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Road trip 2012 - Best gadgets for drivers

The summer road trip can be many things, from an adventure to an ordeal. But thanks to today’s technology, it can be a lot easier on drivers...
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Technology for your road trip

Whether it is in the form of phone applications, global positioning systems, or self-driving cars, technology is changing the way we drive. Here...
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Iran claims it has extracted usable data from captured U.S.Sentinel drone

Iran says that it is in the process of reverse-engineering the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone that itcaptured last year. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief...
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ASUS offering GPS dongle to Transformer Prime owners

Though ASUS' Transfomer Prime, the popular Android-based tablet, has received mostly positive reviews since its release last December, the...
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Physicist writes, presents paper to judge to get out of traffic ticket

GPS has been used in an attempt to get out of speeding tickets, withnegativeresults, but here we have a physics paper besting a radar gun.Follow me...
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The Death of the Map

Recently my daughter returned to me the lovely AAA Maps of the cities of the Bay Area that I gave to her when she went away to college. They were...
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ACLU-obtained documents show police use of cell phone tracking becoming routine

  • GPS
  • April 1, 2012
A Supreme Court ruling in Januaryfound that, without a warrant, placing a GPS unit on a drug suspect’s car violated his Fourth Amendment...
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Solar storm a dud thus far, but still more to come

A solar storm began hitting the Earth on Thursday, one in a seeming series of storms that have been hitting the planet as the Sun begins to enter...
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FBI has trouble finding, recovering disabled GPS trackers after SCOTUS ruling

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that warrantless GPS tracking is unconstitutional, the FBI is taking action --- by disabling thousands of thus...
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FCC revocation of LightSquared waiver would hurt Sprint, as well

  • LTE
  • February 15, 2012
It appears that the FCC has dealt LightSquared's wireless plans a death blow, as the agency on Tuesday said it would rescind a waiver it gave...
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