Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS
In a paper published this week in Nature, Google researchers demonstrated they were able to use GPS signal measurements ...
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Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...
Nature12d
Google uses millions of phones to map Earth’s ionosphere and improve GPS
When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...
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Talking Points: Should parents be allowed to track their children’s whereabouts using the GPS on their mobile phones
Tracking someone’s location using GPS is an invasion of privacy ... allowed to track their children’s whereabouts via their mobile phones, because it robs young people of their freedom ...