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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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Smartwatch Breakthrough Brings GPS Accuracy Down to a Few Centimetres
A team from the University of Otago, alongside Google and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough in GPS accuracy for smartwatches. The device can now pinpoint a location to within eight centimetres, potentially transforming the future of wearable technology for fitness tracking, navigation, and personal safety a...
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Chennai Doctor Praises Indian Railways For Recovering His Lost Watch Within 50 Minutes
A Chennai-based doctor's post has gone viral after he claimed that the Railways staff managed to quickly track down his watch, forgotten on a Vande Bharat train.
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World On Track To Add 57 Superhot Days A Year By 2100: Study
The study defines superhot days for each location as days that are warmer than 90% of the comparable dates between 1991 and 2020.
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Suspect In Dallas Shooting Researched US Immigration Facility, Tracked Agents: FBI
The suspected gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas had searched for apps in August that track the location of ICE agents, the FBI director said on Thursday.
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Samsung SmartThings Family Care Update Adds New Safety Features, Simplifies Setup Process
Samsung’s latest SmartThings Family Care update enables even novice users to install and set up the app independently, with caregivers sharing guided invitation links. It balances convenience and privacy, letting care recipients control shared information while caregivers access relevant details. Other features include inactivity alerts for appli...
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Mumbai Launches Coastal Road Promenade Longer Than Marine Drive - Top Things To Do There
Mumbai Coastal Road Promenade: A 5.25 km-long promenade along the Coastal Road from Marine Lines to Worli was opened to the public recently. Here's why you should consider dropping by.
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Mumbai Local Trains Hit Hard As Rains Pound City, Commuters Stranded
Commuters faced severe hardship on Tuesday as local train services of the Central Railway were disrupted on its main and harbour lines due to submergence of tracks after torrential rains in Mumbai.
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"Creepiest Date": Bengaluru Woman Claims Man Tracked Down Her Address, Sent Her Gift
The woman shared the experience on social media, recounting how she had matched with the man on a dating app, exchanged numbers, but was shocked to receive the surprise delivery.
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Tracked, Hunted In Less Than 3 Hours: A Detailed Timeline Of Op Mahadev
The security forces in Jammu and Kashmir avenged the Pahalgam attack today after hunting down the alleged mastermind, Suleiman Shah, alias Hashim Musa, in an encounter in Srinagar.
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Throat Slit, Stabbed 25 Times: UK Man Jailed For Killing Estranged Wife
A 26-year-old man who stabbed his estranged wife to death on a busy Bradford street has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 28 years.
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Dark Web, VPNs: Delhi Cops Scramble To Probe Bomb Threats To Schools
A fresh wave of bomb threats targeting schools and colleges has kept Delhi Police on its toes as many education institutes panicked for three days straight, with senior officers saying the emails were sent using encrypted networks, making them hard t
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Boat to Partner With Safari for Launch of Smart Luggage in India During Amazon Prime Day 2025
Boat announced a partnership with luggage and travel accessories company Safari during a Prime Day 2025 event held in New Delhi on Monday. As part of the ‘Safari x Boat’ collaboration, the Indian smart wearable brand will launch new smart luggage during the Amazon Prime Day sale, which is to be held in the country between July 12 and 14.
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Space Station To Fly Over India: A Guide To Spotting The Orbiting Lab
The best viewing opportunities occur within a few hours before or after sunrise or sunset when the station is illuminated by the Sun but the sky is dark enough for it to stand out.
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NASA's New Horizons Proves Deep-Space Navigation via Stellar Parallax
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft accomplished a world-first by performing a deep-space stellar navigation test using stellar parallax. On April 23, 2020, while 438 million miles from Earth, it imaged nearby stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. From the spacecraft’s distant viewpoint, the stars appeared slightly shifted compared to Earth-based obs...
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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.
-
Smartwatch Breakthrough Brings GPS Accuracy Down to a Few Centimetres
A team from the University of Otago, alongside Google and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough in GPS accuracy for smartwatches. The device can now pinpoint a location to within eight centimetres, potentially transforming the future of wearable technology for fitness tracking, navigation, and personal safety a...
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Chennai Doctor Praises Indian Railways For Recovering His Lost Watch Within 50 Minutes
A Chennai-based doctor's post has gone viral after he claimed that the Railways staff managed to quickly track down his watch, forgotten on a Vande Bharat train.
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World On Track To Add 57 Superhot Days A Year By 2100: Study
The study defines superhot days for each location as days that are warmer than 90% of the comparable dates between 1991 and 2020.
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Suspect In Dallas Shooting Researched US Immigration Facility, Tracked Agents: FBI
The suspected gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas had searched for apps in August that track the location of ICE agents, the FBI director said on Thursday.
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Samsung SmartThings Family Care Update Adds New Safety Features, Simplifies Setup Process
Samsung’s latest SmartThings Family Care update enables even novice users to install and set up the app independently, with caregivers sharing guided invitation links. It balances convenience and privacy, letting care recipients control shared information while caregivers access relevant details. Other features include inactivity alerts for appli...
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Mumbai Launches Coastal Road Promenade Longer Than Marine Drive - Top Things To Do There
Mumbai Coastal Road Promenade: A 5.25 km-long promenade along the Coastal Road from Marine Lines to Worli was opened to the public recently. Here's why you should consider dropping by.
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Mumbai Local Trains Hit Hard As Rains Pound City, Commuters Stranded
Commuters faced severe hardship on Tuesday as local train services of the Central Railway were disrupted on its main and harbour lines due to submergence of tracks after torrential rains in Mumbai.
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"Creepiest Date": Bengaluru Woman Claims Man Tracked Down Her Address, Sent Her Gift
The woman shared the experience on social media, recounting how she had matched with the man on a dating app, exchanged numbers, but was shocked to receive the surprise delivery.
-
Tracked, Hunted In Less Than 3 Hours: A Detailed Timeline Of Op Mahadev
The security forces in Jammu and Kashmir avenged the Pahalgam attack today after hunting down the alleged mastermind, Suleiman Shah, alias Hashim Musa, in an encounter in Srinagar.
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Throat Slit, Stabbed 25 Times: UK Man Jailed For Killing Estranged Wife
A 26-year-old man who stabbed his estranged wife to death on a busy Bradford street has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 28 years.
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Dark Web, VPNs: Delhi Cops Scramble To Probe Bomb Threats To Schools
A fresh wave of bomb threats targeting schools and colleges has kept Delhi Police on its toes as many education institutes panicked for three days straight, with senior officers saying the emails were sent using encrypted networks, making them hard t
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Boat to Partner With Safari for Launch of Smart Luggage in India During Amazon Prime Day 2025
Boat announced a partnership with luggage and travel accessories company Safari during a Prime Day 2025 event held in New Delhi on Monday. As part of the ‘Safari x Boat’ collaboration, the Indian smart wearable brand will launch new smart luggage during the Amazon Prime Day sale, which is to be held in the country between July 12 and 14.
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Space Station To Fly Over India: A Guide To Spotting The Orbiting Lab
The best viewing opportunities occur within a few hours before or after sunrise or sunset when the station is illuminated by the Sun but the sky is dark enough for it to stand out.
-
NASA's New Horizons Proves Deep-Space Navigation via Stellar Parallax
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft accomplished a world-first by performing a deep-space stellar navigation test using stellar parallax. On April 23, 2020, while 438 million miles from Earth, it imaged nearby stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. From the spacecraft’s distant viewpoint, the stars appeared slightly shifted compared to Earth-based obs...
