GPS
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SpaceX Wraps Up 2018 With First National Security Launch For U.S. Government
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first national security payload for the U.S. government (specifically the Air Force) on Sunday, delivering a roughly $711 million GPS satellite constructed by Lockheed Martin into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 8:51 a.m. ET, the Guardian reported.
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Forget BMW, The Garmin Speak Is A Cheaper Way To Put Alexa In Your Car
The most useful place for a voice-activated digital assistant isn’t your office, kitchen, or living room. It’s in your car, where your hands and eyes should be pre-occupied with driving. So Garmin put Amazon’s Alexa in a new bare-bones navigation device that will ensure you’ll never get lost, and never get lonely, on a long…
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Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, And Easy
I ordered it on eBay. When the four-ounce envelope arrived from New York three days later, it looked innocuous enough. It contained a finger-sized black plastic box, a small black antenna to screw onto that box, and two glass fuses. It was designed to fit into a car’s 12-volt electrical socket — that thing that…
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Garmin’s Fēnix 5 Squeezes Satellite Navigation Into A Slim Fitness-Tracking Smartwatch
At CES 2015, Garmin revealed the epix: The company’s first wearable that included the same satellite navigation capabilities as its handheld units. As smartwatches go, the epix was one of the largest and bulkiest wearables you could strap to your wrist, but two years later, Garmin has finally packed similar functionality into its Fēnix smartwatch.