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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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Wikipedia Adds Page Preview on Mouseover Feature
Improving Information Navigation in Wikipedia The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has rolled out a new navigation feature to ease information browsing. This is the ‘Page Previews’ which shows a snippet of the article on the link without clicking it. Users simply need to mouseover the link and a small rectangular…
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Driving Tests in the UK to Include Sat Nav Training!
Ministers in the UK have announced changes to the UK driving test to better prepare learner driving for the modern advancements in motoring. The Driving and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced changes to help introduce more “real life scenarios” into driving such as an additional focus on parking and…
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UK Driving Test To Include Sat Navs
When it comes to driving tests, they’ve remained pretty much the same for years. This goes against the recent trend in vehicles to incorporate new technologies. One such technology, Sat Navs, has made its way into the UK driving test. Sat Navs (short for Satellite Navigation devices) allow the user…
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Google Refutes Claim That Hackers Can Stalk Waze Users
Google has spoken out against claims that hackers are able to stalk users of its Waze GPS navigation system, branding the accusations “severe misconceptions,” and explaining in detail how the app collects, stores, and delivers user data. On Tuesday, an article from Kashmir Hill of Fusion revealed that University of…
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Offline Navigation Added to Google Maps
That frustrating moment as you’re about to depart, when for some reason your phone decides to drop it’s network connection. Suddenly you better hope you know where you’re going, because Google Maps will leave you high and dry as you desperately try to get it to give you a route.…
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Apple Reveals Purpose of Camera Vans in California
Have you seen those mysterious Apple vans cruising around the California area? The camera-equipped vans have been the focus of speculation for a while now. Are they for mapping, self-driving cars, or perhaps something else altogether? If you guessed mapping, give yourself a cookie! Apple has revealed their vans are…
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Android Auto Now Available for the Latest 2015 Hyundai Sonata
If you are an Android user and looking to buy a car that can take you anywhere, you might consider what Hyundai has to offer this year. The company just revealed that their latest 2015 Hyundai Sonata with Navigation model just received support for Android Auto and is ready for…
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Mini Making Augmented Reality Driving Goggles
BMW-owned Mini is working on a pair of augmented reality driving goggles that provide drivers with details about anything in the driver’s field of vision, from road speed limits to navigation arrows, and even in-eye access to the car’s parking cameras. The Mini Augmented Vision will be unveiled by the…
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Google To Set Compliance Standards For Android-based Portable Navigation Devices
There are quite a few PND manufacturers out there that have succeeded in releasing Android-based navigation gadgets and features, and even embed them into car dashboards. However, Google intends to make a set of compliance standards that the gadgets and devices have to pass in order to be released. Having…
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Driving Across An Airport Runway? Ah You Must Be Using Apple Maps!
Apple Maps strikes again, this time the troubled service has been sending people via an Alaskan airports runway, now the airport has closed an aircraft access route for fear of a truly massive accident. Fairbanks International Airport reported that in three weeks they had two vehicles on their taxiway and…
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