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Amazon Use Dummy Parcels And GPS To Catch Thieves
Dummy Parcels Used To Catch Thieves Amazon delivery services do have the rather unfortunate practice of sometimes leaving a parcel on your doorstep. I know this for a fact as it regularly happens to me when I get a delivery. Admittedly, without a mailbox designed to fit the parcel, sometimes…
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UK To Build Independent GPS System After Brexit Derails Galileo
UK To Build GPS System After Brexit Derails Galileo At the moment, pretty much all satellite navigation products use the American GPS system. While the system has proven more than a little popular, modern innovation in technology has found ways to improve upon it either further. Rather than having accurately within…
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San Francisco Trials ‘Snapcrap’ App To Help Clean Up Streets
San Francisco Introduces ‘Snapcrap’ App To Help Clean Up Streets It’s rather a sad sight when you walk down your street to find more than a few ‘presents’ on the pavement. While you often hope that these are from dogs, you are on occasion left to wonder if one of…
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UK Government Sets Aside £92M For State Sat-Nav System
UK Government Sets Aside £92M For State Sat-Nav System Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, there has been an unanticipated casualty in this. For years, the UK had been investing in the European satellite system which we would be using to replace the American one. Galileo, as the…
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Honey Bees in Manchester Go Online with Tracking Devices
Bees are very interesting creatures! Did you know that the Bee is the symbol of Manchester? No? Well me neither. It is, however, fitting that such research should be conducted there as a hive of honey bees have been fitted with tracking devices. As you can imagine, this was quite…
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Doro Creates Phone With ‘Panic Button’ for Vulnerable Workers
Doro, a Swedish phone manufacturer, do not compete with the ‘big guns’. Despite this, they continue to innovate their product by creating one of the first phones with an inbuilt ‘panic alarm’. It is specifically designed for those who work alone in challenging industries. Similar to their national compatriots Ikea, the company specialise…
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GoPro Adds Telemetry and GPS Overlay Features
Those who have a GoPro Hero 5 Black will be happy to hear that their camera just got a significant functional upgrade in the form of overlaid telemetry and GPS data. This telemetry feature can display information such as altitude, speed, elevation gain, G-force, and even generates a map based…
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Track your Emissions with Internet of Farts
Just when you thought you had seen it all and didn’t think you could be surprised by the things people come up with – the Internet of Farts arrives. Yes, you read that right, a system to keep track of your personal emissions and push them to the cloud. All mammals on…
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Defaulted IP Location Led to GPS Hell for a Couple from Kansas
We’ve all had that problem where a company would fail to locate us, be it because you have a new address or their sat nav system is out of date, telling them to find you can be a pain. It’s even worse for James and Theresa Arnold who moved into…
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Australia Shifts North Thanks to GPS Fix
You may not have realised it but this weekend Australia moved. The entire continent moved north over the weekend to help address an issue with its location on the world’s global positioning systems (GPSs). The body responsible for the move has stated that the move is in fact to keep…
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Pokémon Go Players Are Being Mugged
Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm, with players all over wanting to catch them all and become the ultimate Pokémon master. Even with it not being released in some countries yet people have downloaded copies from unofficial sources in order to enjoy the game. This hasn’t been the case…
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DARPA to Create an Undersea GPS System
We all get lost, it just happens. Over the years people have changed how they avoided this fact of life, some drew maps on paper while others have more recently started relying on satellites and global positioning systems (GPS) to tell them their exact location and even directions to where…
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Apples WatchOS 3 To Be Your Emergency Savior
When you go abroad, there are many things you have to worry about. Health insurance in case you get injured, a passport to even get on the plane and then there is all the places and laws you have to keep track of. In their WWDC speech, Apple looks to…
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If An App Can Know Your Location – So Can The Police
One of the most unprecedented pieces of technology that we use these days is the GPS hardware found within your mobile phones. Being able to track and find information based on your location means that finding the nearest shop, cinema or toilets are just a button press away. With so…
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Don’t Let Your SatNav Guide You Into a River!
Don’t you love GPS and satellite navigation? Ever try navigating to a new location and wonder just how far you were going to have to drive down that road before turning off onto a side road you might have never seen. Well according to Canadian press someone has relied just a…
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