Gps News
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Birmingham -
Technology based on global positioning systems can be used to assess the likelihood of injuries produced while people compete in soccer matches, according to a new study.
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Sydney -
Australia's government has decided to shift longitude and latitude to address a difference between local coordinates and those for Global Positioning Systems. Currently there is a significant disparity between the two.
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Queens -
The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team did not violate league rules when it used laser technology to position players before a game with the Mets last month in New York.
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Flushing -
The New York Mets baseball team has formally complained to league officials about what they suspect was another team's use of advanced electronics to better position players on the field.
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Avila Beach -
Environmental goals today may sometimes seem unattainable, but with ingenuity and the use of modern technology, it is amazing what we can accomplish. So it is with an unmanned solar-powered boat that sets sail on Memorial Day, headed for Hawaii.
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Tobermory -
The weather conditions Thursday night in Ontario were such that having a GPS in the car was really helpful to motorists driving in the rain and fog. But one woman, relying on her GPS, drove her car into Lake Huron.
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Beginning around the year 2000, the North Pole abruptly changed its direction and started drifting east, and its all thanks to us, scientists have discovered.
The geographic North Pole is located smack in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.
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Finding Rover is a new smartphone app that helps dog owners find their lost pets by using facial recognition technology.
John Polimeno, developer of the app, was sitting in a coffee shop when he noticed the ever ubiquitous "lost dog" poster.
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A report has called for Britain's 999 hotline to allow people to report emergencies by texting or using an app. It says this is more applicable to the modern world and could help in cases where sound isn't viable, such as a break-in.
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Highland Springs -
A Virginia man who was being held on a drug charge and wearing a GPS tracking device may have fled the state, and possibly the country because he may have found a novel way to confound authorities.
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The finding that the brain's in-built "GPS" never stops working, even when we are asleep, could provide the basis of a treatment to tackle early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Coonabarabran -
When a seemingly clairvoyant highway patrol officer 'estimated' that the truck driver he issued a ticket to was speeding, the driver filmed the incident and posted it on the social media.
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Arroba -
When his GPS sent him down the wrong street in a small Spanish town on Wednesday, a German truck driver was wedged and trapped for nine hours between two houses.
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If you could ensure your loved one's safety by utilizing a tracking device, would you consider it as an essential or as inhumane?
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Five Chinese tourists on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the south of France found themselves in the wrong Lourdes, a church called Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in the village of Leuhan in Brittany, north west France, 800 kilometres from their intended destination.
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Port Saint Lucie -
A teacher at a private Christian school in Florida has been arrested after her husband found her having sex with a 16-year-old boy in a car.
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GPS navigators have for years been very useful in finding locations, but recently it has shifted to finding your way inside of places including the Macy's in New York's Herald Square. New technology allows users to navigate passages and even find items.
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In the U.K., Nestle company is really going all out to find the winners of their newest contest. Chocolate lovers may hide, but they will be found.
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A London-based developer has created a pair of GPS-enabled shoes that will guide a walker to his or her next destination.
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Houston -
Some new research has explored how pigeons find their way home. The findings suggest that pigeons have a type of in-built magnetic compass, something similar to a natural GPS.
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A group of three students from Tokyo found themselves taking an unexpected water trip on their vacation in Australia.
The trio was driving to North Stradbroke Island and their GPS took them straight into Moreton Bay.
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The latest GPS unit from TomTom comes with a ‘manifesto’ stating its goal to reduce traffic around the world. Sounds good — but is it possible?
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Hedy Lamarr is remembered as a stunning legend in Hollywood's Golden Age. However, most people do not know that she would co-patent the technology for today's cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS by building a torpedo for the U.S.Navy.
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A newly marketed shoe with a built-in global positioning system has become the latest tool available to quickly track seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia sufferers who wander away from their homes and loved ones.
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Kourou -
The European Union has launched its own global navigational satellites, which now joins the American GPS, and the Russian GLONASS already in orbit.
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Italian authorities have located the GPS chip belonging to Matthias Schepp, the Swiss father of twins, who claims to have killed them before his suicide Feb 3.
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Miramichi -
A 22-year-old woman, who was rescued by snowmobilers after spending three days stranded in her car in a remote area of New Brunswick, said that her GPS unit led her astray.
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Following claims of doctors' unethical behaviour such as making fun of patients online, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) warned doctors to be cautious in using social networking sites such as Facebook.
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In part 1 of 3 in Digital Journal's Essential Digital Gear from the past year, discover the hot gadgets perfect for your work space, whether you need a powerful colour printer or a GPS device for finding clients on road trips.
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Travellers are becoming more independent, educated, and sophisticated when on the road. The next logical step is to enhance their technological knowledge, and a new iPhone app will serve this purpose.
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Personal GPS receiver Nachoman-au
LOOK DOWN: The New York Mets professional baseball team has played its home games at Citi Field in Queens since 2009. Groupe Canam / Wikimedia Commons
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TomTom's new Go Live 1535M, which introduced the company's 'Manifesto' to reduce traffic congestion around the world. TomTom handout
GPS shoe sold by GTX Corp. GPX Corp.
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The TomTom GO 2505 TomTom
The fifth generation Lexus navigation system used on the Lexus LS 460 L, with 9-inch 800x600 high-resolution touchscreen. Thanks to difiorito at ClubLexus for photo. Lexus owner
The Garmin nüvi 3700 GPS device Courtesy Garmin
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