Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane all over the globe.
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As part of a new strategy to combat loneliness GPs will be able to prescribe social activities. But is this ethical?
Without their devices, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors.
We shouldn’t be telling victims of domestic violence to stop using technology. We should encourage them to use their digital devices to share their stories and seek the help they deserve.
Cyber vulnerabilities in shipping show how far the industry has to go. But proper cyber security of ships is more complex than you might initially think.
British space firms would get a shot in the arm from building a new GPS-style system if the UK is shut out of the EU’s programme.
$41M over four years is about the minimum viable amount to start towards important goals for an Australian space agency.
The wired Earth of the 21st century is at the mercy of the volatile nature of the sun.
Australia is playing a major role in developing legal guidelines that would govern how any war in space is played out. The authors of MILAMOS hope the manual is never actually required.
It feels like we’ve seen less progress on charge time than almost anything else in smartphones. Could software efficiency be the answer?
London’s Gatwick Airport has installed thousands of virtual beacons to help passengers navigate when GPS won’t work inside.
Driverless cars and drones will require pinpoint location accuracy, which means our methods for measuring the Earth’s centre need an overhaul.
You can learn a lot about the movement of people and animals if you tap into the tracking data from many of today’s mobile phones.
Australia is always on the move thanks to continental drift which means the mapped coordinates of any place can get out of line with any GPS locating system. So what’s the plan to fix it?
People with dementia are prone to getting lost. Thankfully, there’s technology to help find them.
Illuminating the origins of one of the oldest peoples in the Middle East.
There’s a disturbing history of solar flares taking out the technology we depend on. As tech becomes more and more vital, knowing what is happening in space is growing ever more crucial.
Australians are keen pet owners and increasingly, we’re monitoring the behaviour of our domestic animals. Webcams, GPS tracking, dogs joining Skype calls … pets are becoming entangled with technology in myriad ways.
If you use one of the many apps to map your walking, jogging or cycling route then you could be giving away information that could be abused by others.
The earth around you might seem static but it’s constantly in motion. We need to track this motion in fine detail if we’re to keep our GPS networks up to date.
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