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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On this date: Precision GPS for everybody!
Today it’s a rare person who doesn’t carry around their own personal navigation system in their cell phone. But it wasn’t always like that. The first GPS system, NAVSTAR, was created by and ...
New Scientist11d
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 ...
This is where GPS data shows Laken Riley and Jose Ibarra were on morning she was killed
Tons of GPS data from Laken Riley's cell phone and watch and Jose Ibarra's cell phone were presented as evidence during trial on Monday.
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GPS for proteomes
Stephen Elledge and colleagues have developed a new technology to analyse global protein stability (GPS) in live cells, in real time and with single-cell resolution. The fluorescence-based system ...
scmp.com16d
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 ... to track their children’s whereabouts via their mobile phones, because it robs young people of their freedom and cause ...
Yahoo11d
Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS
Modern smartphones come equipped with GPS receivers that measure radio signals ... the monitoring stations have a clear advantage over mobile phones. For starters, they have much larger antennas ...