9 Best Articles in 2022
ciechanow.ski
GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
20+ min read · · Interactive article explaining how GPS works. · Shared by 243, including Danielle Fong 💁🏻♀️, Jessel Sookha, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, hakan, Stefan Weber, Tactical Tech, Peter Steinberger, @arnicas@mstdn.social, bouiboui, Esther Schindler, Owen Williams ⚡
Uber
Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber
Uber
9 min read · · Uber released a software upgrade for GPS on Android phones that significantly improves location accuracy in urban environments. · Shared by 54, including Paddy Zab, mebmc, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Moritz Meenen
dominicwilcox.com
Dominic Wilcox: No Place Like Home GPS shoes
dominicwilcox.com
1 min read · · Date: 2012 Materials: Leather, Micro-processor, GPS, LEDs Dominic Wilcox has created the world's first fully functional pair of GPS shoes that will guide the wearer to any destination, no matter wh... · Shared by 57
Uber
Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber
Uber
8 min read · · Uber’s Sensing, Inference, and Research team released a software upgrade for GPS on Android phones that significantly improves location accuracy in urban environments. · Shared by 32
World Economic Forum
The missing ingredient in innovation: patience
World Economic Forum
Summary · 7 min read · · Transformative, high-payoff innovations like GPS take a long time to come to market. They typically emerge from multiple paths of investment in basic research and development. What they need are “patient capital” commitments that give visionaries the chance to explore new ideas and applications. In this brief article, academics Mark Dodgson and David Gann offer a thoughtful and well-articulated overview of patient investing, a much-needed but often-neglected financial area. getAbstract recommends this important analysis to investors and inventors. · Shared by 66, including Call Me ❝MICKEY❞, Clemens M. Schuster, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Mike Quindazzi ✨, getAbstract
gpsjam.org
GPSJam GPS/GNSS Interference Map
gpsjam.org
· Maps showing daily possible GPS interference. · Shared by 46, including Maarten Lambrechts @maarten@vis.social, Jon Keegan, Ken Schwencke
The New York Times
I Used AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move
The New York Times
~12 min read · · A vast location-tracking network is being built around us so we don’t lose our keys: One couple’s adventures in the consumer tech surveillance state. · Shared by 122, including Kashmir Hill, Kara Swisher, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Esther Schindler, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Fabio Chiusi, @luca@vis.social
The Guardian
Your medical records are about to be given away. As GPs, we’re fighting back
The Guardian
3 min read · · GPs in England have been told to hand over all patient data to NHS Digital, says GP Ameen Kamlana · Shared by 34, including Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Carissa Véliz, Barry C Smith
World Economic Forum
'Trust me, I’m a doc-bot'. 3 steps to get closer to AI-driven healthcare
World Economic Forum
6 min read · · If doc-bots were more trusted, integrated, and reimbursable by health insurance, they could become the GPS of primary healthcare. · Shared by 88, including Nige Willson, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Katja Evertz, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, niazakhan
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Experience Magazine
How GPS has (and hasn't) changed hiking
Experience Magazine
5 min read · · Cellphones and beacons have saved lives. Have they also encouraged risky behavior? · Shared by 87
MIT Technology Review
Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS—whether SpaceX likes it or not
MIT Technology Review
1 min read · · Elon said no thanks to using his mega-constellation for navigation. Researchers went ahead anyway. · Shared by 65, including Jennifer Ouellette, Allison Arieff, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Howard Getson, Michael (मुकेश)
The Guardian
GPS tagging migrants ‘psychological torture’, says report
The Guardian
2 min read · · Calls for GPS tagging to be abolished as report finds people left suicidal and stigmatised by the practice · Shared by 8, including Chris Bertram
The Guardian
Severely ill refusing sicknotes as they cannot afford not to work, says GPs head
The Guardian
4 min read · · Exclusive: Doctors suffering ‘moral distress’ at their powerlessness to help most vulnerable, says head of the Royal College of GPs · Shared by 12, including Finance Cassandra
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Forbes
GPS Only Exists Because Of Two People: Albert Einstein And Gladys West
Forbes
10 min read · · A Black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. · Shared by 30, including Shervinator 🚀 ∞ 🚄, Jennifer Ouellette, Patricia Churchland, eric_meyer.css
The New York Times
The Knowledge, London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS
The New York Times
20+ min read · · Memorizing the city’s 25,000 streets might be the most difficult test in the world. As technology imperils this tradition, is there an argument for learning as an end in itself? · Shared by 67, including ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Mark Needham, Charles Kubicek, Daniel Fritzsche
IEEE
Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018
IEEE
20+ min read · · Broadcom has released the first mass-market GPS chips that use newer satellite signals to boost accuracy to 30-centimeters · Shared by 27, including Weiting Chen, Tauno, Pete Skomoroch, Thomas Power
Gizmodo
Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows
Gizmodo
5 min read · · At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the hoard of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted… · Shared by 128, including Jeremiah Owyang, Clemens M. Schuster, Catherine Rampell, Mac McCann, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, Renee DiResta, Dave Kellogg, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Frank Luntz, Barnaby Skinner Official, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jon Keegan, Pete Skomoroch, Julia Ioffe, Joshua Benton, William Gibson, Christopher Lauer, Margaret Sullivan 🥀
waze
Free GPS for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
waze
1 min read · · Download Waze, a free GPS navigation app for iOS and Android. · Shared by 25, including Wuzmann, Graham Marshall, Matthijs Kleverlaan
Experience Magazine
I spied on my cat with a GPS tracker
Experience Magazine
4 min read · · The ups and downs of feline surveillance · Shared by 80
The Guardian
Under-18s being denied urgent mental health treatment, say GPs
The Guardian
2 min read · · Survey reveals only 10% of GPs are confident those they refer for treatment will receive it · Shared by 22, including Graham Brown-Martin
MIT Technology Review
Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · · A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it? · Shared by 108, including Bryan William Jones, Azeem Azhar, Dominik Grolimund, Steven Sinofsky, Jennifer Ouellette, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Christian Fauteux, Ser Jeff Garzik, Thomas Power, Howard Getson, Will Preston, Eugene Wei, Tim Harford, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Harpreet Singh, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, felix salmon, Renee DiResta, SwiftOnSecurity, Alex Barrera
The Moscow Times
The Kremlin Eats GPS for Breakfast
The Moscow Times
4 min read · · Over the past several months, Muscovites have been busy complaining on social media that their GPS-powered mobile apps are malfunctioning. What's going on? · Shared by 14, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Serge K. Keller ❦
