an...
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Two Cheap Sensors Could Transform GPS Navigation
A team of Spanish researchers has developed a way to vastly improve in-car GPS navigation — and all it requires is some cheap, extra sensors. It’s one of those why-didn’t-they-think-of-that-earlier...
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