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GPS
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Wednesday Morning Spice
22 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
MPs vote to close Israeli embassy in SA, Aspiring lawyer sues Elon Musk for amplifying neo-Nazi conspiracy, Locally-directed animation wins International Emmy, Commercial flights are experiencing ‘unthinkable’ GPS attacks, and Mark Knopfler’s bonkers guitar collection is up for Auction.
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Driver Says She Followed GPS Directions Straight Into The Harbour Water [Video]
04 May 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
“Pretty sure that wasn’t supposed to happen,” Christie Hutchinson can be heard saying from behind the camera as she recorded the scene.
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“Its The Next Step” – Would You Let Your Work Put A Microchip In You? [Video]
14 Feb 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Eventually, it will replace everything you might have in your wallet – from your key fob to your credit card and ID. For now, it is just aiming to make life easier.
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Here’s The Russian Playboy Cybercriminal Allegedly Holding Garmin To Ransom [Video]
28 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Authorities believe that a recent cyberattack on tech company Garmin is the work of the infamous ‘Evil Corp’, headed by cybercriminal Maksim Yakubets.
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The New Garmin Fenix 6 Watch Is Quite Serious
30 Aug 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Garmin’s trying pretty hard to break new ground in the competitive smartwatch market, so let’s check in with their latest offering.
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Lost? We All Need A Sat-Nav These Days
29 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
I know it’s painful to admit but sometimes we need a little help getting to where we’re going. Luckily nowadays finding your destination doesn’t have to require a degree in cartography.
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New Afrikaans GPS Uses Steve Hofmeyr’s Voice
05 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With a new album coming out soon, and now an idditional career in GPS voiceovers, Steve Hofmeyr is making headlines. It’s great to have some good news in the news.
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Why Can’t Malaysian Air’s Missing Plane Be Found?
11 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With a plane going missing, especially in this day and age, many people are confounded by authorities struggling to locate its whereabouts. They can find your missing smart phone with an app, why not a massive aircraft?
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Now You Can Make Your Own Street View On Google
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has just dropped their very own DIY-street-view-tool that lets you contribute to their global network of images with your own camera.
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Now It’s Getting Weird: New Facebook App Tracks Your Location – Even When It’s Turned Off
06 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanks to Mark Creeperberg and Facebook, you can now find your friends who are in the same area as you, even if their Facebook app is closed. Which is obviously a red flag for privacy. Facebook already allows you to “check in”, logging the places you’ve visited in a viewable GPS map format. According to […]
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Nestle’s Creepy Mandate To UK Customers, “We Will Find You”
20 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In an attempt to recreate Willy Wonka’s famous “Golden Ticket”, Nestle has launched a new, not-dodgy-at-all, marketing campaign. They will be “stalking” six “lucky” customers using GPS-trackers that have been embedded in selected chocolate bars.
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Get TomTom GPS For Your Car For Only R779 – Limited Stock
25 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
That is half price of what they usually cost, and it comes with a one-year warranty. I’m not sure if you can get a better deal than this and I cannot emphasise enough how good TomTom is. I use TomTom every time I go to Johannesburg and it becomes necessary more than you would think […]
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China’s New Eye In The Sky, Bye Bye GPS
28 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday morning China launched its own satellite navigation service, The Beidou Navigation Satellite System, an alternative to the America Global Positioning System (GPS). The system could have serious implications both in terms of civilian and, more importantly, military application.
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Hey Guys, TomTom Is Sharing Your Data Too
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And you thought it was just Apple and Google! Gosh. TomTom has admitted that its satellite navigation devices can track users and report to third parties about how fast they’re going – like the police, for instance. Your TomTom is a speed camera now.Yay future.
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Beijing Is Tracking All Mobile Phone User’s Movements
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They can do that now. By ‘they’ I mean ‘those with money and de facto power,’ obviously, not specifically the heads of the PRC – but I mean government scrutiny of human movement is being implemented on a huge, huge scale. It’s called the Information Platform of Real-time Citizen Movement – which sounds like a good and reasonable platform.
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Death By GPS
06 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Technology has claimed its second victim in as many weeks. Not long after the Segway Company owner plummeted to his not-so poetic death (he was attached to a Segway at the time), a Spanish man has perished after plunging his Peugeot into a reservoir, at the instruction of his GPS. Maybe he had the Yoda voice activated?
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