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Your Phone's GPS Knows More Than Your Location, IIT Delhi Research Warns
GPS guides us to places or helps us track our online orders. But the "fine-grained" data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person's activity and environment.
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Misled By Google Maps, Car Falls Into River From Bridge, 3 Dead In UP
For most of those who travel by road, using GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to reach their destinations safely is an obvious choice. However, for three - including two brothers - in Uttar Pradesh, it led them to a tragic end.
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NavIC Rollout: No Timeline Fixed For Implementing Indigenous GPS Alternative, MeitY Says
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Monday stated that there was no fixed timeline for the implementation of home-grown global positioning system NavIC on smartphones. The clarification was issued after media reports suggested India was looking to mandate its indigenous navigation system on new smartphone models within months...
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Drone Shot Down 7 km Inside Indian Border, 5 kg Explosives Found: Cops
The Hexacopter shot down around six kilometers inside the Indian border in the Kanachak area of Jammu and Kashmir was equipped with a flight controller and Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Punjab Considers Online Tracking For Those Under Home Quarantine
The Punjab government is mulling procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers for keeping a check on those flouting COVID-19 home quarantine guidelines.
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Xiaomi, ISRO in Advanced Talks Over Support for NavIC in Phones
Indian Space Research Organisation and Xiaomi are in advanced stage of talks on provision of chipsets that can support NavIC, the Indian version of Global Positioning System (GPS), an official said in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
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China to Complete Its Competitor to GPS With New Satellites Launches in 2020
China said Friday its Beidou Navigation Satellite System that emulates the U.S. Global Positioning System will be competed with the launch of its final two satellites in the first half of next year.
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Notice To Tamil Nadu Government Company Over Implementing GPS In Autos
The Madras High Court Monday issued notice to Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited on a plea seeking a direction to effectively implement the policy on fixing Global Position System integrated fare metres with printers in auto-rickshaws and contract carriages in the state.
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China's BeiDou Satellite System Now, Ready To Compete With Rival GPS
China has completed the deployment of its home grown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) constellation with the successful launch of two more satellites and will start providing services to countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative by next month, the state media reported today.
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High Court Questions Centre's Policy Exempting Autos From Having Panic Buttons
The Delhi High Court today questioned the Centre's 2016 policy exempting auto rickshaws and e-rickshaws across India from having panic buttons or General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), saying how it can have such a scheme "in an atmosphere where people are getting raped".
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ISRO's PSLV Successfully Launches IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite From Sriharikota Days After Big Jolt: 10 Points
While most of India slept, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV blasted off into space from Sriharikota off the coast of Andhra Pradesh at 4:04 am today, carrying IRNSS-1I, the eighth satellite for India's homegrown global positioning system. The successful launch came just 14 days after the much larger Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehi...
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Rape Inside Cab: Delhi High Court Slams Law Enforcers
The rape of a woman inside a cab running without the mandatory global positioning system (GPS) fare meter, today came under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which came down heavily on the agencies for not enforcing the law.
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Desi GPS Syncs Up With Indian Standard Time, Will Boost Cyber Security
One major lacuna in India's desi Global Positioning System (GPS) has been filled by linking it to the atomic clocks that give the Indian Standard Time. This reduces Navigation with Indian Constellation's (NavIC) dependence on the American GPS and adds a level of precision and accuracy that was missing in the Indian system.
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Japan Launches Rocket Carrying Local Version of American GPS Satellite
Japan launched a rocket carrying a satellite with a local version of the US global positioning system or GPS today, which is expected to increase the precision of location information used in smartphones and car navigation system.
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India's Swadeshi GPS Develops A Problem, But Remains Functional
India's home-made navigational system, named NAVIC by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has developed a technical problem. One of the seven satellites in the Indian version of the American Global Positioning System or GPS is malfunctioning, as a result of which it's not visible. The seven satellites together provide strategic services, the last of them...
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Your Phone's GPS Knows More Than Your Location, IIT Delhi Research Warns
GPS guides us to places or helps us track our online orders. But the "fine-grained" data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person's activity and environment.
-
Misled By Google Maps, Car Falls Into River From Bridge, 3 Dead In UP
For most of those who travel by road, using GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to reach their destinations safely is an obvious choice. However, for three - including two brothers - in Uttar Pradesh, it led them to a tragic end.
-
NavIC Rollout: No Timeline Fixed For Implementing Indigenous GPS Alternative, MeitY Says
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Monday stated that there was no fixed timeline for the implementation of home-grown global positioning system NavIC on smartphones. The clarification was issued after media reports suggested India was looking to mandate its indigenous navigation system on new smartphone models within months...
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Drone Shot Down 7 km Inside Indian Border, 5 kg Explosives Found: Cops
The Hexacopter shot down around six kilometers inside the Indian border in the Kanachak area of Jammu and Kashmir was equipped with a flight controller and Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Punjab Considers Online Tracking For Those Under Home Quarantine
The Punjab government is mulling procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers for keeping a check on those flouting COVID-19 home quarantine guidelines.
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Xiaomi, ISRO in Advanced Talks Over Support for NavIC in Phones
Indian Space Research Organisation and Xiaomi are in advanced stage of talks on provision of chipsets that can support NavIC, the Indian version of Global Positioning System (GPS), an official said in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
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China to Complete Its Competitor to GPS With New Satellites Launches in 2020
China said Friday its Beidou Navigation Satellite System that emulates the U.S. Global Positioning System will be competed with the launch of its final two satellites in the first half of next year.
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Notice To Tamil Nadu Government Company Over Implementing GPS In Autos
The Madras High Court Monday issued notice to Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited on a plea seeking a direction to effectively implement the policy on fixing Global Position System integrated fare metres with printers in auto-rickshaws and contract carriages in the state.
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China's BeiDou Satellite System Now, Ready To Compete With Rival GPS
China has completed the deployment of its home grown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) constellation with the successful launch of two more satellites and will start providing services to countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative by next month, the state media reported today.
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High Court Questions Centre's Policy Exempting Autos From Having Panic Buttons
The Delhi High Court today questioned the Centre's 2016 policy exempting auto rickshaws and e-rickshaws across India from having panic buttons or General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), saying how it can have such a scheme "in an atmosphere where people are getting raped".
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ISRO's PSLV Successfully Launches IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite From Sriharikota Days After Big Jolt: 10 Points
While most of India slept, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV blasted off into space from Sriharikota off the coast of Andhra Pradesh at 4:04 am today, carrying IRNSS-1I, the eighth satellite for India's homegrown global positioning system. The successful launch came just 14 days after the much larger Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehi...
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Rape Inside Cab: Delhi High Court Slams Law Enforcers
The rape of a woman inside a cab running without the mandatory global positioning system (GPS) fare meter, today came under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which came down heavily on the agencies for not enforcing the law.
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Desi GPS Syncs Up With Indian Standard Time, Will Boost Cyber Security
One major lacuna in India's desi Global Positioning System (GPS) has been filled by linking it to the atomic clocks that give the Indian Standard Time. This reduces Navigation with Indian Constellation's (NavIC) dependence on the American GPS and adds a level of precision and accuracy that was missing in the Indian system.
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Japan Launches Rocket Carrying Local Version of American GPS Satellite
Japan launched a rocket carrying a satellite with a local version of the US global positioning system or GPS today, which is expected to increase the precision of location information used in smartphones and car navigation system.
-
India's Swadeshi GPS Develops A Problem, But Remains Functional
India's home-made navigational system, named NAVIC by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has developed a technical problem. One of the seven satellites in the Indian version of the American Global Positioning System or GPS is malfunctioning, as a result of which it's not visible. The seven satellites together provide strategic services, the last of them...
